Word: blissfully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pakula and Brooks hide one serious--and disturbing--social comment in the giggles of Potter's second-engagement bliss. In An Unmarried Woman, the heroine proudly disdained the need for a male companion. It seems, however, that Potter cannot go more than a month without a mate. Are we to infer that men who can't live without women are "lovable" and "sensitive?" Brooks, whose Mary Richards pioneered as television's securely single woman, sells single men short...
...material form, until it has learned all the lessons of the earth. Then it becomes a Buddha, a pure spark of compassion, love, and joy. The cycle of reincarnation completed, the Buddha is free to return to the universal energy source--God, or the Void-- to enjoy the eternal bliss of Nirvana...
...standards of a house like the Met that seats fewer than 4,000 a performance Somewhere among all those viewers out there may be the new audiences that orchestras and operas need to flourish in the future. "In the long range," says the Met's executive director, Anthony Bliss, "television will become important to our survival." The benefits go both ways: the Met's opening was, for its part, a stirring and resonant contribution to tele vision...
...loop back to London, the Mini practically drives itself through the lush hills and yellow stone villages of the Cotswolds. From Chipping Norton, one can espy an extraordinary edifice, half-castle, half-factory, called the Bliss tweed mill. Bliss it is: the 1872 mill weaves woolen fabrics for some of the world's great tailors and will sell them to the passer-by for about $10 a yard...
...expanded its season two years ago from 20 to 24 weeks, and from three new productions a year to four. The triumvirate that now rules the Met--James Levine as music director, John Dexter as director of production, and Anthony Bliss as executive director--is enthusiastic and ambitious, but many New York opera-goers feel that they are spreading their resources too thin...