Each is a passport to your personal nirvanas.

"You feel like heaven," he said, "or a thousand nirvanas."

Like most Nirvanas, it has its drawbacks, but it's safe; and every effort is made to keep it that way.

The painting conjures up a series of Nirvanas: modern life, modern design and modern art.

Go and tell Nirvanas, Nirvana slap her in her face the other day.

That we thought malls were Nirvanas, to be hermetically sealed off indefinitely from society's rough edges, is an old American fairy tale.

The New Jews include some seekers after bogus nirvanas, no doubt, but many want to reconnect with history and pass the tradition on to their children.

"Yes, We Have No Nirvanas"

American Jews were embracing the assimilationist nirvanas of suburbia and Reform Judaism; it was not kosher to be "too Jewish."

Ask the good citizens of Martha's Vineyard or the San Juan islands how the invasion of personal aircraft has threatened their nirvanas.

I understand the commercial need for this, but would appreciate pages devoted, say, to minute American labels (from which come yer Nirvanas etc) and maybe music from Africa.

The playwright Miltiades Lidorikis presided over the new company, with the poet Pavlos Nirvanas, the stage director Spyros Melas and Politis on the Board.

In the only obituary written about him, in the Spring of 1913, Pavlos Nirvanas said: "An honest and sincere artist has died almost out of tact exactly as he did for his whole life".

Another bit of early-1990's bummed-out prognostication that turned out to be wrong was that alternative rock, with its anguished Nirvanas and Pearl Jams, was just one more attenuated extension of the rock era.

To the Editor: Frank Rich (column, Dec. 2) refers to the 1950's, when "The Diary of Anne Frank" first appeared on Broadway, as a time when "American Jews were embracing the assimilationist nirvanas of suburbia and Reform Judaism."

By mid-November 1931, the Chairman of the Board, theater historian Nicolaos Laskaris, resigned, feeling bypassed by the small, hardcore decision making group of Politis, Gryparis, Bastias and poet Pavlos Nirvanas, a member of the Artistic Committee.