Word: nage
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...return only days away, Celia is belatedly asking her lover: "What do people do, Arcangelo, in a situation like ours? What do they do? ... Catholics, I mean." The distinct suggestion is that the best the star-crossed lovers can hope for is some sort of intercontinental ménage-á-trois. Author Quigly's story ranges from romantic intensity to limp sentimentality but in her evocation of the sensuousness the Italian scene, she reveals the real corespondent of her triangle-Italy...
...ikebana for centuries has been Ten-Chi-Jin (Heaven-Earth-Man), where heaven is symbolized by the tall central flower, man by a medium branch placed at the side, and earth by the shortest branch, placed before the heaven branch. From this came the rikka (standing) and the nage-ire (thrown in) styles...
Ogden smiled and said under his breath, "Ura Nage...
...Bliss. Sir Henry is sufficiently tired to realize that his quest is not for glory and the Grail, but for the cozy security of a small castle with a hot-and-cold-running moat. But once he finds his medieval version of suburban bliss and the itinerant ménage à trois settles down, he feels he is committed to being a hero. So off he rides again on his trusty steed, this time to face the greatest foe a man can have: himself. It is a battle that Satirist Nathan does not allow his Every...
...nage a àQuatre. In San Francisco, Edward J. Broxton won a divorce after testifying that Nettie Broxton insisted on taking her two dogs, which "sometimes nip at my legs," to bed with them...