Word: nage
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this ever-less meaningful relationship be saved? Bill Bumpers, a fledgling marriage counselor and self-described "victim of an intact home," tries his best. He advises Hattie and Ma to humor Heck in his plan to set up a ménage à trois with a local sculptress. Hattie promises her husband that Ma will not interfere: "She knows four's a crowd." But the crowd at Pretty Pass (as Heck now calls his farm) keeps growing; no sooner is someone hired to do the actual work around the place than he is seduced by the "crackle of civilized...
...pamphleteer promptly ran off with 16-year-old Harriet Westbrook, daughter of a London tavernkeeper. With Harriet came an older sister, eager to protect this new family tie with the aristocracy, plus Thomas Jefferson Hogg, Shelley's best friend at Oxford. The odd ménage was shattered several years later when Shelley met Mary Godwin, daughter of the genteel radical, William Godwin. He eloped with her-and her stepsister, Claire Clairmont-generously inviting Harriet to join them as a "spiritual" sister. She refused. Shelley and his new entourage set out on years of restless travel, ending with...
Spiritual Partner. Wollstonecraft's first serious love was for a gifted, flamboyant, vain and bisexual painter named Henry Fuseli. The affair was predictably exciting and predictably disastrous, a power struggle that ended in the humiliating scene: Mary begging Fuseli's wife to allow a ménage à trois in which Mary was to be a purely "spiritual partner." Mme. Fuseli was not agreeable. In France, where Mary's fervor for the French Revolution was eventually chilled by the Terror, she fell in love with a flaky American adventurer named Gilbert Imlay; he left her with...
...denizens of Tuppenny-hapenny Cottage for a while seem to be little more than the kind of dotty ménage à cinq that Wodehouse might assemble on a bilious day: Adela Bastable, a large, dim, goodhearted spinster; her brother Bernard, a retired brigadier with a bad leg; Shorty, once a quartermaster sergeant, now a friend and factotum; George Zeyer, a bedridden history professor (Bernard's brother-in-law); and Marigold Pyke, a faded beauty who cutely refers to drinks as "drinkle-pinkles" and English pounds as "poundies," thus driving Bernard round the bend. Amis is also clearly...
...Waite, 26, all making music for their "family label," Paramour Records. No hanky-panky about it either. Although Phillips, who with Michelle, Cass Elliot, and Denny Doherty founded the Mamas and the Papas singing group in 1965, likes to call his life-style with a giggle "a ménage à trois," the relationship seems to be purely commercial. Michelle and Genevieve are capital investments. "There's something about me that makes women sing," he declared from his Manhattan town house. Said Michelle at her West Coast home: "He keeps us both busy," referring to the fact that...