Power Couples of the Past
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Power Couples of the PastPoison Waves
The short life of our pirate threesome was a life lived on the razor’s edge of danger, a life which certainly burned bright with riches and adventure, for having burned itself out quickly.
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Power Couples of the PastMan Ray and Kiki of Montparnasse
As the Prince and Princess of the Bohemians, Kiki and Man Ray were destined for one another. After her first visit to his studio, they were not only an item. They were "The Item".
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Power Couples of the PastAbelard and Heloise
Telling a love story (in which category I include both the Bible and the history of Abelard and Heloise) is a more difficult thing than telling other sorts of stories, whether fact or fiction. The love between a woman and a man, or between a person and their God, is ultimately an indescribable affair between the lover and the beloved.
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Living twodayPower Couple of the Present
After a White House which would seems to have suffered no dissent from any quarter, Michelle, I hope, will hold nothing back in her take on things. It speaks of Barack Obama’s confidence...
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Power Couples of the PastVenus Unbound: Free Love Amongst the Radicals
Modern horror movie buffs might be surprised to know that no one exemplified this spirit of “free-love” radicalism as much as the author of the classic Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin and its inspiration, her virtuoso poet husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley. And, as bizarre as it may seem, it was this couple’s very fascination with the cryptic and the undead that helped keep their open relationship healthy and alive.
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Power Couples of the PastHadrian and Antinous
Eleven of the first twelve Emperors were either homosexual or bi-sexual: a period of what might be called Homosexual Supremacy, during which almost all of the heads of state engaged in same-sex...
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Power Couples of the PastOn the Pillows of Pickfair
Before there was “Brangelina”, before there was “Maniston”, there was the mansion, remodeled in 1920, with its view of the Pacific; its tennis courts and swimming pools, the house the press called “Pickfair”.