Word: nymph
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...stint as a club nymph may have been short-lived, but it will remain unforgettable; I wasn’t asked to come back, of course, so I think I’ll leave to the professionals the serious business of getting silly...
...Cleef creative team explored the deep sea, using smatterings of pearls to depict ocean spray and rare aqua colored tourmaline's to evoke the ocean depths. One stunning pendant is composed of onyx and set with diamonds and white gold coral-shaped branches. Other pieces include sea nymph pins encrusted with sapphires and a Poseiden-like creature made of yellow gold and fashioned into a pin set with yellow and white diamonds and a 7 carat spinel...
...energetic and playful, adding depth to an already solid performance.In the same manner as “Amour piquè par une abeille,” the last cantata “Apollon et Doris” proved accessible to a modern audience. The story of Doris, a sea nymph who resists Apollo’s advances on the grounds that he will not be faithful, could just as easily have been about two guests arguing over their relationship at a masquerade party. The cantata proved to be a particular treat because of the duet by Amy C. Stebbins...
Food and sex indeed. In her novel “The Water Nymph,” a number of truly epic maneuvers are orchestrated with the simple tools of peaches and cream, which were most likely not gleaned from her History and Literature junior tutorial...
...famous poet, diplomat and archconservative Catholic Paul Claudel.) Rodin was 41, on the brink of fame after decades of frustration. He was also a dedicated satyr. The dancer Isadora Duncan, whom he would meet some years later, once said that whenever they were together she felt like "a nymph in front of a centaur." Though Rodin had a longtime mistress, Rose Beuret, and a whole string of others on the side, his affair with Claudel would have an intensity unlike any others. After the sex they could talk about Bernini and Donatello...