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VACATION PLAYHOUSE (CBS, 9:30-10 p.m.). A summer anthology series made up of pilot films and tapes for new TV shows that didn't make it. The first episode stars Suzy Parker as a wood nymph sentenced (for vanity) to performing 100 good deeds among mortals. Premi...
FRIEDA LAWRENCE, edited by E. W. Tedlock Jr. The letters, essays and memoirs of D. H. Lawrence's wife etch her as a Lawrencian nymph who drove the prophet of free sex to Victorian rage...
FRIEDA LAWRENCE, edited by E. W. Tedlock Jr. The letters, essays and memoirs of D. H. Lawrence's wife etch her as a Lawrencian nymph who drove the prophet of free sex to Victorian rage...
...Classic Lines. The gods were more elaborately and profoundly explored in Cheever's Wapshot Chronicle. These stories are in his lesser mode. In fact, the stratagem of treating suburbia as if it were a sacred grove, with every flowering tree an imprisoned nymph, works best when it is worked least. One story, for instance, begins: "Larry Actaeon was built along classical lines . . ." and the reader, with the help of a mythological dictionary, recalls that Actaeon observed Diana at her bath and was punished by being turned into a stag and torn apart by hounds. All too patly, Larry Actaeon...
Thirty is supposed to be getting along for a nymph. But somehow, when la belle bebe ripened into what in others might be called maturity, the greatest concern of gallant Gauls was whether Brigitte Bardot herself would mind. "She declared to me that she no longer wants to appear nude on the screen," reported one clearly concerned correspondent. "What a shame! At 40, she could still show everything and reassure her contemporaries." Courage, amis. B.B. herself has said: "This fame that I love, that frightens me, I will do anything to keep and deserve...