Word: nymph
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...subways, thousands of straphangers stood glued and helpless, while firedepartment emergency crews raced from building to building to extricate the sick and the pregnant (most hospitals resorted to emergency power). Somewhere on the West Side, a tattoo artist's needle died on the figure of a purpled nymph. On the streets, the customary traffic snarl tied itself into even worse knots as the traffic lights died; on the East River Drive, a man curbed his car, took off his coat and tie, and in the grand Walter Mitty manner directed motorists for two hours...
...girl in the bath towel had some to do with the smile on the corpse. His suspicion, carried secretly to the publisher's heir (Dean Martin), causes consternation in the executive suite. "I can see the headlines now- FOUNDER OF MAGAZINE DIES IN LOVE NEST WITH NAKED NYMPH." The heir has no doubt that...
...Been a Mild, Delicate Night, by Tom Kaye. The author writes of a nymph and a satyr in London, of all places; his pagan first novel is in praise of Eros, the deity he believes makes the world go around...
...Been a Mild, Delicate Night, by Tom Kaye. The author writes of a nymph and a satyr in London, of all places; his pagan first novel is in praise of Eros, the deity he believes makes the world go around...
...Been a Mild, Delicate Night, by Tom Kaye. The woman in the London town house is a neoclassic nymph, the tramp who pursues her is clearly a satyr, and the author's story of the chase is a myth as good as a mile of realistic novels...