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...Carried in three moving vans, traveling by secret routes and picking up police escorts en route, the show's 101 paintings added up to $5,600,000 worth of art masterworks, ranging in period from late Renaissance to Braque and Matisse, in size from a 20-ft. Monet Nymphéas to an 11-in Madonna and Child by Dutch Master Lucas van Leyden. Owner of this treasure trove (plus an estimated 2,000 additional paintings and drawings and some 1,000 pieces of sculpture stacked away in apartments and warehouses): Multimillionaire Walter P. Chrysler...
...Nobody is sure how calypso started, or even where the word came from. It has nothing to do with the nymph who held Odysseus prisoner for seven years...
Heroes: Hector for the Trojans, Achilles for the Greeks. Hector, whose parents were merely human, had human virtues: tenderness, loyalty, bravery. Achilles, whose mother was a sea nymph, had the vices of the superman: cruelty, arrogance, self-indulgence. However, he was invulnerable, except in his heel. His mother had dipped him, as a child, in the River Styx, but had neglected to submerge the heel she held...
...Camera. A nymph's regress in Christopher Isherwood's Berlin; Julie Harris, at both hooch and cootch, is a comic sensation (TIME...
...Camera. A nymph's regress in Christopher Isherwood's Berlin; Julie Harris, at both hooch and cootch, is a comic sensation (TiME...