Word: nymph
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...cannot resist spraying it all with an almost cloying odor of Victor Hugo No. 5. But in an instant Ophuls will catch himself up with a comic grimace. There are vignettes of "le hunting,'' of an English youth on the grand tour, of an aged nymph at a ball, that almost break up the show with guffaws. Not to forget some wickedly amusing lines-e.g., "A woman can refuse jewels she hasn't seen," says the count's petite amie, as she hesitates to accept his gift. "But after that, it's heroism...
...Dancer Francisco Moncion resting on a practice-room floor. He began to stretch and ripple his muscles, then caught sight of himself in an imaginary mirror and went into a self-admiring performance. Ballerina Tanaquil LeClercq entered, joined in the mirror work. Eventually Faun Moncion turned and kissed Nymph LeClercq on the cheek. As if jolted by seeing each other as real people rather than mirror images, faun and nymph broke apart. She glided away, and he lay down for another rest as the curtain fell...
...From the Greek myth of Hermaphroditus, son of Hermes and Aphrodite, who was joined to a nymph while bathing...
...lilting Rosenkavalier or the passionate Salome: it was closer to the allegorical Frau ohne Schatten or Die Aegyptische Helena of the composer's later years, and it sometimes made unreasonable vocal and emotional demands on the singers. Its story, a retelling of how Jupiter wooed the nymph Danae, was a hodgepodge of myth and fiction...
...cones. Their nudes crouched or sat or slept, looking just as they did in life. And some of them had the refreshing quality of being a bit oldfashioned. Among them: Oronzio Maldarelli's statue of a young girl, seated cross-legged on her pedestal like some dreaming nymph; Doris Rosenthal's Gauguin-like study of a tropic beauty drowsing in a chair; Waldo Peirce's Renoirish painting of a mother and child happily basking in the streaming seashore...