Word: nymphet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lila's mistake is to burn herself under the Miami sun to the point of immobilization, leaving Lenny free to explore the delights and terrors of the Gentile world. He falls madly in love with Kelly Corcoran (Cybill Shepherd), a nymphet whose sleek beauty and poise draw him all the way to her Minnesota home--and to a hurried divorce from Lila. Lenny's main obstacle to winning Kelly's hand is her father, terrifying portrayed by Eddie Albert, a sort of Old Testament God who threatens to wreak an "ass kicking" on Lenny if he doesn't leave...
...crossword puzzle, and translated Alice in Wonderland into his native tongue. Later, in the thirties, under the pseudonym V.V. Sirin, he had written what many critics consider the finest Russian novel of the century, The Gift. In the fifties, with a book called Lolita, he had put the word "nymphet" into the dictionary. Ada's masterful complexity seemed a natural culmination to the long list of novels, stories, poems, and plays...
Born. To Sue Lyon, 25, former film nymphet (Lolita, The Night of the Iguana), and Roland Harrison, 33, a Los Angeles photographer; their first child, a daughter. Name: Nona Merrill...
...died when she was three. When she was twelve, she appeared in her first movie, Rock, Rock, Rock, a cheapie made in Brooklyn to cash in on the rock-'n'-roll craze of the '50s. Whatever its demerits, the film projected Tuesday as the archetypal nymphet, Shirley Temple with a leer. "The girl I generally played was a little whorish teen-ager who would sleep with anybody, and yet has a childlike quality," says Tuesday...
Darcy Pullam's Dame Carruthers has a comic flair, and a certain verisimilitude as an old hag. Edith Marshall is a credible nymphet as Phoebe. Danius Turek as Colonel Fairfax, the hero of the piece, performs rather well, and sings beautifully. The scenery, by Randall Darwall, is by far the most original G & S has used in years, centered around a stylized, oversized scaffold which takes most of the action...