Word: nymphet
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...dourly funny sophisticate. Debbie's big hit movie was the innocuous Tammy and the Bachelor, in which she played a professional teen-age virgin. Carrie has a hit flick too: Warren Beatty's Beverly Hills satire Shampoo. She also played a teen-ager-a nymphet who traps Beatty into...
...game of Risk. And there was Paths of Glory and Spartacus--really an amazing bunch of movies, like them or not. Now he's apparently working in Ireland on a version of the Thackeray novel, Barry Lyndon. Lolita stars James Mason as Humbert Humbert and Sue Lyon as the nymphet...
Separated. Sue Lyon, 28, Hollywood's passionate nymphet of the 1960s (Lolita, The Night of the Iguana); and Gary ("Cotton") Adamson, 34, convicted murderer whom Lyon met after his arrest and married a year ago in the Colorado state prison. Lyon filed for divorce "because I've been told by people in the movie business . . . that I won't get a job because I'm married to Cotton." But, she added, "I'll always love...
Literary Lepidopterist Vladimir Nabokov, 74, identified a unique American species, the Nymphet, in his 1958 novel Lolita. Although the work was internationally acclaimed, it failed to win any of the major American book awards. In fact, the Russian-born Nabokov, who is frequently mentioned as a potential Nobel prizewinner, has picked up few prizes; five of his novels have been nominated for National Book Awards, only to be ultimately passed over. Now the self-described "pleasant outsider" has landed one of the country's most distinguished prizes: the National Medal for Literature, awarded for a living American writer...
...child star of Lolita, now a post-nymphet of 27, had to be hospitalized briefly on the eve of her wedding. Sue Lyon's ailment: strep throat and fatigue brought on by the hassles of arranging her marriage to a Colorado State prisoner, who is serving 40 years for second-degree murder and aggravated robbery. Sue first met Gary ("Cotton") Adamson, 33, in 1970, when she visited a friend who was sharing Gary's cell in a Los Angeles County jail. Now she plans to campaign for prison reform, specifically for prisoners' conjugal rights. As she puts...