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...straight world, they intensify it. They spend several days completely twisted on dope, booze, and lack of sleep, and find this state of mind matches that of the gambling loonies who hang out at the Circus-Circus along with the Forty Flying Carazito Brothers, flaming gorilla, and Six Nymphet Sisters from San Diego. In fact, nobody notices how twisted they are, for in Vegas, one can pursue his own dream, no matter how savage -- just as long as one doesn't "burn the locals." And the doped-up duo's antics reach outrageous limits. They terrorize the strip...

Author: By Martha Stewart, | Title: Doomservice | 7/10/1973 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Kevin J. Obrien, | Title: Hard Hearts and Broken Hearts | 2/12/1973 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Phil Patton, | Title: Nabokov | 11/9/1972 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 5, 1972 | 6/5/1972 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Survival of Tuesday | 5/15/1972 | See Source »

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