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London's Daily Express called her Wood Nymph, but Natalie Wood, consulting her astrological chart (Cancer), said she's a moonchild. Then the Express rolled out its fashion layout, in which Actress Wood, disdaining the nymphic and childish, opted for something very Capone-ish. After that, it was back to rehearsals for a TV special, with Lord Olivier playing Big Daddy and Natalie doing a feline Cat on a Hot Tin Roof...
Unable to penetrate her mystery, (So easy to look at/So hard to define) he can only, in true poet's fashion, give her names--"sweet virgin angel, sweet love of my life...scorpio sphinx in a calico dress...glamorous nymph with an arrow and bow"--and finally, simply, ask of her, "Don't ever leave me/Don't ever...
...stepped then out of the dark blue sea, and walked over the dry land, till he came to the great cave, where the lovely-haired nymph was at home, and he found she was inside. There was a great fire blazing in the hearth, and the smell of cedar split in billets, and sweetwood burning, spread all over the island. She was singing inside the cave with a sweet voice and she went up and down the loom and wove with a golden shuttle...
Eggs (1971) by two former members of this group, concerns the partnership between a gossamer-clad nymph called Life and skeleton in black named Death. In one sequence, Death, reclining on the Brooklyn Bridge, extracts a cigar from his voluminous cape and looks around for a light. He flicks a convenient jet into the path of another airplane and casually lights the stogie from the crash. Eventually, the great green scaly three-mouthed mumbling monster God shows up for the final summing-up, sends Life and Death off to run another planet, and pronounces, "You're on your...
...tiresome case of mistaken identities is thrown in, and Boris finally trails off behind the Angel of Death in a flap-happy parody of The Seventh Seal. Where Allen shines is not in slapstick situations but in soliloquies and banter duets. He and Sonia (Diane Keaton), an intellectual Russian nymph, often find themselves grappling with...