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nymph in zoology: see insect .

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	IRAN: BATTLE AGAINST CEREAL LEAF BEETLE NYMPHS ENTERS NEW STAGE IN KERMANSHAH. Newspaper article from: IPR Strategic Business Information Database; 5/30/2006; 37 words ; According to Tehran Times , an official from the Agricultural Jihad Department of this western Iranian province said that this year's battle against the cereal leaf beetle nymphs covers 40,000 hectares of farmlands across the province. Read more
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	The nymphs, seeing Circe at the table. (poem) Magazine article from: The Antioch Review; 3/22/1997; ; 103 words ; Change, for nymphs, is essential. Here we eat clams in the sun, crack them in our hooves. Our island is windy. We're raked by tropic weather. You sit at Circe's table, palms spread, flaring like a sow. You snuffle for your dinner. Your sweet hands are more than she can bear. They mutter toward her Read more
	Robert Halmi's Gold Nymph Leaves Monte-Carlo Abuzz. Magazine article from: Video Age International; 2/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...independent producer's days are numbered. Halmi was named the recipient of the 41st annual Monte-Carlo Television Festival's Gold Nymph Award, which recognizes a creative force in television whose body of work has international appeal and will have a lasting impact... Read more
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	In the hour of the twilight: Guy Maddin gets melodramatic with Twilight of the nymphs. Magazine article from: Take One; 9/22/1997; ; 700+ words ; As a result of our commitment to provide our readers with the most accurate, informed picture of contemporary Canadian cinema, Take One has uncovered new evidence about Guy Maddin's life and work, hitherto suppressed by the reclusive Winnipeg filmmaker, from a forthcoming special encyclopedia of Read more
	From Nymph to Elder: Beyond the Viability of Seduction.(Critical Essay)(Brief Article) Magazine article from: The Literary Review; 9/22/2000; ; 700+ words ; Calypso, Twilight took shape around the time I read Robert Fagles's recent translation of The Odyssey, whose leading women possessed supple waists and golden braids and seemed to linger indefinitely in the prime of life. Their power to deter the course of warriors or appease the gods seemed Read more
	From within: music in the style of Jean Renoir.(Critical Essay) Magazine article from: CineAction; 3/22/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...flute breathes over a pastoral scene. A nymph frolics across the stage. A pipe-playing...fantasy--as Lestingois catches his pretty nymph and makes to kiss her. Before he can do...Anne-Marie and utters a flowery ode to his nymph-come-maid. The muted sound quality might... Read more
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