Word: chaser
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...magician. The general public, which chose to read Lolita as a prurient tale of pedophilia, enters through the main gate, hoping to meet the creator of that doomed and delectable child. A more sophisticated clientele moves beyond the midway to seek out and applaud Dr. Nabokov, the butterfly chaser, dealer in anagrammatical gimcracks, triple-tongued punster, animator of Doppelgänger, shuffler of similes. Prolonged exposure to Nabokov reveals much more. What he calls his "ever-ever" land of artifice opens on intriguing distances. There words transform the world into metaphor and time is held exquisitely at bay by memory...
...because the roles of performer and audience interlock. A man rushing for the bus dons a sheepish smile to indicate his awareness of how silly he looks. His observers reward his performance-that is, the smile-by smiling sympathetically back. With this response, they become performers, and the bus chaser becomes the audience...
...Products. By comparison, Tillie's life has hardly any fizz at all. Serious, well-trained in sociology, she meets a gimp-legged skirt-chaser and hopeless vulgarian named Pete Seltzer. His public wit runs to doubletalk and the invention of nonsense "end" products: after-shaving mints, dietetic shampoo, reversible mayonnaise. "He thinks Cameroons are some kind of cookie," she reflects bitterly. But they marry anyhow and live together until their nine-year-old son dies of lingering leukemia...
After a year at Dartmouth and an engineering degree from M.I.T. ('36), Bunkie went to work for a Detroit machine shop. He reached Pontiac in 1939 as a menial "tool chaser." Then, for a decade, he tried out anything that might broaden his experience from defense-plant inspector to car-assembly superintendent...
Died. Jayne Mansfield, 34, sometime actress and full-time publicity chaser; of a crushed skull when the car she was riding in slammed into a truck, also killing Attorney Samuel S. Brody, 40, and their chauffeur; in New Orleans. Endowed with a pretty, pouty face and an astounding (40-18-36) figure, Jayne was single-mindedly intent on becoming a "Hollywood personality," and in a way she succeeded-by flooding the papers with peep-show photos and an incredible series of antic marriages, mishaps and escapades. In her role as the dazzlingly dumb blonde in Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter...