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...sitting on the porch of his son's house in Fair Haven. N.J., watching his granddaughter perambulate her favorite doll in the summer sunshine, but he might have been anywhere in the U.S. His cry and his question are being heard more often and more urgently everywhere-in Southern drawl and Northern twang, in city and suburb, cold-water flat and executive suite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Family: A Place in the Sun | 8/3/1962 | See Source »

Lolita. Wind up the Lolita doll and it goes to Hollywood and commits nymphanticide. Sue Lyon, 14, is the titular heroine of the film, and Peter Sellers lightens the encircling tedium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Television, Theater, Books: Jul. 6, 1962 | 7/6/1962 | See Source »

...wind up the Henry Koerner doll and it splatters paint all over your cover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 29, 1962 | 6/29/1962 | See Source »

Lolita. Wind up the Lolita doll and it goes to Hollywood and commits nymphanticide. Sue Lyon, 14, is the titular heroine of the film, and Peter Sellers lightens the encircling tedium with some inspired foolery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Television, Theater, Books: Jun. 29, 1962 | 6/29/1962 | See Source »

Lolita. Wind up the Lolita doll and it goes to Hollywood and commits nymphanticide. Director Stanley Kubrick and Novelist-turned-Scriptwriter Vladimir Nabokov shadow the plot of Nabokov's perverse and remarkable novel rather faithfully, but they have filtered out its shades of meaning. Those who know the book will hoot at this decontamination; those who do not will be mystified as to how the story ever got its lurid reputation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Humbert Humdrum & Lullita | 6/22/1962 | See Source »

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