Word: humbert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...slightly built older actresses. When the film version of Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita appeared in 1962, it was considered scandalous that Sue Lyon, a not particularly slight 14 when she was selected for the role, was so young. Actually she was old to play the part, because Nabokov's Humbert Humbert was fascinated by seductive little girls only until they reached puberty...
...Alfred Humbert Jr. Chicago...
...habit of employing pen, camera and oils to attract young men. The results could be artful sublimations-poems or paintings exalting saintly martyrs. But when he was candid, as in his "Ballade of Boys Bathing" ("Wondrous limbs ... lithe round arms"), the poet made his role as a gay Humbert Humbert painfully obvious...
Magical Memories. In nature, beauty is the beast. This is also true in much of Nabokov's fiction. The delectable nymphet Lolita has a cruel, popsicle heart. The exquisite sensibilities of her middle-aged lover Humbert Humbert are grotesquely twisted by lust. Charles Kinbote, whose magical memories feed Pale Fire, is hopelessly mad, as is Luzhin, the chessmaster in The Defense...
...take up residence in a child named Ivy Templeton (Susan Swift). She grows into an ordinary child-except that she has awful nightmares. And then, of course, there is this odd man who keeps following her around. If only he were a run-of-the-sidewalk pervert; for Humbert Humbert, after all, there are practical remedies...