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...book titled Lolita. We are told that Dolores ("Lolita") Maze (not Haze) met Humbert Guibert (not Humbert) in the home of her mother Isabel (not Charlotte); that Humbert took a fancy to Lo; that he married the mother to get to the daughter; that on the mother's death, Hum and Lo took to the open road, fitfully pursued by the girl's true love, playwright Gerry Sue Filthy (not Clare Quilty), for whom she ultimately abandoned Hum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Humming Along With Nabokov | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

...observation shown in his book, I'm sure he did, he didn't comment. He's much too polite for that. We sit in a vinyl booth, at a table covered in red Formica, underneath a wall filled with photographs of the BU football team while electric fans hum overhead. Two burly Boston cops sit in the booth behind ours, shouting at the short order cook in a Boston accent worthy of a Jordan's Furniture commercial. Their noise does not drown out the precise, thoughtful speech and South African accent of Mr. Morris, however, and somehow the two tables...

Author: By Christina B. Roseberger, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Reagan's | 10/15/1999 | See Source »

...years later, the fad has remained at a steady hum in the background of campus initiations...

Author: By Sarah L. Gore, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: (Gulp): A Brief History of Goldfish Swallowing | 10/14/1999 | See Source »

...Three Kings seems at first quite fantastical: four bored soldiers, AWOL with a hum-vee, searching for buried treasure. With the grizzled Major Archie Gates (George Clooney), a disillusioned officer leading their illicit adventure, these swashbucklers embark upon their search for hidden Kuwaiti gold led by a secret map concealed in a captured Iraqi's ass, affectionately dubbed "the ass map," with a duffell bag filled with grenade rigged nerf footballs. Denied any of the war's action, these four soldiers enthusiastically seek their last chance to blow things up, now that the war is officially over. Russell goes...

Author: By Nadia A. Berenstein, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Gulf, Anyone? | 10/1/1999 | See Source »

...conflict. The LA Times had day-by-day book on the war--their front page every day it went on, and some of the visuals come from that. Like they had a cow standing in the middle of a burning field, and a the Bart Simpson sticker on the hum-vee, those images are from the LA times...

Author: By Nadia A. Berenstein, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Russell Trades in Dysfunction for Treasure | 10/1/1999 | See Source »

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