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When Humbert Humbert (James Mason), a French professor who has come to New Hampshire to lodge for the summer before starting a lectureship, tours the home of prospective landlord Charlotte Haze (Sue Lyons), he is completely turned off by her blatant, grotesque and clingy personality. But one look at Haze's shrewd, sexy adolescent daughter, Dolores (a.k.a. Lo or Lolita, played by Shelley Winters), sensuously sunbathing on the front lawn, and Humbert is there to stay. The story plays out Humbert's pedophilic passions, and, when Lolita and he go on a cross-country escapade, it becomes an extended commentary...
What it says is that Harvard is willing to make waves to attract passersby into the Holyoke Center arcade in the hope that they will patronize the shops, the shops will prosper and Harvard, as landlord, will make money...
Genevieve McMillan, the landlord of the building at 56 JFK St. which houses the Boathouse, said the sign has gone up because of a dispute with the manager of the bar over the renewal of the bar's lease...
Residents refused to divulge the name of the landlord under direct questioning from Councillor William H. Walsh, who said that the council had no right to "strong arm" a property owner with "comprehensive inspections...
Tenants said that the construction started without warning in May, and that they had made repeated requests to meet with the landlord and were refused. Two meetings with the landlord's lawyer were also canceled, the tenants said...