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...door. Roughly the first half of the book is devoted to Flora, a grown Lolita-type, bored with her marriage to a psychologist named Philip Wild and carrying out numerous affairs. Meanwhile, an obsessive former flame is writing an erotic novel about her titled “My Laura,” a crazed production, but one in which “fixed details as her trick of opening her mouth when toweling her inguen or of closing her eyes when smelling an inodorous rose are absolutely true to the original.” The second, more sketchily outlined half...

Author: By Jessica A. Sequeira, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Nabokov's 'Original of Laura' Remains Unpolished | 2/2/2010 | See Source »

...leashes down the street. Flora is groped at age 12 by an older man named “Hubert H. Hubert” (many characters are lifted near-wholesale from Nabokov’s other books). And embarrassing puns abound—a miniature chess set is given to Laura because “she knew the moves,” a “potentate is potent” until the age of 80—which simply never would have reached print...

Author: By Jessica A. Sequeira, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Nabokov's 'Original of Laura' Remains Unpolished | 2/2/2010 | See Source »

...tonight’s game at the Bright Hockey Center will feature some new faces- notably between the goalposts as both nets feature newcomers with big skates to fill. On the Crimson’s side of the ice is freshman Laura Bellamy, who has been undergoing baptism by fire after a college-career ending injury to senior Christina Kessler forced the rookie into the middle of an ECAC title race...

Author: By Christina C. Mcclintock, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Eyes Title Against the Eagles | 2/2/2010 | See Source »

...Laura Bellamy has just been having a great couple of games,” Buesser said. “Knowing we have a good goaltender allows us to…play more aggressively...

Author: By Christina C. Mcclintock, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Eyes Title Against the Eagles | 2/2/2010 | See Source »

...Freshman Laura Gemmell took care of business right after the Guruge-Chua match, and she put away Katy Brewster in three sets...

Author: By Brian A. Campos, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Justifies Ranking with Two Wins | 2/1/2010 | See Source »

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