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...COLLECTOR. In Director William Wyler's grisly but somewhat glamorized treatment of the novel by John Fowles, a lovely art student (Samantha Eggar) wages a war of nerves against a manic lepidopterist (Terence Stamp) who has locked her in a dungeon...
...COLLECTOR. In Director William Wyler's grisly but somewhat glamorized treatment of the bestseller by John Fowles, a lovely art student (Samantha Eggar) wages a war of nerves against a manic lepidopterist (Terence Stamp) who has arranged to lock her in a dungeon...
That prominent lepidopterist Vladimir Nabokov is a busy but exceedingly thrifty man. During the past decade, in between chasing butterflies, translating Pushkin (TIME, July 31), and writing his brilliant, cross-grained fiction, he has been bringing to market carefully supervised English translations of his own early novels, which he wrote in Russian in the days when he was a member of the Czarist émigré community in Berlin and Paris. Several of these translations, notably 1963's version of The Gift (his last Russian novel), have displayed the unmistakable Nabokov wit and sardonic inventiveness. The Defense...
...love about love," she observes, "is the fever, which marriage puts to bed and cures." In this book of aphorisms, jotted down in the time she can spare from her job as managing editor of Glamour magazine, Authoress McLaughlin impales her prey with the cool detachment of a lepidopterist. A neurotic, according to Neurotic's Notebook, "has perfect vision in one eye, but cannot remember which," and goes through life feeling "like a Christmas shopper who keeps dropping his packages, and it's raining." Other glimpses through the rain...
...doctor's degree in English and Folk Literature at Cornell, dabbled in radio, eventually gravitated to L.S.U. because he was fascinated by the diversity of folk music in Louisiana. He follows the folk trail in a battered 1953 Mercury, tracking down leads with the persistence of a questing lepidopterist. Recently he heard of a mulatto woman named Madame Sam who lived in Algiers, across the river from New Orleans, and supposedly sang a particularly unadulterated brand of old French. Sam, it turned out, was not up to her billing, but she sent Oster chasing downriver to Port Sulphur, where...