Word: lolita
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...that he could not feel "at home in the 20th century." At Silverwood, time has been stopped resolutely, circa 1870. What starts the clocks moving again and causes Ninian's downfall is a hopelessly immature, nearly illiterate 18-year-old whom he hires as his secretary. Unlike Lolita's Humbert Humbert, Ninian manages to convince himself that he is interested in the girl's mind: peering at a "modern" daub through myopic eyes, she had once by wildest mischance correctly identified a Dufy. In his passion for the girl, Ninian abandons his London art gallery, gets himself...
...subjects of Strombotne's painting, Yo-Yo, were easily recognizable as Pablo Picasso and Kathy (his stepdaughter since his marriage to Jacqueline). The photographs he used as models can be found in The Private World of Pablo Picasso, by David D. Duncan. The "Lolita-like" girl is Kathy, the figure for the man is, of all people, Gary Cooper, and the face of the "sinister" old man is Picasso...
...apparently innocent and light-hearted scene called Yo-Yo turns out to be quite sinister: the Lolita-like girl with the Yo-Yo flaunts her body seductively while an old man with chalk-white face and sunburned bare legs leers and chortles. In The Bath, an orange-colored woman sits by a potbellied male whose nude body has the color of death and whose face is covered with purple squiggles suggesting decay. Even Strombotne's self-portrait-an elongated figure with beard and dark glasses-seems tortured. The wrists are crossed as if waiting to be manacled; the stance...
...Street"); the warring psychiatrists Dr. Onan L. Digges ("the Saniflush of the Unconscious") and the "Freudy-cat" Dr. Selig J. Reichner; Miss La Fosse, who claims that she graduated from Vassar at twelve and rode "pillion on an older man's motor cycle" long before anyone heard of Lolita. When these characters converge in the back corridors or the main dining hall of Serenity House, they strike continuous comic sparks. At times the characters-and the book-show the strain of trying to make every moment a madcap one. But most of the time Author Kronenberger-biographer (Marlborough...
...with care?"Idle roomers beget idle rumors"?preferring to play on people rather than words. For she is a devastating parodist, whether in a single line about "The Confessions of St. Augustine, as told to Gerold Frank," or in the full-sized parodies of Vladimir Nabokov ("To watch Lolita sit at the kitchen table and play jacks was to know what Aristotle meant by pity and terror"), or null Sagan: that timeless moment when the bored geriatric lover gets out of the bored hoyden's bed and hops up and down to get his circulation going. And like...