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Word: lolitas (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov. About a middle-aged monomaniac's obsession with an adolescent "nymphet." Brilliantly writ ten, by turns hilarious and horrifying, it is a strange but major work of fiction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Nov. 10, 1958 | 11/10/1958 | See Source »

...Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov. A brilliantly written novel, lyrical, hilarious and horrifying, about a middle-aging émigré's love for a "nymphet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Nov. 3, 1958 | 11/3/1958 | See Source »

...Lolita, Nabokov...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Nov. 3, 1958 | 11/3/1958 | See Source »

Holly Golightly, 18, is a cross between a grown-up Lolita and a teen-age Auntie Mame. A piquantly wacky ex-hillbilly who lives in a Manhattan upper East Side brownstone, she is a kind of expense-account tramp; as she puts it in her own countdown, "I've only had eleven lovers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bad Little Good Girl | 11/3/1958 | See Source »

...Lolita, Nabokov...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Time Listings, Oct. 27, 1958 | 10/27/1958 | See Source »

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