Word: lolitas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...role of Alice, the producers have cast Margery Glench--a bold step, since she is a grandmother, and known to be at least seventy-six. But she has triumphantly made good their gamble. Her forthcoming movie version of Lolita, to be called I Was a Teenage Nymphet, will be eagerly awaited. For Miss Glench is charming. Miss Glench is beautiful. Miss Glench is neatsie-poo. She sings like a nightingale, and she looks like one too, with the neatest little set of tailfeathers you could ever hope to see. Miss Glench, will you live in sin with...
...Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov. A comedy of horrors whose aberrant love theme and brilliant writing make it a kind of fictional black valentine...
...tidy little gardens of verse periodically raked up by Poetot Minou Drouet have nurtured some singularly muse-smitten responses: by the latest count, the lady's Christmas mail included some 20 proposals of marriage. Lest any readers be tormented by life imitating Lolita, the daily Paris-Journal solemnly presented reassurance: petite Minou, 11, has rejected her suitors...
...summer, while shooting his third movie (Mardi Gras) in Hollywood, Pat wrote a sun-drenched book: 'Twixt Twelve and Twenty (Prentice-Hall; $2.95). By last week its call for healthy-mindedness among "my friends out there in Teen-age Land" was influencing so many of them (or their Lolita-stunned parents) that the book had become a major bestseller...
...Doctor Zhivago, Pasternak (1)* 2. Lolita, Nabokov (2) 3. From the Terrace, O'Hara (5) 4. The Ugly American, Lederer and Burdick (4) 5. Around the World with Auntie Maine, Dennis (3) 6. Exodus, Uris (7) 7. Victorine, Keyes (8) 8. Women and Thomas Harrow, Marquand (6) 9. The Best of Everything, Jaffe (10) 10. The Rainbow and the Rose, Shute...