Word: lolitas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lolita. Wind up the Lolita doll and it goes to Hollywood and commits nymphanticide. Sue Lyon, 14, is the titular heroine of the film, and Peter Sellers lightens the encircling tedium...
...Failure of World Communism") and another for the New York Times Magazine ("The 'Threat' of the Radical Right"). For the monthly magazine Show, he writes snappy movie reviews. As to Summer and Smoke, starring Geraldine Page and Laurence Harvey, he loved her, hated him; as to Lolita, he loved it, loved her. He will soon have a new book, The Politics of Hope-which, contrary to rumors, is not about...
...Lolita. Wind up the Lolita doll and it goes to Hollywood and commits nymphanticide. Sue Lyon, 14, is the titular heroine of the film, and Peter Sellers lightens the encircling tedium with some inspired foolery...
...Arthur Kopit. An evening of surrealistic foolery on the topic of why Mom is a witch. Goofy, oomphy Barbara Harris is the Lolita of off Broadway...
...been caught cheating at cards in his club. He shows none of the Old World graces and cultural refinement that made the book's Humbert seem more of a sexual gourmet than a sexual monster. In the book, it was Humbert who appeared romantically naive when Lolita quite casually and ironically seduced him. As Nabokov created her, Lolita was as completely a symbol of innate depravity as Melville's Billy Budd was a symbol of innate innocence. But in the movie, she seems to fall into Humbert's voracious clutches to avoid going to an orphanage after...