Word: lolitas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cleverest writer is a touchy business, a little like becoming Pope - one must not campaign for the election. Readers of Nabokov's new book, which is surely the most eccentric novel published in this decade, have considerable reason to feel that the author is campaigning. Pale Fire, like Lolita, is a monstrous, witty, intricately entertaining work whose verbal agility is often bewildering. But unlike the earlier book, Pale Fire does not really cohere as a satire; good as it is, the novel in the end seems to be mostly an exercise in agility - or perhaps in bewilderment...
...what is written about him. He does not at all enjoy the spectacle of clumsy minds trying to sniff out the "true" Nabokov. In Switzerland, where he now lives with his wife in a hotel overlooking Lake Geneva, he is abnormally cautious in what he says to reporters. Lolita was praised or damned with energy and ignorance by almost everyone licensed to operate a typewriter...
...days before Lolita made the girl-child a femme fatale, Barbara was in Chicago, toying with improvised variations on a theme called "Too Tempting to Men" with the Second City theater group. Now, at 25, she is a woman playing a girl, a trick she accomplishes with such hilarity and grace that she has become more tempting than ever. Last week Alan Jay Lerner and Richard Rodgers signed her for the lead in their first musical together, and Sid Caesar is building the first of his new fall TV series around...
...Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad, by Krthur Kopit. A surrealistic foray into the no-man's land of Mornism. Barbara Harris is the sexiest sprout since Lolita...
Like Guinness, he often pops up in various roles within a single film (The Mouse That Roared, The Naked Truth). As the finkish Clare Quilty, he tries out several disguises in Hollywood's new and breathily awaited Lolita, which brought him to the U.S. last week for a promotion tour. New Sellers films open, it seems, about as frequently as cuckoo clocks; he has made more than two dozen in the last twelve years. Only Two Can Play is playing to sellout audiences in London and New York. He is Jean Anouilh's lecherous old general in Waltz...