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Word: lolitas (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...them. Alwyn the critic could sift a ton of aesthetic sludge and produce a column and a half of buoyant wit, pleasure and wisdom. It is stultifying to honor a man with lists, but it would be remiss not to mention his TIME review of Nabokov's Lolita, a model of incisiveness and insight; a brief and scintillating piece on Henry Miller that tells all anyone will ever need to know about that writer; and a short story called Something for Bradshaw's Tombstone, which prefigures much that Graham Greene would later have to say about the American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Jul. 20, 1970 | 7/20/1970 | See Source »

Maclnnes further hots up his tale with pirates, witches and a plantation owner's daughter-an 18th century Lolita, the young bitch-heroine to end all bitch-heroines. But like painted scenery, Maclnnes' skillfully assumed style devitalizes what it copies. It inhibits Westward to Laughter as Rattling Good Yarn while blunting it as Savage Satire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pieces of Eightball | 2/23/1970 | See Source »

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