Word: lolitas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Shelton (Bull Durham) directs Blaze with plenty of pungent wit, but from a high, disinterested view. He never gets steam into the affair. Paul Newman approaches Earl from the outside too, as a growly-bear clown who doesn't realize he's King Lear. Lolita Davidovich, making the most of her first big break, plays Blaze as a sensible, loving career gal with an overripe body. But the picture is not mainly about sex or even love; it is about an aging man's loss of sexual, political and personal power...
...rebounds in a 49-48 loss to Lafayette and then tallied 34 points and snared 21 rebounds in a 68-65 loss to Cornell. No other Colgate player is averaging in double figures. Today's game may mark the season debut of 5-ft., 11-in. forward Lolita Paegle, who hails from Riga, Latvia, in the Soviet Union...
This course covers "the mythos of love and its attendant social and sexual rituals as portrayed in some great works of literature during the past hundred years," according to the Summer School course catelogue. The reading list includes classics such as Nabokov's Lolita and D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover--both the film and book versions...
...course, as a short novel The Enchanter can not be expected to have the same artistic complexity as Lolita. Despite its shortcomings, there is much to admire in this piece of prose. Nabokov's unmistakable flair comes across clearly in Dmitri Nabokov's sensitive and painstaking translation. When he spoke at Harvard last Thursday, Dmitri mentioned an "inviolable contract" which existed between the father as author and the son as translator, and which continued to exist even after the father's death...
...interweaving of some of these themes, the webs of imagery, the elegant prose with its pricks of irony and cadences of poetry, all make The Enchanter a worthwhile read. Admittedly it is one of the author's lesser works, a weak prototype of Lolita...