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Those who actually have strayed from their cagelike dormitories may have noticed that Spring wardrobe time is here. To elicit just the right response, FM suggests the Lolita Look. While fashion guru Marc Jacobs has advocated the parochial pleated skirt look this season, also called 'the sorority girl look," we suggest aiming a little younger. Think: pubescent...
...might find yourself in the company of apotbellied pig named "Lolita" or get called by ahysterical artist whose rottweiler got into hispurple paint," Gordan says. "As far as I'mconcerned veterinary medicine will take you veryinteresting places."CrimsonMatthew P. MillerTABITHA A. SHANIES `98 who will attendCornell's College of Veterinary Medicine, plans tobe a "wildlife or exotic animals"veterinarian...
...should be said, flat out, that Lyne's Lolita is not a movie we need to be protected from. If it offers a certain sympathetic understanding of Jeremy Irons' gently wistful Humbert Humbert, he is more than adequately punished for his nymphetomania. If Lolita, in Dominique Swain's marvelous performance--a mercurial blend of the guileful and guileless--is as much victimizer as victim, well, such creatures are not unknown in life...
That said, however, it's easy to see why so many distributors have passed on this Lolita, using as a primary excuse the constitutionally dubious 1996 federal law that prohibits showing sexually suggestive acts with children. But the commercial problem is not so much with the movie Lyne made, working from Stephen Schiff's carefully crafted script, as with the movies he didn't make...
...begin with, he didn't deliver an Adrian Lyne movie, something with the mildly transgressive, slightly trashy, hugely promotable edge of his Fatal Attraction or Indecent Proposal. All that, he seems to be signaling here, is behind him. He has shot Lolita in elegantly muted tones, and Ennio Morricone has given him an elegiac score redolent of the lost European world (and the lost adolescent love) that Humbert ironically seeks to recapture through his doomed passion for this child of a new world and new times (the piece is set in the late '40s, just after other children...