Word: lolitas
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...classic first-generation immigrant who loves America because he doesn't want to leave it. Nabokov has left it, still loves it. He feels very sensitive, he says in Strong Opinions, about his lack of a natural vocabulary. He echoes what he said in the afterword to Lolita: My private tragedy, which cannot, indeed should not, be anybody's concern, is that I had to abandon my natural language, my natural idiom, my rich, infinitely rich and docile Russian tongue, for a second-rate brand of English. He feels caught between Russian, for which he no longer has an audience...
Literary Lepidopterist Vladimir Nabokov, 74, identified a unique American species, the Nymphet, in his 1958 novel Lolita. Although the work was internationally acclaimed, it failed to win any of the major American book awards. In fact, the Russian-born Nabokov, who is frequently mentioned as a potential Nobel prizewinner, has picked up few prizes; five of his novels have been nominated for National Book Awards, only to be ultimately passed over. Now the self-described "pleasant outsider" has landed one of the country's most distinguished prizes: the National Medal for Literature, awarded for a living American writer...
...author of elegant light verse and urbane literary biographies (Pascal, Petrarch, La Rochefoucauld); of a heart attack; in Ithaca, N.Y. Bishop served 24 years as professor of romance literature at Cornell. In 1948, he persuaded the university to hire his friend Vladimir Nabokov, who settled in to write Lolita...
...likes to let on that "moral dilemmas give me gas." Along with his sidekick and cousin, nicely played by Strother Martin, he squared off in earlier episodes against big-city decadence (the season opener featured a gay apartment house, an alcoholic actress and an attempted rape of a Lolita-like minor). But in next month's installment the pair will really get to shuck the corn. They will return to Jim my's home town in West Virginia to defend a man accused of committing a blood-feud murder with a muzzle-loading rifle...
...child star of Lolita, now a post-nymphet of 27, had to be hospitalized briefly on the eve of her wedding. Sue Lyon's ailment: strep throat and fatigue brought on by the hassles of arranging her marriage to a Colorado State prisoner, who is serving 40 years for second-degree murder and aggravated robbery. Sue first met Gary ("Cotton") Adamson, 33, in 1970, when she visited a friend who was sharing Gary's cell in a Los Angeles County jail. Now she plans to campaign for prison reform, specifically for prisoners' conjugal rights. As she puts...