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Born. To Sue Lyon, 25, former film nymphet (Lolita, The Night of the Iguana), and Roland Harrison, 33, a Los Angeles photographer; their first child, a daughter. Name: Nona Merrill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 5, 1972 | 6/5/1972 | See Source »

Counterpointing the realistic presentation of Ruby's fling with Earl Tibbits is the treatment of her niece Vivian, a self-contained, gum-chewing teenager, much closer to Nabokov's Lolita than was Sue Lyon, who played the part in Kubrick's movie. With no claims to any particular beauty or charm. Vivian succeeds--where Ruby doesn't--simply because she is young, because she doesn't care, because she regards adoration...

Author: By Esther Dyson, | Title: Ruby Ha Ha | 5/24/1972 | See Source »

...Lolita, directed by Stanley Kubrick with James Mason, Shelley Winters, Peter Sellers, Orson Welles Cinema, 4, 7, 10, May 21-23. With Walt Disney's Ferdinand the Bull and identity crisis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: the screen | 5/18/1972 | See Source »

...There are memorable figures, of course: Hawthorne's Hester Prynne, John O'Hara's Grace Caldwell Tate and Gloria Wandrous, Fitzgerald's Daisy Buchanan, Dreiser's Sister Carrie, Steinbeck's Ma Joad, Margaret Mitchell's Scarlett O'Hara, Nabokov's Lolita, Roth's Sophie Portnoy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where She Is and Where She's Going | 3/20/1972 | See Source »

...confined to the men, of course. Vastly outnumbered, women tended initially to be intimidated in class, though the girls did well in their written work. "You were expected to be a mixture of Margaret Mead and Scarlett O'Hara," says Janet Lever. "There you are in class discussing Lolita, and the professor turns to you and asks for the woman's point of view. It created a very tense situation." By the second year, adds Pepper Schwartz, "the women students had been radicalized. They had more of an idea of what it is to be a woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Woman & Man at Yale | 3/20/1972 | See Source »

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