Word: lolitas
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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...
...LOLITA. The girl in middle or late adolescence who dresses and acts provocatively. In many cases she is not purposely seductive and is perhaps hardly aware of her impact on older men in whom she rekindles potentially hazardous fantasies of youth or lost opportunities...
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...
Willie and the girl, Lolita, lit out for the Mohave Desert. He could normally have hidden on tiny reservations until the trouble blew over, since Indian killing was a matter of little concern to the white community. But at that time, it happened that President Taft was making a cross-country tour, followed by a bored and weary press corps looking for a story to break the whistle-stop monotony. They found what they wanted in Riverside, Calif...
Once the newspapers published their first dispatches about Willie and Lolita, rumors spread of a full-scale Indian uprising. It was said that Willie was out to assassinate the President. Someone dubbed him "the mad dog of the Morongos"-and he was hunted like one. Willie covered almost 500 miles on foot, through the Morongo Valley, past Surprise Springs and Deadman's Dry Lake, until he was finally cornered on Ruby Mountain. Earlier, he had shot the girl to keep her from getting caught. On the mountain, he challenged a sure-shooting lawman with an empty rifle, a gesture...