Word: lolitas
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...tidy little gardens of verse periodically raked up by Poetot Minou Drouet have nurtured some singularly muse-smitten responses: by the latest count, the lady's Christmas mail included some 20 proposals of marriage. Lest any readers be tormented by life imitating Lolita, the daily Paris-Journal solemnly presented reassurance: petite Minou, 11, has rejected her suitors...
...summer, while shooting his third movie (Mardi Gras) in Hollywood, Pat wrote a sun-drenched book: 'Twixt Twelve and Twenty (Prentice-Hall; $2.95). By last week its call for healthy-mindedness among "my friends out there in Teen-age Land" was influencing so many of them (or their Lolita-stunned parents) that the book had become a major bestseller...
...Poteet has been banished from Steve Canyon in part because of a distant tie to Lolita, many a reader who mixes some books with his comic strips is convinced that a teen-ager now raising temperatures in Dick Tracy (416 papers) is closely related, indeed, to the nimble nymphet. Slinky and scheming beyond her years, Popsie is fond of putting down her lollypop and bussing the cheek of Headache, a slot-machine maker who is not above bussing back. Cries Headache: "Owoo! That lollypop!" The very suggestion that Popsie and Lolita and Headache and Humbert are parallels draws howls...
...Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov. A comedy of horrors whose aberrant love theme and brilliant writing make it a kind of fictional black valentine...
...Lolita, Nabokov...