Word: nabakov
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...really fair to judge Lolita in comparison with the book. Rewritten by Nabakov and directed by Stanley Kubrick, the screenplay can easily stand on its own. It is absurd, grotesque, and very funny, and it introduces a fine young actress, Sue Lyon...
Although the censorship law prevents bodily contact between Humbert and Lolita, Kubrick and Nabakov do not leave as little as possible to the imagination. In the hotel scene Humbert tries desparately to arrange it so that there will be no roll-away bed for him. The eventual arrival of the bed late at night is funny enough, but even more amusing is the frightened face on Humbert the next morning when Lolita whispers in his ear presumably the very idea he was afraid to utter himself...
...Nabakov and Kubrick have handled a lurid subject with humor and imagination. The result is very funny at times, though it hardly burns with a gem-like pale fire...
Hubie Maguire looks like he may stage a comeback in the mile, but he is relatively unsupported. He ran 4:28 as a freshman, but was slowed down by leg injuries last year. Along with him will be the inexperienced Al Blaylock and Dimitri Nabakov...
...rest of the first ten were Arnie Howe of Kirkland, fourth; Ivan Nabakov of Lowell, fifth, Guide Peroira of Eliot, sixth; John Tilton of Dunster, seventh; Bob Swett of Eliot, eighth; Dick Hooke of Dudley, ninth; and Al Joyce of Adams, tenth...