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...Petersburg who had also fled the revolution. A son, Dmitri, now an opera singer in Europe, was born in 1934. Five years later, the family sailed for the U.S., where Nabokov soon be gan to feel "as American as April in Arizona." He taught at Wellesley and Cor nell, studied butterflies at Harvard, and published stories in such magazines as Esquire and The New Yorker. The Real Life of Sebastian Knight (1941) and Bend Sinister (1947) earned high praise but few royalties. With the American edition of Lolita in 1958, Nabokov be came an unpronounceable household name.* It now seems...
...steps south and one encounters Nell Yates, a secretary in those premises since the days of Dwight Eisenhower. Warm, efficient, knowing, she belongs there. Jimmy Carter must be just ahead. But the Oval Office, a stride through the curved door, is more a museum than the center of a man's authority. One wonders if Carter is still intimidated by the legend of the office, or if he is determined not to live amid the symbols of Washington status...
...Barnes," Gene said, hoping to head off him and Nell, "You looked anymore...
John Moot and Dave MacKinnon fired home the first two goals of the game for the Crimson, but Nell Herron countered for the Warriors to make the score 2-1 after the initial period of play...
...first husband, Bullingdon, conceives a hatred for his stepfather that is largely justified by Barry's behavior. Barry becomes the doting father of a spoiled brat, Bryan, who kills himself riding a horse. Bryan's death scene is the most treacliest tearjerker since Charles Dickens killed off Little Nell. As stonefaced Barry and the Countess sit on either side of his pure white bed, the little eight-year-old blond--his head bandaged to add more white to the picture--asks if he will go to heaven. Kubrick must have been throwing up into his Design Research director's chair...