Word: nymphet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only he could go home again. But back in Manhattan lurk Billy's sister Abby, who clomps "the treacherous hike from the bathroom to the kitchen linoleum" in hiking boots; his twice-divorced mother; and her balding lover Henry, whom Billy catches poring over nymphet glossies in a porn shop. Epstein is at his best with fresh comic perceptions of growing up absurd in a multiparent home. He is at his weakest in describing Billy's moony infatuation with Zizi, which leads to the novel's adolescent denouement...
...taught a whole generation how to thank goodness for little girls. It also gave America's greatest mad scientist director, Stanley Kubrick, the chance to experiment with Nabokov's novel--and the result remains titillating. Some will argue that Sue Lyons was too old to play Nabokov's beguiling nymphet. But you have to know that those sunglasses and red lipstick and tight pants sum up the early 60s' teen angel. Others will tell you that James Mason's manners are too good to convey the sick depths of Humboldt Humboldt's jealousy; but it's precisely this polish that...
Magical Memories. In nature, beauty is the beast. This is also true in much of Nabokov's fiction. The delectable nymphet Lolita has a cruel, popsicle heart. The exquisite sensibilities of her middle-aged lover Humbert Humbert are grotesquely twisted by lust. Charles Kinbote, whose magical memories feed Pale Fire, is hopelessly mad, as is Luzhin, the chessmaster in The Defense...
...long-suffering, long-distance reader can hardly begrudge the lady her self-indulgence. She paid her dues. Once when Hemingway was diverted by a 19-year-old Italian nymphet (the model for Colonel Cantwell's love in Across the River), Mary moaned, "Nobody knows the trouble I've seen." Hemingway counterpointed, "Nobody knows but Gellhorn." But Martha Gellhorn, wife-Muse number three, was a successful novelist and had been married (for less than five years) to a younger, less desperate Hemingway. Mary, not Martha, was there when the Nobel prize arrived, late as usual. Mary was also there...
...dourly funny sophisticate. Debbie's big hit movie was the innocuous Tammy and the Bachelor, in which she played a professional teen-age virgin. Carrie has a hit flick too: Warren Beatty's Beverly Hills satire Shampoo. She also played a teen-ager-a nymphet who traps Beatty into...