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Word: nymphets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov. About a middle-aged monomaniac's obsession with an adolescent "nymphet." Brilliantly writ ten, by turns hilarious and horrifying, it is a strange but major work of fiction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Nov. 10, 1958 | 11/10/1958 | See Source »

Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov. A brilliantly written novel, lyrical, hilarious and horrifying, about a middle-aging émigré's love for a "nymphet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Nov. 3, 1958 | 11/3/1958 | See Source »

Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov. A brilliantly written novel, lyrical, hilarious and horrifying, about a middle-aging emigre's love for a "nymphet," with highly ironic variations on the theme of American innocence and European corruption...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Time Listings, Oct. 27, 1958 | 10/27/1958 | See Source »

Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov. This superb novel shuttles between the lyrical, the hilarious and the horrifying to tell of a middle-aging emigre's love for a "nymphet," with highly ironic variations on the theme of American innocence and European corruption...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Oct. 13, 1958 | 10/13/1958 | See Source »

...Hollywood make a movie about the love affair between a psychopathic middle-aged lecher and a twelve-year-old nymphet? When they bought Vladimir Nabokov's bestselling novel Lolita (TIME, Sept. 1), Director Stanley Kubrick and Producer James B. Harris gambled $150,000 that they will find an answer. "Basically," said Kubrick, "this story is a very funny character relationship." Hollywood wags saw one solution: make the principals a few years older and cast Maurice Chevalier opposite Brigitte Bardot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Very Funny Relationship | 9/29/1958 | See Source »

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