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...novel Lolita traced the carnal pursuit of a twelve-year-old American nymphet by a middle-aged European émigré named Humbert Humbert, and the rather Electrafying relationship that developed between the stepfather-seducer and the child-mistress. The book's last scene is the movie's first. Moving numbly through a Hollywood-style mansion full of bottles, harps, glasses, statues, bot tles, grand pianos, glasses, sheeted furniture and an incongruous pingpong table...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Humbert Humdrum & Lullita | 6/22/1962 | See Source »

...Haven for Women" indeed [April 27]. You know, of course, what will happen: sopranos in the Whiffenpoofs and a 98-lb. nymphet in the Yale crew. I am advising my son to give up his hopes of being a Yaleman and concentrate on the Daisy Chain at Vassar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 11, 1962 | 5/11/1962 | See Source »

...coaxes, pulling off her slip. "I'm full of womanly feelings." Then, in a skelter of pillows, the play's moral rings down on her and she dies in an athletic attempt to seduce the hothouse boy she has her eye on. But as played by Nymphet Barbara Harris, she conquers whole audiences night after night, making Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad the most notable success of the off-Broadway season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Faces: Girl-Child | 5/11/1962 | See Source »

Arthur Kopit. An unevenly funny, surrealistic foray into the no man's land of Momism. Nymphet Barbara Harris makes the scene, the play and the evening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mar. 30, 1962 | 3/30/1962 | See Source »

...Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad, by Arthur Kopit. An unevenly funny surrealistic foray into the no man's land of Momism. Nymphet Barbara Harris makes the scene, the play, and the evening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mar. 23, 1962 | 3/23/1962 | See Source »

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