Word: saphead
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Buster Keaton Festival. At the Orson Welles: The Navigator, Friday through Sunday at 5, 7:30 and 9:45, with The Saphead...
Nabokov has become shameless in his attempts to control (and bamboozle) readers in these introductions. This time, without naming him, he gives particular hell to Critic Andrew Field -"a desperate saphead in the throes of a nightmare examination"-who had the effrontery to read Glory in Russian and beat the author to a published criticism...