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...that I have a basic urge to say ‘fuck’ every five minutes, but I’m conscious of a faint resentment that I couldn’t if I wanted to . . . ” His evident ease in the highest society prompted the diplomat Robert...
...Recent stage versions of Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall trilogy and Robert Harris’s Cicero trilogy (Imperium) wrangled those mammoth texts into drama....
...Robert Lindsay is a hoot as Moonface Martin, a gravel-voiced, B-list gangster trying — with limited success — to pass himself off as a priest....
...Sheffield Crucible’s hugely praised, puppet-led Life of Pi, adapted by Lolita Chakrabarti, arrives in London (Wyndham’s Theatre, London, from June 22)....
...When his mother found him streaking naked around the garden in the hope of attracting the attention of his teenage neighbour, she labelled him “the little Lolita of Luton”....
...(The massive orange droog bear and the one in the hall referencing Lolita were part of Lavelle’s own contribution with artist John Isaacs.) Would he like to organise a similar homage to anyone else?...
...There’s the cross-country trip in Lolita that’s so beautifully described....
...Nabokov in America: On the Road to Lolita, by Robert Roper, Bloomsbury, RRP£20/$28, 368 pages...
...If Robert Maxwell was their rogue elephant, Weidenfeld was more akin to a sleek Renaissance cardinal, holding court to writers, politicians and grandees, while exercising influence via a quiet word in the...
...Lolita, in particular, is no sleek mutant Peter Pan; she tries to make the best of a very bad deal, and life breaks her....
...Robert Sterling Clark (1877-1956) was an extraordinary figure from a remarkable time. He was hugely wealthy, having inherited a part of the Singer sewing machine empire....
...The translator Robert Chandler’s work on Andrei Platonov and, even more significantly, Vasily Grossman has gone a long way to restoring them to their rightful place in the Russian canon....
...Fred Melamed and Stephanie Roth Haberle as Fred’s exasperated, long-suffering children provide dry humour, and Judith Roberts brings a frail, smiling beauty to the wife....
...Robert Gottlieb, chairman of Trident Media Group, one of the top US literary agencies, said: “Amazon’s mission is very broad-based and across a large spectrum.”...
...One early image depicts two identical little girls, one clothed, one naked, both clutching lollipops à la Lolita....
...It is Lolita with a twist: Lolita for the age of cyber-dates, “grooming” and public panic about paedophilia....
...With few exceptions, these have tended to be either extremist apologists such as Clement Greenberg, or hyper-critical immigrants such as Robert Hughes....
...Robert Greenwald’s documentary, subtitled The High Cost of Low Price, charts the rise and rise of the Walton family’s little business. You’ll look in vain for John-Boy....
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