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Cast LOL and Emoticons From Your Lexicon

Nick Kolakowski | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Abraham Lincoln, Vladimir Nabokov, How to Become an Intellectual, Lolita, Emoticons, Text Message Emoticons, Emoticon, Text Talk, Comedy News

There is a very special place in hell reserved for whoever created the emoticon. Nor can we blame the scourge solely on text messaging and e-mail: as far back as the 19th century.

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We're Not the Bad Guys, the Executives at Disney Are

Lori Day | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Pink, Lolita, Comments, Mommy Wars, Marketing, Princess Wars, Parenting, Media, Disney, Disney Princesses, Parents News, Parents News

It's not about anti-girly, anti-pink, anti-sparkle or anti-princess; it's about anti-limitation.

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Not Loving Like

John Brown | Posted 04.21.2012

Read More: Language, Twitter, Nabokov, Wall Street, Lolita, Cell Phones, Facebook, Public Diplomacy, Teens Cellphones, Teenage Like, Teens Texting, Overusing Like, The Word Like, Teenagers, Entertainment News

"Like" is not only America's number one verb, it's, like, its most humongous verbal tic in our, like, most, like, likeable land.

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The Feminism of Pretty Little Liars

Morgan Glennon | Posted 05.19.2012

If two female characters have scenes together, are they talking about something other than their love lives? It's amazing how few movies (only two of the Academy Award nominated pictures this year) and TV series pass this test. Pretty Little Liars, however, would pass this test with flying colors.

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Inspiring Futures

Deborah King | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Jordan Powers, James-Hooker, Sexual Abuse, International Women's Day, Lolita, Sexualization of Young Girls, Child Bride, Culture News

Those who have cried out against the sexualization of clothing and behavior of young teen girls are raising a valid point. But fictional Lolitas aside, it simply isn't true that young females are responsible for seducing much older men.

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America Vs The Public Domain

Jennifer Jenkins | Posted 03.10.2012

Read More: Public Domain, Free Books, Public Domain Day, Narnia, Copyright, American Public Domain, Public Domain Law, Parody, Copyright Law, Lolita, Books News

Copyright law gives authors and publishers exclusive rights for a "limited time," to encourage them to create and distribute works. So what is entering the public domain in the U.S. this year? Not a single published work. Why should you care?

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Movie review: Sleeping Beauty

Marshall Fine | Posted 01.31.2012

Read More: Sucker Punch, Sleeping Beauty Movie Review, Stanley Kubrick, Lolita, Ocd, Rotten Tomatoes, Sleeping Beauty, Emily Browning, Fairy Tale, Marshall Fine Movie Review, Movies, Julia Leigh, Movie Reviews, Marshall Fine, David Lynch, Eyes Wide Shut, Lemony Snicket, Prince Charming, Entertainment News

Perhaps I'm not qualified to write about Sleeping Beauty, the debut film from Australian director Julia Leigh. I am, after all, a middle-aged man. An...

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10 Best-Selling Books That Were Originally Rejected

Posted 12.06.2011

Read More: Rejection Letters, Anne of Green Gables, Chicken Soup for the Soul, Twilight, The Diary of Anne Frank, Lolita, Best-Sellers, Books News

From Flavorwire Anyone who has ever wanted to work in a creative field, be it writing, painting or playing music has been told they’d better deve...

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Nabokov, Garcia Marquez "Justify Paedophilia" Says Russian Church

AP | By MANSUR MIROVALEV | Posted 11.30.2011

Read More: Religion, Banned Books Week, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, Book Banning, Russian Orthodox Church, Russian Orthodox, Books News

MOSCOW -- A senior Russian Orthodox official claimed Wednesday that novels by Vladimir Nabokov and Gabriel Garcia Marquez justify pedophilia and said ...

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Five Books That Blew Our Minds, 1955-1975

Posted 11.29.2011

Read More: Noam Chomsky, Vladimir Nabokov, Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo?S Nest, Lolita, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Books, Fifty News

At first glance, these books have very little in common -- a racially-charged tome and one of the most praised linguistic publications in history, a "...

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Book Review: The End of Everything by Megan Abbott

Carole Mallory | Posted 10.04.2011

Read More: Megan Abbott, Noir, Edgar Award Winner, Book Reviews, Lolita, Books News

Edgar Award-winning author Megan Abbott takes a scalpel to the origins of incest in her just released noir triumph, The End of Everything. ...

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First Choice for Lolita, Hayley Mills, Attends Rare Screening of Whistle Down the Wind in Hollywood, Cult Classic Comes to BAM

Penelope Andrew | Posted 08.21.2011

Film buffs who missed the 2011 TCM Classic Film Festival's rare screening and discussion of director Bryan Forbes' (The L-Shaped Room) first...

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Literary Characters Who Should Be Tweeting

flavorwire.com | Posted 08.03.2011

Read More: Moby Dick, On the Road, Literary Characters, Twitter, Jack Kerouac, A Confederacy of Dunces, Kafka, The Metamorphosis, Faulkner, Lolita, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Sound and the Fury, Books News

As any true Joyce fan knows, Bloomsday is fast approaching, and this year, thanks to Twitter, there will be a new way to celebrate. One dedicated fan ...

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Happy Mother's Day: Psycho Moms In Literature

Amy Wilson | Posted 07.06.2011

Read More: Slidepollajax, Anywhere but Here, Stephen King, Psycho Moms, Psycho Moms Literature, Mother's Day, Carrie, Ordinary People, Vladimir Nabokov, Her Last Death, Lolita, Crazy Moms, Books News

As compared to the mommies dearest in these pages, almost any woman can feel like Mother of the Year. A frisson of schadenfreude might be preferable to a entire bouquet of roses.

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WATCH: Vladimir Nabokov Marvels Over Different “Lolita” Book Covers

Open Culture | In Books, Literature | May 2nd, 2011 View Comments | Posted 07.03.2011

Read More: Nabokov, Foreign Editions Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov, The Book Haven, Harvard?S Museum of Comparative Zoology, Lolita, Lolita Book Covers, USA: The Novel, Books News

In this short excerpt from a TV program called “USA: The Novel,” Vladimir Nabokov comments on different foreign editions of his novel Lolita. ...

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Experience Stanley Kubrick's World In New Exhibition

Posted 05.29.2011

Read More: Paris Film Museum, Video, Paths of Glory, Full Metal Jacket, Stanley Kubrick, Deutsch Film Museum, Eyes Wide Shut, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Spartacus, The Shining, The Killing, Film, Lolita, A Clockwork Orange, Dr. Strangelove, Arts News

To watch a Stanley Kubrick film like '2001: A Space Odyssey' or 'Dr. Strangelove' is to enter a veritable museum of pioneering set design and visual e...

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WATCH: A Video Tribute To Stanley Kubrick On The Anniversary Of His Death

The Huffington Post | Melinda Brocka | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Video, Stanley Kubrick, Entertainment, Eyes Wide Shut, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Anniversary Kubrick Death, Spartacus, Kubrick Death, The Shining, Barry Lyndon, Lolita, A Clockwork Orange, Dr. Strangelove, Arts News

Today marks the anniversary of the death of legendary American film director Stanley Kubrick who died March 7, 1999 from natural causes, he was 70. ...

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"The Only Way To Get Rid Of A Temptation Is To Yield To It"

flavorwire.com | Kathleen Massara | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Quotes, Pablo Neruda, Oscar Wilde, Lolita, Sex, John Keats, Literature Quotes, Don Juan, Lord Byron, Getting Laid, Literary Quotes, Seduction, Books News

Wooing is hard work. Inevitably all of us will be crushed by disappointment from time to time when a chosen paramour rejects us with a single, cutting...

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Holiday Travel Anxiety?

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Travel anxiety: it ranges from being uptight about missing the plane, to being terrified of flying, from being annoyed by security checks to abhorring...

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WATCH: Nabokov Love Letters To Be Published This Weekend

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nabokov, Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov Lolita, Video, Vera Nabokov, Nabokov Love Letters, Vladimir Nabokov, Snob Nabokov, Vera Love Letters, Snob Nabokov Letters, Lolita, Snob Magazine, Books News

Vladimir Nabokov, controversial author of "Lolita," left behind a legacy of over 300 letters to his beloved wife of 52-years, Vera. The Russian langua...

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Under The Influence

The Huffington Post | Gabe Habash | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nabokov, Mocha Dick, Hemingway, Herman Melville, Lolita Nabokov, Moby Dick, All the King's Men, The Fountainhead, Dostoyevsky, Ernest Hemingway, Vladimir Nabokov, Huey Long, Ayn Rand, Gogol, Atlas Shrugged, Alexandre Dumas, Dumas, Edgar Allan Poe, Virginia Clemm, Melville Moby Dick, Robinson Crusoe, F Scott Fitzgerald, Daniel Defoe, Slidepollajax, Poe, Tolstoy, Lolita, Constance Garnett, Books News

Writing a book is usually a long, hair-pulling affair for the author. But in the end, only one name appears on the front of the book: their own. What...

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No Time?

The Guardian | John Crace | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Literature, Nabokov, Rushdie, Midnight's Children, Aldous Huxley, Camus, Swann's Way, Classic Books, Brideshead Revisted, Brave New World, The Age of Innocence, Classic Literature, Huxley, Proust, American Literature, Lolita, Salman Rushdie, Books News

Lolita. Light of my life. Lo. Li. Ta Very Much. If you wonder where my peculiar interests came from, I should have to say it started when I was 13 wit...

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FIT Hosts "Lolita" Tea Party

nytimes.com | SARAH MASLIN NIR | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fit, NY Fashion, Fashion, Lolita, Japanese Fashion, Ny Shopping, East Village, New York News

Of the five panelists on stage at the Fashion Institute of Technology on Tuesday night discussing the Japanese fashion culture known as Gothic Lolita,...

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'Lolita'

theparisreview.org | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nabokov, Nabokov's Lolita, Lolita Nabokov, Banned Books Lolita, Censored Books, Lolita, Censorship, Reading Lolita, Books News

When my dad gave me a stack of his old college paperbacks, I think the education he hoped to foster was aesthetic, not erotic. But one of the books wa...

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'Harry Potter,' 'The Giver,' 'Lolita,' 'Howl'

Dan Wilbur | Posted 05.25.2011

"Lolita," for instance, is now "Likable Rapists." It makes you think that perhaps these new titles are what censors out there really see.

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