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From: Rodney Welch <rodney41@mindspring.com>
I never liked Amy Fisher in the Lolita role either -- she was too hard
around the edges. But that was nothing compared to reading in an editorial
that that Joey Buttafuoco was her Humbert Humbert!
> From: Galya Diment <galya@u.washington.edu>
> Reply-To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
> Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2000 14:14:52 -0700
> To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
> Subject: VN & Tennis
>
> A funny twist on the theme of VN and Tennis. In today's NYTimes, Maureen
> Dowd, in a column interestingly called "Nymphet at the Net," labels Anna
> Kournikova "The Lolita of tennis." It's quite unclear as to why,
> though. Kournikova is nineteen -- which, I suspect, makes her by far not
> one of the youngest on the tennis circuit. She is also, according to Dowd's
> description, a "vamp," a "blond knockout," who "burns up the pages of the
> new issue of Sports Illustrated with bronze legs... and smoldering
> look" -- but that does not make her a good candidate for a Lolita
> either. Neither does the fact that she is Russian -- even though so was
> Lolita's creator. Unless Dowd knows something I don't know, this is
> probably a total misuse of the term, based not directly on the columnist's
> awareness of the book but obtained through numerous filters and
> distortions of the common cultural usage.
>
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I never liked Amy Fisher in the Lolita role either -- she was too hard
around the edges. But that was nothing compared to reading in an editorial
that that Joey Buttafuoco was her Humbert Humbert!
> From: Galya Diment <galya@u.washington.edu>
> Reply-To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
> Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2000 14:14:52 -0700
> To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
> Subject: VN & Tennis
>
> A funny twist on the theme of VN and Tennis. In today's NYTimes, Maureen
> Dowd, in a column interestingly called "Nymphet at the Net," labels Anna
> Kournikova "The Lolita of tennis." It's quite unclear as to why,
> though. Kournikova is nineteen -- which, I suspect, makes her by far not
> one of the youngest on the tennis circuit. She is also, according to Dowd's
> description, a "vamp," a "blond knockout," who "burns up the pages of the
> new issue of Sports Illustrated with bronze legs... and smoldering
> look" -- but that does not make her a good candidate for a Lolita
> either. Neither does the fact that she is Russian -- even though so was
> Lolita's creator. Unless Dowd knows something I don't know, this is
> probably a total misuse of the term, based not directly on the columnist's
> awareness of the book but obtained through numerous filters and
> distortions of the common cultural usage.
>
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> ^ Galya Diment ^
> ^ Professor and Graduate Advisor ^
> ^ Slavic Languages and Literatures ^
> ^ University of Washington ^
> ^ Box 353580 ^
> ^ Seattle, WA 98195-3580 ^
> ^ Ph. 206-543-7344/206-543-6848 ^
> ^ Fax: 206-543-6009/206-522-1959 ^
> ^ ^
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^