Word: consenting
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...perfectly all right for me to imagine a twelve-year-old Lolita. She only existed in my head. But to make a real twelve-year-old girl play such a part would be sinful and immoral, and I will never consent...
That was the novelist's original resolve when Hollywood first sought the movie rights to his Lolita in 1958. But one evening he dreamed that he was reading the screenplay; overnight, Nabokov came to the age of consent. An offer of $150,000 did not exactly dissuade him, and he agreed to do the script himself. James Mason was cast as obsessive old Humbert Humbert, with Sue Lyon, then 14, in the title role of the stepdaughter who seduced him. Everybody said the adaptation could not be done, and they were right. But the pallid, bowdlerized film did gross...
Among the "classics" canonized in Confessions of a Cultist are Aldrich's Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? Sergio Leone's spaghetti westerns, Hitchcock's The Birds, Preminger's Advise and Consent. All are auteur genre items; Sarris rarely has the flexibility of such British auteurists as Raymond Durgnat to admit that non-auteurs can produce great films. Each has raw narrative material of questionable significance, and a blatant commercial bent which made the few respectable critics feel rotten and cheated the morning after, unless trash was all they expected...
...questioned, too, whether Harvard had made a commitment to the Roxbury Tenants of Harvard that no development would proceed without the consent of the community, and whether the AHC plans would be discussed with the community...
Where laws exist, many statutes permit politicians to make superficial disclosures. Each candidate for the Senate and House is required by federal law to list funds received and spent "by him or by any person for him with his knowledge or consent." Taking pains not to have knowledge or give consent (by leaving fiscal matters to specially created committees) enables big spenders quite honestly to have nothing to report. Hidden coststhe loan of a secretary from a business executive, the use of a corporate plane, access to computersare seldom disclosed...