Word: clockwork
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...Saturday, Oct. 4 by Leverett seniors Laura P. Perry ’04, Alison L. Cherry ’04, Sarah G. Dawson ’04, Jean Ann Salisbury ’04, who is also a Crimson editor, and Gollogly herself. “We considered a Clockwork Orange theme, or class warfare,” Perry says, “but realized the real inspiration was right under our collective nose...
...bells of St. Matthew’s Church ringing, house sparrows chirping and the J train roaring in the near distance as it decelerates its approach toward the Woodhaven Boulevard stop. They were the audio background to the baseball games I played with my friends outside my house. Like clockwork, the train would rumble by at the same time as the bells’ 5 p.m. tolls—the two sets of noises teaming up to create a bizarre cacophony that I have never heard anywhere except back home...
...spends about half her time juggling meetings for the boards of numerous nonprofit institutions, including the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Smithsonian Institution and the Marlboro School of Music—and her meetings run like clockwork...
...genuine concern on a daily basis for all of those he knows that makes him so instructive. No birthday can go by among our group of friends without him organizing a birthday party (they are usually supposed to be surprises, but by this point Jonathan organizes them with such clockwork that we are all just forced to feign being startled). No meal can be eaten in the dining hall without him making sure that the least popular person at the table is included in the conversation. No acquaintance can pass him on the street without receiving a warm greeting...
...cranks up his Mac to display his latest work: bizarrely beautiful etchings of Angkorian temples where rioting fig-tree roots pulsate and twist in freakish homage to the stone gods. "Surreal, obviously," says Swaffield. Obviously. "I've started messing about with robotics, too," he continues, producing a clockwork cat's skull that skitters across his desk on scary plastic-doll legs. "And have you seen my Babies in Bottles series...