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...utter lines like "You can't talk to me that way!" and "It's time for the lies to stop." (Of her deceased economist, Julia thinks--cue English horn--she "had not even said goodbye.") Plot "twists" arrive at the end of every chapter with metronomic regularity. A certain clockwork orderliness befits any work of this genre, but the relentlessness of the surprises becomes deeply unsurprising. New England White is being marketed as a literary beach book, but it's neither literature nor very much...
...Michael Moore: Ask anyone on Social Security if their check comes on time every month. Like clockwork. And it comes through the so-called dilapidated U.S. mail. My dad?s check literally will come on the same day every month. The government has been quite good and efficient at creating a number of systems. If I tell people the administrative costs for a private health plan -advertising, p.r., executive pay -are 20% and ask them what Medicare?s administrative costs are, they?ll guess 50%, 60%. The fact is, for Medicare/ Medicaid, it?s 3%. The last figure I read...
...York City during the Puerto Rican Day Parade. Crossing through the huge crowds with my roommate, I wondered why all the tricked-out trucks and lowriders were blasting the exact same song from their subwoofers. It wasn’t until I listened past the thumping bass and clockwork rhythm that I realized that I was hearing a whole genre of music; almost all reggaeton songs feature an identical drum rhythm, called “Dem Bow” after the Jamaican dancehall song it was borrowed from. I’m a part-time party...
...doesn't like perfect," says Malcolm McDowell, the English character actor best known for A Clockwork Orange, who plays the role of Myers' opportunistic physician, Dr. Loomis (Donald Pleasance in the original). "He likes it when I trip, or answer my phone in the middle of a scene." McDowell is right about his director's yen for hyper-realism. Look at the cast of any Zombie film and you'll be hard-pressed to find anyone as telegenic as Grey's actors. Zombie's first movie, House of 1000 Corpses, revived the career of balding, acne-scarred...
...then what comes across is the performance and the intensity of that performance.”Besides producing dozens of popular albums, Boyd went on to become head of music for Warner Brothers Films, organizing the scoring of “Deliverance,” “A Clockwork Orange,” and “McCabe and Mrs. Miller.” His latest project is a book detailing the early days of his career, called “White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s,” which opens with Dick Clark taking the helm...