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...Moog in our Lives Robert Moog, inventor of the Moog synthesizer, which produces electronically generated sound [MILESTONES, Sept. 5], could be called the Einstein of electronic music. The Beatles used the Moog in their Abbey Road album, and the synthesizer figures prominently in the score of the film A Clockwork Orange. In a March 7, 1969, story, we described the workings of the Moog: "The electronic synthesizer that bears [Moog's] name?a 4-ft.[1.25-m]-long contraption that looks like the control panel of a jet airliner with an organ keyboard grafted onto...
...another referendum in September - this one on opening the country to the free movement of labor from the E.U.'s 10 newest members - one E.U. commissioner warned a potential no vote would throw the Swiss membership of Schengen into doubt. Not everything can be expected to run like clockwork, even in Switzerland Race To The Bottom Is there still a market for the "people's car"? Volkswagen appears to think so. Reports in the European press last week claimed the German automaker is thinking of steering a no-frills, €3,000 run-around toward emerging markets such as China...
...attack showed all the hallmarks of the R.A.F.: clockwork planning, audacity and indifference to the innocence of victims. It began when a metallic green Volkswagen with forged U.S. armed forces license plates slipped past security guards into the parking lot between the 435th Tactical Airlift Wing headquarters building and a dormitory for supply and transport squadrons. At 7:25 a.m., as hundreds of G.I.s and German civilian employees were reporting for the morning shift, a quantity of explosives concealed in the car detonated, with such force that a 5-ft.-deep crater was left in the ground. Ceiling tiles...
...promoted the antiarcade ordinance, is seeking re-election on Nov. 5, and her opponent, former Houston Mayor Louie Welch, has made the proliferating sex industry a major election issue. Said one attorney who is defending several antiarcade cases: "This stuff always comes up around election time, just like clockwork...
...have been exceptions (say, Matisse's The Dance), but it would not be a stretch to say that for the past century or so, serious art has been at war with happiness. In 1824, Beethoven completed the "Ode to Joy." In 1962, novelist Anthony Burgess used it in A Clockwork Orange as the favorite piece of his ultraviolent antihero. If someone titles an art movie Happiness, it is a good bet that it will be--as the 1998 Todd Solondz film was--about deeply unhappy people, including a telephone pervert and a pedophile...