Word: clockwork
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Anthony Burgess, 66, has gone out on some strong limbs to avoid repeating himself. Earthly Powers (1980), for instance, presented an aging homosexual writer trying to secure canonization for his friend, a deceased Pope. In his 26th novel and most bizarre work since A Clockwork Orange (1962), the author raises the stakes in his gamble for freshness. The End of the World News offers a trio of plots linked by irony and caustic satire...
...robot, by definition, is a mechanical device that can be taught to do a variety of complex jobs. Clockwork automatons, like the showpieces on display at Disney World, are not true robots: they are built to do one routine over and over. The robot-like characters that hang around shopping malls and buttonhole passers-by also are shams, unable to operate without a human remote-controller near by. Industrial robots, which look like giant dentist drills, can be programmed to do extremely complex tasks; they also average $1 million apiece...
EXPECTING. Mary Steenburgen, 29, Academy Award-winning actress (Melvin and Howard); and her husband, Malcolm McDowell, 39, actor (A Clockwork Orange, Cat People); their second child; in July...
...main problem with Brimstone and Treacle is that it has no real moral center. Although the film focuses consistently on Martin, he doesn't hold out attention the way Alex does in A Clockwork Orange. His dialogue lacks even Alex's vestigal, atrophies humanity and perverse humor. We are never given any background or reasons for his actions, he remains a cipher-too much of an antiChrist and not enough of an anti-her. None of the Bates family provides a counterbalance to Martin Thomas is an all-too human aggregate of frailties; guilty and hypocritical mauvaise fol combined with...
...books have always been adapted by others, sometimes quite successfully, as in the case of Carrie. Perhaps if both men each return to their previous status they will once again be at the vanguard of horror entertainment, but here they have failed. Creepshow is not--as Clockwork Orange's Alex might have put it-horror show...