Word: clockwork
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Clockwork Orange" and "1984" have returned to the Square, along with countless other classic and cult flicks which were squeezed from their regular home at the Harvard Square Theatre this fall...
...Davis Sq.). One of Boston's oldest moviehouses, the Somerville has an ambiance of chic grime. But don't miss this house that looks like it could easily be revamped into a punk palace. It's got pink walls and even a real balcony. The Killing Fields and Clockwork Orange will fill the screens several times this summer, and a rock series will make its way into the oldtime theater later this summer...
Galvanized by this radical proposal, researchers are hunting for an agent that could explain the apparent clockwork regularity of the celestial barrages. Some suggest that a companion star to the sun periodically comes close enough to nudge comets gravitationally out of their natural habitat--a cloud of comets that circles the sun far beyond the orbit of Pluto--sending them hurtling toward earth. Others assign that role to Planet X, while some insist that the slow, bobbing ride of the sun and its planets around the Milky Way galaxy is responsible. Whatever the details, declares Paleontologist J. John Sepkoski...
...punks and the system--but it retains a curiously surreal quality: the characters, hero and villains alike, are all abstract, marquee characters. Indeed, the whole Goetz phenomenon is life gone to the movies. The tabloids call the hero the Death Wish vigilante. The bad guys are out of A Clockwork Orange. The subway set is borrowed from Escape from New York. And now the audience picks up the chant from Network, "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it any more...
...raised the possibility of a simple swearing-in ceremony this time, without any of the surrounding hoopla. But Republican Party politicos convinced him otherwise. "We knew we couldn't just have a swearing-in," says Ronald Walker, chairman of the Inaugural committee and manager of the party's clockwork Dallas convention. "There had to be an opportunity for people to come to Washington and celebrate the victory...