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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...
...They promoted a string of satisfying and successful play initiated before the snow. 2) Brendan Meagher, who, for the irretrievably ignorant, is the Crimson's recently convalesced All-American, played sporadically in both games and his progressive recovery promises good things to come in the midfield. 3) Clockwork passing and physical defense produced a first stanza that was "the best half we've played this year," according to Coach Bob Scalise. 4) Delaware gave the Crimson the biggest scare of its winning streak in making up deficits of 6-3 and 9-7, but the team shut the door...
...earth supposedly keeps one general clock and calendar as it twirls in a universe precisely machined. The minute pulses of quartz vibrating on the wrist imitate the clockwork of the planets. We stripe the globe with time zones. Time is the most predictable of abstractions, a one-directional flow that carries the universe along with its impartial and inexorable wave. The discovery of measurable time is one of the early signs of civilization, like literacy and cosmetics. Time may be mysterious, but it also possesses an admirable objective purity, a sort of narrative genius, like Tolstoy...