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Similarly, in the rare moments when the characters consider their situation, the result is usually on the level of a teenage Clockwork Orange. "...perversion is justified--no demanded--by an environment that is now totally man-made, totally without a biology...
...reason for Dorothy's clockwork anxiety is simple lack of confidence. "I think I look lousy," she says. When an ABC sports crew offered to rerun a video tape of her free-skating program in Colorado Springs, she declined. She is particularly afraid that a fall will ruin her performance. "Think how much time I've put into this, and how much other people have to help me. With one mistake, it could all go down the drain...
...Nouveau buildings in Barcelona, the park of monstrous 16th century carvings near Bomarzo in Italy. They are also fascinated by "naive" and "primitive" structures like the Watts Towers in Los Angeles, by puppets, facsimiles and toys. Their studio loft in Manhattan's Little Italy is crammed with antique clockwork toys and fragments of gaudy Sicilian carts. (They once traveled together in a horse-drawn wagon from Florence to Venice, giving puppet shows en route to pay their way.) Such are not the tastes of formalists, and those who like only "high" art will have to find other places...
...people in Buildings and Grounds had made several studies; they logged hundreds of man-hours planning the shutdown. The valves were closed like clockwork at the beginning of the school break...
...characters are like the puppets Thackeray describes in the prologue of Vanity Fair--neither rounded human figures nor Dickensian caricatures. Kubrick rarely creates human characters--Dr. Strangelove was a gallery of types, Lolita a collection of perverts, 2001 veered from the banal to the superhuman, and A Clockwork Orange was about the warping of humanity...