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...Clockwork Testament is actually a personal gripe about Burgess's experiences in America and about the him adapted from his novel. A Clockwork Orange. Plot in this case is better described as gross misinterpretation of the facts; characterization, as a loose form of character assassination. It should all begin with the dawning of Enderby's last day on his own godforsaken planet, but in fact the novel begins with some revealing articles published two years ago in London's Times Literary Supplement. During 1972-73 Burgess was a "writer-academic" teaching Elizabethan drama and creative writing at New York...
...following June 22 the plot thickened, when in another TLS article. Burgess again attacked American culture in the same mundane cliches. This time around he related some of the incidents that appear in The Clockwork Testament. In an example of his thesis that for young creative writers "language and style are irrelevant in the face of the great god Message." Burgess speaks of his black students presenting him with "bitter though illiterate white-castration fantasies." He also relates an incident of irreverence for authority...
Died. Bernard Marmaduke Fitzalan-Howard, 16th Duke of Norfolk, 66; in his sleep; on his estate in Sussex, England. As Earl Marshal of England, the duke choreographed royal weddings and funerals with such clockwork precision that he complained that Winston Churchill's state funeral was "two minutes late." Asked once by a newsman how he felt about work, the duke replied, "It has never appealed...
...always wanted to see this ambitious version of the Nabokov novel, a film that doesn't get around much and that most people like a lot. Kubrick hasn't made very many films (this is one of his early ones), and whatever one thinks of 2001 or Clockwork Orange, he's always managed to come up with pictures really worth confronting. His range is phenomenal: he gave us the mythical war room of the Pentagon in Strangelove, for instance, and he was the first to visualize it for us. Now we take it for granted that generals plot in blinking...
...that staid Lisbon has yet turned into another Copenhagen. But sexually explicit Danish magazines are now available on newspaper kiosks along with tamer publications like Penthouse. Uncut versions of previously forbidden films such as Last Tango in Paris and A Clockwork Orange are drawing huge crowds. A dubbed-in-Portuguese version of Deep Throat has been approved for import. Bawdy, undulating, take-it-all-off strippers from France and Italy are lending new interest to traditional vaudeville. Enthusiastic audiences flocked to see Last Fado in Lisbon, featuring a French stripper named Poupée la Rose...