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...dethroned after two years and 49 weeks in the No. 1 spot on Billboard's classical chart. SOB was originally brought to you by the same folks-Walter Carlos and Rachel Elkind-who set Beethoven and Purcell to the Moog synthesizer, or vice versa, in the film A Clockwork Orange. Switching Switched off into second place, the new champ: Mass by Leonard Bernstein (TIME. Sept. 20), which has sold 129,000 copies in less than two months...
...Alex's elaborate posturing, in his self-willed, self-conscious contempt for the weak, the ordinary and the feminine, in the exquisite tastelessness of that first brutal hour, the sensibility of A Clockwork Orange is pure Rolling Stones. Pop vulgarity in all its ambiguity. At one point, Alex, in the midst of rape and assault, breaks into the old Fred Astaire number "Singin in the Rain," and all the contradictions pour through. The scene is morally obscene, but technically masterful. It is appalling, as it should be, and exhilarating, as it should not. The film works in its pose...
...THAT misses the issue. What is really so disconcerting about A Clockwork Orange has nothing to do with the general question of the place of violence in art. The brutality in the film may very well be gratuitous and exploitative, but what is far more disturbing is that it is so aesthetically satisfying anyway...
...Clockwork Orange opened yesterday at Sack Cinema 57. A complete Crimson review is forthcoming...
...Clockwork Orange, Stanley Kubrick's vision of future shock, Cinema 57,200 Stuart St., Boston...