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...nothing new. For much of the past two decades, every three or four years, like clockwork, the country lapses into famine brought on not just by bad luck but also by the combined follies of nearly everyone involved. The 15-year-old civil war between the Islamic government in Khartoum and the rebel Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) in the south has stripped the country virtually to the bone. When the fighting is going badly for its side, the government tries to starve the rebels into submission by cutting off food aid. The rebel fighters routinely take food from...
...Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
...20th century doesn't arrive until after lunch, when the tourists show up like clockwork, each group spending about two hours. Typically, they ignore the town and climb the ruins instead, returning to their hotel in Cuzco to rest before rushing off to see Machu Picchu on the last day of what is usually a three-day tour. All the while they complain of the altitude sickness that often comes with the area's 13,000-ft. elevation. They have seen the famous ruins, but they are probably missing what is still alive in the Sacred Valley of the Inca...
...hearing things." Living on the third floor of New Quincy, she and her roommates have a unique perspective on the "goings-on" of the tutor suite next door: "My room-mates and I hear [goings-on] every morning at 9 a.m...repeated moaning through the bathroom fire door like clockwork. People in Greenwich could set clocks by this...
...leering number Two Ladies features a shadow play of simulated sex. The garish emcee (Alan Cumming, giving a spectacularly decadent twist on the part that made Joel Grey's career) sports blue and red eye shadow, sequined nipples and suspenders wrapped around his crotch--Alex from A Clockwork Orange filtered through Madonna's Sex book. Where Bob Fosse's film was a Felliniesque star vehicle for Minnelli, Mendes has deglamorized Cabaret, broadened its human scope and brilliantly re-energized...