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...just have fun." The students had to "roach" the nonunion store--they entered en masse, headed for the back, then spread like cockroaches. They quickly handed out leaflets with the phone number of the United Food & Commercial Workers to all employees. And got out fast. The plan went like clockwork, with angry managers shouting, "Get them out of here!" and grabbing one student's shirt. "I have a headache," said Third Andresen, a Filipino-studies major from the University of Washington, afterward. "It felt like jumping out of an airplane...
...much for the miraculous Japan, with its uncanny, clockwork economy and culture. Ichiro Ozawa now believes it's time to close the postwar chapter. He argues that Japan's highly regulated society inhibits the cultivation of talent at home and friendship abroad that Japan needs if it is to thrive in the future. He calls for a "third opening," a change in Japan as momentous as the Meiji revolution, which opened the nation to the world...
Perhaps you've heard of this movie's alter-ego, "A Clockwork Orange," which turns 25-years-old this year. The similarities between these films are uncanny: both are British and are filled with incomprehensible English accents; both are about psychopaths who are caught and sent to institutions; both protagonists are selected for an new treatment that will make them change their ways; and both criminals soon revert to their old ways after being released. The movies even have similar first-person narration styles and musical scores...
Although the New Hampshire primary is always full of surprises, there are some constants. Every eight years, like clockwork, Sen. Bob Dole (R-Kan.) descends on the Granite State so that the voters can hand him his hat. Above all else, this year the New Hampshire results proved the immense weakness of Dole's campaign...
...Hard in a minivan, or Pretty Woman but with Lassie and Beethoven, or Terms of Endearment only she gets the Ebola virus. It's filming by numbers-last year's box-office grosses. The uniform look and feel of recent films suggest that the mad scientists in A Clockwork Orange had it wrong. You don't make a viewer a zombie by force-feeding him scenes of sex and violence. You do it by making every movie a dull retread, in a Mobius strip of mediocrity...