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...Havana. Or long hair. One female guardian of the faith would pick a piece of scrap paper off the pavement, swipe it across the face of a suspected homosexual and, if it came away bearing traces of makeup, solemnly file it in his dossier. Taking a page from A Clockwork Orange, officials would show gay men nude photos, administering drugs to make them ill when the subjects were male. The prisoners, naturally, learned to register false enthusiasm for female nudes, according to Poet Heberto Padilla, who insists that "manly" homosexuality was rampant in the regime. One brave and touching transvestite...
...statute, the MacKinnon-Dworkin bill committed the sin of ridiculousness. Under the proposed ordinance, any work that portrays women "who are tied up or cut up or mutilated or bruised or physically hurt" or that shows women as "filthy or inferior" qualifies as pornography. Out goes A Clockwork Orange, Gone with the Wind, and almost every action film ever made. When MacKinnon was asked whether the bill was overly broad, she replied. "Tell us how to make it better." This statement effectively sums up the problem of subjectivity. Smut is in the eye of the beholder; it is difficult...
...English poet FX. Enderby, aging, dyspeptic, chronically unfulfilled and disaster prone, is a character so alive that not even his creator could kill him off. Starting in 1963, he has made his disorderly way through three previous Burgess novels (Inside Mr. Enderby; Enderby Outside; The Clockwork Testament, or Enderby's End), emerging from the lavatory where he writes his unappreciated poems to suffer such indignities as a bad marriage, scandal, a breakdown and success as a screenwriter...
...finale of Clockwork Testament (1975), Visiting Professor Enderby succumbed to a weak heart and culture shock on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Yet now ("to placate kind readers" who objected, Burgess maintains in a sub-subtitle) he pops up again...
...added that pornography films have only recently become the most popular PUC movies. "The best movies we've had have been Airplane, Clockwork Orange, Annie Hall and Sleeper," he said...