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...regular as clockwork," said Director of Health Services Dr. Warren E.C. Wacker. "This is different, in that we've seen people with real influenza instead of a flu-like virus, and we've seen a lot of secondary bronchitis," he added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: March Influenza Hits Harvard More Severely Than in Past | 3/22/1984 | See Source »

...leave out everything that was interesting and memorable in the original in order to concentrate on the conventional and the routine. Eric Hughes' screenplay is based on Out of the Past, which may be the most deliriously convoluted film noir ever made, and the new picture retains the clockwork heart of the 1947 Robert Mitchum movie: a gangster hires an investigator to find the woman who has run away from him; when hunter and hunted meet and fall in love, the hood suffers a criminal loss of temper. But it has misplaced the suffering romantic soul of its model...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Of Hotels, Hoods and a Mermaid | 3/19/1984 | See Source »

...usually pleasing to the eye, but less kind to the pocket. And as time wears on, even the slick interiors and brass railings lose a bit of their gleam. The process just becomes too predictable--the porcelain tile tables and ceiling fans follow the influx of young professionals with clockwork precision...

Author: By Holly A. Idelson, | Title: I Scream | 11/2/1983 | See Source »

...that he had a year to live, Anthony Burgess greeted the news by taking up a literary career. He turned out five books in one year, hoping that the royalties might make a legacy for his wife. Now, 23 years and some 40 books later, the author of A Clockwork Orange and Earthly Powers still regards writing as an "unwanted" gift, an "enforced vocation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: True Vocation | 10/17/1983 | See Source »

Five programs are testing the controversial drug Depo-Provera to reduce testosterone levels of offenders. Others offer Clockwork Orange-style reconditioning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rape: The Sexual Weapon | 9/5/1983 | See Source »

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