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BORN. To Mary Steenburgen, 30, Oscar-winning American actress (Melvin and Howard), and Malcolm McDowell, 40, British actor best known as the cherub-faced punk in A Clockwork Orange: their second child, a son; in Los Angeles. Name: Charles Malcolm. Weight...
...action are too different, which may be why the single most successful moment of the production is the overture, staged in front of a scrim decorated with the Northwest Orient Airlines logo. Blond air hostesses go through the usual check-out procedures, finding some berserk synchronization between their clockwork movements and Sullivan's ravishing score...
...writer fond of doing the unexpected--previous works include A Clockwork Orange, a translation of Oedipus Rex and a sonata--Burgess strives for effect by interweaving the life of Freud, a sci-fi apocalypse, and Trotsky's visit to New York. Styles range from a libretto to a TV-play, at times in utter parody of themselves...
Anthony Burgess, 66, has gone out on some strong limbs to avoid repeating himself. Earthly Powers (1980), for instance, presented an aging homosexual writer trying to secure canonization for his friend, a deceased Pope. In his 26th novel and most bizarre work since A Clockwork Orange (1962), the author raises the stakes in his gamble for freshness. The End of the World News offers a trio of plots linked by irony and caustic satire...
...robot, by definition, is a mechanical device that can be taught to do a variety of complex jobs. Clockwork automatons, like the showpieces on display at Disney World, are not true robots: they are built to do one routine over and over. The robot-like characters that hang around shopping malls and buttonhole passers-by also are shams, unable to operate without a human remote-controller near by. Industrial robots, which look like giant dentist drills, can be programmed to do extremely complex tasks; they also average $1 million apiece...