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Saturday's contest against Williams was a better, closer game. Both teams used strong zone defenses, forcing outside shots and cautious ball-handling. Harvard got the edge with expert pace-setting and play-making by the point-guard duo of Scannell and McMahon. The pair ran its plays like clockwork, passing back and forth, feeding to an open Elaine Holpuch beneath the basket, and hitting long outside shots...
Films like A Clockwork Orange and Last Tango in Paris, which the mainstream dismissed early in the decade as the whims of the rebellious young trying to shock the mass audience, were later actively embraced; by the end of the decade both would be screened in colleges and universities as examples of fine filmmaking. Even the pornography of the '60s seemed puerile by '70s standards as magazines and films sought to reveal ever more; nudity, once restricted to Playboy, paraded in full-color on the pages of Time and Newsweek when streaking raged across the country, and thereafter as often...
...Clockwork Orange--Saturday at 3:10 adn 7:30 p.m. With Mean Streets...
...other words, when Johnson is on the field, you can bet the team will play like clockwork...
...confrontations between Futurist Wells and a world that does not in any way match his optimistic projections of things to come. Whether trying to adjust to the automobile, a Big Mac or a Mickey Mouse telephone, Wells is a consistently appealing figure. After playing lots of reprehensible characters (A Clockwork Orange) McDowell exhibits a first-rate change-up. Even more surprising is Mary Steenburgen as the junior bank officer who converts both the Ripper's and Wells' antique pounds into dollars and is thus the crucial link in their chase. Her portrayal of a liberated woman fighting...