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...robbery was not the motive: no one knows what they were after, and the gang still has not been apprehended. Their little jaunt is not the first act of seemingly senseless violence, urban or otherwise, and it will not be the last, but it is nonetheless notable for its Clockwork Orange style of viciousness. Mugging is one thing, but splitting heads for the hell of it boggles the civilized mind...
...example given by Watson, a former lecturer in psychology at the University of London, is the Navy's "Clockwork Orange" experiments in Naples, Italy, and San Diego: wearing a head clamp and with their eyes fixed open, so that they cannot avert their gaze, volunteers were shown gruesome films of dismemberment to break down their opposition to violence. Though the Pentagon denied conducting any such experiments, Watson thinks that his source-a Navy doctor in Naples-was telling the truth...
Ironies abounded. Holland was respected, even though lacking the attacking power of Striker Johan Cruyff, who, now aged 31 and rich beyond reason, refused to bother with this World Cup. Still, the Dutch team at first was clearly not the "clockwork orange" of the 1974 tournament (orange because of its uniforms and clockwork because everything it tried worked that way until the final against West Germany). It was a Dutch concept of "total football"-no stratagem at all but a blazing and relentless rush of soccer in which every team member played both attack and defense-that had dazzled...
...estimated one billion television viewers--that's 400 million more than watched the moon landing in 1969--looked on as Argentina goalkeeper Fillol frustrated the "clockwork orange" Dutch scoring juggernaut, and Argentina striker Mario Kempes provided most of the offense with two brilliant goals...
...took a 150°-angle photo of Paris on a curved daguerreotype plate. After the invention of flexible film, other cameras were designed to sweep the horizons. Dantzic's choice, the 50-lb.. Cirkut sits on a tripod and is rotated on a vertical axis by a clockwork mechanism, while its film is moved at the same speed past its aperture...