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...cancer drugs into arteries or veins is usually necessary, requiring a stay of days or weeks in a hospital, at great economic and emotional cost to the patient. But now, Dr. Elton Watkins Jr., inventive director of surgical research at Boston's Lahey Clinic, has devised a compact, clockwork-driven pump that weighs only three-fourths of a pound and can be hung on the patient's chest like a hearing aid. Inside Dr. Watkins' contraption, a plastic reservoir contains about an ounce of anti-cancer drug, usually Methotrexate. The clock motor and pump are so delicate...
...Number Can Win. In the vintage Hollywood gangland formula, crooks are 98% repulsive and viewers can't wait to see them burn. In the French switch on this, as refined in Rififi (1956), things are the other way round: attractive criminals get girls, gats and a clockwork plan for a caper, and the audience roots for them to The End. French clockwork, however, is not always reliable, and this amoral little melodrama starring Jean Gabin and Alain Delon ticks only intermittently...
Waring is the pseudonymous author of unusually bogus travel books, whose disappearance sets in motion an intricate clockwork of social comedy in prewar literary London. When this book was written (in 1938), Powell had just abandoned a novelist's apprenticeship as an employee of a London publisher. What's Become of Waring is thus a young man's gibe against his job. But the joke wears well, though its first U.S. publication is obviously based on Powell's present status as the author of The Music of Time, the series of books (six to date) that...
...Alex and his hyped-up droogs prowl the town and kick in the keeshkas (tripes) of a lewdie, nearly murder an old shopkeeper for a few polly (pounds) and cancers (cigarettes). They invade the country house of a writer, like Burgess himself, the author of a novel called A Clockwork Orange, and force him to look on while they rape his wife. Alex's sole link with humanity seems to be his love for "Ludwig van," especially the Choral Ninth. While his pee and em (parents) are at work, he perversely violates two small girls (Alex himself is only...
This pilgrim's progress of a beatnik Stavrogin is a serious and successful moral essay. Burgess argues quite simply that Alex is more of a man as an evil man than as a good zombie. The clockwork of a mechanical society can never counterfeit the organic vitality of moral choice. Goodness is nothing if evil is not accepted as a possibility...