Word: korova
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...icebox: his effects misfire because they are backed neither by rigorously developed intellectual argument nor compassion. From the moment that the orange and blue credit backgrounds start to work on us, followed by that long dolly which grows from Malcolm McDowell's leer to encompass the entire terribly-clever Korova Milk bar set, we are begged to participate in a mere thrill show. A proud Kubrick tells his interviewers how people may come to identify with McDowell as they do with Crookback in Richard III. But both Shakespeare and the original Burgess novel obviously present greater challenges: complex worlds beyond...
This alienating décor is full of works of art. Fiber-glass nudes, crouched like Playboy femlins in the Korova milk bar, serve as tables or dispense mescaline-laced milk from their nipples. They are, in fact, close parodies of the fetishistic furniture-sculpture of Allen Jones. The living room of the Cat Lady, whom Protagonist Alex (Malcolm McDowell) murders with an immense Arp-like sculpture of a phallus, is decked with the kind of garish, routinely erotic paintings that have infested Pop-art consciousness in recent years...
...milk-plus at the Korova, according to Alex, "sharpens you up and makes you ready tor a bit of the old ultra-violence." After a glass or two, Alex and his droogs have made up their ras-soodocks what to do for entertainment...
...running cars and pedestrians off the road. They pay "the old surprise visit" to a quiet home, force their way in, tie and gag the man of the house and rape his wife. Then, all feeling "a bit shagged and fagged and fashed," they retire once again to the Korova. After all, as Alex says, it has been "an evening of some small energy expenditures...
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