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Word: korova (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1971-1971
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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The D&233;cor of Tomorrow's Hell | 12/27/1971 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Kubrick: Degrees of Madness | 12/20/1971 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Kubrick: Degrees of Madness | 12/20/1971 | See Source »

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