Word: orgasmatron
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Their profits can only grow. Radio's electronic orgasmatron shows no signs of exhaustion. Only nine years ago, the Rolling Stones had trouble getting Let's Spend the Night Together on the air. But that was before radio became the billion-dollar record industry's top sales force. Once dormant FM stations now compete for AM's vast audience, who are mostly disc-hungry teen-agers with money to burn. Orgasmic rock, which flourishes on singles, does not outsell everything else; the top records are soft, romantic rock albums. But when a company wants to launch...
Last Tango and Streetcar. Remember what Woody Allen looked like after the Orgasmatron went berserk in Sleeper? This double bill still makes me shake my head and grope for a drink...
...theme built into the setting of this movie. Mechanical objects always hated Woody Allen; it was as if they had a conspiracy against him. In 2173 the health food refugee is in a world full of machines--robot domestic servants, the "Orb" for getting high, a contraption called the Orgasmatron which looks like a hot water heater and supplies instant climax when you climb in ("I'm strictly a hand operation," Allen protests). The machines give Allen a lot of trouble, as usual, but in the end he makes the computers look ridiculous...