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...Clockwork Orange. Malcolm McDowell's Alex and his trusted droogs mug, rape and generally terrorize their way through a British Sodom masquerading as a civilized society. If your stomach holds out, your sensory organs will be grateful; this is first-rate Kubrick, and you'll appreciate the perfectionist approach to his craft evident in every scene as he spares no detail in creating this nightmarish conception of the fate awaiting modern society...
...standing watch: he simply carried along his vomit bucket to the bridge of the submarine. He fell under the spell of Admiral (then Captain) Hyman Rickover, and that celebrated authoritarian became the second most important male influence in his life. It was Rickover who provided the model of the perfectionist leader, one who seldom handed out compliments...
Died. Fritz Lang, 85, Viennese-born film director of early German suspense thrillers (Dr. Mabuse, The Gambler, M) and Hollywood melodramas (Fury); after a long illness; in Los Angeles. A tall, terse perfectionist, Lang was "profoundly fascinated by cruelty, fear, horror and death." M, for example, was a horrifying study of a compulsive child murderer. When his next film, The Last Will of Dr. Mabuse (1932), was banned by the Third Reich, Lang fled to Hollywood, where he spent 20 highly successful years working with stars like Spencer Tracy and Henry Fonda in a variety of social melodramas, westerns...
...also may be a bad potato. The handwriting bore a resemblance to Hughes'. But other features of the will seemed highly suspect. Hughes was a nitpicking perfectionist who spelled out everything in exhaustive detail. Yet the purported will contained vague statements (sample: "the remainder [of the estate] is to be divided among the key men in my company's [sic]." Furthermore, Hughes almost never made spelling errors. Yet the 260-word testament is studded with eleven misspellings, including "cildren" for children and "re-volk" for revoke...
...GERMAN CHARACTER. There is a certain weakness in our national character tending toward perfectionism. We even make our mistakes in a perfect manner-big mistakes, even crimes. This perfectionist weakness is not something that will evaporate this year or this decade. It's one of those characteristics that have a long period of life in the development of a nation. People also attribute to Germans a certain amount of discipline. This, I hope, will not quickly vanish...