• Would we really feel badly for Alex in A Clockwork Orange if he was possessed?

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  • Its elliptical orbit actually crosses Neptune's path, yet the timing of the two planets' respective motions ensures that, like figures in a clockwork model, they never collide.

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  • Using only pencil and paper, an artist begins by transforming the city into a clockwork model, with mechanical diagrams detailing how the city will build itself in the title sequence.

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  • Think of the wonderfully sinister suits Michael Fish designed for the adult authority figures of A Clockwork Orange, the sideways-in-reverse noir retro of Blade Runner or the Gaultier of The Fifth Element.

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  • Currently residing in London, Genovese started out her career as an assistant to director Mario Maldesi, the self-styled doyen of Italian dubbing, notably cherry-picked by Stanley Kubrick to synchronise the dialogue from his 1972 film A Clockwork Orange.

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  • The spring is wound for half a minute, and then unwinds over six minutes, charging a battery in the process, and providing enough energy to run the radio for an hour. (This means the radio's spring-controller circuit is no longer necessary.) Thus, Freeplay has switched from making solely spring-powered devices to making battery-powered devices that are equipped with a clockwork mechanism for recharging and emergency use.

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  • Bureaucratic systems and processes were put in place to make the system tick over like a boring clockwork machine.

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  • The device, described in a paper published recently in BioMed Central Women's Health, an online research journal, is an adaptation of a commercially available clockwork torch (flashlight).

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  • It goes back as far as 1770, when Wolfgang von Kempelen, a Hungarian inventor, unveiled a wooden, clockwork-powered mannekin at the court of Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria-Hungary.

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  • Managers tout the Chery Production System, or CPS, which is modeled after the vaunted Toyota Production System, but the factory lacks the clockwork efficiency of a Toyota plant.

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  • The journey northwest to Lake Lucerne involves three trains and a paddle steamer in a single afternoon, each one running on a schedule as precise as Swiss clockwork.

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  • The idea of storing energy from a spring in an intermediate electrical form was taken a stage further in Freeplay's clockwork torch.

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  • This basic idea of storing energy from the spring in an intermediate electrical form was taken a stage further in Freeplay's clockwork torch, which was launched last year.

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  • While the 201st anniversary probably will not see the record setting crowds that overran Munich latest year and for the first time in recent history brought a sense of chaos to the normally clockwork event, Oktoberfest has been generally trending upwards and is more popular than ever.

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  • That may be why Ed McCuen has a Powerball habit that's as regular as clockwork.

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  • Similarly, Tanaka Hisashige, who founded the company which is now the Toshiba Corporation, spent a great deal of the early 19th century building clockwork robots such as this one.

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  • It is a fitting tribute to an old technology that handheld clockwork devices, which were used long ago by sailors to find their positions at sea, could now, in a modern form, do the job once again.

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  • These competing philosophies were encapsulated in the 1974 World Cup final, when a favored Dutch squad, led by Johan Cruyff and featuring a free-wheeling passing game that earned it the nickname "Clockwork Orange, " was shockingly upset by West Germany.

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  • The British empire, navigated by jeweled clockwork, was set on course by collaboration--and a touch of well-timed fraud.

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  • He gets inside the clockwork enough, and is visionary enough, that he overthrows the Bastille in a quiet, effective way.

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