clockwork

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At the time, she recalled how her father edited films such as Clockwork Orange in the garage.

From BBC • May 24, 2025

Going into the show, fans were confused about what they would possibly be hearing from the band, who walked out onstage to the theme from “A Clockwork Orange.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2025

Ms. Carlos also used the Moog to conjure the foreboding sound of a dystopian future on the soundtrack to Stanley Kubrick’s 1971 film, “A Clockwork Orange.”

From New York Times • Dec. 16, 2022

This rebellious streak came to a head in the 1990s when a planned showing of the then banned A Clockwork Orange caused a furore and ended up with Mr Heine in court.

From BBC • Jun. 17, 2022

Clockwork, of course, was not a seventeenth-century innovation.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton