ARTS: TICK TOCK TICK TOCK In January 7003 this clock will chime with the sound of Brian Eno's `bell' music. Phew, says Michael Bracewell. Is the end of Post- Modernism at last in sight? And what exactly is `The Long Now'?

The Independent on Sunday | July 27, 2003| | Copyright

Elvis in a bolero jacket goofs to one side as Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, dressed as ladies of the conservatoire, play sax and bass fiddle while Montgomery Clift lets fall a single tear as he sounds The Last Post while Harpo plays his harp. You just have time to recognise and register each iconic scene before they switch to another set - Maria Callas, Pete Townshend, Gregory Peck and Fred Astair - like a hand of cards in a game of video poker. They happen so fast, these successions of four simultaneous legendary images, to a jump-cut soundtrack which accelerates their impact, that the effect ...

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