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Article: Flashes of `Clockwork Orange'; Moments of Terror Mirror '60s Fiction
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- The Washington Post
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- May 2, 1989
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It sounded like a scene from "A Clockwork Orange"-a gang of kids,
rampaging through the city, beating up strangers who happened to come
their way, and then finally doing the "ultra-violence," as author
Anthony Burgess would call it: pounding the victim with bricks and
pipes, hacking away at her face and body with a knife, raping her one
by one and then leaving her, "bloody and torn."
But the recent assault on the 28-year-old jogger in New York
City's Central Park by a group of teen-age boys was not fiction.
It's called "wilding"-where packs of youngsters go out looting stores
and attacking people at random. From living rooms to company
cafeterias, the conversation keeps turning to the ...