The luridly-colorful set designs by John Barry, costume design by Milena Canonero, the synthesized electronic score by Wendy Carlos [sometimes credited as Walter Carlos - her birth name until undergoing a sex-change operation in 1972 to became Wendy], the colorful and innovative cinematography by John Alcott, and the hybrid, jargonistic, pun-filled language of Burgess"" novel (calledNadsat- an onomatopoetic, expressive combination of English, Russian, and slang), produce a striking, unforgettable film.Bad s--t." Barnes provided more detail: "Yeah.They got two lieutenants and a captain."An Ambush Night Patrol in the RainAn ambush patrol was ordered by Sgt.Barnes to retaliate against a North Vietnamese Army (NVA) force, to be led by Sgt.Elias, although Elias objected that it was really Sgt.O""Neill""s turn to go out.Elias was overruled when the cowardly "lifer" O""Neill claimed because of the presence of short-timers (Tubbs, Morehouse) and Fu Sheng (on R & R), he was left with "fresh-meat.She declines, because she is "meeting somebody...like a man" for a drink - she describes how their relationship "used to be serious - at leastIwas, but he wasn""t," but it is now "more or less kaput.A sardonic Humbert is polite to her, but he detests her vacuous, rying-hard-to-impress chatter, cheap intellectualism, and ""artist"" name-dropping, and at one point walks out of the frame of view.