Word: clocked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that his work has been corrupted by its commercial reuse, and this is because of its clarity and intelligence. Magritte's paradoxes still slice cleanly. No matter how many times you see the small locomotive steaming from the living-room fireplace in his Time Transfixed (1938), with the mantel clock pointing to 12:43 and every grain line in the wooden floor in place, it will still come from behind its utter familiarity and surprise...
...project also restored the clock on the front of Mass Hall. The renovation, costing $33,000, rebuilt the wooden frame around the clock, adding new wood to the original, says Didier O. Thomas, associate director for project planning. The clock face, originally gold and dark blue, will be covered by a replica designed by sculptor Bob Shure. Thomas expects the new face to be installed in mid-October...
...project also restored the clock on the front of Mass Hall. The renovation, costing $33,000, rebuilt the wooden frame around the clock, adding new wood to the original, says Didier O. Thomas, associate director for project planning. The clock face, originally gold and dark blue, will be covered by a replica designed by sculptor Bob Shure. Thomas expects the new face to be installed in mid-October...
...continent-cracking convulsions tend to space themselves out over generations. Biblical floods are rare, like killer tidal waves, volcanic eruptions and the other cyclical calls to humility in the face of nature's destructive power. But last week it somehow seemed that the clock was running fast: Typhoon Omar menaced Guam, a tornado attacked Wisconsin, fires burned out of control in California, a four- story tidal wave in Nicaragua dissolved whole neighborhoods, and the residents of South Florida spent Week Two picking up the pieces of their damaged homes and disrupted lives...
Jung once wrote, "Different people inhabit different centuries." Something in the African clock of development got smashed when Europe broke into the continent. And when the colonialists pulled out, they left the economic, political and cultural infrastructure reconfigured in such a way that the new countries served Europe better than they served one another. This result was not necessarily intentional but was profoundly damaging nonetheless. Robert Ruark touched on the cultural destruction in his novel Something of Value: "If you change a man's way of life, you had better have something of value with which to replace...