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Sunday's column, for instance, in reporting that Tim Allen had bought Christian Slater's house, was only too glad to tick off the actors' credits but didn't mention another residential fact the two have in common--they've both done time.
A species of tick, the animal that Pliny the Elder called one of the foulest and nastiest creatures that be should be known to most residents of the northeast coast of the US, because Ixodes dammini , the deer tick, is the vector for another dreadful animal--the spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi , which causes borreliosis Lyme (disease)--the fastest-growing infectious disease in the US after AIDS.
Office workers function by the tick of the clock, watching the minutes pass, while farmers live by the season, marking time with the twice yearly harvests.
3) It "doesn't try hard enough to figure out what made him tick, and tick so loudly" (Tom Shales, the Washington Post ). (Find out more about the movie here; read Sarah Kerr's review in Slate .)
I don't mind his taking Bradley's foreign policy speech apart: I appreciate his listening to it and analyzing it so I don't have to (I would have had to find toothpicks to keep my eyes open), but the whole "oracle of wisdom" aspect to his approach is beginning to tick me off.