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Also, an essay wonders what makes teen-age killers tick.
In one crucial scene, the vagabond artist played by Leonardo DiCaprio retires with Rose (Kate Winslet) to her sitting room, where he makes a nude sketch of her sitting on a divan as the languorous hours tick by.
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.
2 million Americans reported having used an illegal drug during the previous year, up a tick from 11.
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 .)