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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.
Clinton's and Barak's remarks were brief and cordial, the papers agree, but then Shara used his remarks to tick off at some length a list of Syria's grievances against Israel.
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.
And they all tick off examples of its extremities.
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.