The clock in the director's office at the Fogg was one of Ditmas's favorites.
"It's turning back the clock," said Dr. Clifford J. Rosen, director of clinical and translational medicine at the Maine Medical Center in Portland, who led the advisory committee on the drug in 2007.
Glenn Ford, deceased star of aisle-filling 1955 teensploitation movie Blackboard Jungle, is understudied by son Peter, who once played a Bill Haley B-side called Rock Around The Clock to fortysomething director Richard Brooks.
Describing the sudden feverish activity and the pressure of the clock, Thomas R. Smerling, the director of the Israel Policy Forum's Washington center, used a football analogy: "We're at the two-minute warning period when you start to throw long balls toward the sideline".
Marclay's Clock is the director's cut.
"Until Apple shares a larger proportion of its profits with its supplier factories, workers will receive the same pittance for a salary while working around the clock," Li Qiang, the director of China Labor Watch, said in an emailed statement.
Payne likes his films rooted in the real: for Nebraska, production designer Dennis Washington says that he and the director clocked up 12,000 miles recce-ing the state's bars and bowling alleys.
"This is not an attempt to stop the clock," said Kent Barwick, executive director of the Municipal Art Society.
But his new film, tellingly, is an altogether more gentle and affectionate enterprise – a period piece that resets the clock and brings the director full circle.
"Right now this is kind of like a game of chicken, but with a shot clock," said Casey Rae-Hunter, deputy director of the Future of Music Coalition, which advocates for musicians and consumers.
"If Murano becomes another base for tourism, as we hope will happen, then the city will live again, it will be revitalized around the clock," said Francesco Paternostro, managing director of Lagare, the Milan real estate development group behind the hotel in the ex-Conterie.
