Photocopiers, clocks, photographs of the President - nothing was safe from the rage of a crowd part ideological, part criminal, part drunk.
The Davises stayed for more than an hour, listening to their stories, in an overheated dining room crowded with clocks and photographs and figurines.
These interventions include providing orientation with calendars, clocks and photographs and maintain day-night rhythm.
Near the clock stands a framed photograph of Ms. Fitzsimons's father, Daniel Edward Fitzsimons, who owned an insurance agency in New Haven and who died in 1970, when his daughter was 16. "What I like about the picture," she said, "is that it shows my dad as a young man, when he was just starting out in the world".
The pigeon coop -- donated by the Bronx Homing Pigeons Club -- with racing clock, record sheets and photographs of people launching pigeons over their own rooftops, made me want to run up there to see these hobbyists and their birds in the flesh.
Innocence of Memories is based as much on the novel as it is on the objects that inspired it (clocks, coffee cups, photographs, clips from old movies set in Istanbul), on daydreams layered in poetic sequence, and on the actual landscape of the city.
People personalise their homes through decorating it with a variety of significant objects/possessions such as paintings, musical instruments, cupboards, rugs, clocks, jewellery and photographs (see also Rowles and Watkins, 2003).
"I wanted to do something colossal to celebrate the anniversary," Giordano said as he prepared to hang a third photograph, from the clock tower on a building at the corner of North Avenue and Howard Street.
And so, it astonished me one morning in early 1996 while walking along Montague Street to see a photograph of the Clock in a real estate agency window, particularly as I happened to be in the market for a new place.
Ideally you'll have a surface for your lamps and whatever else you like to have handy: clock, glass of water, favorite photographs, reading material.
What is that clock you're holding in this photograph?
