Christian Marclay's twenty-four-hour film installation "The Clock," at the Paula Cooper gallery, which synchronizes cinematic times of day (via images of timepieces and spoken dialogue) with, as Schjeldahl puts it, "the downright present".
The tumbling montage of scenes — recent and old, familiar and rare, Hollywood and foreign — synchronizes fictional times of day, shown on clocks or mentioned in dialogue, with the downright present.
On the Maltesers YouTube page, the comments range from hilarious, to worried, to downright weird – perhaps presenting a grim equality of sorts.
The seven soldiers range in emotion from deeply present to downright frigid, like Phillip, Lindsey's husband, who comes home for two weeks of R&R but still has to be coaxed into a kiss by his wife, who says, "I was expecting more fireworks and boom".
Jennifer Dorn New York, July 30, 2010 To the Editor: It is ironic, if not downright hypocritical, for Congress to present a veneer of ethical behavior by scapegoating Representative Charles B. Rangel while its members refuse to pass a financial disclosure law, thus protecting themselves from scrutiny as to their campaign dependence on the financial, oil, insurance and pharmaceutical industries.
However, they were able to present innovative and downright odd takes on the N64's technology: they developed the Aleck64 arcade hardware around the N64's inner workings, releasing arcade-only games like creepy nudie title Vivid Dolls, and found a way to place a Bio Sensor into Tetris 64.
That presents a fundamental — downright existential — monetization challenge for the major media and entertainment companies.
The audience measurement company is releasing a brand new report on teens and media with a lofty promise of serious myth busting and hard fact presenting that will downright knock your socks off.
I think one of the main reasons this fight came to a controversial ending, other than downright incompetence or the ever-present and hard to prove possibility of corruption on behalf of the judges and the other parties involved, is that it was a supremely nuanced fight.
VICE News scoured the internet for the most ridiculous, offensive, and downright odd gems about Gloria Allred and presented it to her for review.
It is downright harmful, and leads directly to the regrettable present pursuit of a biological or chemical fix for every form of unhappiness and emotional pain.
