A mere duck will not do for the clockmaker, any more than clockwork, for all its engrossing ingenuity, will do for Carey.
Perhaps the only thing the brouhaha illuminates is that the glittery Oscar machine is more gummed-up clockworks than dream factory, still a system subject to glitches and procedural headaches, human error and programming miscues.
His routine sexual performance that feels more like clockwork and less like lovemaking.
This study reveals conserved molecular and functional components of the circadian clock that were in place at the divergence of the Cnidaria and Bilateria, suggesting the animal circadian clockwork is more ancient than previous data suggest.
However, both Ricci and Trigault were quick to point out that 16th-century European clockworks were far more advanced than the common time keeping devices in China, which they listed as water clocks, incense clocks, and "other instruments ... with wheels rotated by sand as if by water" (Chinese: 沙漏).
The story was quickly forgotten, and now, like clockwork, the Pentagon receives more money than it even asked for.
More fun than a barrel of clockwork monkeys is Sky Pirates from Liesel Schwarz (Del Rey, £16.99), the latest Victorian extravaganza from a writer quite deservedly called the "High Priestess of Steampunk".
It is an old Cockney slang phrase, implying a queerness or madness so extreme as to subvert nature, since could any notion be more bizarre than that of a clockwork orange?
"In Okinawa things always run slow," I heard an Osaka manager complain when the check-in line at Ishigaki airport was moving at a more leisurely pace than the clockwork precision he was used to.
Bell says that what saved the lamps from being written off when electricity arrived were the mantles made of silk coated in lime oxide, which made them much more efficient than a naked flame, and the clockwork lighting mechanism.
