There was talk of synchronizing watches, but no one wore a watch in the summer except me, because summer is its own time and I was the only one who didn't know this.
Three teams of two radiotrackers each with synchronized watches were stationed at elevated points around the River Chagres (Figure 1), and one additional person observed the exit hole of the bats' day roost to communicate to the rest of the team via cell phones and radios whenever one of the bats carrying radio transmitters left or returned to the roost.
Many families keep time both ways, unable to synchronize their watches.
Claiming this will be a scientific robbery, these bunglers, featuring Vittorio Gassman, cannot synchronize their watches for this precision break-in because they do not own timepieces.
The movie gives Hawk and Tommy a charming gimmick — a repertory of classic songs that they've timed to the second so that, while heisting, they don't synchronize their watches, they synchronize their voices and sing the songs out loud, turning "Hudson Hawk" into a sort of neo-Rat Pack musical.
Train conductors use their own wristwatches to decide when to leave, said Dan Brucker, a spokesman for the railroad, although they are required to synchronize their watches periodically with either the video monitors or the operations center.
The movie gives Hawk and Tommy a charming gimmick a repertory of classic songs that they've timed to the second so that, while heisting, they don't synchronize their watches, they synchronize their voices and sing the songs out loud, turning "Hudson Hawk" into a sort of neo-Rat Pack musical.
Ms. Pereg's piece is a work of art, not a documentary film, yet it is born aloft on the mad en masse majesty of flamingos, the dazzling speed with which they synchronize their watches and coordinate their fates.
In addition to asking the time in a full range of emotional tones, people check, wind or synchronize their watches, shake and listen to them to see if they are working.
