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It almost worked the first time because McQueen was such a vital presence on the screen--even stone silent and weary, you could sense his clock ticking, his cagey magnetism.
If a ticking crocodile had emerged from subspace and taken a bite out of him - hey, let's be fair - out of everyone involved in this tax-scam fiasco - t h a t might have been entertaining.
With his sanity barely in check as it is (notice the loud, ticking clock sound a la REPULSION, an obvious influence), Marcos finally snaps when a lecherous taxi driver attacks him and his girlfriend Paola (Emma Cohen).
He, & his accomplice (Michael Henderson), drive off to a wood where they bury Frances alive in a wooden coffin, she has about 24 hours worth of air left & the clock is ticking... Detective Madeline Foster (Maura Tierney) & her partner Jesse (Paul Calderon) are called onto the task force to find Frances & apprehend her kidnappers.
Also, why does the little "population" count on the town sign keep ticking up after people are killed, but does not tick down for the zombies that have been destroyed?
Carlin needs to travel back in time, save the girl and stop the terrorist, but has to be quick for the clock is ticking....
All within the allotted time: Plissken is literally a ticking time bomb, thanks to duplicitous Lee Van Cleef as the commander of the United States Police Force.
to summerize this film is pretty lousy but its does have a unique take on buddy movie cliches and is better then most films cliches.instead of one's black and the other white or one's a ticking time bomb and the other is as wise cracking street cop or one's a suicidal partner and the other is danny glover or one's a dog and the other is a human or one is a couch cushion and the other is a blender in this movie one's an arrogant son of a bitch and the other is a whiny annoying mess.
Time was ticking by, and the announcement of a fire alert at Hyde Park Corner only served to induce a fierce sense of frustration in me.
This film is a Western, but combines a number of strange bedfellows - the romantic comedies of Hawks (two men fight over a woman treated as a slave); melodrama (the film is brilliant at visualising the limited options open to Rachel, from the proscenium curtains looking out at a world she has no freedom in and the metronome ticking away her life, to the overall claustrophobic setting (a small farm) and limited dramatis personae), and even psychological thriller (like REBECCA, Rachel is a second wife living in the shadow of a perfect predecessor; both films share a cathartic conflagration).
Considering the divergent ways men and women might act, think, or respond is not just ticking a politically correct box.
The clock is ticking: if the Madrid Summit takes place with an agreement between NATO and Russia for closer consultation and cooperation, enlargement could lead to major irritations in Moscow, possibly to deliberate anti-Western action and pressure on Russia’s neighbors.
But the clock is ticking, and Africa’s AGOA privileges will soon be eliminated.
All at once we seem to hear two demographic time-bombs ticking: the continuing population explosion in parts of the third world, and the astonishing rate of aging in the first world.
But when the bank announced a first-half loss of €3.6 billion ($4.7 billion), the sudden collapse of confidence was alarming, and nervous investors are asking whether there are similar time bombs ticking elsewhere.
Without careful policy planning, the continent’s anticipated demographic windfall could turn out to be a ticking time bomb.
But Iran also recognizes that the clock is ticking.
The danger is that slow growth will not lead to sufficient wage gains and job creation to defuse the ticking time bomb of high youth unemployment in many countries.
More important, with the clock ticking on default (which could come as early as July), the Greek authorities need to persuade their partners through action, not promises.
But the clock is ticking.
There is an alternative – but the clock is ticking.
In view of the foreseeable demographic risks from pension entitlements, a time bomb may now have been set ticking.
The four-month clock began ticking on May 3, following the first meeting of Iraq’s new parliament.
A prolonged process and period of balkanization in the Middle East would result in nothing but more misery and suffering – constituting an enormous ticking time bomb for world peace.
Food Security’s Social NetworkMINNEAPOLIS – In 2015, when the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals were officially adopted, the clock began ticking on an ambitious goal: ending global hunger by 2030.
Monetary policy – in particular, the vast money-printing “quantitative easing” programs pursued by central banks in recent years – has run out of space, too, with price inflation ticking up and central-bank balance sheets a record size.
And the clock is ticking.
Neither would it have stopped the global saving glut from turning into a ticking time bomb for the world economy.
In a world of free capital flows, such a regime is a ticking bomb.
In Pittsburgh, with the clock ticking on talks to adopt a successor treaty to the Kyoto Protocol this December in Copenhagen, the G-20 will have a real opportunity to show that the color of serious money to meet both climate and development goals really is green.
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