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As Orson Welles reminds Joseph Cotten in The Third Man (1949), unsettling times can nurture artistic renaissances while serene prosperity yields only the cuckoo clock.
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Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Dec. 2023
Audrey Hall The living room is a prime example of the antique-modern balance with a custom rug, a bronze and antique family chair that was recovered in a contemporary fabric, and an ornate heirloom cuckoo clock.
—Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 29 Nov. 2023
Bezos later explains that there are five metal anniversary displays that will function like traditional cuckoo clocks chiming at one year, 10 years, 100 years, 1,000 years, and 10,000 years.
—Chloe Malle, Vogue, 13 Nov. 2023
Lean into the German vibe at the Frankenmuth Cheese Haus, which stocks more than 120 types of cheese, and the Frankenmuth Clock Company, with its 150-plus cuckoo clocks.
—Katy Spratte Joyce, Travel + Leisure, 16 Feb. 2023
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Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Dec. 2023
Audrey Hall The living room is a prime example of the antique-modern balance with a custom rug, a bronze and antique family chair that was recovered in a contemporary fabric, and an ornate heirloom cuckoo clock.
—Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 29 Nov. 2023
Bezos later explains that there are five metal anniversary displays that will function like traditional cuckoo clocks chiming at one year, 10 years, 100 years, 1,000 years, and 10,000 years.
—Chloe Malle, Vogue, 13 Nov. 2023
Lean into the German vibe at the Frankenmuth Cheese Haus, which stocks more than 120 types of cheese, and the Frankenmuth Clock Company, with its 150-plus cuckoo clocks.
—Katy Spratte Joyce, Travel + Leisure, 16 Feb. 2023
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The Yoto also doubles as a Bluetooth speaker, night-light, sleep trainer, room thermometer, and alarm clock.Cheryl Fenton, Parents, 2 Nov. 2024
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The magician made coins, alarm clocks and even a woman disappear despite battling a 104-degree fever and severe abdominal pain.Emily Blackwood, People.com, 31 Oct. 2024
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Besides the fact that Eldridge spent all of nine games at Double-A, there’s no reason to get a head start on his service time clock while occupying a 40-man spot that could be used to protect another prospect from the Rule 5 draft this winter.Evan Webeck, The Mercury News, 14 Sep. 2024
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The main thing that sets this revival apart from past revivals (besides Marianne Elliott’s consummate directing), is the gender switch from Bobby, a swinging sixties bachelor, to Bobbie, a less-swinging single whose biological time clock is getting louder.Jordan Riefe, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 July 2024
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But the only way to get the grandfather clock that features the Martinsville Speedway logo with the race date is to win a NASCAR Cup Series Race, a NASCAR Xfinity Series or NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race at Martinsville.Bruce Martin, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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Humans have long kept time to regular phenomena, from the waxing and waning of the moon to the lulling swings of the pendulum in a grandfather clock.Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
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The first of the new generation of quantum technologies to be broadly deployed in orbit will be highly precise optical atomic clocks.Paul Lipman, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2024
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The study of physics itself could be revolutionized by using nuclear clocks alongside atomic clocks, according to Zhang.Mindy Weisberger, CNN, 10 Sep. 2024
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“Cuckoo clock.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cuckoo%20clock. Accessed 16 Nov. 2024.
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