His office was crammed with souvenirs of his peregrinations: sphinxes, skulls, obelisks, a bright-green wall clock bearing the likeness of a Shia martyr.

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If I had not taken the battery out of his wall clock before we began the interview you would just have heard the clock ticking.

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Only the ticking of the wall clock could be heard.

NEWYORKER: Waiting

The buildings are made from thousands of tiny gears and springs, not brick and stone, as if Wall emptied a clock and began to build.

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Suddenly as I watched as the clock on the theatre wall it started to whizz round, each hour lasting less than a minute.

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Avid readers will clock the introduction of a few Wall Street Journal hallmarks throughout the issue.

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Outside the exhibit stands the company's achievement wall -- showing off IBM's humble beginnings as a punch card clock company and ending with Watson.

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As for Mr Silverman, weary from round-the-clock calls to investors, he seems not so much a genius, but a man who heard Wall Street's adulation and, for a moment, believed it.

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With the clock running down, Braga won a free kick and Matheus thundered a shot past a threadbare defensive wall and the ball dipped under the crossbar to leave an embarrassed Zaluska flapping at thin air.

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