Word: laboredness
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For the past six years, South Korea has labored to make the 1988 Summer Olympic Games -- the 24th of the modern Olympiad -- into a statement of the country's arrival as a sophisticated and confident middle power. But amid last week's tear gas and flaming Molotov cocktails, the linked...
The stage is chockablock with tenpins aloft, batons atwirl, trapeze and low- wire acts, fire eating and belly dancing, pratfalls, cartwheels and unicycling. Somewhere amid all this are the rudiments of Shakespeare's farcical plot about twin brothers and their twin servants and even a modicum of his language, although...
But thus far, members of the Harvard squash team have labored in winning obscurity at Hemenway Gymnasium. They don't get the publicity of football or hockey players. They don't receive the same kind of fan support. They just do their jobs better and with more consistency than any...
The movie works best when it labors least, when it allows its stars to sing their comic arias a cappella. Finally one wonders if it would not have been more fun to skip all the labored knockabout and let the talented pair join forces for a simple concert film. R.S...
Finding the time to write is a problem. Hughes spent ten years on The Fatal Shore. "It was a constant tap dance between the magazine and the book," says he. Friedrich worked weekends for four years to finish City of Nets. Senior Editor Walter Isaacson labored late at night and...