Word: sisyphean
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...palms in the land-registry office, the mother, brilliantly played by Isabelle Huppert, is assigned land that she later finds is prone to flooding from the sea. In her attempt to hold back the tide, Huppert rallies local villagers to build a barrier against the ocean. It's a Sisyphean task that sets her against colonial functionaries who have designs on her property, and a rapacious tycoon, Monsieur Jo (Randal Douc), a Parisian-educated Sino-Khmer, whose efforts to take land from the locals are as unrelenting as his pursuit of Huppert's teenaged daughter Suzanne (Astrid Berges-Frisbey...
...Unlike newspapers, TV shows are not competing against new technologies such as blogs. The television show’s only competitor is itself, a Sisyphean punishment for an indefensibly retarded response to the Internet. A show on fox.com is competing with the exact same show on youku.com and tudou.com, Chinese versions of YouTube. Foreigners pine for a taste of the gold standard of entertainment and will find a way to get it. Rather than play a fruitless game of cat and mouse with a billion Chinese, networks and producers ought to harness the potential of this vast audience. Admittedly, there...
...worth the long-term effect to our investment capital to build an underwater rollie coastie. O-kee day? [2] 5. Ahem, the problem with Harvard’s student body is that we have too many do-gooders and not enough projects for them. Enter the “Sisyphean Institute for Public Works”. Imagine one student group running a soup kitchen with a rival group training Business School students to steal soup. [3] The institute could fund one organization that teaches inmates to read and another that just teaches them how to find a study guide before...
Before the curtain falls on his presidency, George W. Bush has something to say. This White House report attempts the Sisyphean task of commemorating the legacy of an Administration with an approval rating in the 20s. To push the boulder up the hill, the report unspools a highlight reel of the Administration's accomplishments, from No Child Left Behind to the dissemination of $16 billion in food aid to blighted countries. Framing the text are stats-laden "Did You Know?" boxes, snapshots of the President looking presidential (glad-handing seniors, holding babies, hammering nails) and inspiring section headers describing Bush...
...this Mumbai that shelters Dante's manuscript: a metropolitan home to all sorts of stories, still glittering with epic possibility for the thousands who flock here every year from all corners of this vast country, including the beggars and garbage collectors and tiffin carriers who continued with the many Sisyphean struggles of their lot in the days after the attacks. More than half of the city's populace lives in slums, and most could never dream of dining at the posh enclaves that came under attack. Yet they all continue to dream the Mumbai dream...