Word: chores
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...unaware of the camera’s gaze. In one striking scene, several grade schoolers labor to push a hamper up a dirtied urban avenue. Despite the squalor of the surroundings, their impish smiles and doubled-over laughter show that the activity is more of a game than a chore. In a careful composition, the children’s clothes pick up colors in the graffiti and painted residences in the background, suggesting a unity with their surroundings and an ability to revel even in less-than-pristine circumstances...
...small chore and the Democrats are still arguing among themselves over how tough to be on Bush. Liberal lions like Sen. Ted Kennedy want to fire away at the president on the economy. Pragmatists like House Democratic Leader Dick Gephardt are a little more gun-shy, fearing that voters would interpret an attack on W as an attack on patriotism...
...massive bulk rises in solitary grace out of the East African savanna, just 200 miles south of the equator. It stands 19,340 feet above sea level, shorter than the towering peaks of the Himalayas or the Andes but high enough to make breathing difficult and each step a chore...
...rubles a month--about $100. Poorly paid, highly inebriated men make a shabby line of defense against terrorists and traffickers. Vaclav Havlik, a Czech citizen who was part of a group of uranium smugglers arrested near Munich in 1994, told TIME that obtaining material from Russia was no great chore. "It was like going for vacation by the sea and bringing back a sack of shells," he says...
...cannot quarrel with most of Sontag’s aesthetic judgments—they are, with no obvious exceptions, level-headed essays of appreciation for roundly-lauded artists—but her unremitting earnestness ultimately make her essays a chore to read. One wonders not just at Sontag’s artistic voracity, but at her boneheaded inability to crack wise now and then, or to liven her discussion with even the slightest dip into the troughs of low culture. Sontag has long been mocked and feared for her imposing figure, and nowhere do we see the intensity...