Word: herculean
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Long-term planning also contributed to the herculean feat, said Turtel, who gorged himself with tasty roast beet sandwiches at lunch Thursday in the Leverett House dining hall. "Then, in the afternoon. I went jogging, so when the thing started, I was really hungry," he added...
...FACE OF its Herculean labors I never imagined I'd write an unfavorable review of the American Premiere Stage, let alone vigorously trash it. But I never imagined it would be so tasteless and cowardly, that it would champion plays this terrible. After rejecting the "let's-incinerate-them-so-that-a-phoenix-may-rise-from-the-ashes" philosophy of theatre criticism in principle, I find I must invoke it in this instance...
...could scarcely afford to admit that last-minute filing makes a difference. Such a confession would undoubtedly cause an even greater avalanche of last-minute returns and make the agency's task Herculean. Nonetheless, last year the IRS audited only 2.02% of the 93 million individual returns it received, well below the 3.6% it checked in 1968. Two weeks ago, Secretary of the Treasury Donald Regan decided to help restore fear as the foundation of the tax system by shifting an additional 548 IRS employees into the audit and collection divisions...
...tender and tantalizing intimacy with her late husband. The severest irritant in the play is Davies' use of Jackson as a narrator and monologuist addressing the audience directly. This is a drastic "alienation effect" for which Brecht himself would have disowned his disciples. For the rest, Jackson performs Herculean labors, but even Hercules was spared a 13th...
...nberg: 17 short piano pieces. Anton Webern: Variations for Piano. Pierre Boulez: Second Sonata for Piano. Luigi Nono: Music for Soprano, Piano, Orchestra and Magnetic Tape (Slavka Taskova, soprano, and the Symphony Orchestra of the Bayerischen Rundfunks, Claudio Abbado, conductor; Deutsche Grammophon, five LPs). Pollini's herculean fingering stands out even in that select circle of great young pianists to which he belongs. His Chopin Etudes may set a new standard for his generation; his performance of Schubert's difficult late sonatas is a triumph of athletic as well as artistic ability. Pollini is also a leading interpreter...