Word: strenuousness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...campaign wound down, presidential supporters put television footage of the challenger on the air on all Philippine stations. Each spot featured a female voice that sounded like Aquino's and showed the candidate in a montage of foreign war footage and other scenes of chaos. Despite Aquino's strenuous complaints, the offending spots were not removed...
...such an approach. Three obscure vignettes written around the turn of the century by Italian Composer Giuseppe Martucci, chips off the old Puccinian block, got glowing, almost impressionistic ; readings. By contrast, Richard Wernick's new Violin Concerto had a hard, steely edge. Although the work proved to be much strenuous ado about nothing, it was energetically performed by the Philadelphians and Soloist Gregory Fulkerson. Finally, Dvorak's undeservedly neglected Fifth Symphony received a taut performance that, among other virtues, was notable for the breathtaking precision of the strings. Two days later in Philadelphia, Muti took an Apollonian view of Berlioz...
...Aykroyd are State Department employees sent to Afghanistan as decoys for a pair of real spies. En route, they brazen their way in and out of scrapes, make poo-poo jokes and just about start World War III. Chase has made a career, if not an art, of strenuous japery like this, but Co-Writer Aykroyd has again neglected to give himself a character to play. So this Road to Armageddon plays more like Crosby and Hopeless. Director John Landis achieves a brisk and funny basic- training sequence, then follows the plot into political irresponsibility. After Hollywood's glut...
Although hacking can be extremely strenuous to a novice, Lerdow says, "It doesn't really affect you too much physically. I wouldn't recommend it as a form of aerobics or anything...
Badminton is played indoors on hard plastic supreme courts. Flexer described the game as strenuous and very quick, with the birdie sometimes flying up to 100 miles per hour...