Word: tasked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...brings an endearing and childish naivete to the role of Lawrence, which makes his portrayal seem all the more natural. Ndosi's performance as Joanna is executed with intelligence and veracity. But although both actors are able to suspend reality for awhile, they have essentially been assigned an impossible task. Lawrence and Joanna are not your average couple. And so, despite the valiant attempts of the cast, the audience all too often feels like the unwanted guest of some private family ritual...
...dictionary, as it were, and the closer I unite myself with it, the more eloquent I become. The words flow to me like the Tagus River flows to the Atlantic. The rest is best left unsaid. In a nutshell, quoting at this level is a very dangerous task and should be performed by a professional...
That would be fine if it meant that everyone could worry less about military security and concentrate instead on the business of the region, which is business. Unfortunately, however, Yankee traders are doing more buying than selling, and that complicates the task of U.S. policymakers and diplomats...
Bush's widely touted "honeymoon" with Congress, already endangered by his vagueness on the budget, was ending sooner than that of any new President in recent memory. Though the President cannot get anything done without the cooperation of at least some members of the Democratic congressional majorities, the task of wooing them will now be harder. Within the Administration, the absence of a Secretary of Defense able to assert the Pentagon's view will prolong the review of foreign and national-security problems that Bush insists on completing before he makes major international- policy moves...
Mandela House has more than 60 women waiting to take Gray's place. The task is monumental, but Thomas perseveres even when mothers she loves desert her and return to the seductive glow of the crack pipe. "If they don't hear me now, they'll hear me later," she says. "Some will leave, start smoking rocks again and sink back to the gutter. But even when they're down there, they'll keep hearing Minnie. And they'll be back." It is a blessing that Minnie Thomas will be waiting...