Word: tediousness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...invading Nazi forces, but most Polish and many other historians believe they were ordered by Moscow. A joint Soviet-Polish historical commission was formed last year and given access to previously closed Soviet archives dealing with the matter. Many Poles had hoped that Gorbachev would cut through that tedious process and apply his well-known policy of glasnost (openness) to the festering Katyn controversy. But he declined to mention it directly, saying merely, "Truth and justice can be late in coming, but they cannot fail to arrive...
...main cause of the shortage is the baby bust. The low birthrates of the late 1960s and early 1970s mean that there are fewer teenagers and college-age students available today to take on the tedious service-industry tasks of chopping vegetables for salad bars, flipping hamburgers or feeding insurance claims into a computer. Twelve years ago, when Bill and Sydna Zeliff bought their Christmas Farm Inn in Jackson, N.H., they could choose among six candidates for each opening. Now, says Sydna, "we hire almost anyone...
Like his grandly obsessive contemporaries Robert De Niro and Dustin Hoffman, Olmos is a demon for authenticity. To play Escalante, he altered himself physically, gaining 40 lbs. and enduring a tedious makeup process daily to create a balding pate over his thick hair. The actor also spent hundreds of hours studying Escalante's speech patterns on recorded tapes and observing the teacher's mannerisms and personal habits both during and after school hours. "He even wanted to move in with Jaime," recalls the movie's director, Ramon Menendez, "but Escalante's wife wouldn't allow...
While some dorm crew workers have discoveredinteresting or profitable items in the room, forothers the work has been nothing but tedious,tiring and dirty. Even the least messy jobs, likemaking beds, can be fraught with peril...
...Crocodile" Dundee II reverses the formula by sending the natural man back to nature, an idea that has the virtue of originality but can be executed only with much tedious maneuvering. For some reason Hogan and his son Brett, who co-wrote the script, have decided that their heavies should be a ring of Colombian drug dealers. They have to be manipulated to New York City in order to menace Sue Charlton (Linda Kozlowski), Mick's perpetually adoring girlfriend. Then an unlikely band of citizens has to be recruited to help him rescue her. Then the criminals must be lured...