Word: thanklessness
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Nonetheless, every politician capable of reading a map knew that the redistricting would inevitably be bloody. Given the thankless task of drawing new electoral districts. Majority Whip George Keverian realized that he could not possibly please all 194 fellow Democrats in the house, at least 53 of whom were bound to lose their jobs in the November 1978 election. For example, two liberal Boston representatives, who are longtime friends, will be pitted against each other in Boston's new Back Bay-Beacon Hill district: Elaine Noble, 33, the first avowed lesbian in a state assembly, and Barney Frank...
Fitzgibbons, as you may gather, is a perfectionist. He seldom actually plays, preferring instead the thankless hours spent on the practice range. When he returns to the confines of Canaday, he spends more time practicing sliding his hips through the swing by banging them against the door of his room. "It's rough on the hips," he says...
...title role, Donald Sutherland has the thankless task of trying to make something positive out of a negation. Heavy-lidded, stiff in his makeup and costume, he never shakes off the lugubriousness that has worked to better advantage in some of his previous roles...
...woman (Mildred Dunnock) haunted by her impending death. She ruminates on many things and, like the play itself, comes to grips with none. Known only as "The Mother," she talks of old age, of passions spent and love unrequited, of parenthood and the serpents' teeth of thankless children. Since the play was originally written some 20 years ago by French Novelist, Dramatist and Film Writer Duras, it is very much in the theater-of-the-absurd tradition and echoes that genre's abiding theme -whatever we do or do not do, nothingness conquers...
...Harvard dean recently put it, "Matina has had to spend a great deal of time maintaining the institution. Radcliffe is being swallowed and she's gotten the thankless task of seeing that the cat [Harvard] swallows it slowly, piece by piece...