The four chefs traipsed though the garden, bantering while they picked their vegetables, a task that required five takes.
In 2000, he had reorganized Saban's business structure, a mammoth task that required intense focus, and he began taking drugs to prolong his concentration.
His purpose was to study people's attitudes 10 years after the breakup of the Soviet Union, a task that required him to interview "political people," his father said.
"It's so cold you have to play piano with your toes" to keep them from freezing, he said -- a task that required as much mental as physical toughness.
That involved clearing the sidewalk of unsightly telephone poles, a task that required permission from the telephone company to bury the lines.
Alvin placed experiments in strategic sites within the larger methane vent system — a task that required contextual understanding, adaptability and creativity.
After assembling the machine, a complicated task that required a knowledge of soldering, he and his 6-year-old son managed to print a bottle opener.
Their aim was to remain as close to the red squiggle as possible, a task that required input from both the muscles and the mind.
Williams's other challenge was keeping her self-designed dress from riding up her legs, a task that required a continuous series of tugs.
But first they had to build it, a task that required all the backbone Ms. Lambert revealed in her initial letter to her father.
Poor Cleo, a comedian by trade, she failed the task that required housemates to make Big Brother laugh - despite spending two hours lovingly crafting a home-made turd as prop.
