Word: conquered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...love with himself that it's contagious. He's very funny. I certainly don't regret knowing him." Actress Lee Grant, a longtime Beatty watcher, feels that "Warren's conquests of women are not totally successful. His percentage is about fifty-fifty. Those he can't conquer don't want to be part of a crowd?one of Warren's girls. But the Peter Pan quality in Warren is very attractive to some. He teaches them to fly, and they have extraordinary experiences with him. Then they grow up and go on, and he keeps flying. Like Peter...
Three years ago British Playwright Alan Ayckbourn's The Norman Conquests came to Broadway and failed to conquer. Though a huge critical and commercial hit in London, this comic trilogy barely limped through a six-month New York City run. It was not difficult to figure out what had gone wrong: unlike such other recent imports as Peter Shaffer's Equus and Simon Gray's Otherwise Engaged, The Norman Conquests had been given an indifferent production. Miscast American actors clobbered the wit out of Ayckbourn's words. Now, through PBS's Great Performances series, The Norman Conquests has a second...
...been attracted to Washington, where they prowl the halls of Congress and the corridors of HEW. They conquer by dividing. At their urging, Congress passes narrowly focused legislation?so-called categorical grants ?that explicitly directs the action HEW is to take. One example: the program to help handicapped children that puts extremely detailed and restrictive requirements on administrators...
...Balanchine's troupe, he hopes to conquer the best ballets...
...typical of man to perform unsurmountable feats to conquer space, only to immediately pollute it. Perhaps scientists will soon devise ways to transport our garbage and wastes into space to form a "spectacular" a thousand times better than that which Astronaut Schweickart witnessed...