Word: conquerer
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...family man, the owner of a large house in Westchester County, and the proprietor of a thriving business manufacturing firework displays and patriotic gear. Past president of the New York Explorer's Club, he is setting out upon the North Atlantic with Admiral Peary to explore the Pole, to conquer it. It is the fulfillment of a dream...
...James who made the key observation in their young lives, namely that "no one could sing Elton's songs like he could." So he gave them ?20 a week, plus a little more to replace his presumptive star's ripped jeans, and sent him forth to conquer first Scotland, then the world...
Perhaps so. But the specific problem that all the Marias in this book face is the impossibility of loving someone who is seen as your enemy--who is supposed to conquer and possess you--and that is specifically a woman's problem. Eroticism becomes inextricably linked with masochism: women are fruits waiting to be sucked dry, their bodies are battlefields about to have flags implanted upon them, they are eager to "impale themselves upon an enormous pleasure." That women themselves find such images erotic is proof that they have been robbed of their own pornography...
...returned Fulbright bride at once delighted and confined by responsibilities to a professionally over-committed young husband ('55, '58) and our first-born. Having temporarily relinquished my prospects for continuing formal education, I was thrilled to imagine that despite biological destiny I might have my family cake and conquer it, too. I enrolled in "A Survey of Spanish-American Literature" under Professor Juan Marichal, now chairman of the Department of Romance languages, and have been translating Pablo Neruda slowly ever since...
...does seem improbable. One suspects from the beginning of LOVE AMONG THE RUINS (ABC, Thursday, March 5, 9 p.m. E.D.T.) that Hepburn's amnesia is a ploy, that Writer James Costigan will find a way for old love to conquer all. But who cares? His nostalgic Edwardian romance is just a charming conceit designed to bring Hepburn, 65, and Olivier, 67, together. The director is Veteran George Cukor, 75, whose cutting and camera placements impart a subtle tension (and an air of elegant craftsmanship) above and beyond the call of television duty. Indeed, all three conspire to make Costigan...