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...Hawaiian music." Said the wife of Director Henry Hathaway: "I have nothing good to say about Grace . . . She had an affair with my best friend's husband, Ray Milland. And all the time wearing those white gloves!" And when Prince Rainier asked David Niven who his favorite Hollywood conquest was, Niven answered, "Grace...
...meantime, the guerrillas boasted of the attack over the clandestine Radio Venceremos, describing it as the beginning of a new campaign for the "conquest of peace, bread, work and liberty." More Americans will be killed, they declared, if the Reagan Administration's "interventionist policy" continues. The guerrillas claimed to have killed or wounded 600 Salvadorans, including the brigade's commander, Colonel Gilberto Rubio. In truth, the number of dead and wounded was probably no more than 130, and Rubio had escaped with a slight injury to his hand...
Harvard's league win over Penn was its biggest conquest of the week, as the nationally-ranked and defending Ivy League champion Quakers were riding on 11-9 victory over third-ranked Navy a few days before...
...course, the marketing consultants are going wild. They have the rare opportunity to completely distort the public mindset. In the old days, condoms had rough, manly names, officially and on the street. Guys called them "safes," "johns," and "scumbags;" their trademarks implied conquest and domination: "Ramses" and "Trojans." Some of the later brands got a little wimpy. "Excita," one was called--a name as appropriate for a federal tax form as for a condom...
...many adaptations of classic novels, Lyubimov's is less a retelling of the story than a musing on its themes, best understood by people who know its plot well. Raskolnikov (Randle Mell) harps on the quasi-Nietzschean idea that conquerors absolve themselves of sin by the very act of conquest. He repeatedly urges himself to be a Napoleon -- which, Lyubimov acknowledges, Soviet audiences often took to mean a Stalin. These philosophical monologues, however, are kept brief. Lyubimov relies heavily on ritual and brief blackout skits that verge on surreal slapstick; he creates a milieu more than he mounts a debate...