Word: conquests
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard women's basketball team reduced its magic number to clinch the 1988 Ivy League championship to one last night at Briggs Cage with a 68-56 conquest of Yale...
...LIAISONS DANGEREUSES Choderlos de Laclos's classic epistolary novel of sexual conquest and betrayal, given entrancing wit and apocalyptic power by Adapter Christopher Hampton and a dazzling Royal Shakespeare Company production...
...destroying three Roman legions in the Teutoburg Forest. As a primal hero of German history, Arminius was a great Nazi favorite, but here Kiefer conflates him with awkward portraits of all manner of later German "descendants" like Blucher, who fought against Napoleon; Schlieffen, whose strategy for the westward conquest of Europe was the basis of Hitler's blitzkrieg; writers from Klopstock to Rilke, and so on. Lines signifying affiliation, as in a family tree (a whole family forest, in fact, this Teutoburg), ramble slackly between some of the characters. Pictorially, the result is a shambles, and one needs an instruction...
What remains--the conquest of romance, the acquisition of a catlike grace that makes women's hearts turn to a cheeselike substance? Did you know that Mel Torme wrote The Christmas Song? No? Well, that's your answer...
...show's first image is a curtain imprinted with pages from three fables about magical keys to happiness: Cinderella, which in this interpretation concerns the illusory promises of perfect love; Jack and the Beanstalk, in which Sondheim and Lapine see a quest for the fool's gold of material conquest; and an invented tale called The Baker and His Wife, about a couple who long to escape the curse of childlessness inflicted by the "witch next door." Inasmuch as the holy grails that will lift the witch's spell are Jack's beloved white cow, Little Red Ridinghood's crimson...