Word: conquests
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last year an auto accident that grievously injured his 9-year-old daughter. The private side has won out, as Tartikoff relinquished his Paramount post last week to spend more time with his recuperating child. His 15-month reign included the rough seas of the plodding Columbus epic 1492: Conquest of Paradise and the register-ringing teen-twitter Wayne's World...
...with the failing economy, Lithuanians handed their former Communist leaders a surprise victory in the first parliamentary election for the tiny Baltic nation since it won independence last year. The conquest of the newly formed Democratic Labor Party, headed by moderate ex-Communist Algirdas Brazauskas, dealt a bitter blow to the nationalist Sajudis party, which had heroically spearheaded Lithuania's break with Moscow and hastily set off on a path of economic reform. Brazauskas has promised to slow the pace of change and improve relations with Russia...
Since Prince's debut in 1978 with For You, the combination of raunch with a twisted kind of spirituality has been His Purple Badness's forte. His unconventional equation of sex with art has been rivalled only by Madonna. Whether he's crooning about his latest conquest or trying to entice a woman to fall into bed and in love with him, his musical virtuosity has always shined through his licentiousness...
...choreographer Quinny Sacks, set designer Robert Israel and director David Pountney are also aboard -- manages to embrace not only the explorer's first trip to the New World but also the electric dreams of Stephen Hawking, the arrival of aliens on Earth during the Ice Age, and humanity's conquest of space. Characters sing suspended in outer space, sets soar through the air like rocket ships, and the hydraulic stage heaves like waves in a storm, propelling the extraterrestrials and Columbus' crew alike toward their unknown destinations. With a commissioning fee to Glass of $325,000 (about half of which...
...CONQUEST CAME WITH SURPRISING EASE. FOR months Serb forces have struggled to secure a broad corridor across northern Bosnia connecting Croatian regions they control with Serbia itself. The town of Bosanski Brod, where Muslim and Croat troops were easily supplied from across the Sava River in Croatia, was a stone in their path...