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Many of the works recount famous myths in the culture, but unless you happen to have studied Islamic manuscripts, you might be wondering what the characters in the paintings are actually doing. But if you guessed that, in this idealized world, the princes easily vanquish ugly demons in flower-strewn gardens, or that magical beasts roam emerald green fields as gilded clouds roll through indigo skies, you would probably be right...

Author: By Angela S. Lee, | Title: Painting Fit For Princes: Sackler Exhibit Opens | 3/2/1990 | See Source »

...past eight years, the Salvadoran government is not even close to winning the civil war. Troops killed most of the guerrilla leaders in the west eight years ago, forcing the F.M.L.N. out of the area. The rebels' return underscores their new strength and the army's inability to vanquish them permanently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: El Salvador Revolt Under the Coconut Palms | 3/20/1989 | See Source »

...today" people (the younger, TV-fluent crowd); who pushed for hiring Phyllis George as co-anchor of the CBS Morning News. "Sauter was in charge," writes Boyer, "and it was clear that he wasn't there to validate the glories of CBS News past. He was there to vanquish the past, to repudiate an approach to television that was seen as hidebound and irrelevant and the philosophies of broadcast journalism that fostered that approach. That was his mission, and that is what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Two More Pokes in the CBS Eye | 5/23/1988 | See Source »

...Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis another Jimmy Carter? Dukakis doesn't want voters to think so--but by running in the Carter mold, he may actually vanquish an opponent who can't separate himself from President Reagan...

Author: By Andrew J. Bates, | Title: Jimmy the Duke | 4/28/1988 | See Source »

...Crimson managed to vanquish both foes en route to a four-and-a-half second victory over the Bruins in Providence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Heavies Hound Brown | 4/11/1988 | See Source »

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