Word: foil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with the Golden Arm (Otto Preminger; United Artists). All that glitters is not necessarily tin foil. In this picture the moviegoer is offered the prospect of a hoppy ending, in which the hero gets the heroin. The Johnston office, standing to the Production Code ("The illegal drug traffic and drug addiction must never be presented"), has stamped its official nix on the picture-the sort of thundering knock that usually brings a lightning boost at the box office. On the screen, however, the picture provides much more than the cheap thrill it promises. The hero is a man who gets...
...Stilt. For the boxing and wrestling rooms we wish a fancy Air-Wick bottle and new punching bags. There might as well be a jump in the stadium for the ski squad two lawn courts for the tennis team, eleven full-blooded Indians for lacrosse, and a new mechanical foil for the fencing room. The soccer team doesn't appear to need anything...
...boldest touch is the interpretation of Alcestis. Usually seen as a paragon of unselfishness, as played by Abigail Lewis she seems to take inhuman pleasure in her martyrdom. The loss of a foil for the other monsters is difficult to overcome--in this production impossible...
...only does Payne-Whitney offer classes in uncommon sports, but its facilities for even ordinary sports are unusual. Each individual sport such as boxing, wrestling, and fencing has its own giant room. For fencing there is a unique device with a foil attached to a mirror, to enable students to fence themselves...
...makes the Air Force seem like something personally invented rather than anything ever experienced or observed; it makes sex-on the rare occasions it refers to it-seem rather like a good breakfast food. As Will, Andy Griffith has enormous lumpish charm; Roddy McDowall is just the right foil as his buddy, Myron McCormick an amusing, long-suffering sergeant. Peter Larkin's attractive sets are often amazing bits of engineering, and Director Morton Da Costa has polished the show to precisely the right roughness...