Word: foil
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Green gave a show-stopping, bust-your-gut hilarious performance as the would-be genius Schmendiman, inventor of some rather bizarre (and useless) creations. Green stole the show, providing some needed comic relief. He kept the audience laughing with his portrayal of the bold, overly confident Schmendiman--a perfect foil to the more thoughtful and modest Picasso and Einstein, who are destined to become the "true" geniuses...
...minimalist, Bill Murray, his first good role since 1993's Groundhog Day. It's oxymoronically difficult to get laughs out of clinical depression, but as Blume, an industrialist driven to despair by his wealth, his wife and his ghastly children, Murray does it brilliantly. He's also the perfect foil for endlessly up-and-doing Max, who is, perhaps, everything Blume once was, all that he can no longer be. Their eccentricities speak to one another--until they both fall in love with pretty, wistful Miss Cross (Olivia Williams), a young widow who teaches first grade. At this point things...
While the women's foil team lost 14-2, the epeesquad emerged with an impressive 10-6 victory...
Freshman are carrying the team through its transition year. Especially impressive has been freshman foil Emily Katz, boasting an extremely impressive 19-0 record...
...lightness and beauty of her character, literally breathing fresh air into the opera. Emily perfectly captures the spirit of the naive Mattie who--all alone in the world and pursued by men--still managers to keep her innocence. The petite, red-haired Browder shines in the role, a natural foil to Anita Constanzo's embittered Zeena. Although at first Constanzo's performance seems too rough in her expression of anger, the audience soon realizes that Constanzo embodies Zeena--hunched over and greasy-haired in a raggedy house dress (her ungrammatical English completes the picture.) Actors Craig Hanson and Jotham Powell...