Word: foil
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...very curious rhythm. It has a rather calm and objective air about it most of the time. But whenever Bardem appears, something nasty starts twisting in your gut. He's about as perfect a representation of unambiguous evil as the movies have lately offered. And Brolin is his perfect foil. He's terrific as a totally twisted cop in American Gangster, but he's equally good as a totally innocent good ole boy here. All right, trying to make off with someone else's ill-gotten gains is maybe not entirely smart or entirely moral. But there's something pure...
...played by Daniel V. Kroop ’10). Myrna’s is radical and Myra’s is conservative; each seeks refuge with his aunt. Rounding out the cast is the principal love interest: Julia T. Havard ’11 plays Jim as the romantic foil for both characters in the 1950s. Havard also plays Sarah, Myra’s lover after she inexplicably becomes gay some time in the 1980s...
...each one of its chips. As of Jan. 1 of this year, every U.S. passport contains an RFID tag, to make them machine-scannable and more forgery-proof. (Helpful hint: if you're worried about someone snooping on your RFID passport remotely, you can wrap it in foil, crazy-person style...
...phone could beep every time you walked past somebody two degrees of separation or less from you or who had the same favorite novel you do or who liked to play Scrabble and wasn't doing anything later. Nightmare or utopia? You decide. And invest in RFID--or aluminum foil--accordingly...
...object of intense curiosity in U.S. art circles, largely because of The weather project, a hugely popular installation he produced four years ago for London's Tate Modern. Eliasson covered the 115-ft.-high (35 m) ceiling of the Tate's immense Turbine Hall in mirror foil, added an artificial sun of 200 yellow lightbulbs arranged behind translucent plastic and periodically filled the upper air with mist. During the installation's six-month run, more than 2 million people filed in to enjoy the paradox of the outdoors brought indoors, to lie gazing upward at their reflection in the mirrored...