Word: foil
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...shoot, followed by frontman Murphy’s opening of a door labeled “SPACE (outer),” which kicks off this epic adventure. Utilizing funky lo-fi effects, the video brings new meaning to low budget sci-fi; clay-like floating orbs abound, and tin foil is king in this distinctly sixth-grade-diorama setting. As supertitles like “target acquired” and “we have an anomaly on the space radar” flash across the screen, band members rock out in low-G. But lest you think this...
...Fencing isn’t exactly soccer or softball. Why’d you decide to pick up a foil...
...scare later in the day when the Quakers threatened to deal them their second loss of the season. But the women prevailed in a 15-12 win. The men’s loss could hardly have been closer, as the squad posted 5-4 defeats in the saber and foil with epee pulling out a 6-3 win. The problems stemmed from the first round of bouts, when sluggish play put the team in a hole from which it could not recover. “All my three squads were quite lethargic and trying to come back from behind...
...second half of the year is the toughest one and clearly it was too much of a break. But they look like they’re sharpening up.” Things looked to be heading in a negative direction, as injuries sidelined numerous top fencers, including freshman foil fencer Artemisha Goldfeder and senior saber fencer Dan Sachs. But the squad as a whole stepped things up a notch. The biggest surprise of the night came in the women’s epee: after falling 5-4 to Duke last Sunday, the team of sophomore Maria Larsson and seniors Jasmine...
...follows Lecter as he witnesses multiple atrocities of the Eastern front with his sister Mischa. After Mischa is gruesomely murdered—devoured, you could say—by a group of Nazi sympathizers, he is adopted by his uncle and the beautiful Lady Murasaki Shikibu (Gong Li), a foil to Clarice Starling and the love interest for Lecter. Though Hopkins was not the first cinematic Lecter (that honor goes to Brian Cox, star of the original 1986 “Manhunter”), his Oscar-winning performance in “Silence of the Lambs” disgusted...