Word: foil
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...will return home when the show moves to Boston in February. Vuillard is the most comprehensive exhibit ever dedicated to the artist, with 230 paintings, drawings, photographs and theatrical posters produced between the late 1880s and the 1930s. The young artist's red-orange beard provides a perfect Nabi foil in the Octagonal Self-Portrait that opens the show, paired with shocking yellow hair to frame his half-shadowed face. The small Elegant Woman is a masterful bit of minimalism - a column of black skirt, a blob of pink blouse and a swish of black hat with carnation-red sprigs...
...cast is a tony quartet of hunks: Brad Pitt as Achilles, Eric Bana (who somehow survived the wreck of The Hulk) as Hector, Sean Bean (Boromir in The Lord of the Rings) as Odysseus and Orlando Bloom (who was Tolkien's elf lord Legolas and Johnny Depp's young foil in Pirates of the Caribbean) as that thieving scamp Paris. And in the role of Priam, King of Troy, is Peter O'Toole, 40 years and more after incarnating the movies' great idealist lost in war, Lawrence of Arabia...
...TIME: How bad is the current situation? Thapa: We are not at all scared. We are determined to foil their attempts. But it is definitely a crisis, there's no denying it. If all the political parties do not come together, democracy itself in Nepal is threatened...
...Heroic Duo's plot, however, is as creaky as any martial artsploitation flick. Leon Lai makes his action-hero debut here, playing a police hypnotist drafted to foil evil Francis Ng, who is trying to get his hands on some precious gems. Lai, perennial romantic-comedy star and one of the original "heavenly Kings" of Canto-pop, makes a sympathetic leading man. When we find that Ng has taken Lai's family hostage, we eagerly anticipate his inevitable revenge. For an action movie that lingers over a few touchy-feely scenes, Lai is an inspired selection. Lai for the most...
...usually not a bad thing for DeLay. An unflinching conservative advocate, he wins hurrahs from the faithful each time he sticks to his guns in public. And he translates that into legislative power. But sometimes the White House goes too far with its tendency to use him as a foil to show voters that the President is a compassionate conservative. During the 2000 campaign, Bush opposed a DeLay-backed plan on tax credits for the poor to demonstrate that he was a "new kind of Republican," distinct from the G.O.P.'s tightfisted, meanspirited wing. At the time, Bush accused DeLay...