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Ortiz turned out to be a perfect foil for his flightier fellow Dominicans, Ramirez and Martinez. Ramirez plays left field, but that's more of an address than a position. On bad days, he fields fly balls like a Border collie, running left and right to herd the ball toward him. He can forget standard obligations: running to first base on a grounder, say. Last fall the Bosox offered him to any team that would eat the remainder of his $160 million contract--no takers. Lucky for Boston. Ramirez this year was calm and focused and hit a ton. "This...
...most of these moments, endowing Dysart with a slightly hostile glare and energetic hands, imbuing his rambling with all the energy of a repressed fancier of a dead society, with a frigid wife and a job whose benefit he begins to doubt. As Alan, Fishburn is a worthy foil, with a mournful stare and an affect that switches like a light between cold disengagement and eager emotion. In their scenes together, Dysart’s fight to overpower Alan’s hostility to his questioning with a somewhat dubious methodology of hypnosis, “truth drugs...
...Harvardians with access to cable television, Sunday nights have been sadly silent these last few months. With HBO’s original programming mostly on hiatus, students haven’t found much to sink their entertainment teeth into. Luckily for those of us still wrapping aluminum foil around our antennae, broadcast television may yet sweep in and save the Lord’s day from reclaiming any religious significance...
...men’s team may have a trick up its sleeve to foil the College’s plans...
Favorite childhood toy: My foil, which I used to propel me up the national and international ranks in the sport of fencing...