Word: foiled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when ultimately everyone has to admit that they do not believe in it, they are utterly convinced of the real necessity for her magnetic and pathetic fancy. Mr. Rosen remains to the right degree uncommitted and self-effacing and so becomes, in the short time he has, both foil and character. The effect is good...
Eric Bregman as Sir Petronal Flash hadn't so obviously choreographed his part, but he never relaxed in it. With his oversexed wife for a foil, he should have been able to bring down the house with a glance...
...competition was a long one. Dooley, fencing on Saturday from 8:30 in the morning till 11 at night, won 25 out of 32 bouts to finish fourth in foil competition. Kolb was sixth in the sabre with a 23 9 record. But epee man Paul Mundie "had an off-day," according to coach Edo Marion. He won only four out of 19 bouts and was eliminated...
Died. Margaret Dumont, 75, stately foil for Marx Brothers shenanigans in the 1930s and early '40s, who in seven films (Animal Crackers, A Day at the Races) played the society dowager to Groucho's knave with hardly a quiver of her lorgnette, while he pranced, pinched and leered; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles...
...Charles Playhouse's excellent production heightens O'Casey's humor, but as an ironic foil for his sadness. The characters' sanguine outlook keeps them from taking themselves or their situation too seriously. They have time for funereal jokes while artillery shells are bursting near them. They take the the edge off their political fervor by going home with a prostitute...