Word: foiled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Freshmen phenoms Jim O'Neil and Matt Auer were the only two fencers to reach the finals. O'Neil finished fourth in the epee and Auer ninth in the foil...
...launch, a device known as a bus detaches itself and maneuvers for another five minutes or so, releasing up to ten MIRV (for Multiple Independently Targetable Re-entry Vehicle) warheads at different targets in the U.S. The bus may also release up to 100 decoys, many of them aluminum-foil balloons. 3) Mid-course. The warheads and decoys speed through the emptiness of space for more than ten minutes. 4) Re-entry. The vehicles plunge back into the atmosphere and toward their targets...
...Rueckner punched a tiny hole in the foil, Glauber announced they were making "the world's most expensive pinhole camera." The camera successfully projected Rueckner's face onto the screen...
...illustrate light's behavior, Glauber's assistant Wolfgang Rueckner took the lens off their TV camera and replaced it with a sheet of foil...
...enormous amount of resilient charm but no comic timing, or comic presence of any sort. In all of her scenes with Moore she exudes a dry earnestness that seems quite lawyerly, but that dulls Moore's comic sheen. Thankfully the peculiarly pulchritudinous Irving can effectively play the foil to Moore's neurotic mannerisms. She possesses a wry vulnerability that suggests she's a lot of fun but a danger to play with. As for Moore, he looks shorter, funnier, and sillier than in any of his films since Arthur. Always a master of the "Mr. Sensitivity" roles...