Word: foiling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...makes the audience forget that there is little depth in the character she portrays. Andrew Allen and Ashley Smith are delightful as the visiting couple--he the forward sexual investigator, she the bashful tease. Ann Izzard contributes devastating barbs as Alice, and her husband, Thomas Oxnard, is the perfect foil for Morey. Edward Chase as Morey is the only weak link in the cast. He tries to make up for lack of talent by growling and shouting, but then he is probably embarrassed at the prospect of yelling profanities at the audience for an hour and a half. Who woudn...
Miss Cummin, who lives in a single in Briggs Hall, has placed seven black shower curtains around the walls and gold tin foil on the ceiling. Two black umbrellas hang on one wall, and green fringe from a hibiscus tree in the window...
...first letter, dated Jan. 8, Mr. Gates told her that an inspection over Christmas vacation had revealed that her room was a fire hazard. Miss Cummin answered the next day, saying that she had tested the drapery and tin foil and found them not flammable, but that she was willing to spray the entire room with fireproofing if they wished...
...battle plans in a speech before the Mississippi state legislature. "All that I am advocating is that these forces of evil bridle themselves in their lustful desires to destroy the South," he said. Like Mississippi's Ross Barnett ("your gallant Governor"), Alabama's Wallace hopes to foil desegregation by making himself "chief official defendant" in a fight against the "Department of Iniquity," meaning Justice...
...bureaus in Luxembourg and Brussels, and through a Pan-European chain of correspondents, Agence Europe has continued to pry into Common Market affairs with uncommon energy. One Market official in Luxembourg complains that every time he opens his desk drawer, "out pops an Agence Europe spy." To foil Gazzo and his men, the European bureaucracy runs security checks on its own typists and secretaries, once hired a female acquaintance of Gazzo's as a counterspy. The scheme fell through when the lady loyally peached. When Britain's Common Market mission moved to Brussels two years ago, its members...