Word: foiling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...William Crimmins. Fifty-four large works by 40 artists have been installed on the island's shores, in its shopping center and around the gardens of its mansions: an encyclopedia of large-scale sculpture from the U.S. and Europe. "Monumenta" runs through Oct. 13, providing an unexpected cultural foil to the America's Cup races...
...interminable train of exposition-in this case short lectures on every conceivable subject from the state of the world's platinum market to exactly how a consignment of German Schmeissers for an African coup d'état should be welded into oil drums-the better to foil the customs with, my dear. Forsyth's fact-filled thriller about a bad moneyman in London and how he uses a white mercenary to topple an African dictator and get the local platinum concession does not really get going until about page 384. The last 24 pages are almost worth...
Last week some representatives from MATE established a decorous picket line in front of the Manhattan offices of Bride's magazine. The demonstrators displayed signs reading FOIL THE IRS - STAY SINGLE and IRS PICKPOCKETS MARRIED WORKING PEOPLE. What did the pickets want Bride...
...court of Louis XIII; the scandalous romance between his Queen and England's Chief Minister, the Duke of Buckingham; the political intrigues of Cardinal Richelieu; and most of all, the high-flying exploits of young Musketeer-Aspirant D'Artagnan and his three companions as they battle to foil the Cardinal's schemes and thus cover themselves with glory, honor and material reward...
There was an almost novelistic quality to the timing of Pompidou's demise. It came two days before the 25th anniversary of NATO, which Pompidou, like Charles de Gaulle before him, had used as both a military shield and a political foil. His death came shortly before the anniversary of U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's grandiose call for a Year of Europe; that the year proved to be something less than what the Nixon Administration expected could be counted as a triumph for Gaullist foreign policy. There was no little irony in the fact that when...