Word: foiling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Baldwin delivers a strong performance, but his role as a foil is unfortunately limiting. Platt is vaguely amusing, and blessed with the most of film's comic lines. "I did not come to medical school to kill my classmates," he deadpans at one point, "no matter how deranged they might...
...their comments. After making a few changes, I gave the manuscript back to Medvedev. He was going to produce a dozen or more carbon copies. Some, he warned me, might end up abroad. I replied that I had taken that into account. (We were communicating in writing to foil eavesdroppers...
...Have and Have Not, Wesley, a Black deckhand, is used solely as a foil to highlight the white protagonist's heroic qualities, she said...
...Kevlar improved matters but were somewhat hard to control in crosswinds. A solution came early this year from Specialized Bicycle Components of Morgan Hill, Calif.: a three-spoke wheel developed with Du Pont. Specialized's wheel, a composite of carbon fiber, epoxy resin, Kevlar and aluminum, has an air-foil shape, and was designed with a Cray supercomputer. Tests proved the wheels are faster and more durable than traditional ones...
...outside hitter Roland Rocafort and middle hitter Chris White combined for 16 kills to foil Merryman's debut. Harvard was led by outside hitters Vince Marin and Albert Kim with 18 and 11 kills, respectively...