Word: foiling
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...outside world. Some observers had openly wondered why Reebok, in its much publicized $25 million advertising campaign, had even paired O'Brien with Johnson. A knee injury and Johnson's withdrawal from the world championships last fall seemed to signal his decline. No matter. Reebok needed a foil for its sure thing, O'Brien...
...does, Wonderland will have tocontend with stiff local competition for thegambling dollar. there are dogs at Raynham Parkthoroughbreds at Rockingham Park. there's thelargest state lottery in the country. There's alsoSuffolk Downs just a mile away. In Vader's 1989canine boom/equine bust article Suffolk Downsplayed the Yesterdayland foil: "At Suffolk Downsthe paint is peeling, the windows are splatteredwith pigeon droppings and the pitted asphalt islittered with hot-dog wrappers from the sad littlesnack bars." But Suffolk Downs has undergonerenovations of its own, and is presently enjoyinga mini-resurgence...
...forget that billionaire H. Ross Perot could play the third-party foil in November, perhaps skimming votes from Clinton and preventing him from winning majorities in key states...
...dogs are a surrogate for the part of ourselves that we hold back from the world, above all in our moments of abject obedience. In one picture after another, the secret of Fay Ray's charm is the way she gets the last laugh, even when wrapped in aluminum foil, by facing down the camera with her own impenetrable self-enclosure...
...Quakers will rely on their defense which returns all of last year's starters and will try to foil any scoring attempt by Harvard's young and quick offense...