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Director Polly Hogan places Phil and Dolly Clandon, the feminist's talkative twins, firmly centerstage. Irritating and loud, the twins, played by Brian Kleppe and Karen Woodward, ask to be spanked. They are a perfect foil for their sister Gloria's austere, elegant superiority. These three siblings, together with their imperious mother, are so overpowering that one is inclined to agree whole-heartedly with Crampton: "this family is no place for a father...
Beside the two other principals, Nucci is disappointing as Iago. His voice doesn't seem to provide the kind of deeply treacherous character that the role demands, and, in duets with Pavarotti's passionate warrior, Nucci comes across as an insipid foil rather than a calculating fiend. The tremendous aria Credo in un Dio crudel is unspectacular, and the orchestra actually unseats Nucci in places with its impressive rendering of Verdi's meticulously detailed score. Anthony Rolfe Johnson provides a beautiful Cassio, whose innocent virtue is not equalled by Nucci's sinister duplicity...
...slick, womanizing Rob Lowe is, of course, the perfect foil for the abundantly earthy and clueless Wayne and Garth...
...presidential race; they are irresistibly driven to impose some sort of structure on the most shapeless contest. Last year many were looking for someone to cast as the principal rival to presumed front-runner Mario Cuomo. They came up with Clinton partly because he seemed the perfect foil to a Northern Big Government liberal: a Southerner who took many moderate stands -- on education and welfare reform, for example -- and talked constantly about the "responsibility" of people who receive government benefits to do something in return...
...valet-parked at trendy sports clubs and smoking ranks higher on the list of social no-no's than drowning kittens. It is where Tony Roberts, portraying a Broadway actor who finds success in Los Angeles in the movie Annie Hall, explains that he has encased himself in a foil-like eternal-youth suit because it "keeps out the alpha rays . . . You don't get old." It is the place where cruciferous vegetables were first worshiped. As the millennium draws near, a refurbished Muscle Beach stands as a clogged monument to the mesomorphic, hikers and bikers create traffic jams...