Word: foiling
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...serpents are gilded with Theda Bara eye makeup and cheap-glam feather boas, but their style is belly dance rather than hippity-hop Charleston. The set, too, is twenties and thirties: the glitter of aluminum foil stars and moons is like the old movie palaces with their ugly statues, fancy organs, and ceilings domed in twinkling lights to look like the midnight sky. The effect is hokey but not distracting--it's just instant dreamland...
...Crimson was trailing CC NY by only one point before the epee and foil squads threw the match away as they lost the final six bouts...
Howie Weiss, the left-handed foil performer, typified the fortunes of the Crimson. Weiss won in the first round by a convincing 5-0 margin but then lost his next two bouts...
...foil action, it was Howie Weiss that led the way with a sweep of his three bouts. Weiss has been a solid performer for the team all season. Tom Sharpe took care of two of his three opponents, while John Major had a single...
Both White and Marion agree that the team is going to have to learn more about strategy and tactics to enable it to compete in the tough second-semester Ivy-League schedule. "Our foil will be one of the good weapons in the Ivy League, but the other units [epee and sabre] are still not trapping our opponents, and giving the proper feints," Marion said...