Word: foils
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...GREAT PUMPKIN, CHARLIE BROWN" (CBS, 7:30-8 p.m.). Halloween is Linus lying in wait for the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown getting rocks in his trick-or-treat bag, and Snoopy flying to foil the Red Baron. Repeat...
Thursday, September 21 IRONSIDE (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). In "The Leaf in the Forest," Raymond Burr as Robert T. Ironside ensnares a psychopathic strangler who preys on lonely old women. Eve Whitfield, disguised as a 70-year-old spinster, acts as foil...
...Foil & Contrast. For the dedication, Chicago put on its festive best. The Chicago Symphony played Beethoven and Bernstein. Poet Gwendolyn Brooks read a poem to the effect, "Art hurts." In ringing tones, Mayor Richard Daley called the statue a "free expression" of the "vitality of the city." When at last the great blue veiling fell away (see opposite page), the crowd, estimated at upwards of 25,000, greeted it with an awed and respectful hush. Against the stark Miesian geometry of the Civic Center stood a majestic monument, its massive metal features-relieved by lacy rods-matching the building...
...historical Banquo was actually an accomplice in the murder of Duncan. In the play he was transmuted into a figure of unswerving loyalty and integrity, thus becoming a foil to the character of Macbeth. Here, as John Devlin plays him, he comes off rather colorless. Ernest Graves' Duncan, though gray-haired, is younger than usual--which is in keeping with Colicos' Macbeth, since the two are first cousins. John Cunningham's Malcolm is crisply spoken, but too priggish for my taste; I almost regret that he does gain the throne...
Harry Ritchie's production of The Cavern at Tufts succeeds on the whole, in playing with the audience's feelings and emotions in the Anouilhstyle. Daniel Greenblat (the Author) is well-suited for the role, though a bit too confident to be the comic intellect intended to act as foil for the Superintendent (Charles Siegel). The Superintendent is the advocate of the plot, always inquiring "Who killed the Cook...