Word: foils
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Another burgeoning area of optics is holography, the production of three- dimensional pictures using low-powered lasers. Credit-card companies now use complex holographic images on their wares to foil counterfeiters, and the U.S. Treasury has hired Xerox to figure out a way to put holograms on paper currency...
...Finely-crafted CHOCOLATE SHIELDS, at four ounces apiece, shaped like the 350th emblem and wrapped in distinctive gold foil. At the Harvard Coop...
...person in this world that was meant to be your soulmate... For me, Nola Darling was that person." Hicks succeeds in making his character less of a chump than he might seem. Jamie plays the largest part in Nola's love life, and is especially useful as a foil for the other two men. After hearing a poem Jamie has composed for Nola, one competitor remarks "Aw, aw, that's the worst piece of shit I've ever heard...I don't mean to badmouth the brother but..." and proceeds to badmouth...
After police foil a planned takeover of Wadsworth House by SASC, 70 students visit the offices of three University executives charged with handling Harvard's investment portfolio...
...stylishly bizarre account that mocks conventional journalism. Kesey may have quit the literary major leagues but can still be an exciting writer, whether describing a rampaging billy goat or a fatal car wreck in Egypt: "It's two flimsy Fiat taxis just like ours, amalgamated head on, like two foil gum wrappers wadded together. No cops; no ambulances; no crowd of rubberneckers; just the first of those skinny street jackals sniffing the drippings...