Word: foils
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With the same determination as his more notorious conservative counterparts at Dartmouth, Kashani frequently has assumed the role of a foil to many anti-apartheid protesters on campus. Instead, he believes that Harvard should divest from companies doing business not with South Africa, but the Soviet Union...
...Greek thalassa, or sea. Guests lie naked on a table while their bodies are painted with a deep-green seaweed paste. Then they are wrapped cocoon-like in a large plastic-coated heating blanket and roasted gently for 20 minutes. A shower, then a rewrapping, this time in aluminum foil for another 20 minutes, after which they shower again and stagger off to rest. The spa stresses elegance. Fresh flowers are ( everywhere, and gourmet, though low-cal, meals are served on china. Clients, however, dine informally in sweats. Like the Golden Door, Cal-a-Vie tries to send guests...
...whip-cracking $ heroics of Indiana Jones. Reunited with Director Peter Weir (Witness), Ford is in tiny Belize on the Caribbean to star in The Mosquito Coast, based on the Paul Theroux novel. His character, Allie Fox, moves to the wilds of Central America to start his own civilization. As foil to the atheist protagonist, Butterfly McQueen, 75, plays a native who attributes everything to God. Fox "is the kind of American who feels his opportunities at home limited by the kind of man he is," says Ford. In short, he won't keep up with Indy or the other Joneses...
Confronted with diplomatic criticism of the raids, the administration said that if the Soviets had acted on its pleas, authorities might have been able to foil the bombing of a West Berlin discotheque, which killed an American serviceman and a Turkish woman and wounded some 200 others...
Epee fencers Jim O'Neill and Thor Wilbanks were the only swordsmen to reach the finals in individuals, with O'Neill eventually finishing sixth and Wilbanks eighth. Meanwhile, Ray Carthy missed making the finals in foil by one touch...