Word: foils
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Romand's Sabine inspires similarly steady portrayals by the other actors. Dussolier, as the poor besieged Edmond, fills his character with the proper conceited detachment. And Arielle Dombasie as Sabine's best friend Clarisse creates the perfect foil for Sabine. Gorgeous and intelligent. Clarisse lives the perfect, foil for life--she's happily married and gainfully self-employed. Humoring her confused friend, Clarisse's devotion never fades...
...deprogrammer who saves Danny, James Woods is the perfect foil for the maniacal Kirklander. Over-acting at every turn, Woods makes even the cult leader look human. By the time he gets his clutches on Danny--ostensibly to save him from the cult--he's behaving just as despotically as his arch-rival. The two men look strikingly similar and have so many of the same insane idiosyncrasies that by the end of the movie we're not sure that Danny's isn't just being converted to another obsession...
...titanic clashes. See captains of industry race against midnight deadlines to save their power and prestige. Will Bill Agee of Bendix Corp. and his beautiful blond bride Mary escape the clutches of Martin Marietta Corp.'s menacing Tom Pownall? Will tough old Harry Gray of United Technologies foil their plans to find happiness in the embrace of Ed Hennessy of Allied Corp.? Find out in Takeover, the drama that asks the question: "Is this any way to run a company...
Fears about the security of corporate secrets have created a ready market for novel mechanisms designed to foil industrial espionage, kidnapings or other such capers. Perhaps the most advanced product currently available is an attache case whose electronic gear rivals that found in an AWACS plane. Known as the Secret $26,000. Briefcase, it weighs 22 lbs. fully loaded and costs...
...growing plants on flatbeds that he can wheel into the barn at the first buzz of a light plane. Other growers protect their crops with armed guards, attack dogs, pit traps studded with sharpened sticks and trip wires attached to crossbows. Farmers say the measures are taken to foil rustlers more than the police. Still, they present a menace to both. A deputy sheriff in Oklahoma was shot to death last fall by a guard who had mistaken him for a thief...