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...illustrate light's behavior, Glauber's assistant Wolfgang Rueckner took the lens off their TV camera and replaced it with a sheet of foil...
...enormous amount of resilient charm but no comic timing, or comic presence of any sort. In all of her scenes with Moore she exudes a dry earnestness that seems quite lawyerly, but that dulls Moore's comic sheen. Thankfully the peculiarly pulchritudinous Irving can effectively play the foil to Moore's neurotic mannerisms. She possesses a wry vulnerability that suggests she's a lot of fun but a danger to play with. As for Moore, he looks shorter, funnier, and sillier than in any of his films since Arthur. Always a master of the "Mr. Sensitivity" roles...
...Fighting Irish dominated both the sabre and epee competitions, but the surprise of the day came in the foil event. The Crimson got impressive performances from Levy and sophomore Brian Schaffield, both of whom won two out of three, to record a 5-4 foil victory in what Levy called "a big upset...
...Crimson fencer, however, was able to defeat the Irish's Charles Higgs Coulthard, who was last year's NCAA foil champion. The Notre Dame senior easily put down his three opponents...
...stores are putting on everything from dresses to fur coats. The tags, which can be conveniently removed only by a special tool, set off an alarm when they pass through a sensing device that is usually located at exits. Criminals frequently try to cover up the tags with aluminum foil to fool the detection machines, or even bite off the devices. Sensormatic of Boca Raton, Fla., has some 200 million tags in 40,000 detection systems in stores around the world. Shops originally hid the tags inside each piece of merchandise, but the devices were so successful that too many...