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These productions are guaranteed to foil the most non-risible...
...meet these powers, Marion will use a team which is notably strong in the foil division, but undermanned in the epee class. His personnel problems have even forced him to switch Allan Gardner, basically a foil man, to epee competition in order to help the team's only regular epee combatant, Jim Roberts...
...Crimson has three excellent foil men in Dave Johnson, the captain, Larry Johnson, and Phil Charat--men whom Marion judges more than competent to offset Gardner's absence...
Dissolving & Sounding. The difference in vibration rate creates a variety of shapes, whose momentary and only semivisible quality makes the observer look sharp, as they shift, change, swell to a musiclike crescendo, and subside to quiescence. One Tangible resembles a fencer's foil set upon its hilt. As it picks up speed, the foil appears to dissolve into a flashing egg-shape. Another Tangible is a tower of aluminum rings suspended at artful intervals on almost invisible wires. Vibration makes the rings spin and lift like a quicksilver ballet. Plinth (see cut) carries sound as well as motion...
...oval face, pale as a Siberian snowfall, and his nose is straight and narrow-bridged. When he smiles, a thin upper lip edges high to reveal a set of glistening teeth and a flash of gold, and little lines creep round his fleshy face and forehead like crinkled aluminum foil. His wide, short neck is well-proportioned to fit his wide-shouldered chest and broad stomach. In his jovial moments he bellows; at his most earnest his voice modulates softly and melodiously. He changes his expression in a flicker; impressing the curious stranger, his small, blue-grey eyes grow bluer...