Among hackers, the practice has been around for many years, predating the cat-and-mouse games that hackers now play with the authorities to foil the security barriers of computer and Internet firms.
During the first three episodes, you play Batman and attempt to foil the villains.
During the last three episodes you play the villains and attempt to foil the Batman.
How to play the foil to such a gutsy, stereotype-busting lead?
Roger Maris was supposed to play the foil to his famous Yankee team-mate, Mickey Mantle Mantlee was the greater player - some would say, the greatest talent that ever played the game - but it was Maris, a tight-lipped, awkward man, uncomfortable in the media spotlight, who knocked in 61 in '61; and Mantle whose taste for good times ushered in his own decline.
Sehorn plays the foil to the trash-talking Sharpe, who utters all his lines in uniform as if he is playing against Sehorn.
Still translucent, they retain a bit of crunch and a satisfying sweetness that plays perfect foil to a glossy swipe of funky shrimp-head oil and a wispy tangle of fried shallots.
But two weeks ago the Nassau Weekly, a student paper that plays the foil to the Princetonian, the school's drab daily, converted those yearnings into journalism, of a kind, with its final edition of the school year — the self-proclaimed "Super-Controversial Top Ten Issue".
Hall won two relay golds at the 1996 Atlanta Games, but he seemed destined to play the perpetual foil to Aleksandr Popov of Russia, who won the 50-meter and 100-meter freestyles at the past two Olympics.
Mr. Simon earned the "legend" title with his partner Jack Kirby by creating Captain America, the superhero who arrived in December 1940, just in time to play a patriotic foil to the Axis powers.
