Word: fillip
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Herman. "My whole life. Got a match?" Mistakenly, she left the gas on. Boom. Both go up in flames, a tragi-comic resolution to the whole affair. After evincing such uncanny survival skills, Maria Braun is undone by a measly cigarette. In the background Fassbinder adds the last little fillip of irony: we hear over the radio that Germany has just won the World Soccer Championships...
...early 1950s, it must have seemed like an innocent joke. After being required to witness explosions of atomic weapons, some of the men were given commemorative diplomas certifying their successful completion of courses in "alpha ray education, beta ray orientation, gamma ray examination and nuclear radiation." As an added fillip, the mock documents declared them to be "perfect physical wrecks...
...some experts think that homosexuals may be more prone to pathology. Says Psychiatrist Gould: "I think you will find more disturbed homosexuals. The extra fillip of pathology in the homosexual is due to cultural opposition and discrimination." Others believe that a male homosexual sex relationship has more potential for aggression, simply because both partners are male; the blend of sex and male-to-male rivalry can be explosive...
Still, the Street's dependence on fixed rates is axiomatic; were it not for an emergency 8% commission increase granted last November by the SEC-a fillip that boosted fourth-quarter profits in a withering market-Wall Street as a whole would probably have lost money last year. And there is little comfort for the Street in knowing that negotiated rates are really nothing new. They went into effect four years ago on trades of $500,000 and above, a move that benefited large institutional investors such as life insurance companies, pension funds, mutual funds and banks...
Jones catches some moments that have the unmistakable tang of spontaneity: a band of poachers being rooted out, for instance, or an elephant attacking a Land-Rover. These are infrequent, however, and when they do occur are likely as not to have an expository fillip. The feature-length movie is much taken up with wild-animal footage. It was probably intended to convey a notion of the primitive majesty Ross was leaving behind, but after a while it comes to seem like padding, like rather elaborate vacation footage. A true or deep sense of this land, of the people...