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...tried to break up the brawl. Four Korean players were carted off to a doctor with broken teeth, cuts, bruises, and other assorted injuries. Adding insult to injury, the referee announced that because the Koreans were unable to continue play, the game was forfeited to Thailand. As a final fillip, somebody threw a dagger at one of the Korean players...
...center that is fed by a fresh water stream which can be readily dammed. He makes his lakes in one swell swoop that takes less than a year and keeps speculators from driving up the prices. In that time, he puts in the roads and services and, as a fillip, adds country clubs, tennis courts and swim ming pools. Each project is carefully landscaped; there is some kind of permanent open space-lake, golf course or park-within a few hundred feet of every lot. To protect property values, deed restrictions are tight: building plans must be approved in advance...
Chekhov's signature is the pistol shot, the report of suicide just before the final curtain. But most modern productions of Chekhov ignore the pistol shot, treating it as a melodramatic fillip tagged on to two and a half hours of detached psychological observation. Sir John Gielgud's production of Ivanov, however, takes the gun shot seriously. His choice of play, his acting in the title role, and his direction, all present a more involved and perhaps truer Chekhov than is currently fashionable...
...added fillip will be an hour-long movie, to be shown Monday and Thursday nights. It portrays the life and work of 15 Volunteers in India...
...young feeling infected even Balenciaga, who at 72 is considered the Michelangelo of the trade. The master put his hostesses in white stretch pants under taupe chiffon or gold lamé topped by an ermine poncho. Sauciest fillip was a see-through chiffon muumuu worn over a flesh-colored skintight jump suit. And Pierre Cardin exposed his pound of flesh through circular cutouts scattered at strategic points on his dresses -here at the collarbone, there smack dab over the navel. He also wolfishly evoked Little Red Riding Hood, with dozens of furry capped capes...