Word: fin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that is changed. St. Louis finally has a place to go at night, and the place is Gaslight Square. A three-block oasis of nostalgic frivolity where some 50 gaudily atmospheric taverns, cabarets, restaurants and antique shops are packed together in fine, fin de siècle jumble, it combines a sort of Disneyland quaintness with the gaiety of Copenhagen's Tivoli Gardens and the innocent naughtiness of Gay Nineties' beerhalls...
Hollywood, on the other hand, which drew her to the U.S. in 1957, mainly cast her in dishonest stories with dishonest endings. In A Breath of Scandal, she was a fin-de-siècle Austrian princess falling in love with a mining engineer from Pittsburgh. In Heller in Pink Tights, she was an actress traveling the Old West who bet her "honor" in a poker game with a desperate gunfighter...
...that threw up showers of sparks from the pavement. Boys and girls sang and waved palm fronds in triumph. And trucks, cars and delivery scooters jammed into central El Conde Street, their rapturous passengers pounding hoods, fenders and roofs in an endless two-long, three-short rhythm for "En-fin, Libertad! [At last, Liberty...
...more reflection of the tribulations that have cut Chrysler's share of the U.S. auto market from 14% in 1960 to 10% at present. Despite disappointing sales of its 19615, Chrysler clung to its losing bet on wedge-shaped European styling, and added some neo-fin details in most 1962 models. Result: its daily sales rate last month slipped nearly 16% below December 1960 while the auto industry as a whole was scoring a 7.4% gain. By New Year's Day, Chrysler dealers had stacked up an So-day supply of cars v. an average 41-day stock...
...Beckett branch of the avantgarde, which includes such playwrights as Eugene lonesco (Rhinoceros) and Edward Albee (The Zoo Story), might be labeled the New Exquisites. The Old Exquisites (e.g., Oscar Wilde and the fin-de-siècle dandies) were anti-bourgeois snobs. They were too pure for the philistine middle class. The New Exquisites are anti-life snobs. Life is not pure enough for them. Several times in Happy Days, Winnie scrutinizes the handle of her toothbrush and reads the words "fully guaranteed . . . genuine pure." She and the New Exquisites are bitter because life is not fully guaranteed...