Word: fin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stopped performing. Last week, after twelve years of deeply melancholic self-exile, Horowitz returned to Manhattan's Carnegie Hall. A supremely simple Chopin Ballade and Etude, a crystal fairy palace of Schumann's C-Major Fantasy, a mystical Dostoevskian Scriabin Sonata and Poem-all rolled from his fin gers with the orchestral technique of old, now tempered with a new inner repose. Obviously, he enjoyed himself. His courage clearly was restored...
...Life. A slot car is a plastic scale model of a real car. It runs on a slotted track. A fin under the nose of the car fits into the slot but does not lock there-nothing but the car's weight keeps it in place. Power is provided by electric current picked up by brushes that run along the metal strips flanking the slot. Race tracks have from four to six slots running parallel, each connected to a rheostat to enable the "driver" to control the car's speed. Herein lies the skill; going into a turn...
...metaphysical clothes, Professor Fleming points out, makes Loeb seem scientifically old-fashioned. The experimental procedures Loeb originated are now routine in biology, and many of his experimental results still stand, though viewed with a different emphasis; but Loeb's use of experimentals to divine general Truth has a fin-de-siecl air, and most scientists view similar attempts today with embarrassment...
...that it adds photos of Lautrec himself, of his studios, and of many of his models and subjects. Philippe Huis-man's text is thorough but simperingly eager to simonize Lautrec's reputation as the depraved genius of fin-de-siecle Montmartre...
...Toulouse-Lautrec's favorite model, she is still today the symbol of the gaudy decadence of the fin de siecle...