Word: fin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...opts not for love but for wandering. This type of movie could undercut all of the statements of modernity Leigh has spent two hours making. Johnny must continue his solitary, vagabond ways with only his sharp wit and active libibo. Like a modern-day Huck Fin, Johnny sees the skeleton that forms the basis of the human psyche, he also sees the skeletons in everyone's closet. With this knowledge and his determination, we hope he finds the meaning that he wants so much before his apocalyptic predictions actually materialize...
...above scenes and in a desperate encounter between a Senator and a streetwalker, it attains emotional clarity and sustained surprise. The structure -- A meets B, B meets C, and so on until the last character encounters A -- comes from Arthur Schnitzler's La Ronde. In that piece, set in fin-de-siecle Vienna, sex crosses social lines, allowing commentary, and serves as a metaphor for syphilis, permitting preachment. LaChiusa resists the obvious AIDS allusion. His love connections are timeless, and hopeless. Yet consistently thwarting his characters does not impede the ribald, puckish entertainment...
...achievements of George Devol, a 19th century sharper and headbutter, and warmly evokes the memory of his two contemporary masters Dai Vernon and Charlie Miller, both now deceased, who shared their secrets with their gifted acolyte. Photos of Vernon and Miller can be seen on the bookcase of the fin-de-siecle gaming room that serves as the show's sole set, and a carte de visite featuring a picture of the 19th century illusionist Johann Nepomuk Hofzinser actually shows up in a prop for one of the show's loveliest effects...
...Piper's wreckage lay Monday in woods one mile from the airport, its nose dug into the ground and its wing wrapped around a tree. Guzzetti said part of its rudder and the entire vertical tail fin, a three-foot-tall triangle of aluminum, were ripped off the craft. Authorities said there was no sign of fire...
...swivet because familiar mass-market brand names such as Pampers and Marlboro are suddenly reeling from low-priced generic competitors. Tiny Tiffany Trump, in contrast, symbolizes the enduring cachet of a certain type of luxurious commercial pedigree. What could be more emblematic of this shopping-obsessed century than a fin-de-siecle vogue for naming children after favored stores? After all, the latest list of the most popular names for girls already veers toward the comically pretentious, with Nicole, Brittany and Ashley far outpacing plain Jane and simple Susan...