Word: fin
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...like the fattest casts of all. "Le Bec-Fin, please," I told the Bell Atlantic operator. (Quick bit of background: Le Bec-Fin is Georges Perrier's legendary hotspot, a Philadelphia institution. Often mentioned in surveys as the best restaurant in America - bar none - it had been booked solid for days, primarily by GOP lobbyists, governors and congressmen...
They keep their promises, these Bec-Fin people. Precisely 15 minutes later, we were seated in the salmon-and-gilt main dining room. The place was packed with men in high-end suits and women in cashmere sweater sets, and I experienced a moment of panic, wishing I'd had a chance to pick up my pearls before I'd set out. Not to worry; the staff were warm and welcoming, even to the underdressed, and the fat cats were meowing and purring too much to notice...
...fin de siecle was also a great time for painters whose displaced religious yearnings and hunger for allegory induced them to do mock altarpieces, usually triptychs, whose format signaled the presence of a Big Statement. The most ludicrous of these is by the Belgian artist Leon Frederic, whom the spirit moved to paint, in the 1890s, an enormous three-parter called The Stream, an allegory of the Life-Force (Henri Bergson was a hot philosopher circa 1900) in the form of thousands, thousands, of pink, roly-poly babies cascading down Alpine waterfalls and through a forest glade. This condommaker...
...value of the "1900" show is bound to bring up such questions--although one cannot be sure that curator Robert Rosenblum was eager to raise them. Most of the fashionable art of our fin-de-siecle is just as lousy as the worst stuff here, and done at a far lower level of skill. Memento mori, and send not to know for whom the bell tolls: cracked though it is, it tolls...
...Dutta, the new Miss Universe 2. Change for a fin 3. Minor player 4. One of the "Two Virgins" 5. Suffix with dull or drunk 6. Winner of the Dominican presidential election 7. He established the organization that is taking over U.P.I. 8. Subsidiary of this company makes 5-Across 9. Buddy of the Clintons 10. Geraint's lady 11. Isthmus constructions 12. One of two kinds of U.S.N.A. grads 17. Again, in music 19. Like a noted Beethoven minuet 20. Baseball's Garciaparra 21. Wanderer 22. The FDA approved it in 1987 23. Gidget portrayer Sandra 24. La Cage...