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...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...
...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...
Wasserstein said the play is the story of one woman's discovery of feminism. Like many of the fin-desiecle plays appearing now, she noted, The Heidi Chronicles is about "trying to put it all together...
...Beijing and Rosenthal of Piccadilly, it was doomed from the start. It sets out to trace the history -- or what its curators consider the high points of the history -- of American painting and sculpture from 1913, the date of the famed Armory Show, to the flatlands of our fin de siecle in 1993. But it has no intellectual cogency and, although it assembles a number of fine and historically emblematic works of art, it doesn't always locate them properly in the artists' outputs, so that they tend to look like so many flashes...