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...anything else. Soule's Moroccan garden and cartle have a Mediterranean brilliance and intensity that make anyone on stage appear, inevitably, just a little more interesting than he could hope to all by himself. (It is a light which also shows off to [excellent] advantage Lewis Smith's handsome fin-de-niecle costumes...
...Peredonovism" (greediness, egotism, pettiness and lechery), Sologub's gloomy symbol became part of the Russian language. But the fame of his creature brought the author only temporary comfort. The bearers of the hammer and sickle did not take to Sologub's fin de siecle literary notions. After the 1917 Revolution, Sologub's works were put on the Soviet index. He died, penniless and in despair, in 1927. It was only four years ago that the Soviet Union finally permitted The Petty Demon to be reissued-in a small printing of authors prudently labeled "enemies of the nation...
...same time to enrich, the sometimes exaggerated starkness of bare walls in contemporary architecture.'' Lurgat is currently working on a series of tapestries called Le Chant du Monde, mostly representing such contemporary horrors as La Grande Menace (fallout), Le Grand Charmer (worldwide charnel house) and La Fin de Tout (final destruction). Other sections of Lurgat's monumental looming have more pleasant themes: fishing, wine, the conquest of space, hunting and poetry...
...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...