Word: finned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...
...poetry in perpetual motion, from her prompt entrance at 8:10 (royalty is always punctual) to her exhausted departure just before 11. She must cover about 10 miles a night in the mincing steps she takes across the Music Hall expanse. Playing the tacky chanteuse Delores DeLago in mermaid fin and motorized wheelchair, she races around like a Betty Andretti. She'll go supine on the stage, as if it were her analyst's couch, then busily buff the floor with her derriere. If there were windows in this grand Art Deco auditorium, she'd do them...
...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...
...Winter's Night a Traveler), to West End theater (Michael Frayn's Noises Off), to quality American pop: it is at the core of The Larry Sanders Show on HBO, MTV's Beavis and Butt-head and the new Arnold Schwarzenegger vehicle, Last Action Hero. Such a fin-de-siecle moment: Schwarzenegger, the son of an Austrian Nazi, starring in a $70 million special-effects action blockbuster that owes everything to a brilliant avant- garde 1921 play by Luigi Pirandello, the Italian Fascist...
...artifacts. To make a convincing case for a pre-Clovis culture, says Cornell archaeologist Thomas Lynch, "recognizable artifacts from that period must be dispersed over a broad area, reflecting the movement of primitive peoples from place to place. A Clovis point is just as recognizable as the tail fin on a 1952 Cadillac...