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...metaphysical clothes, Professor Fleming points out, makes Loeb seem scientifically old-fashioned. The experimental procedures Loeb originated are now routine in biology, and many of his experimental results still stand, though viewed with a different emphasis; but Loeb's use of experimentals to divine general Truth has a fin-de-siecl air, and most scientists view similar attempts today with embarrassment...
...that it adds photos of Lautrec himself, of his studios, and of many of his models and subjects. Philippe Huis-man's text is thorough but simperingly eager to simonize Lautrec's reputation as the depraved genius of fin-de-siecle Montmartre...
...Toulouse-Lautrec's favorite model, she is still today the symbol of the gaudy decadence of the fin de siecle...
...started racing. Aiming for an all-weather boat, Designer Luders had purposely given Eagle a low center of gravity to make her point higher in high winds, a shortened keel to lessen drag in light air. In gusty, 15-knot breezes, she stood straight as a shark's fin; and she ghosted gently through pockets of virtual calm, finding momentum where none seemed possible. In all of the seven races, Skipper Cox outmaneuvered his rivals at the start, pouring backwind into their sails and slipping out in front. And when it came to tacking duels, he and his crew...
...floating box-and-cloister of Charles Luckman's United States pavilion, and disapprovingly on Bell Telephone's flying wing, which looks more like a big hunk of sedimentary rock than an airfoil. The three-acre building that houses General Motors' Futurama ends in one gigantic tail fin, which may be good as advertising but is ridiculous as architecture. The boldest structure at the fair is Architect Philip Johnson's New York State pavilion: 16 tremendous columns support an elliptical roof of colored plastics that is larger than a football field...