Word: finning
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Certain expressions can be rendered only in French. Esprit de corps. Joie de vivre. Cherchez la femme. Croissant. They don't really work in translation. And that is true of fin de siecle. "End of the century" sounds flat and clunky. It doesn't carry the suggestion conveyed by the original of hectic decay and a sort of perfumed dying fall...
...that? Because A Midsummer Night's Dream is over. The End. El Fin. You'll never see it again. (Or at least not until the Boston Ballet decides to perform it again in another season...
Shaw contrives this plot to emphasize the richness of his characters, who flaunt themselves shamelessly in the attempt to cope with the fin-de-siecle...
...produced so little, it is only because the landscape of mass media presents no challenges to the artist: it is sterile now and incapable of a fresh thought or an authentic feeling. Better real ads and comics than exhausted "fine" art about them. That is one reason why our fin-de-siecle, at least in the domain of the visual arts, is turning into such a cultural fiasco...
...thriving; TV tributes to Ed Sullivan and All in the Family drew blockbuster ratings last season; Natalie Cole hit the top of the charts by bringing back her father's old songs. For David Jacobs, an executive producer of Homefront, the current fascination with the past is reminiscent of fin-de-siecle Europe a hundred years ago. "The last decades of a century are always reflective," he says. But Jacobs and his fellow TV producers insist there is more involved. Says Gary David Goldberg, who has based Brooklyn Bridge on his own childhood: "If the show is an exercise...