Word: finning
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Berg worked out the libretto of Lulu from two plays by the German actor-writer Frank Wedekind. It is a thing of violence and sensuality, set out in the glares and black shadows of fin de siecle romanticism. Singing in clipped, high-tension German, lustful Lulu causes one violent death after another among her helpless lovers. Then the pace slackens and she moves sonorously toward her own destruction hy Jack the Ripper...
...dream come true: he bought a small island in the Hebrides, with salmon rights and a commercial fishery. It was while exploring the neighboring waters of his little kingdom that he first saw "a ripple with a dark center" breaking the surface-a ripple that grew into "a huge fin, a yard high and as long at the base," a "great black sail, the only visible thing upon limitless miles of pallid water...
...fast-acting electronic auto-pilot can be added to stop the bucking and pitching that have been known to flip a tailless plane into the beginning of a fatal somersault. But the GA-5, as an added measure of safety, carries a small delta tail high on its rakish fin...
...Cadillac convertible pulled to a stop, the attendant heard the woman pleading and the man's startled voice: "Don't be silly, Walter. Don't!" Then there were two shots. One bullet from the husband's pistol smashed into the Cadillac's tail fin. The other struck the suspected rival in the groin...
...show opened at Farnborough this fall, he had already managed to do the trick three times and he was ready to demonstrate it to an incredulous public. Flying a Meteor that was loaded to capacity with wingtip fuel tanks and two dozen 90-lb. rockets, Zura successfully performed his Fin Sling...