Word: fins
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...decade that will end the century is destined to become known as the Bush years. The new President enters office with no clear mandate for imposing the tough solutions that will be necessary to tackle the nation's festering budget crisis. Nor has he propounded a vision for fin-de-siecle America or for a world that is moving beyond the cold war. Nevertheless, he won the 1988 election with a toughness that surprised even his friends, and now he faces the opportunity and the challenge of serving as the nation's 41st President...
Baker's resignation has enhanced the fin de regime feeling that has hung over the White House since the Moscow summit. With no major battles left to be fought, no treaties to be ratified, no important goals that could realistically be achieved, the Administration seems to be biding its time. James Reichley, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, feels the Administration is in a "tidying-up phase." Says Reichley: "The White House is in an even more defensive mode than at this time last year. They're being careful to prevent things from happening that they don't want...
...read Wilde -- anything we thought was daring." Christian was taxed with designing costumes for their amateur shows. He traces his enduring preoccupation with the turn of the century to this early research; at one point he plotted out a season-by-season directory of changes in the minutiae of fin-de-siecle fashion...
...brilliant editing of Offenbach, Baryshnikov knew what he did not want. "I was certain that I didn't want the heavy Maxim's look with the black stockings for the cancan girls. I wanted something light and funny and young." Both men wanted to create their own vision of fin-de-siecle Paris...
...Soul of Man Under Socialism) and reviews that kept him constantly before the public eye. Lady Windermere's Fan, the first of his plays to be performed in London, was a smash. His novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, scandalized critics and became the anthem of the decadent fin-de-siecle 1890s. This book was, as Ellmann notes, a "tragedy of aestheticism," a cautionary tale about the perils of unbridled hedonism. But the prose was so alluring that few noticed the message. Wilde ignored it too. Involved in a love affair with Lord Alfred Douglas, third son of the ninth...