Word: fins
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...just there, floating from the left of the frame into the proceedings of history, like a shark's fin at the edge of a crowd splashing at the beach, moves a disembodied hand and its tense instrument, a blue-black pistol. It is poised there forever. And then it explodes at the Pope's white robe...
...rest of their tempestuous saga is fairly accurately chronicled in the production at off-Broadway's La Mama Theater. The play is flawed, but it is amazing that British Playwright Hampton (The Philanthropist) wrote it when he was only 18. He was obviously drawn to Rimbaud as a fin-de-sicle spiv, and Silver plays him that way. Markay's Verlaine is the more richly shaded portrayal, ranging from voracious sensual appetite to a discernment of the gemlike flame with which Rimbaud's poetry would burn in posterity's eyes...
NONFICTION. Fin-de-Siecle Vienna: Politics and Culture by Carl E. Schorske. Seven essays on the city where art and science flourished and the seeds of tyranny were planted. China Men by Maxine Hong Kingston. The second book by the author of The Woman Warrior, about growing up Chinese in the U.S., is the Oriental equivalent of Irving Howe's World of Our Fathers. Walter Lippmann and the American Century by Ronald Steel. The dean of U.S. pundits revealed as a fallible man. American Dreams: Lost and Found by Studs Terkel. The latest chorus of voices of hope...
Unlike in earlier years, when model changes often involved only a rounder headlight or a longer tail fin, Detroit's new generation of cars represents some important changes in the auto industry. Many of the parts, such as trunks, were designed by computers, which permit three-dimensional views and instant read-outs of technical data. The new cars are most noticeable for their smaller size, cleaner aerodynamic styling and greater interior space. But some of the most dramatic advances are under the hood. The auto industry is on the threshold of an electronic revolution that will make cars...
...uncommon practice in Hispanic societies) was not only the youngest nicotine inhaler in Spain. He was to prove extraordinarily precocious in every other respect. By the age of 14, the pug-nosed, stocky, black-haired Pablo was a familiar figure in the Barrio Chino, the red-light district of fin de siècle Barcelona, the city to which the family had moved when he was five. Some of his earliest work was inspired by the putas and dancers of that wicked cosmopolitan seaport. Though he later won admission to Madrid's esteemed Academy of San Fernando...