Born in fin-de-siecle Germany, Ernst left school in 1908 to pursue a career on the stage, eventually landing as an actor in the prestigious Max Reinhardt Company. ❋ John Farr (2011)
In 2002, she held a lavish three-day party for his 70th birthday in Gstaad, the location of one of her five homes, where a large gymnasium was turned into a fin-de-siecle Parisian music hall. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Designed to the change the face of war in the new century, Boilerplate -- the world's first robot soldier -- was a fin-de-siecle sensation: adventurer, film star, and confidant to the rich and famous. ❋ Unknown (2010)
From Sarajevo in the 1990's back to Bosnia during World War Two, the salons of fin-de-siecle Vienna, the inquisition in Venice and Barcelona in 1492 ❋ Unknown (2008)
According to John Richardson's book, Sacred Monsters, Sacred Masters, she disdained the fin-de-siecle froufrou (dust cathers, to be sure) and maintained a low-key style, whose principle was "Elegance is elimination." ❋ Linda (2008)
Life With Father (1947) - Beautifully mounted adaptation of long-running play about a large, affluent family of red-headed boys growing up in fin-de-siecle New York City, presided over by their gentle mother (Irene Dunne), and overbearing father (William Powell, who steals the film). ❋ Unknown (2010)
"He never reconciled himself to the fact of his expulsion from Vienna," wrote Karl Schumann, "from the good old days, from the fin-de-siecle atmosphere, art nouveau, symbolism, the cult of music, worship of the opera, and the coffeehouse." ❋ Tom Nolan (2010)
England had entered one of her uncertain, self-examining periods of nostalgia, looking back to the fin-de-siecle and Edwardian social certainties. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The fin-de-siecle obsession with Catholic religion and aesthetics. eBay ❋ Unknown (2009)
In repeating the phrase "I never want to forget..." throughout his recounting the experience, Rothenberg convinces the reader of more than merely his excitement upon seeing the fin-de-siecle landmark in the city that has meant and means so much to Western culture. ❋ EILEEN (2009)
That statement about the Victorian fin-de-siecle feels weirdly current. ❋ Theodora Goss (2009)
The Atlantis Hotel was launched last winter in a $20m fin-de-siecle party attended by Robert De Niro, Lyndsay Lohan, and Lily Allen. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Indeed, the tacky queen of excessive fin-de-siecle cosmetics was as central to the heist of the 2000 election as Monica was to the Lewinsky scandal. ❋ Unknown (2009)
