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(John McCain is a hard case, being conventionally brave and forthright but also kind of a cutup; his crack about propping up a dead Alan Greenspan à la Weekend at Bernie's was very fin de siècle .) However, to give an appropriate nod to the underdogs, the TR model also speaks well for the chances of Gary Bauer, Orrin Hatch, and Alan Keyes (none of whom has an ironic or decadent bone in his body, as far as Chatterbox can see).
The third was Slate 's own Chatterbox, who argues for irony on the charmingly loopy ground that it is a fin de siècle condition, and that one corrective for the fin de siècle condition is, historically, the election of non-ironic presidents, whose ranks might include not just Al Gore and Bill Bradley but also the frightening Gary Bauer, Orrin Hatch, and Alan Keyes.
Boomer Irony is, after all, a distinctly fin de siècle phenomenon.
Bill Clinton's sexual indiscretions (not to mention his casual perjury about them) make him a very fin de siècle president, though as a policymaker he's clearly superior to William McKinley.
Others continue to dismiss his work as sappy and say he "can't paint very well" (Mark Stevens, New York ). Time 's Robert Hughes says Burne-Jones has become popular because "confrontational Modernism is losing its mandate in our fin de siècle ." (Click here for Christopher Benfey's review of the show in Slate .)