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After returning from a dig in Sardis, Turkey, he published a book on coin collecting, A Byzantine Coin Collection...
...sneering cynic, contemptuous of Mozart's "pretty" music, and the record company huckster, who likes "pretty" music because it sells, offer us two sides of the same worthless coin. They both depend on Forman's film and is assassination of Mozart the genius, the child prodigy whose music was great because it was the work of a great man. The film liberates us from what may be an illusionary image of Mozart, but leaves us with no reason to judge the music as worthwhile. The notion that the "voice of God" resides in the notes of this music carries little...
Surrounding the Chateau Frontenac are the standards of the pre-fab family vacation: the park, the boardwalk, the coin-slot telescopes, the street musicians, the toddlers stumbling around looking cute, the proud parents snapping picture after picture...
...rubles on the Ukrainian black market. Belarus intends to issue its own new currency in April, and Moldova and Kazakhstan are planning to print new money as well. Such defections will flood Russia with ever more rubles as the neighboring republics begin exchanging the shaky currency for their own coin of the realm. The torrent could in turn thwart Russian attempts to stabilize the ruble at home...
...What's the other side of the coin...