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...skeptical about a lopsided monetary union. It will expose our weakness and lead to grave social consequences. It would be like a ship with its cargo shifted to one side, out of balance and not able to float properly. West Germany seems to be offering a lot, but it says we must take their system along with it. I am not willing to put myself at the mercy of West Germany so readily. As to our political future, I see a collection, a federation of autonomous Lander ((states)), each of which has its own historical identity -- related to one another...
...corner of an imaginary "ideal" and utterly banal room with no furniture in it, done in very close-valued colors that turn the image into a benign parody of Ad Reinhardt's black paintings. Odd little signs -- a blurt of pigment here, a "Have a Nice Day" face there -- float in front of the room. You get the impression that Moskowitz, who has been a Zen student most of his adult life, is repeating a sort of koan without giving the slightest clue to its meaning...
...same mild frustration is built into his even more spaced-out images from the '70s, in which legible but quite unrelated signs for things float on a field of color in a way that very distantly recalls Miro. Cadillac/Chopsticks, 1975, is just what it says: the rear-half profile of a '60s Caddy, bulbous with fins, and in the lower right a red X depicting a pair of chopsticks. Nothing else. One is not much helped by the otherwise useful catalog essay of Ned Rifkin, to whom, it seems, Moskowitz "revealed that the Cadillac might represent Hollywood glamour...
...paid attention. Just as Marxism is being dismantled by its managers, the market is being undone by its junkmen. Or is it? Capitalism seems to thrive on periodic collapses. After all, the Drexel affair is only the latest float in a parade of American infamies. They date back to the early 19th century, when a hustler named Daniel Drew delivered some livestock to the plutocrats Henry and John Jay Astor. On the last three days of the trip from Ohio to New York, Drew refused to let his cattle drink. Just before they clomped up to the weighing station...
...Gypsies and took the next flight back." But God left a couple of things behind: the gift of magic -- black magic or white, and every rainbow shade in between -- and the curse of belief in it. Women levitate as they give birth; the veils of dead brides float in the rank breeze. Proud, loving Hatidza (Ljubica Adzovic) has the power of healing, and her grandchild Perhan (Davor Dujmovic) can do a few telekinetic tricks too. We won't even discuss -- because they come at the end of this beggar's banquet of a film -- the walking outhouse and the killer...