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...gold coins. The message in the headline: Mozart has been "brutally marketed for 200 years." And this year, during the 250th anniversary of the composer's birth, the accompanying article concluded, "the threat of total marketing looms." Nowhere is that commercial exploitation more evident than in Salzburg, the quaint Austrian city where Mozart was born, which hopes to cash in on the anniversary with an incongruous mix of kitsch and high culture. "Salzburg without Mozart is hardly imaginable. Without Mozart, I really couldn't say how this city would be," says Heinz Schaden, Salzburg's mayor. An all-star lineup...
Like so many other realizations in life, one becomes aware of the degree that he or she resembles their older relatives not slowly, but all at once. One day, it seems, we continue in the quaint belief of our own uniqueness. More than anything else, we tell ourselves, we are different: different from our parents, from our brothers and sisters, and certainly different from that amorphous mass of “relatives” that we see a few times a year. At a certain point, however, perhaps after a long story, a short anecdote, or a crude joke...
...Harvard female, desperate to talk to a man without a facial deformity, can only imagine.The magazine’s mission statement states that the content of the magazine “is representative of the diversity [at Harvard].” The only explanation I can contrive for this quaint aphorism is as follows: Even though a majority of the publication’s editorial staff is involved in some kind of Final Club (58 percent by my calculations—hey, I took “Counting People”), it is amazing what diversity in furry animals...
...Call registry, to let consumers decide whether they want to be barraged with junk mail. And Paglia wants to change the way catalogs are distributed. "In the Internet age, printing catalogs at this volume is like running cars on a steam engine," he says. "It would be quaint if it weren't so destructive...
...expensive movie--reported to have cost around $70 million--that dives headfirst into Middle East conflicts: Does that give, say, a studio head pause? "Yes, to be honest," says Universal chairman Stacey Snider without hesitation. "At the time when we started it, [the story] felt more quaint. But as we went through the development process, the good and bad news was that it became more relevant...