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THE FUTURE OF MONEY

I had an unusual Sunday.  Nothing interested me on television, not even the NFL.  Nothing happening in Honolulu worthy of my time.  Nothing being offered at 15 Craigside, but this day usually is reverential, and I'm not much of a churchgoing resident. I thus went through my subscription magazines, and, in particular, the latest issue of  Time , where I ran across the  Future of Money,  which I will summarize after an initial segue into a film. After dinner, I watched  Hiroshima Mon Amour ,  ( click on that and watch the entire hour and a half production, directed by Alain Resnais ) a movie that I vaguely remembered from my college days, but yet, perhaps never had seen.  Released in 1959, it is about the life of two two-day lovers in Hiroshima a few years after the drop of the Atomic Bomb when the city had to some degree recovered.  A French actress ( Emmanuel Riva ) in town for a film, starts a relationship with a Japanese architect ( Eiji Okada ).  Both are married, and it became