Guests, ghosts, grafters, and the two-sided coin.

For him, abstraction and figurative art were a two-sided coin.

For sports promoters, New York is a two-sided coin.

Racial memory was truly a two-sided coin.

But some builders see that as a two-sided coin: high property values for sellers will simply mean higher costs for buyers.

"I believe acting is a two-sided coin, " Mr. Itzin said.

The United States should not see that as a disadvantage, he said, because the 1986 price crash was a two-sided coin.

"Hide-and-Seek" comes across as a kind of great, perverse anti-Pollock, proof positive that every art idea with any currency is really a two-sided coin.

Please remember that hope is a two-sided coin, with the face of St. Christopher on the obverse and a jackal on the reverse.

"We've got a two-sided coin here," Dr. Rabinowitz said.