Section: Arts And Culture
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Ellena Savage
- 04 February 2011
8 Comments
In many Asian cultures paleness is an indication of class and beauty. But why would Asian women want to look like Pamela Anderson? For the same reason white women do: there's a globalised beauty standard that is gendered, racialised, and hierarchical.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 02 February 2011
A mess of maps and photos pinned to his wall reflects his obsession. A series of close calls and violent altercations reveal his rising desperation. His love of his family bolsters his conviction while allowing him to retain his humanity.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Fiona Douglas
- 02 February 2011
6 Comments
She sits perfectly still, as if she has given up; happy for her end to come via a predator of any calibre. At the very least, she has lost the plot. The children and I spy on her from a distance. Then, as if a switch has been flicked, a sickening sinking feeling takes hold inside me.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Stuart Barnes
- 01 February 2011
5 Comments
marriage is a sacred sanatorium .. better late than pregnant .. Heaven knows no beauty like a woman divorced .. absence makes the heart grow abscesses
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 27 January 2011
3 Comments
A lot of people say they committed Facebook suicide – deleting their profile – after seeing the new American documentary Catfish. 'Even I've scaled back,' says co-director Ariel Schulman. 'If a "virtual relationship" affects you emotionally, then it's not virtual at all.'
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Susan Prior
- 27 January 2011
After all the flooding we were doing a little maintenance, the sort that requires a trip to the soulless hardware chain store. I left hubbie to it and ducked into the second-hand book store next door. The elderly gentleman serving asked me, ‘Are you from a big city – like London?’ ‘Why do you ask?’ ‘Well,’ he said, ‘you talk very quickly.’
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Helen Koukoutsis and Jennifer Compton
- 25 January 2011
A young man, made of ebony, from Senegal or Somalia or the Côte d'Ivoire, sat down beside me gracefully… I gave him the twenty euro that I had to hand. Stammering, ill at ease, he asked me what I had in mind.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 20 January 2011
3 Comments
BACK TO SCHOOL shout the billboards and shop window displays and it's still only mid January. I suppose this infuriates present day kids as much as it used to stir my juvenile ire. For former teachers, 'Back to School' arouses other, less youthful associations.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 19 January 2011
1 Comment
Although Mary is an infuriating ninny, we get to know her well enough to appreciate that gasping for breath beneath her wine-swilling garrulousness are deeply felt insecurities and a desperate desire to be loved.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Chris Wallace-Crabbe
- 18 January 2011
1 Comment
It all takes place because of some geological fault. I think God understands more things than he is given credit for.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Doyle
- 18 January 2011
15 Comments
Do Australians hate Americans? No, because Americans invented basketball. What do Australians eat? Yeast paste. It tastes like someone ground up a penguin and then left it in the rain for a month before adding rubber and dirt to it.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Jasmine-Kim Westendorf
- 14 January 2011
1 Comment
Some say that not only is The Female Enuch of little relevance today: it never was relevant. Such arguments are often based more on attacks on Greer personally, and feminism generally, than considered critiques of the value of the feminist agenda set out in the book.
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