Section: Arts And Culture
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Peter Mitchell and Kathryn Hamann
- 15 June 2010
1 Comment
she migrates the long, thin pole around the recycling dumpster. Beer bottles clink, aluminium cans become metal kebabs ... on the road: her set eyes read the worlds of nature — the sky as upturned colander, shaking droplets of rain.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Alexander Lewis
- 11 June 2010
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Amartya Sen suggests we might never know what perfect justice is, but we
certainly know injustice when we see it. Instead of giving a tired rehash of Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau, Sen uses vibrant, colourful examples from history, philosophy, and
literature, in particular from the Indian tradition.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 10 June 2010
4 Comments
Nicky is curled up asleep on the couch. She is an innocent, and we feel affection for her. But as the camera pans around, we realise we have been sharing Andrew's leering perspective. The scene foreshadows Animal Kingdom's most appalling atrocity.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Barry Garner
- 09 June 2010
11 Comments
I used to be a worker. I left school at 15 and worked till I
was 45. But it now
seems that I was someone else then. Am I disabled? Or just lazy? Down the street I see
workers in overalls, and for some reason I can't look them in the eye.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- P. S. Cottier and Jeff Klooger
- 08 June 2010
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Since furniture regained its proper size .. and animals ceased to speak .. since teapots evicted rodents .. and the Queen became so very nice .. I find myself looking back ... Everything now is normaler and normaler
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 03 June 2010
23 Comments
The Nigerian priests are disturbed that many Australian Catholic parents send their children to Catholic school but not to Mass. The structured religious lives of children in Nigeria mean that one seminary has had to restrict its intake numbers to 90 per year.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Monica Jackson
- 02 June 2010
3 Comments
Hotel Bauen was 'recuperated' from its owners
by sacked employees who now run it under a workers' co-operative
structure.
The waiters may complain about people wasting croissants, but they will
also pile up your plate and ask if you want seconds.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Victoria Beaumont
- 01 June 2010
2 Comments
all who grow up free to choose .. Find they serve you.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
When I met Peter Steele I noticed a spark, a
shimmer of wit that almost subverted his serious courtesy. There was a wild mind at work and play, and I would have to
run prodigiously fast even to catch at its stirrups. So it has proved: it's been a long, vigorous, and exultantly
grateful following.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
The trial and execution of Soraya M are portrayed in agonising, visceral detail. The stoning of 'adulterous' women under the auspices of
Shariah law is shown to be less
about violence inherent to Islam than the egos of brutal and bullying men.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Emily Millane
- 26 May 2010
Milestones are the arbitrary roadhouses on our respective roads. One person's marriage is another person's train wreck. Quiet moments between people are often greater: a softly spoken confession to a friend, or the instant you meet
someone's eyes in mutual acknowledgment of a moment just passed.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Some volcanoes are dead bigtime .. Be careful: Don't go near them .. They spit
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