Section: Arts And Culture
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 12 August 2010
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Aaron initially rationalises his sexuality as
a test from God, a test that priveleges him, as it gives him an
opportunity to prove his resilience. Ultimately his affair with a younger man is rather more serious than
simply a rebellion against an oppressive ultra-orthodox society.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 11 August 2010
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For all our modern sophistication, refinement and technology, we remain in imaginative thrall to one of the most venerable and terrifying of folk figures. The vampire combines two of human kind's profoundly obsessive preoccupations: mortality and sex.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Diane Fahey
- 10 August 2010
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After I'd reached the Top .. why didn't they save me .. from Boardroom Rivals .. plotting to bring me down?
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Juliette Peers
- 06 August 2010
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The Power Without Glory
trial ought to be read as a high-profile
and long lasting punishment meted out to traitors to a so-called
Australian normality. Frank Hardy's acquittal
and the campaign to defend his novel partly belong to mid 20th century
Australia's strong anti-Catholic undertow.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 05 August 2010
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Mother Fish recreates the journey by sea of a group of Vietnamese refugees. During an election campaign where both major parties are trying to win votes
with prejudicial rhetoric about 'border protection', a bit of truth and
humanity is just what's needed.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Sasha Shtargot
- 04 August 2010
4 Comments
You don't get many words out of him, and when he does speak they always end in a question. 'It's gonna cost a lot to get new tyres, knowata mean? You're better off getting re-treads, knowata mean?' In our society there are hundreds of jobs that barely rate a mention, and armies of unsung workers who keep it functioning and well-oiled.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Anne M. Carson
- 03 August 2010
Two poems from a series about Heinrich Himmler's personal masseur, Felix Kersten. He used his influence over Himmler to secure the release of many prisoners — much like Oscar Schindler.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 29 July 2010
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As Meredith approaches, two boys appear on the cliff and call for the boat to turn back. This allegory for the asylum seeker experience is not entirely out of place: Meredith seeks asylum from personal horrors that lie in her wake. But the curdled milk of human unkindness flows readily.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Went to return a book the other day and it refused to go
in the BOOKS ONLY slot. I tried again, thinking
perhaps I had suddenly aged beyond belief and could not muster the
muscle to cram it through the wall, but no, it was the book itself,
adamant, recalcitrant, bristling and ruffling indignantly, that would
not allow itself to be returned.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Cecilia Condon
- 27 July 2010
3 Comments
Your profile .. Your pics, updated .. Your 746 Friends .. Fend off the texture of the universe. F***book will f*** You.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Andrew Hamilton
- 23 July 2010
8 Comments
In contrast to Luther, John Molony never discovered the grace that would free him from the guilt and anxiety caused by his not meeting expectations. Nor did he reject the pattern of church relationships and theological assumptions that endorsed these expectations. He simply lost hope that he could live as a good priest.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 22 July 2010
1 Comment
The
idea of 'killing God' causes Darwin great anguish. In one scene, after a
night spent scribbling his manuscript, he is shown frantically scrubbing
at the ink stains on his fingers — Lady Macbeth trying to remove
mythical blood.
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