Section: Arts And Culture
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 18 February 2010
2 Comments
That scene in the BBC's Pride and Prejudice where Mr Darcy emerges from a cathartic swim in his pond still makes many women swoon. Colin Firth's enduring sex appeal is channeled into his latest character, a gay university professor who has decided to commit suicide.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Anne Doyle
- 17 February 2010
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Before long we come upon an open stone building — the meeting room. We
enter to find 60 weathered women seated on mats on the dirt floor.
Their saris fill the enclosure with colour. Their faces tell the
poignant stories of their lives.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Marlene Marburg
- 16 February 2010
It is harder to write poetry
.. when you are rich ... People in Haiti are dead
.. dying, grieving,
.. starving and hunting for loved ones,
.. and if they have the energy
.. looting the few things left. .. Do I really believe
.. that mine is yours, my friend?
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 11 February 2010
From the moment of Malik's imprisonment he finds that if he is to survive, he needs to choose between
conflicting evils. His Muslim roots appear from time to time, but while these moments lend
transcendence to the film, they give no moral credence to Malik's actions.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Gillian Bouras
- 10 February 2010
11 Comments
Each unhappy family is unhappy in its
own way.
My family seemed happy enough, but when my mother died my father rejected his children. As I contemplated a reunion I wondered if he would recognise me. It had been seven years and he had recently been diagnosed with dementia.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Susan Fealy
- 09 February 2010
1 Comment
Black stumps, capped with snow — no, capped with lime, beside the road, tree ferns, fanning their wing in the sun. A sign: children crossing. The road is so large. The CFA building, those three letters almost the three sides of a cross.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Philip Mendes
- 05 February 2010
3 Comments
The myth of an international Jewish communist conspiracy has long been a central diet of anti-Semitic agendas. Dutch academic Andre Gerrits provides a dispassionate an balanced account of this contentious topic.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 04 February 2010
5 Comments
The blurring of right and wrong in a world where civil
structures have disintegrated, is
seen in the Man's escalating wildness; his desperation to preserve the life of his son, and his conviction that
the end of survival justifies a growing list of dubious means.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Doyle
- 03 February 2010
6 Comments
Just as Brits were more absorbed by Byron's life than his work, and Australians were absorbed by Shane Warne's antics more than his artistry, J. D. Salinger grew more famous for retreating from public life, than for his masterpieces.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Cassandra O'Loughlin
- 02 February 2010
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the sweat-shiny, blackened men .. whose households were regulated by the whistle .. they woke or slept by. The BHP, like a bulker tethered .. amidst chimney stacks and luffing cranes .. to a bollard on the Hunter
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 28 January 2010
Are we to accept that the inspiration of sporting victory is alone
sufficient to solve conflict and soothe the way to redemption and
rebirth for a divided nation? If so, it must be said that Eastwood's film is
history rendered as a fairytale.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 27 January 2010
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Senator Steve Fielding attempted to debunk climate change theories using graphs based on Channel 9's Snicko. The debate petered out when Tony Abbott incautiously declared it was all 'crap'. Re-thinking, he amended
crap to tax — it was just a big tax.
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