Section: Arts And Culture
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tony Smith
- 21 August 2009
Sydney's history has traditionally been interpreted through the
artefacts of a people who are literate and industrial: through
documents and buildings. The Colony acknowledges the equal importance of the sparse traditions of the Indigenous peoples.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 20 August 2009
5 Comments
'Cinema,' says director Robert Connolly, 'can take the audience and show them a tragedy in a way that creates empathy. I was interested in exploring the ability of this country to compel people to tell its story. It's hard not to start caring for what happened there.'
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Edward Reilly
- 18 August 2009
At the end of our courtyard a car starts .. Growling like some fierce predator .. Our collective souls quiver, cough softly .. Lest he draw up outside our window.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 13 August 2009
4 Comments
I don't use the word gospel lightly. Here was a secular film that
extrapolated, in teenagers' language, the notion of 'love thy
neighbour'. Filmmaker John Hughes died last week. The Breakfast Club remains his masterpiece.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 12 August 2009
3 Comments
Economists are often, sometimes
spectacularly, wrong. But like all prophets,
they are unabashed by and unpunished for abject failures. They pop
up from each new set of ruins, surprised yet unrepentant, princes
of a plethora of evanescent predictions.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
On a streaming easy line, kilometers of small creatures' terror terrain beneath the reigning kyrios of ripped earth.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Avril Hannah-Jones
- 07 August 2009
1 Comment
The Australian Student Christian Movement was ahead of the mainstream church in its rejection of fundamentalism, its activism, support for ecumenism, and encouragement of lay and female leadership. Since the 1960s it has been a movement in exile.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 06 August 2009
5 Comments
The publicity poster for Beautiful Kate is as ambiguous as the
controversial Bill Henson photographs it so blatantly references. The
film unpacks these ambiguities, not solving but exacerbating them and
making them sing with empathy.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Doyle
- 05 August 2009
2 Comments
What if all the cars and sports teams we name for fleet
and powerful animals and cosmic energies and cool-sounding things that
don't exist or mean anything are, effective
immediately, renamed for literary characters and authors.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Margaret McCarthy
- 04 August 2009
2 Comments
The drops are not an army ... Each promised drop gives the roof .. a temporary rash which .. fades before the next gob hits. .. The water does not rain as a team.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
When we were small, my sister and I used to wake from
the same nightmare. As adults, we draw a feeling of wellbeing from our connection, but there are pitfalls — husbands can get jealous and siblings can take offence. It is the hazard of exclusion.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Chris Andrews
- 28 July 2009
1 Comment
When I was a kid the right knee of my pants usually tore first, but I can only sneer on the left .. My body goes this way up for 16 hours, then should be laid flat in the dark.
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