Section: Arts And Culture
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 23 April 2009
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Within the cloistered world of Opus Dei, a young girl, Camino, is dying.
The Church hierarchy and its emphasis upon a Father-God have
displaced the nurturing instincts of Camino's mother, who urges her daughter along the path
of suffering.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Doyle
- 22 April 2009
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At 1am I noticed that the dad of a friend of mine
was in the corner drinking hard and telling funny stories. He got
drunker and drunker until, at about 3am, he started
shouting and cursing and some glass smashed. Finally he fell down.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- James Waller
- 21 April 2009
'By the end of the 21st century, icons of Joseph Stalin will be in every Orthodox Church.'
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Frank Brennan
- 21 April 2009
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Frank Costigan was a man of such moral authority that you would not need to
speak to him, just think, 'What would Frank do?'
When Frank was being wheeled in for surgery, he
completed reading the morning papers, then waved to his children.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Frank Brennan
- 20 April 2009
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Andrena Jamieson
- 17 April 2009
Loreto Sister Veronica Brady has taken on the Government for its treatment of Indigenous Australians, the church for its treatment of women, and Australian society for its materialism. She belongs to the long tradition of Australian stirrers.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Sarah Kanowski
- 16 April 2009
The narrator of Philip Roth's novella The Dying Animal is self-indulgent, narcissistic, and driven by the urge to sexually conquer. The film Elegy transposes Roth's log of masculine decline into a mournful lament for the dead.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 15 April 2009
Joe's plans for a family business foundered on his son's refusal to get out of bed before 10am. Joe was not used to 'spilling his guts', but he needed to talk, and he knew that my experience of teenage vagaries was extensive.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- William Rush
- 14 April 2009
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Her face gives little away except .. there is a definite invitation to worship .. which we do in our own way .. hearing in this hall .. built with unholy oil, whispers of war
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 09 April 2009
3 Comments
The filmmakers interviewed numerous asylum seeker advocates. Most were women, advocating on behalf of young men. Their relationships were intense and complex.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Michael Mullins
- 08 April 2009
2 Comments
Prior to the devastation of Monday's earthquake, L'Aquila was a
picturesque hillside city of 75,000 inhabitants nestled in the Gran
Sasso mountains. It was not always a plagued, razed purgatory.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Jeff Klooger, Rory Harris and Janette Fernando
- 07 April 2009
4 Comments
In Rembrandt's painting, the risen Christ .. wears a jaunty hat ... So roguish! .. So impious! Impish, even!
.. He has come to greet his girlfriend .. Mary Magdalene
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