Section: Arts And Culture
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ARTS AND CULTURE
What is a synecdoche? Work that out and you're part of the way to understanding this brilliant if convoluted opus. Suffice it to say that Caden Cotard, the bloated, self-loathing man who presides over the corrupted world at the film's heart, may in fact be God.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 13 May 2009
If Shakespeare had dabbled in cuisine, dishes
such as 'eye of newt' and 'fillet of fenny snake' may have been a sensation. As the first 'foody' to emerge from the obscurity of Stratford-upon-Avon, he would have an unlikely successor: Gordon Ramsay.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Teenagers can and should be sedated .. Hair is the window of the brain .. Love hurts, but it can be cured .. It doesn't matter if you missed life, it will be on TV eventually.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Kamel Sachet, a 'hero' from the Iran/Iraq war, eventually made the rank of
general. But he grew disenchanted with the
rule of Saddam. As he tried to withdraw from active service, he became more religious as an observant Muslim.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Samson and Delilah is an ode to Alice Springs and its extremes; an ethereal love story against a backdrop of addiction, violence and displacement. Racism is
not an explicit presence, but it is there,
a foul breath that muggies the air.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
It is a useful truth that every real feat is built on a mountain of failures. The price for
poetry's occasional power is the ocean of
self-indulgent, mewling muck produced and published annually under the tattered banner of the Poem.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Susan Hurley and Grace Yee
- 05 May 2009
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even if we spent the next hundred years .. carving roast lamb on Sundays .. buttering white bread .. and boiling Brussels sprouts .. we could never be them .. nor they us
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ARTS AND CULTURE
The variety of Quaker service in Aboriginal communities and around the world is extraordinary. In light of the GFC and climate change, the Quakers' emphasis on small-scale food and water security projects will prove prescient.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 30 April 2009
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In 1982, Lebanese Christian militiamen murdered 800 civilians at Palestinian refugee camps in Beirut. Ari Folman witnessed the massacre as a 19-year-old Israeli soldier. He sets out to reveal those repressed memories.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Barry Gittins and B. F. Moloney
- 28 April 2009
He was flying up the guts .. hair and legs and arms ablaze .. Tacklers flew and flew again .. failing to disturb his crazed .. run of passion ... under Queensland skies.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Cassandra Golds
- 24 April 2009
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That Dostoevsky is said to have developed a 'theology of writing' does not mean he arrives forearmed with a set of dogmatic truths. Rather, he practises the narrative and spritual discipline of allowing each character to be heard.
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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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