Section: Arts And Culture
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ARTS AND CULTURE
What is Germaine to her personality? .. Her Catholic childhood I fear.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Gillian Bouras
- 25 August 2008
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Imagine the horror of a completely silent world. The deaf person requires strategies: they must make requests, or provide tactful reminders. Lip-reading is a useful skill, but beards and moustaches can provide difficulty.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
What is 'Daddy's nigger rule', and what is the profound impact it has upon his son David's Tennessee childhood?
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 21 August 2008
One was shot on location in Pakistan by an amateur Sydney filmmaker. The other is a cartoon made by an Iranian expatriate about life in Tehran. What do such different films have to tell us about humanity in the Middle East?
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 20 August 2008
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We've seen the 'end of history' and the 'death of God', yet the humble book lives on. While technology buffs embrace the e-book, printed books continue to exercise an atavistic attraction through their fusion of form and content.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Kevin Gillam
- 19 August 2008
I bend the truth 'til it forms a circle .. I write with singular purpose, like a snail crossing lawn .. at night, I write in think, like balloons .. released in sunlight
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Patricia Pak Poy
- 15 August 2008
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How would it feel to be a child soldier in West Africa, forced to rape and kill at the age of 15? And where might you seek redemption amid such horrors?
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 14 August 2008
What happens when a renegade architect goes head to head with the US government in an effort to gain permission to build houses out of garbage?
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Mountains and hills! Men bore, quarry and scalp them .. Fruit trees and cedars! Men spray them and clearfell them .. Beasts and cattle! Men extinguish or factory-farm them .. Creeping things and flying birds! Men wipe them out also.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Alexandra Coghlan
- 08 August 2008
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That a woman was elected to the House of
Representatives in 1943 is remarkable. Enid Lyons' drive and endeavour led many to cast her as the political force and her husband Joe Lyons, Australia's tenth Prime Minister, as a figurehead.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 07 August 2008
Undercover female soldiers are sent into enemy territory during World War II to protect one of the Allies' best-kept secrets. The women must subject themselves to being exploited in order that they might exploit
their opponent.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Doyle
- 06 August 2008
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Divorce is an incredibly powerful and painful chapter in millions of lives every year. Maybe we should create a public ritual for the end of a marriage by which we honour their brave
attempt and mourn the death of love and
hope.
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