Section: Arts And Culture
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tom Clark
- 23 September 2008
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Peter Taylor, selected straight from .. Petersham firsts to bowl his offies .. for the baggy green, taught us how .. the 'Strayan dream can fizz and spit .. through Sydney's fond atmosphere.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Alexandra Coghlan
- 19 September 2008
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George Orwell and Evelyn Waugh occupied opposing aesthetic, philosophical and political poles. This conceptually agile book suggests they attained moral — if not spiritual — agreement from fundamentally opposing directions.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 17 September 2008
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The rumoured potential of the Large Hadron Collider to bring about the disintegration of the universe captured the public imagination. 'Hadron' is a word susceptible to misprinting of a kind that destroys the seriousness of any discussion.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- P. S. Cottier
- 16 September 2008
Do they stroke it with avid fingers, this palm tree lock that once grew from the full head of quietest genius? .. Scalping would be too much, headhunting too tropical .. but buying the hair of a dead woman you can't know .. is quite the thing
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Philip Mendes
- 12 September 2008
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Benny Morris, Israel's best-known revisionist historian, led more and more Israelis and Diaspora Jews in the 1980s to accept
the legitimacy of an independent Palestinian state in the West Bank and
Gaza Strip. Morris has changed his spots.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 11 September 2008
3 Comments
The previous films of director Michael Haneke depict a media-saturated society disconnected from reality. His latest release is a critique of 'violence as entertainment', and every audience member is implicated.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Peter Coghill
- 09 September 2008
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blood and mood .. jigger the radio of my mind, turning .. it in and out of the band ... of unaccountable happiness .. What have I forgotten that I can stand .. to smile?
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Paddy O'Reilly
- 05 September 2008
The stories rub class against
class, age against youth, the past against the present. The collection is imbued with old-fashioned charm and a postcolonial awareness of what damage old-fashioned England once
wrought.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 04 September 2008
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In 1932, Todd Browning's Freaks sought to unsettle with the 'otherness' of its circus sideshow performer characters. A modern-day festival of films by and about people with disability emhasises not otherness, but humanity.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Grant Fraser
- 02 September 2008
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'Have you tried fruit?' said Francis .. 'Nothing to it that crackles and tears in the jaw!' said the head wolf. 'I will bake you bread' said the Saint .. 'It is nothing but air warmed and crusted, Entirely wrong for wolves.' And the thronged wolves .. Began to close
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- John Bartlett
- 29 August 2008
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In 2003 Elders of the Ngarrindjeri Nation stood up to the South Australian
Governor on traditional
lands issues. The same spirit of defiance personifies this chronicle of the stories and aspirations of powerful Ngarrindjeri women.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 28 August 2008
2 Comments
During the 1970s, Australian cinema experienced what many now regard as its golden age. Who were the maverick filmmakers gleefully scuffing up the flipside of that glittering coin, and why does Phillip Adams despise them so?
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