Section: Arts And Culture
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Richard Flynn
- 16 May 2008
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Between 1968 and 1981, performance spaces such as the Pram Factory in Melbourne facilitated a flourishing of the Australian theatre scene. Initially, the idea that the local product might be inferior was insufficient reason for preferring the import.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Helen Hunt has entered middle age gracefully, and appears
both physically and emotionally haggard in this proudly adult drama. An unashamed tearjerker, the real triumph of Then She Found Me is that it's also very
funny.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Today I returned from one of the areas most affected by the cyclone. I have seen the suffering of the graceful people who live in these parts.
Burma is in deep mourning, but we are doing what we can to help.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Thom Sullivan
- 13 May 2008
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Cattle and kangaroos graze icy grass.. and a grey sky winces.. And in a further window.. a light snaps on to the slow sounds.. of life stirring within.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
W. G. Sebald wrote as somebody evolving a new sensory capacity or a new vein of intellectual attention. The Emergence of Memory offers five interviews with him and four essays about him, which show that while he considered life to be 'a grave affair', he also knew sources of joy.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
The Jews forced to work on Operation Bernhard, producing counterfeit currency for the Nazis, lived in relative luxury compared with others in concentration camps. This presents a daily ethical dilemma to the
characters of The Counterfeiters.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
You're in a forest somewhere, lying facedown in a box. With a jolt, the box starts to move; a gradual ascent, like a roller coaster beginning its climb to the top of the rise. You feel as though you haven't really lived your life, merely viewed it like a movie on fast-forward.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Helen Hagemann
- 06 May 2008
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You hear the river cry in the darkness.. It takes a breath over trickling stones.. over endless white cracks.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Frances Devlin-Glass
- 02 May 2008
It will be difficult for bookshops to house The Mystery of Rosa Morland, as its genre is a wonderful hybrid of crime fiction and poetry. The verse novel represents a very modern feminist take on sexual and
actual violence within marriage.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
It's ironic that a television show purportedly celebrating weight loss should keep thousands
of viewers pinned to their sofas and their television sets. Nonetheless 2008 may go down in history as the year The Biggest Loser redeemed itself.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Margaret Simons
- 30 April 2008
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The Murray is a harnessed beast. Its flow is regulated by locks and weirs. The engineering feats to which we are wedded seem not so much a testimony to our power as to our continued foreignness. From Eureka Street, June 1991.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
he was diverted.. from the impending roast.. and wiping red wine.. from his generous lips.. he mouthed sweet nothings.. in retaliation.
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