Section: Arts And Culture
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Paul Daffey
- 02 April 2007
After the dogs and the trots on the pub's TV have been silenced, the musicians arrange themselves around the table. Martin Kelly closes his eyes, plucks his guitar and sings a ballad written at the time when the potato famine was laying waste to Ireland.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Mark O'Flynn
- 11 March 2007
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On the Metro in Paris.. a man follows his whiskers onto a train.. He holds out a cardboard cup and declares: I have no money.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
thoughts crawl in to a packing case nailed up a tree ... nothing happens in between the years broken up ... the password hidden within you, never coming down
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Philip Harvey
- 08 March 2007
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The poetry of Peter Steele is well-tempered, even when the subject is not. His themes are often modesty, doubt and brokenness, but his uses his grand style to produce measured tones and educated observations.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 08 March 2007
Director Emilio Estevez has squeezed many big-name actors, and signifcant social and cultural events of 1960s USA, into his film about the assassination of popular presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Deborah Singerman
- 08 March 2007
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The popularity of Waz and Gav, the gay couple in the first series of Channel 9’s The Block, helped them launch their own design company. It also highlighted the boundaries of acceptable mainstream images of gay men.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
The big Mobil was built in town, then Woolworths started selling discount petrol. Customers who had been coming in for years either grew to old to drive, or passed away, with few new customers taking their place.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 27 February 2007
Comprehensively drawn characters demonstrate that guilt has a way of catching up with people, forcing them to make a clear choice regarding where they will seek long-term happiness.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 27 February 2007
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What with the Ashes being a let down, the One Day Internationals more interminable than ever and Federer just too bloody good, serious students of TV sport might instead turn their attention to the National Scrabble Masters Tournament.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tony Smith
- 27 February 2007
World literature is much richer for the input of Italian Andrea Camilleri, Australian Peter Corris and Scot Ian Rankin. They have mastered the art of presenting modern characters in contemporary situations.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Frank Brennan
- 27 February 2007
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One of Jesuit congressman Robert Drinan's political claims to fame was that he had moved the first motion of impeachment against Richard Nixon. He showed that the mix of politics and religion on Capitol Hill was difficult, especially concerning abortion.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 27 February 2007
Four lacklustere sequels and countless parodies and rip-offs have marred Rocky's reputation. Arriving 17 years after the previous incarnation, the sixth and final installment represents much more than a simple return to form.
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