Section: Arts And Culture
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- B.N. Oakman, Les Wicks
- 02 April 2007
Watching the stained lights of Christendom concede to soft Galician darkness before repairing to the bars of Santiago to commune in broken tongues with penitents of many nations until dawn
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Richard Leonard
- 02 April 2007
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With his mother coming and going from the house and his life, Augustine has to find his way to adulthood. Running With Scissors feels like walking through a human zoo where we observe the insane antics of one caged character after another.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 02 April 2007
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Statisticians of weather can have a shot at telling us where this drought stands in the pantheon of arid disasters. Is this the 'worst drought' in a thousand years, as Mike Rann is said to have claimed? Who knows?
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Scott Stephens
- 02 April 2007
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Scorsese’s is a fallen world. Like Cain, his tortured characters are driven further into the wastelands – whether the desert or the untamed streets of New York – by their acts of almost mythical violence, until any remaining vestige of hope or virtue is finally extinguished.
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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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