Keywords: Eureka Street Poetry
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 16 October 2008
In 1974 French acrobat Philippe Petit balanced mortality and destiny on a wire between New York City's Twin Towers. This documentary imbues Petit's dizzying, existential quest with the dramatic tension of a bank heist.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 29 September 2008
3 Comments
Online publications know that the flame throwers among those who post comments invariably draw a crowd. Such an environment is potentially fertile ground for character assassination, rather than reasoned argument.
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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
- B. N. Oakman
- 15 July 2008
2 Comments
There's more silver in my teeth
.. than in our trophy cupboard .. Gravestones bear witness to our only premiership .. Every year we leap for the heavens
.. and flop in the gutter .. My football team is hopeless.
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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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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 13 December 2007
In the world of popular music, the transition from intimate theatre or festival gigs, to stadium rock shows, indicates the move from an authentic emphasis on great music, to 'music as spectacle', or pure commerce. It appears Missy Higgins has reached this point.
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AUSTRALIA
- James Massola
- 12 September 2007
1 Comment
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Judges Philip Harvey, James Massola and Andrew Hamilton
- 23 December 2006
8 Comments
In a cage in Guantanamo bay / David Hicks sees his life slip away... The top ten entries in Eureka Street's limerick competition.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins & James Massola
- 07 August 2006
Our 'Simple Pleasures' series is not intended as light relief from the gravitas of many of the articles in Eureka Street. Instead, they ground our more serious commentaries, providing an insight into exactly what constitutes a better world for the human beings who live in it.
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AUSTRALIA
- Morag Fraser
- 05 July 2006
At a time like this, when the world—literally the whole world—waits on words, it is bracing to hear hope extolled, and exhilarating to think hard about the foundations of peace and how we might lay them down.
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AUSTRALIA
- Marcelle Mogg
- 01 July 2006
Notions of good and evil have become a tradeable commodity in the rhetoric that has enveloped the conflict in Iraq.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Philip Harvey
- 11 May 2006
Peter Yule’s Carlton: A History reviewed by Philip Harvey.
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