section: Arts And Culture
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 30 September 2010
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The financial crisis threatens to engulf them. But Money Never Sleeps is less interested in financial wheeling and dealing than the ways in which the lunges and plunges of the market impact upon the characters' lives and relationships.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Malcolm King
- 29 September 2010
15 Comments
For those born in Adelaide, there is something endearing about the place. It's like living in a country town where Big Ears, Ratty or Mole could be spotted. But the penchant for nostalgia and for by-gone days is exactly the wrong impulse now for the City of Churches.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Various
- 28 September 2010
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The earth and its mortal crust .. Like our own skin .. Covers something .. Which at one point .. Was not .. And in some distant point .. Far beyond this evening .. Will no longer be
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Gillian Bouras
- 22 September 2010
7 Comments
Once upon a time a man told me that he had gone ahead and married his wife, even though he knew he didn't love her. 'But why?' I asked, mystified, for surely living with someone you are not in love with is the hardest thing in the world. 'Because it wasn't important,' he replied.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- A. Frances Johnson
- 21 September 2010
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extracted .. from a small black bag .. on a peak hour train .. Held sharp and confident as a new razor .. against the shunt and shuck .. of the carriage .. Throwback to industrial tortures .. held against the soft wet eye
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Morag Fraser
- 17 September 2010
3 Comments
Part memoir, part travelogue, and part apologia, Exposure is also the diary of a young man suffering from a form of
obsessive-compulsive disorder which manifests in excruciating symptoms. More interesting, and more agonising, is his driven response to poverty and to suffering when he encounters it.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 16 September 2010
4 Comments
The kidnappers'
scheme involves humiliating and sometimes physically bullying the young
woman as she lays handcuffed to a bed. This makes for nasty, uncomfortable viewing. Surprisingly, love and betrayal emerge as key, poignant themes.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Helen Brake
- 15 September 2010
12 Comments
As I grated the sandpaper across my face, the skin rubbed away but
didn't bleed as I expected. Gooey plasma softened the paper's rigid
surface. I picked another piece and tried again. Three weeks later I was diagnosed with major depressive disorder.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Marlene Marburg and Edith Speers
- 14 September 2010
13 Comments
Come as you are, Marilyn Manson ... that's how I want you, Peter Kennedy ... Trust me again, Germaine Greer ... Don't run away, Catherine Deveney ... Nothing can change, Pope Benedict ... the love that I bear you, George Pell
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Ellena Savage
- 10 September 2010
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University student unions are cesspools of toxicity, sociopathy and tedium. I should know — I'm a student politician. In his latest novel, Chaser alumnus Dominic Knight strikes a balance between sardonic parody and genuine reverence for those whose political conviction outweighs their pessimism.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 09 September 2010
3 Comments
The characters voice implicit moral concerns about the right to kill in self-defense, and rationalise why it might be right to take up arms against the invaders. When Ellie is confronted by a mural depicting an encounterbetween Captain Cook and a group of Aboriginal Australians, she ismomentarily arrested.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 08 September 2010
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Lieutenant Yoo Hoo Hoo leans forward to read the
tape: 'Gillard offers Katter trip to Russian Space Station'. Our voices are drowned out by a persistent beeping sound. The specially
engineered Windsor-Oakeshott Thrusters have split and the Ostracise is going into reverse.
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