section: Arts And Culture
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Aidan Coleman
- 12 October 2010
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You say to leave roses .. for the overcrowded arms of bikies .. You pop inflatable hearts and cut the strings .. of pink and stodgy cherubs .. You shoot down my skywriting plane mid-cliché .. This is not our day.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 07 October 2010
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Lacking the wisdom of experience and anything resembling a positive adult role model, Owen is guided by a yearning for companionship and a budding adolescent libido. These are very human impulses, but no substitute for wise adult guidance or a fully formed moral compass.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 06 October 2010
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Fiction writers have to arrange events so that they achieve the required outcome without stretching credulity. Yet real life routinely throws up sequences so bizarre that a fiction writer wouldn't dare to own them. Try this one.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Ouyang Yu and Barry Gittins
- 05 October 2010
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No good deed goes unplagiarised; no noteworthy scheme leaves the department unharvested. Lack the intellectual capital to spend on an informed decision? Set multiple minions to work then cherry pick the outcomes, signing off with your own trotter.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Ben Coleridge
- 01 October 2010
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America has grown so used to triumphing in the conflicts of the 1990s that mere stasis is now easily viewed as retreat. But from Teddy Roosevelt to Barack Obama, each time America has become blind to the limitations of its power, it has been wrenched back to reality by failure.
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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
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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
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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
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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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