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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Emily Millane
- 26 May 2010
Milestones are the arbitrary roadhouses on our respective roads. One person's marriage is another person's train wreck. Quiet moments between people are often greater: a softly spoken confession to a friend, or the instant you meet
someone's eyes in mutual acknowledgment of a moment just passed.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Some volcanoes are dead bigtime .. Be careful: Don't go near them .. They spit
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ARTS AND CULTURE
A scene where Connor carries Mia, who pretends to sleep, to her bedroom
and removes her jeans, finds a fine line between tender and
predatory. His behaviour is somewhere sex-ward of fatherly. The feeling is
mutual, but then again, she is only 15.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 19 May 2010
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If Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull volcano erruption was disruptive, its cousin Katla may have worse in store. Volcanoes, emanating a kind of preternatural, primal,
patience, are landlords whose unchanging message is: you are renting; you
haven't bought.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
as she lies there, somehow she feels time creeping — some inchoate sense, sense of the Grim Reaper reaping with his scathing scythe, or Father Time with a sieve ...
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During the massacre Rurangwa's grandmother was murdered mid-prayer, various family
members called to god for help, while the killers, fellow parishioners
of the local church, struck their machetes until faith fell with
precious bodies into a pile.
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The pastor terrifies and humiliates his adolescent son with tall tales about
a painful and fatal illness that can be contracted through
masturbation. We are led to believe such secret acts of parental abuse lay at the core of the more public crimes that occur in the village.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Chris Mulherin
- 12 May 2010
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The oldest of our five, Ben studied science, medicine in his sights,
healthy, not wealthy and wise beyond his years. Ben died quietly. He had no choice really, we turned off the machine.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
mapping the cobbled Parisian dawn .. in search of juxtaposition .. stairways,
upturned street vendors' carts .. unglamorous prostitutes, pedlars .. the
stillness of odd, aged architecture .. angles, spaces awash with light
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Tony is the working class underdog battling to excel in a sport
dominated by private school boys. The temptation for the poor westie Tony to engage in petty crime is a
cliché too far, but does help to highlight the social structures that
define Tony's world.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Kevin Rudd has raised circumlocution to an
art since coming to office. But recently his polysyllabic heart rate seems to have slowed.
What's changed? Could it be the patter of Tony feet? Time to restart that
'working families' mantra: plain prose beats purple.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
They change the sky but not their soul who run .. across the sea: the impartial earth .. gapes for the child of a pauper as for a princeling ... (For Peter Porter)
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