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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Various
- 07 September 2010
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somewhere, .. on a dusty stump .. or parched rock ... far from here on the road inside myself .. patiently fanning flies .. and hoping that I'll have the heart .. to travel on and not look back.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 02 September 2010
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A barroom brawl is transformed in Boy's head into a version of Michael
Jackson's 'Beat It' music video. It's 1984 and Jackson is at his artistic and popular peak: pre-surgery, pre-child
abuse allegations. Boy's worship is pure, but as an audience watching in
2010 we know the purity is transient.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Peter Kirkwood
- 01 September 2010
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On his return to Europe after many years absence, Raimon Panikkar said: ‘I left as a Christian, I found myself a Hindu, and I return a
Buddhist, without having ceased to be a Christian.' This statement of
his own multiple religious belonging is just one of many challenging
insights and ideas that he wrote about with passion and eloquence.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Michael Healey and Grant Fraser
- 31 August 2010
He is Gabriel, delicately boned, familiar, .. he has turned towards the Virgin .. who stands in her long solemnity, .. amongst the sober prophets, .. and the proper saints.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 26 August 2010
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Ben Cousins is no angel, but neither is he a
demon; just a man with a problem that he's fought to contain.
His story has mirrors in the lives of many people who have battled
addiction. Seven's treatment of it borders on exploitative.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Grant Fraser
- 24 August 2010
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Soundless as snow .. the leopard comes, .. all of his weight .. is in the gold of his predatory eyes ... behind the heavy, protecting glass ... eternally deprived of prey.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Myrna Tonkinson
- 20 August 2010
The women assemble to sing, dance, tell stories; thus the elders induct
younger women into the religious
knowledge and rituals that are shared across a wide area.
Yuwani Annie's origin story blends a Yanyuwa version with the biblical Adam and Eve story.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 19 August 2010
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'Anyone watching this saying it in some way supports
or encourages violence is watching the film in a very perverse way.' UK filmmaker Michael Winterbottom has a point, but one must wonder what scenes of brutal
violence against women contribute to the betterment of the public
imagination.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Mark Carkeet and Graham Kershaw
- 17 August 2010
They're elderly, unstable, probably a couple, their cheerful eyes sprung like steel against the cold, their hands arthritic, resigned; their grip carrying no conviction. Concentration lapses. People fail to see. This has never been a Labour town.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 12 August 2010
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Aaron initially rationalises his sexuality as
a test from God, a test that priveleges him, as it gives him an
opportunity to prove his resilience. Ultimately his affair with a younger man is rather more serious than
simply a rebellion against an oppressive ultra-orthodox society.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 11 August 2010
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For all our modern sophistication, refinement and technology, we remain in imaginative thrall to one of the most venerable and terrifying of folk figures. The vampire combines two of human kind's profoundly obsessive preoccupations: mortality and sex.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Diane Fahey
- 10 August 2010
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After I'd reached the Top .. why didn't they save me .. from Boardroom Rivals .. plotting to bring me down?
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