section: Arts And Culture
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Libby Hart and Belinda Rule
- 13 April 2010
2 Comments
Lift up a stone, find a spider, fat as a grape ... Run, and I will be tucked up in the heel of your shoe, gnawing at the lining.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 08 April 2010
In comics, the X-Men's 'mutant' powers make them the target of bigotry. They function as a metaphor for homosexuals and other persecuted minorities. In Micmacs, Bazil, ostracised from his 'normal' life by a bizarre crisis, also finds himself on the margins of society.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Doyle
- 07 April 2010
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As a society we fail our children if we do not carefully remove our
street clothes, don cotton pyjamas, and crawl into the boat
of the bed with a sigh of delight, each and every night, there to voyage,
UnKindled, BlackBerryless, PalmPilotless, into the glory of story.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Anthony Lynch
- 06 April 2010
3 Comments
He walked with his back hunched, his lowered head inches above his toes. As if he feared cavities or his own anonymity. That black dog stopping at every fence post.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 01 April 2010
Youthful hacker Lisbeth Sallander is capable of great
violence. But often her violence is a response to that which has
been inflicted upon her. Her investigation of a decades old missing person case will test her capacity for mercy.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Vin Maskell
- 31 March 2010
11 Comments
The Chinese couple had kept the shop going for ten years at a time when
milk bars have been disappearing off the map.
In my two decades in this suburb about eight corner shops have closed.
And in the past three years Peter's milk bar, like his wife, was just
hanging on.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Doyle
- 30 March 2010
13 Comments
Augustine. Wondrous lesson, that man, but he has been imprisoned by theology. Grant me chastity but not yet, everyone knows that hilarious remark.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Colm McNaughton
- 29 March 2010
10 Comments
It is becoming clear that we are probably not going to avert cataclysmic forms of climate change. The foundational Greek and Hebraic imaginaries, the mythical
narratives that frame western civilisation, can no longer contain,
inform and explain what
we experience. We need new stories.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 25 March 2010
5 Comments
Few people give a toss about Bilbies, the Arts
or Heritage, but the moment someone rediscovers them and deems them indispensable, only to find that
Bilbies are disappearing and Arts and Heritage are in palliative care,
Garrett's a goner — again.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Vinay Verma
- 23 March 2010
As angels of innocence cast .. Imperfect shadows .. God idioms are intoned .. Perfunctory .. As morning ablutions .. Disciples invoking pacts of compromise .. Offering souls and solutions .. Silent in their conspiracy
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Jasmine-Kim Westendorf
- 22 March 2010
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Some say that not only is The Female Enuch of little relevance today: it never was relevant. Such arguments are often based more on attacks on Greer personally, and
feminism generally, than considered critiques of the value of the
feminist agenda set out in the book.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Philip Harvey
- 19 March 2010
2 Comments
The poet Rainer Maria Rilke's 'God', writes Stephanie Dowrick, 'is a vulnerable neighbour one moment, like a clump
of a hundred roots the next; an ancient work of art, then a
much-needed hand, a cathedral, a dreamer. Absent here, breath-close
there; as often in darkness as in light.'
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