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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 03 June 2010
23 Comments
The Nigerian priests are disturbed that many Australian Catholic parents send their children to Catholic school but not to Mass. The structured religious lives of children in Nigeria mean that one seminary has had to restrict its intake numbers to 90 per year.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Monica Jackson
- 02 June 2010
3 Comments
Hotel Bauen was 'recuperated' from its owners
by sacked employees who now run it under a workers' co-operative
structure.
The waiters may complain about people wasting croissants, but they will
also pile up your plate and ask if you want seconds.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Victoria Beaumont
- 01 June 2010
2 Comments
all who grow up free to choose .. Find they serve you.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
When I met Peter Steele I noticed a spark, a
shimmer of wit that almost subverted his serious courtesy. There was a wild mind at work and play, and I would have to
run prodigiously fast even to catch at its stirrups. So it has proved: it's been a long, vigorous, and exultantly
grateful following.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
The trial and execution of Soraya M are portrayed in agonising, visceral detail. The stoning of 'adulterous' women under the auspices of
Shariah law is shown to be less
about violence inherent to Islam than the egos of brutal and bullying men.
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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
9 Comments
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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ARTS AND CULTURE
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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ARTS AND CULTURE
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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