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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 18 March 2010
1 Comment
Dave Hughes' presence in the line-up is likely justified more by ratings potential
than by any insights he might offer. The good will inherent to The 7pm Project's presentation makes it
a positive alternative to other more lecherous, leach-like current
affairs programs.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Eleanor Massey
- 17 March 2010
7 Comments
The cockatoo screeched, hurling himself against
the windows of a Pitt Street high-rise. He didn't have a branch to sit on. We Sydney-siders, jammed between tower blocks which cut out the sun, and
pavements shutting off the earth, were in sympathy. Thank God for McDonald's.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
In the winter
sun a soul
twitches neck and
head, neck
buried in the pulse
of a round and thinking
flesh.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 11 March 2010
2 Comments
The soldiers are trained to walk through walls, become invisible and killgoats with only their minds. It's difficult todiscern any particular satirical point to the story aside from the occasionalnod to non-violence and the turtuous capabilities of Barney theDinosaur.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Suzanne Hemming
- 10 March 2010
9 Comments
The Singaporeans have heavy fines for
antisocial behaviour such as spitting and swearing. It works for them,
and creates a pleasant, safe environment for tourists. But the lack
of seats suggests something more: a form of social control.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
it’s a god of sugar, a god of shallow forgives, it’s a god of stained truth and glass asunder.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
What a pity gay Christians, who might so
greatly enrich and evolve our religious institutions if permitted to flourish, are still obliged to eke their way
along the shadowy paths of discretion if they want to be part of God's gang.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Remember the man who yelled 'iron my shirt!' at Hillary Clinton? No doubt Clinton knows the
problems women face in their fight to be taken seriously in the
workplace. Acclaimed The Hurt Locker director Kathryn Bigelow has similarly found that male peers seem more
interested in her body than her body of work.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Devyani Borade
- 03 March 2010
1 Comment
I am a pigtailed nine-year-old in frocks when I first lay eyes on the album. At a glance I can tell my grandfather's obviously old stamps
from my dad's newer ones. Excitement fills me. What a treasure! I am
rich! Now I can buy all the dolls I want!
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Charlotte Clutterbuck
- 02 March 2010
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now because of you kneeling .. beside me, thumbing the scarred leather .. of the little mass-book your grandmother .. hid at the back of her Protestant linen-press
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 25 February 2010
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Staff Sergeant
William James is responsible for disarming bombs laid by insurgents in the sandy streets of Baghdad. For him, the stress of the job is a veritable amphetamine, and
he's well and truly hooked.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 24 February 2010
4 Comments
In Dickens' Barnaby Rudge, pet raven Grip is given to tantalising but incomprehensible
pronouncements, fluttering annoyingly around the edges of
conversational gatherings, and launching
sudden, inexplicable attacks.
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