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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Morag Fraser
- 08 January 2010
McGirr seems more the magpie than the dormouse.
Even when he's curling up under his desk for a
post lunch kip you figure he's just giving his brain a few horizontal
minutes to organise and file the prodigious miscellany that
might otherwise leak out. July 2009
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 07 January 2010
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The world of pop music is dominated by prettiness and skin-deep
perfection. In that context, Cohen's greatness is not instantly
discernable. Lately a Buddhist, he has spent his latter years in study of religion — 'But cheerfulness keeps
breaking through.' February 2009
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Doyle
- 18 December 2009
Once I opened a present on which a young niece had
written MARY CHRIST BUS, with every iota of her
tongue-clenched diligence. If I was a wise man, I
would have saved that paper, so that I could even now open it and see the world as it is, ancient, glorious and written endlessly by the young.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 17 December 2009
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Back in March, I strolled the streets of Fitzroy in Melbourne's inner
north with Warwick Thornton, trying to find a quiet spot for an
interview. Two months prior to the release of his feature debut,
Samson and Delilah, Thornton was quietly hopeful his film would be positively received.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Frank O'Shea
- 16 December 2009
3 Comments
If you ever hear a House Manager admit that her neighbour has made a
better Christmas cake, write down the
time, place and the names of witnesses, and get it signed by your
parish priest. It is the kind of thing that
might be useful in the early stages of a canonisation process.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Michele Madigan Somerville
- 15 December 2009
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spires
nosed upwards to touch
the celestial concert of bodies ... We emulate with half-lame gestures, insufficient and diffuse, dissolving into air like smoke ascending from a goat on an altar —
as if God were open to flattery
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Andrew Hamilton
- 11 December 2009
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The conflict between Archbishop John Bathersby and Fr Peter Kennedy was passionate and public. This book
shines a light on the dispute, setting it into a human context that is much larger than that offered by the media coverage.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 10 December 2009
4 Comments
Max has an erratic imagination, and is prone to extremes
of emotion. There are hints of mental illness, but, really, he is simply Every Child. Following a ferocious fight with his mother, he flees into fantasy and becomes king to a group of melancholic monsters.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 09 December 2009
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January 1961: the fourth Ashes test. On the eve of the final day, with Australia's plight looking grim, we
went to a Chinese restaurant. We'd just given our
orders when Richie Benaud, Neil Harvey, Allan Davidson and Ken
'Slasher' Mackay walked in.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- B. N. Oakman
- 08 December 2009
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Our town nuisance, eyes bulging from a hollowed head, trousers like tattered flags half-mast on broomstick legs, a pest to the tourists ... a handy arrest for the police
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 03 December 2009
In the early 1990s Mark Whitacre, an executive at American agricultural
powerhouse Archer Daniels Midland, became an informant for an FBI
investigation into price-fixing. But Whitacre is not the 'white hat' he claims to be.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Peter Rose
- 01 December 2009
late for a volley of meetings. Not much conversation. Same haircut, suits, even boots ... The older man is lethal. 'I can make things hard for you, much harder than you can for me.'
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