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ARTS AND CULTURE
When we were small, my sister and I used to wake from
the same nightmare. As adults, we draw a feeling of wellbeing from our connection, but there are pitfalls — husbands can get jealous and siblings can take offence. It is the hazard of exclusion.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Chris Andrews
- 28 July 2009
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When I was a kid the right knee of my pants usually tore first, but I can only sneer on the left .. My body goes this way up for 16 hours, then should be laid flat in the dark.
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Nikki Gemmell, an agnostic, isn't afraid to confront uncomfortable themes in
order to glean a glimmer of understanding. Religion and science may not
have the selling power of sex, but each have indelibly shaped
individuals as well as history.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 23 July 2009
Australia, 1902. One year since Federation. The nation is a sickly child, as yet unaware of its weakness. The colonisers deceive themselves into thinking they can tame the land. A century later, not much has changed.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Frank O'Shea
- 22 July 2009
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For a while there, McCourt was 'mick of the moment', except in his native Limerick where they wanted to strangle him. Teacher Man, his best book, captures what it is to be the lonely figure with only cunning and a stick of chalk to protect you.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brendan Forde
- 22 July 2009
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I gag in social situations. Visual cues that mediate conversation are not available to me, so halfway through a sentence, confidence evaporates. I'm convinced they're not interested, or I think I hear them stifling a yawn. Why did I ever start to talk?
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Aileen Kelly
- 21 July 2009
Angling my foreground to move with me along a crowded pavement in one clarified direction, eyes set to recognise one doorway of gravelled glass and a particular curlicued frame.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Inside this darkened church there are whispers ... a clutter of saints who cross themselves in stony silence .. Time and time again, Christ's palms do not heal.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Jonathan Hill
- 17 July 2009
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Kennedy is not portrayed as a saint. Imperfections such as his
unpredictable temper, his occasional liking for a drink and his initial
insensitivity to Aboriginal Australians reveal that he, like us, was a
man of flesh and blood.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 16 July 2009
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The rule seems to be that one's attitude to Harry Potter should be either obsession, derision, or total lack of interest. If that's true, I'm in a minority: I am an equivocal fan.
A few of the books are great. At least one is bloody awful. The movies are similarly hit-and-miss.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Marriages are houses and unless you keep cleaning, repainting and using duct tape with deft punctilio, everything sags and mould wins.
The first divorce I saw up close, like the first car crash you see up close, is imprinted on the inside of my eyelids.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- John Kinsella
- 14 July 2009
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I planted that sapling
in ash-soil, with acoustics of the lost tree resounding .. in the now wet and malleable earth, hidden rocks emerge easily and lay claim to surface.
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