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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 15 October 2009
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Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm creator Larry David plays a lovable misanthrope in Woody Allen's latest film. The character's fatalistic views on romance take on an uncomfortable air when you recall the seedy aspects of Allen's personal life.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Lerys Byrnes | John Falzon
- 13 October 2009
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We drink. We dance with openly dark angels, strain our ears and wings to listen
to the wisdom of the broken and the lost. We will discern the sudden
dust we've come from beatifically.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 07 October 2009
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The one thing more potent than the anticipation of seeing your team in a grand final is the misery of seeing them defeated. A wet, bedraggled lamb glimpsed en route to Melbourne proved to be an ill omen for one footy fan.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Ian C. Smith
- 06 October 2009
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The kiss of peace in the Eucharist .. Judas' kiss of death, CPR's of life .. Georgie Porgie's, spin the bottle's .. the kiss of a rolling billiard ball .. Gene Simmons' great tongue Kiss
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Margaret Simons
- 02 October 2009
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An alliance of traditional owners in the Murray Darling Basin is seeking to assert their role in decisions concerning water management.
In Murray River Country, Jessica K. Weir shows how their view for a healthy river could bring
economics and ecology into alignment.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 01 October 2009
9 Comments
It is testament
to the virility of Che Guevara as a revolutionary symbol that, with the 'Che Christ', his image is used
to augment the understanding of Christ as a social radical. A new biopic takes Che as far from myth and symbol as possible.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Michael Sariban
- 29 September 2009
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We've been fighting, you've been beating .. your fists against my intractable wall — your version, of course, flawed as mine .. It's taken us years to give up on logic .. to realise neither will bleed to death.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 24 September 2009
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The first feature film about Australia's most notorious convict shares a potent symbiosis with Dante's Inferno. Director Jonathan auf der Heide believes there is a repressed need for violence beneath the 'veil' of human civilisation.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Doyle
- 23 September 2009
My mother-in-law stood up on the night before her daughter
married me, held her glass aloft, and sighed, 'Let's just hope this one
comes off'. Some of the best toasts I ever heard were from children: 'Here's to all mum's husbands past
and present!' said one girl, aged 11.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- L.K. Holt
- 22 September 2009
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The teenage boy .. drunk, taunting, now hanging from
.. your latch of jaw
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- John Wicks
- 18 September 2009
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Some will be concerned by the black and white treatment of climate
change in Tony Kevin's book. There is common
ground now to generate significant policy changes with a focus
on wellbeing, even while the CO2 debate continues to rage.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 17 September 2009
5 Comments
Addressing members of the Australasian Catholic Press Association, MasterChef winner and Catholic Julie Goodwin decried the vicious and personal nature of
some online forums, and the so-called journalists who draw upon them for articles.
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