section: Arts And Culture
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 12 August 2009
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Economists are often, sometimes
spectacularly, wrong. But like all prophets,
they are unabashed by and unpunished for abject failures. They pop
up from each new set of ruins, surprised yet unrepentant, princes
of a plethora of evanescent predictions.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
On a streaming easy line, kilometers of small creatures' terror terrain beneath the reigning kyrios of ripped earth.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Avril Hannah-Jones
- 07 August 2009
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The Australian Student Christian Movement was ahead of the mainstream church in its rejection of fundamentalism, its activism, support for ecumenism, and encouragement of lay and female leadership. Since the 1960s it has been a movement in exile.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 06 August 2009
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The publicity poster for Beautiful Kate is as ambiguous as the
controversial Bill Henson photographs it so blatantly references. The
film unpacks these ambiguities, not solving but exacerbating them and
making them sing with empathy.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Doyle
- 05 August 2009
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What if all the cars and sports teams we name for fleet
and powerful animals and cosmic energies and cool-sounding things that
don't exist or mean anything are, effective
immediately, renamed for literary characters and authors.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Margaret McCarthy
- 04 August 2009
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The drops are not an army ... Each promised drop gives the roof .. a temporary rash which .. fades before the next gob hits. .. The water does not rain as a team.
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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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ARTS AND CULTURE
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
9 Comments
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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