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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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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Ruby Hamad
- 27 November 2009
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It may be a box office boon, but critics have slammed the Twilight series, and feminists complain that lead character Bella is a subservient drip and the vampire she loves, Edward, is a stalking patriarch. Why are smart films for women in such short supply?
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Andrew Hamilton
- 27 November 2009
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The tragic events that lead John and Sabiha to establish a pastry shop in Melbourne arise from Sabiha's desire for a child. Author Alex Miller's eye is deeply humane, recognising the wildness of human beings and the consequences of driven behaviour.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Anthony Morris
- 26 November 2009
As gay yodelling country-and-western singers and political advocates, you'd think the Topp Twins might have struggled to achieve mainstream success. The Twins have mastered the art of being very funny without excluding anyone from the joke.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Chris Wallace-Crabbe
- 24 November 2009
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Some kinds of issue offer themselves like particles becoming waves, where your elbows go in bed, acceleration into a curve, how to draw hands and especially feet, or who was up there before God.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Anthony Morris
- 19 November 2009
For once in the Coens’ recent comedies not everyone here is an idiot. But not being an idiot doesn’t help serious man Gopnik much, as his world continues
to spiral out of control.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 18 November 2009
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John Barton Hack was one of the prominent Adelaide men with the task of assigning names to the main streets of the new city. While his colleagues managed to imprint their names on the main city streets, all Hack got was an insignificant laneway in North Adelaide.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- P.S. Cottier
- 17 November 2009
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They might not throw beer bottles and therefore shatter the tone of the area. Strip clubs might not reveal themselves to expose odd bumps hidden in the area.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Ted Witham
- 13 November 2009
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Sara Maitland feels our culture devalues silence. She travels to an island off the Scottish coast, a desert in Israel, and the mountains of the Scottish highlands. These contrasting experiences of silence open her to new ways of thought and prayer.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- TIm Kroenert
- 12 November 2009
9 Comments
Michael Moore makes documentaries only in the sense that Today Tonight does investigative journalism. That's not to say he doesn't land a few well-deserving kicks while he's at it.
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