Section: Arts And Culture
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Morag Fraser
- 10 July 2009
5 Comments
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.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 09 July 2009
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When Julie learned she was pregnant,
Dave advocated termination. Julie could see his logic, but was also
overcome by powerful mothering urges. The writers of Packed to the Rafters are adept at unpacking every skerrick of emotional baggage.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 08 July 2009
3 Comments
Years ago, a trout fisherman with 'irresistible' bait was outsmarted by a flock of pelicans. Like a punter with unshakeable conviction, Malcolm Turnbull also learned the hard way that there's no such thing as a dead certainty.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Peter Matheson
- 07 July 2009
I spot the odd ornamental shrub .. And even the occasional bird .. Though only sparrows, it seems .. Beloved of the Lord .. Survive this sterile affluence.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Jonathan Shaw
- 03 July 2009
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The great wave of Utegate has passed over us, leaving Malcolm Turnbull
on the sands, chastened but apparently unrepentant, and far from
exhausted. Reports
of his political death are manifestly exaggerated.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 02 July 2009
6 Comments
The original UK Masterchef is the pinnacle of reality TV. Masterchef Australia is the theme park version, sacrificing excellence to entertainment. It may be a different beast to its predecessor, but it's not all bad, either.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Susan Merrell
- 01 July 2009
6 Comments
I try to guard against stereotyping, so on arrival in New York I had not given a
thought to the loud, brash New Yorker of legend. Yet, they were all there, en masse. New York is full of ... well ... New Yorkers. And boy, are they loud!
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Are you the rain my Grandma knew so well? .. You're cold enough and sharp enough, my friend .. Perhaps you're rushing from the same wet hell .. Perhaps you're lines some minor devil penned.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 29 June 2009
6 Comments
When celebrities die, public grief is disproportionate, because death reasserts the humanity of one who has seemed beyond
it. Jackson had become so far removed
from his humanity that the shock of his mortality is even more
profound.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Australia leads the world
in mammalian extinction and in threatened species. The rag-tag group of contributors to Boom & Bust provide a timely scientific reminder that the fate
of birds is inextricably tied to our own.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 25 June 2009
6 Comments
Jack Charles is an Aboriginal elder, professional actor and part-time criminal. He describes his acts of burglary as 'collecting the rent' from white suburbanites who dwell on what could rightfully be considered Aboriginal land.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Eleanor Massey
- 24 June 2009
5 Comments
Neither lapsed nor nominal, but wandering — squizzing through
church doors to check the whereabouts of altar, cross and candlesticks,
before slipping into the back row. Last up to Communion, first out the door. A True Anglican.
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