section: Arts And Culture
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Philip Mendes
- 09 January 2009
6 Comments
Benny Morris, Israel's best-known revisionist historian, led more and more Israelis and Diaspora Jews in the 1980s to accept
the legitimacy of an independent Palestinian state in the West Bank and
Gaza Strip. Morris has changed his spots. (September 2008)
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 08 January 2009
2 Comments
In life and art Nick Cave is drawn to the potent territory where the sacred meets the profane. Steve McQueen's brutal, beautiful portrait of Irish republican prisoners of an uncaring Thatcher government achieves a similar transcendence. (October 2008)
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 07 January 2009
4 Comments
The rumoured potential of the Large Hadron Collider to bring about the disintegration of the universe captured the public imagination. 'Hadron' is a word susceptible to misprinting of a kind that destroys the seriousness of any discussion. (September 2008)
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Isabella Fels
- 06 January 2009
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I love the way you go from fat to thin ... Straight to curly (October 2008)
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Dorothy A. Lee
- 23 December 2008
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Feminist biblical scholars ask two fundamental questions of the biblical nativity story. First they ask how female characters
are portrayed.
Second, they ask how these biblical myths can be reinterpreted in a woman-friendly (rather than misogynist) way.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Michael McVeigh
- 19 December 2008
2 Comments
Life here leaves characters little time for introspection or philosophy. When politics finds its way into the strips, it's done in typically irreverent country style. Footrot Flats is one thing Australians could never steal from our nearby neighbours.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 18 December 2008
1 Comment
Having grown up an orphan in a Mumbai slum, Jamal is an unlikely candidate for Who Wants To Be A Millionaire. A sense of the divine pervades the film, but while Jamal seems destined for good fortune, his brother Salim diverges towards corruption.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 17 December 2008
1 Comment
I don't support the view that cab drivers are sources of homespun wisdom and arcane knowledge. Australian cabbies are an amiable, diverse lot, not
given to philosophy, though I encountered one spectacular exception.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Jeff Klooger
- 16 December 2008
1 Comment
The minister .. surveys his kingdom with an eagle's eye .. and an artichoke's heart .. those desperadoes in their plywood boats .. the public with their mortgages
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- James Massola
- 12 December 2008
Of particular interest are the chapters on the mythologising of the 'Busby Babes', the young team that perished in the Munich air disaster in 1958. White examines the impact of the disaster on the club's brand, and the manner in which it has been exploited.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 11 December 2008
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Of the notorious Australian low-budget genre films of the 1970s and 1980s, few would feature 'social commentary' as a selling point. But then, few have the distinction of being based on a Peter Carey short story.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Andrew Hamilton
- 10 December 2008
2 Comments
Golden Years is a wonderful resource for reflecting on Catholic life
over the last 60 years. The more than 70 former members who offer their memories of the Newman Society also
reflect on the way in which their experience in it affected their
subsequent lives.
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