section: Arts And Culture
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Dorothy A. Lee
- 23 December 2008
6 Comments
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
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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
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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
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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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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tom Clark
- 10 December 2008
15 Comments
Sick of singing from the same song sheet during a perfect storm? Try our innovative 12-step cliche evasion program and see if, at the end of the day, it impacts your speech and enhances your conversation, going forwards into 2009.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Kathryn Hamann
- 09 December 2008
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You are the city that recognised .. no temple but yourself ... those precious sparkling walls of intellect ... Shall I go down and trouble .. you with my touch? You as yet able .. to bar the gates
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Andrew Hamilton
- 05 December 2008
4 Comments
If Manning Clark was oversensitive to criticism, he was also strongly, sometimes brutally, criticised by his peers and by journalists. Matthews' biography presents the relationship between Clark's writing and his dramatic inner world.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Ruby Hamad
- 04 December 2008
4 Comments
'New Wave' Australian films of the '70s and '80s, such as Picnic at Hanging Rock and Breaker Morant, wooed audiences and critics. This weekend, four films that few Australians have seen will vie for top honours at the 2008 Australian Film Institute Awards.
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