Section: Arts And Culture
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 29 January 2009
4 Comments
To be fair, Walt dislikes everybody. He dismisses the local priest as an 'overeducated 27-year-old virgin' and spews vile, xenophobic slander towards his Hmong refugee neighbours. Walt respects those who can give as good as they get.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Gillian Bouras
- 28 January 2009
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As the bush scents drift, I
remember: the aroma of fish and chips floating
along the platforms at Flinders Street Station; the smell of dust that
heralds a storm, as moisture hits
bone-dry earth. When your life is sliced in two by migration, you do not scorn nostalgia.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Jennifer Compton
- 27 January 2009
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There was a custom for Maori warriors to eat the enemy they killed in battle. This was called long pig because it tastes like pork but the bones are longer.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Grant Fraser
- 24 January 2009
To an outsider jazz might seem a mysterious, prowling place because it defies simple definition. This is a journal for slow reading, recommend to those who are not jazz devotees and do not prowl ... yet.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 22 January 2009
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On the slimmest of pretexts, fuelled by her own dubious and malicious instincts, Sister Aloysius launches a vendetta against Father Flynn. Doubt deals with the subject of clergy child abuse, though not in the way you might expect.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Malcolm King
- 21 January 2009
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Adelaide has a large, country-town feel about it. Sputes (sports utes) abound and the word 'bogan' is a term of endearment. The mullet hair cut, check shirt and ugg boots have never really gone out of
fashion here. These are my people.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Thom Sullivan
- 20 January 2009
outside a rank of .. gloomy farm utes .. wide-eyed gazing
.. hound dog howling
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crooning a primal
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lovelust upwards
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towards a doughy
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round of moon.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Alexandra Coghlan
- 16 January 2009
Landscape has long been acknowledged as central to Australian colonial history. In contrast to the harsh conditions endured by
settlers in Sydney Cove, convicts in Tasmania experienced a veritable Eden. (March 2008)
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Gillian Telford
- 15 January 2009
the wood-chip mills with gaping jaws strip chew and spit out forests ... protestors gather in city parks to march with banners — promises are processed — pulped (February 2008)
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 13 January 2009
From the time Heath Ledger first stepped onto the Dark Knight set there was talk regarding the brilliance of his performance. His voice is a villainous snarl. His walk is a Quasimodo slouch. His eyes are anarchic. Ledger's joker is a force of nature. (July 2008)
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Malcolm King
- 13 January 2009
Even though the university was now in phase seven of its Orwellian audit on 'where money was coming from and where it was going', they still had not yet twigged that there was a cell of book buying anarchists wearing sensible shoes in their midst. (February 2008)
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Philip Mendes
- 09 January 2009
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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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