section: Arts And Culture
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Frank O'Shea
- 05 November 2008
3 Comments
First she gave up sugar in her tea. His Catholic guilt nagged him, and he followed suit. Then came fat-free milk. There is a puritan streak in today's narcissistic culture of gyms and dieting that makes anathema many of life's little luxuries.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 04 November 2008
5 Comments
It's 1996 and I'm saddling up to give the Sir Robert Menzies Lecture at London University. My topic is Henry Lawson and Manning Clark. 'Manfred who?' asks a baffled London colleague. The lecture's on Melbourne Cup Day. It could be an omen.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Andrew Burke
- 04 November 2008
3 Comments
too much America is not good for you ... Follow your own
Confucius-Marx mix ... Let them learn Mandarin, China — you have enough
people to swing it.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 30 October 2008
1 Comment
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.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Turning 40 is like any age — unless you're a woman. French writer Anais Nin wrote that we 'are made up of layers, cells, constellations'. Is it any wonder that at 40 those layers and cells start to settle in places we'd rather they didn't?
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Isabella Fels
- 28 October 2008
2 Comments
I love the way you go from fat to thin ... Straight to curly
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Ellena Savage
- 24 October 2008
2 Comments
Marsden shows us Hamlet, Horatio and Ophelia as
children playing in the forest. They discover a dying badger and
agree it needs to be euthanised. Hamlet stalls.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 23 October 2008
5 Comments
It can be hard to spot the villain in a Coen Brothers movie. The ill-fated scheme at the heart of their latest comedy is instigated by Linda, an endearingly goofy gym employee who longs to be able to afford cosmetic surgery.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Isabella Fels
- 21 October 2008
2 Comments
I've let you down by not looking after you ... By pretending to be your
closest intimate buddy ... But leaving you for dead ... Every time my
other friend ... The fridge entices me with her sensuous delights...
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- John Gunson
- 17 October 2008
9 Comments
The Brethren cultivated a relationship
with Howard that secured them generous access to him while he was prime
minister. Rudd has made it clear he has no time for them, but they will no doubt re-emerge when the climate is more congenial.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 16 October 2008
In 1974 French acrobat Philippe Petit balanced mortality and destiny on a wire between New York City's Twin Towers. This documentary imbues Petit's dizzying, existential quest with the dramatic tension of a bank heist.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 15 October 2008
10 Comments
Recent events both aeronautical and financial have been enough to scare anyone off banks and aeroplanes forever. Global economic chaos is nothing compared with the trauma of being stuck next to a large person on a plane.
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