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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Thom Sullivan
- 13 May 2008
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Cattle and kangaroos graze icy grass.. and a grey sky winces.. And in a further window.. a light snaps on to the slow sounds.. of life stirring within.
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W. G. Sebald wrote as somebody evolving a new sensory capacity or a new vein of intellectual attention. The Emergence of Memory offers five interviews with him and four essays about him, which show that while he considered life to be 'a grave affair', he also knew sources of joy.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
The Jews forced to work on Operation Bernhard, producing counterfeit currency for the Nazis, lived in relative luxury compared with others in concentration camps. This presents a daily ethical dilemma to the
characters of The Counterfeiters.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
You're in a forest somewhere, lying facedown in a box. With a jolt, the box starts to move; a gradual ascent, like a roller coaster beginning its climb to the top of the rise. You feel as though you haven't really lived your life, merely viewed it like a movie on fast-forward.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Helen Hagemann
- 06 May 2008
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You hear the river cry in the darkness.. It takes a breath over trickling stones.. over endless white cracks.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Frances Devlin-Glass
- 02 May 2008
It will be difficult for bookshops to house The Mystery of Rosa Morland, as its genre is a wonderful hybrid of crime fiction and poetry. The verse novel represents a very modern feminist take on sexual and
actual violence within marriage.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
It's ironic that a television show purportedly celebrating weight loss should keep thousands
of viewers pinned to their sofas and their television sets. Nonetheless 2008 may go down in history as the year The Biggest Loser redeemed itself.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Margaret Simons
- 30 April 2008
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The Murray is a harnessed beast. Its flow is regulated by locks and weirs. The engineering feats to which we are wedded seem not so much a testimony to our power as to our continued foreignness. From Eureka Street, June 1991.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
he was diverted.. from the impending roast.. and wiping red wine.. from his generous lips.. he mouthed sweet nothings.. in retaliation.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Rochelle Siemienowicz
- 24 April 2008
The Painted Veil explores the painful dynamics of an unhappily married couple and the broader social issues that impact on their union. Filmed entirely in China, it depicts a country boiling with internal conflict, and a growing resentment of the colonial presence.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Adrian Gibb
- 23 April 2008
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Through a scientific imbalance, I, and about ten percent of my world's populace, am unable to experience anything beyond normal human intellectual capacity. We became mediators, lecturers, scientists and editors — anything which required a complete lack of spiritual moral parameters.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Bob Morrow and B. N. Oakman
- 22 April 2008
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A bunch of plastic pink carnations.. two white roses, limp.. scorched by frost.
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