section: Arts And Culture
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Peter Matheson
- 18 March 2008
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The teacher gagged.. The friend betrayed.. The healer hung.. The saviour Torn.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Andrena Jamieson
- 14 March 2008
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For 22 days, Vedran Smailovic played the cello in the ruined Sarajevo market place to honour the 22 people killed there in mortar fire. The Cellist of Sarajevo is a noble book.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 13 March 2008
Tough times call for tough measures — the McGarvie women comprise a
single-parent family in a male-dominated society, so you can hardly
blame them for making a living the best way they can. Houdini is all charm and showmanship, with hidden depths and dark secrets.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Paddy O'Reilly
- 12 March 2008
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We are part of a crowd walking slowly down to the river bank to watch the fireworks. People smile at me, because I am not one of them. I can appreciate this part of their culture, even though I am a foreigner.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Alexandra Coghlan
- 07 March 2008
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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.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 06 March 2008
The Black Balloon's early '90s suburban locale is a tangible and familiar environment,
where intolerance and ignorance brood beneath the surface. Lead actor Rhys Wakefield embodies everything that it is to be a teenager on the brink
of adulthood.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Andrew Hamilton
- 05 March 2008
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Brakes are useful when riding down a mountain at dusk, but they are not to be taken for granted. The god of cyclists gives and takes away, and punishes and rewards. Eureka Street June-July 1994
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Kevin Gillam
- 04 March 2008
my words are miscarriages ... I keep my tongue wound in my teeth, ignore the throbbing in the gullett, but symptoms find their opening
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Rochelle Siemienowicz
- 28 February 2008
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Hank Deerfield's son goes missing soon after he returns from Iraq. When he decides to investigate, he finds an army bureaucracy that shuts him down at every point, and similarly unhelpful young soldiers.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Doyle
- 27 February 2008
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At the end of his last season as coach of his sons' basketball team, Brian Doyle found himself savouring the job that he didn't want three years ago. While occasionally there is a flash of creativity and grace among his players, it's the egregious mistakes he will miss the most.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Lorraine McGuigan
- 26 February 2008
Her skin bears witness to his absence ...
The rooms, ambivalent about space, contract/expand at will. Day by day she is shrinking.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brenda Niall
- 22 February 2008
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Irina Sibley experienced hunger, displacement and bewilderment as a child in war-torn Lithuania. But the first two sentences of her memoir are optimistic: 'A girl-child is born,' she announces. 'It is me.'
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