section: Arts And Culture
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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
5 Comments
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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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Doyle
- 21 April 2008
Like people, no book is exactly symmetrical. Often the cover belies the interior, just as the bright faces
of people often hide the stories beneath. Many we ignore too easily, a million we will never know, such being the way of the world.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brenda Niall
- 18 April 2008
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Many Irishmen volunteered to fight for Britain in the
First World War. Others took part in the 1916 Easter Rising and subsequent struggle for independence. Like Gallipoli the previous year, the doomed Rising became a legend more
powerful than a military success could have been.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 17 April 2008
'Geo-politically astute' astrologer Jessica Murray believes revelations about China's violations against Tibet were prompted by astrological activity. For all their glib outlandishness and pseudo-scientific jargon, contemporary astrologers still fascinate.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 17 April 2008
Cartoonist Bruce Petty has crafted a film as ambitious and chaotic as its title suggests. Global Haywire pastes talking head interviews alongside outrageous animated satire to create a political cartoonist's answer to a schoolboy scrapbook.
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