section: Arts And Culture
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Alexandra Coghlan
- 13 December 2007
The recurrence of the ‘big' issues of politics, religion, and sexuality in Best Australian Essays 2007 is predictable enough. But the essays become more interesting when we see particular trends, such as surveillance and the individual's right to privacy, emerge in each.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Rochelle Siemienowicz
- 12 December 2007
The most recognisable Bob Dylan in this multi-Dylan film is infuriating. Hollow, vain and abusive. But also vulnerable and pitiable; an angry animal pacing his cage.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Andrew Hamilton
- 12 December 2007
Vinnies founder Frederic Ozanam kept a single-minded focus on the faces of the poor in 19th century France, while at the same time playing the role that churches and church organisations need to play in political life.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 12 December 2007
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Revealing his poetic side when the ship was turned away from Kuwait, Truss explained to Parliament that the sheep were beginning 'their long, lonely journey down the gulf'. As the responsible minister, he later repressed his lyricism and reverted to political jargon.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Shane McCauley
- 12 December 2007
Enough will be there if you can learn the language of fragments.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 14 November 2007
A person unaware of and cut off from nature will be taken by surprise when nature embarks on one of its punitive cycles. The Romantic poets reckoned that there was a spirit within the natural world that you could connect with.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 14 November 2007
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Boxing Day is a low-budget Australian film that combines different techniques to achieve a simmering fly-on-the-wall documentary-style drama. It seeks hope and forgiveness against a low-income suburban landscape, in a way that contributes to the broader story of reconciliation.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Daniel J. P.
- 14 November 2007
Well-appointed prospects but ill-advised devices | And improper solutions prompting mixed sugar and spices.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Andrew Hamilton
- 14 November 2007
The energy of Alex Miller's novel Landscape of Farewell comes from the paradox that is often manifest when people of very different cultures come together and words fail them. Out of their silence can come words more profound than the individuals could have spoken alone.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Malcolm King
- 14 November 2007
It's time we called big businesses' bluff about their appropriation of the term 'creativity'. For a truly creative nation to evolve, we need to study the wild mutability of the creative process.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 31 October 2007
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The Chaser's 'Eulogy' was less about the celebrities whose deaths it celebrated, than it was about public perceptions of those celebrities. The desire to puncture the 'cult of celebrity' is a major plank in the Chaser's War.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Their lives are anchored at the verge of loss, | Like a flipped coin assurance is unlikely.| Refugees endure a prolonged journey of conflict
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