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ARTS AND CULTURE
Afternoon’s lateness raises light / moves day’s weight, an instant circles / near motionless, books half hidden.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Jan Forrester
- 16 April 2007
Indigenous programming attracts few national advertisers. Getting more Indigenous content on TV screens requires a dedicated Indigenous TV channel such as NITV, which is finally due to go to air within two months.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Scott Stephens
- 04 April 2007
Scott Stephens on the passing of Jean Baudrillard.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Nahum Ayliffe
- 02 April 2007
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John Carroll's The Existential Jesus affirms a view expressed by Nick Cave that the bloodless, placid Jesus offered by the Church denies Christ his potent, creative sorrow, and the boiling anger that confronts us so forcibly in the Gospel of St Mark.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 02 April 2007
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The Lives of Others is part of the recent wave of acclaimed German films focusing on the country’s troubled 20th century, while simultaneously seeking out stories of hope, inspiration or simple humanity.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Richard Leonard
- 02 April 2007
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A new ocker comedy depicts young protégés at a suburban dance school immersing themselves in choreographies about starvation, people dying of AIDS and the nuclear holocaust.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Philip Harvey
- 02 April 2007
John Deane grew up in Catholic Ireland, which has now seen the Church questioned and rejected. But unlike those who have walked away, Deane goes to poetry to help pick up the pieces of a broken religion.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Madeleine Hamilton
- 02 April 2007
Bettie Page experiences an equal, if not greater, level of popularity today than she did during the peak of her career as a pin-up model in the early to mid 1950s. But the exploitative, even dangerous, aspects of her work, should not be pushed out of sight and forgotten.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
In 2001, science broadcaster Robyn Williams wrote a novel inspired by Orwell's 1984, but set in 2007. It suggests that change is occurring with exponential speed, and that our opportunities for altering course are dwindling numerically, shrinking in size and diluting in quality.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- B.N. Oakman, Les Wicks
- 02 April 2007
Watching the stained lights of Christendom concede to soft Galician darkness before repairing to the bars of Santiago to commune in broken tongues with penitents of many nations until dawn
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Richard Leonard
- 02 April 2007
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With his mother coming and going from the house and his life, Augustine has to find his way to adulthood. Running With Scissors feels like walking through a human zoo where we observe the insane antics of one caged character after another.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 02 April 2007
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Statisticians of weather can have a shot at telling us where this drought stands in the pantheon of arid disasters. Is this the 'worst drought' in a thousand years, as Mike Rann is said to have claimed? Who knows?
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