Section: Arts And Culture
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Maria Takolander
- 22 January 2007
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You track her through the maze / Of her mirrors until she becomes / A garden party of herself
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Margaret Cassidy
- 22 January 2007
U2's Bono is as well known for his political activism as for his songs. He mixes his political evangelism with the concert performances to such an extent that they almost become interchangeable.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Doyle
- 22 January 2007
Dick Queen was released from captivity in July 1980 after the Iranians noticed he was getting really sick. He was one of 66 US hostages. Held at the height of summer, the Welcome Home Dick Queen party was everything you could ever want in a party.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 22 January 2007
While the journeys made both by Alice and the children in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe are about escaping reality, the arthouse film Pan's Labyrinth presents fantasy and altruism as the way to transcendence.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- ten poets
- 24 December 2006
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They say after the storm / you should check the tide pools / for fallen stars. From 17 October 2006.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 24 December 2006
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Denton says the people interviewed for his new film on evangelical Christianity in the USA "embody the Christian ideals of love", but absolute faith can "tell you it’s okay to hate a group of people such as homosexuals". From 31 October 2006.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Michael Mullins
- 24 December 2006
A new history of the North Sydney Jesuit parish describes the turbulent '60s, during which there was a shift in the disposition of Catholics from a feeling of it being "easier than one thinks to hate oneself", towards "learning to love oneself humbly". From 17 October 2006.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 23 December 2006
In a cerebral sci-fi movie, America’s war on drugs emerges as a reflection of the real-world War on Terror, where government forces rage against a demonised and largely faceless enemy.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- James Massola
- 23 December 2006
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After discovering books by three women, a Lonely Planet editor from Melbourne resolves to follow in their footsteps, in the hope of giving some purpose to her aimless wanderlust.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Judges Philip Harvey, James Massola and Andrew Hamilton
- 23 December 2006
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In a cage in Guantanamo bay / David Hicks sees his life slip away... The top ten entries in Eureka Street's limerick competition.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Jack Waterford
- 23 December 2006
Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard are enjoying their bounce, and their honeymoon, as John Howard predicted they would. Early polls suggest a marked upsurge in the Labor vote, in approval for the Labor leadership change, and in comparisons between the performance of Rudd and the Prime Minister. Were an election to be held now, one might think Labor would romp it in.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Michael Ashby
- 11 December 2006
Most political studies are poll-driven. Because qualitative data are far less likely to be available, little is known about the the political experience and imaginings of "ordinary" Australians.
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