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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 07 August 2006
DIY programs bulge with all manner of handy hints, as happy hosts clamour to offer their free-to-air advice. But scratch the surface, and even a friendly face can turn ugly on you.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- David Streader
- 24 July 2006
Australian cinema has historically depicted Aborigines in relation to modern-day white society. But the pre-colonial setting of Ten Canoes enables us better to identify with the characters.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Despite overweening corporate visions, the exploding lights and multicultural crowds of New York's Times Square show that people will continue to claim their right to be part of the city spectacle.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Renovator's paradise, these dwellings / rising off their tall stilts, / shouldering each other aside, / up and down the slopes
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Sebastien De Robillard
- 24 July 2006
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Director Kevin Spacey has no need to use normal screen tricks to indicate time or emotion in Beyond the Sea. He achieves this by having young Darin and older Darin interacting thoroughout the film
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 24 July 2006
While musing on current events in Lebanon, Brian Matthews' globe of memory begins to spin back to a time and place perhaps not so different to today.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Donald Russell
- 24 July 2006
Hard Candy begins inside an Internet chat room. The characters fake innocence but show they are increasingly capable of manipulation and violence.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
The fiery clusters of the coral trees / lining the road / to the left, towards Nowra
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- James Massola
- 24 July 2006
Former ALP heavyweight Carmen Lawrence asserts that the developed world is safer today than it's ever been. Her argument flies in the face of the reality that there has never been greater rewards for politicians willing to peddle fear.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Sebastien de Robillard
- 10 July 2006
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The film is not about the musicians, it is solely about the music. Kaurismaki set out to ‘capture the soul ….the magic feeling and the unique emotional bond’ of choro. You are left completely satisfied and even discreetly swinging your hips as the credits roll.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Mike Davis' new book belongs to a long tradition of studies of the urban poor – among them, Friedrich Engels’s examination of Victorian Manchester in The Condition of the Working Class in England. Davis updates this genre for a period of globalisation.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Trent O'Bryan
- 10 July 2006
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Karen Kissane’s book on the murder of Julie Ramage by her husband makes us ask ourselves whether the private attitudes that allowed men to claim provocation as a defence for killing their partners have really changed. Do they also need to be overhauled?
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