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    Margaret Simons | The Nation Reviewed | Dec 2005 - Jan 2006

    The Hyatt is an historic hotel, or what passes for one in this young city, and the front of the building is heritage-listed so the doormen have to fit in. The uniforms are a gesture to some idea of what a servant might have worn back in the 1920s, when power...

  • Together Apart: Eavesdropping on Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir
    Maria Tumarkin | Books | Dec 2005 - Jan 2006

    A friend of mine was once married to a Russian musician, the lead singer of a band who subsequently became widely known in Russia, you could even say famous. To this day the band’s songs are listened to by millions, stadiums get filled and critics offer...

  • Man with the Pearl-White Cord
    Helen Garner | The Nation Reviewed | Dec 2005 - Jan 2006

    Somebody told me that Burkhard Augustin Hase, the young German magician who has married an Australian and come to live in Melbourne, was doing a few gigs at the Butterfly Club next door to South Melbourne Town Hall. I took my sister, an odd choice, since her...

  • Wide Open Road
    Julienne van Loon | The Nation Reviewed | Dec 2005 - Jan 2006

    At 8 o’clock on a Wednesday morning Nathan is driving the Commodore he spent the whole weekend tuning. He’s feeling a little cocky, or maybe just a bit hemmed in, and as the lights turn green he puts one foot on the brake and the other on the accelerator,...

  • Why Drug Dealers Vote Liberal
    Richard Cooke | The Nation Reviewed | Dec 2005 - Jan 2006

    Mitch may have stopped dealing drugs but he still wears the uniform of his former profession. His outfit is an expo for man-made fibres – nylon and rayon, teflon and polyester. His phone rings constantly, bathing the underside of his face in light....

  • Fumigation in London & Amsterdam
    | The Nation Reviewed | Dec 2005 - Jan 2006

    It was a warm Tuesday morning, the beginning of my second week in Bloomsbury, London, and I was smoking a cigarette on the stone steps of the apartment building two doors down from mine. A man wearing overalls got out of a small van, took a silver canister...

  • Nellie Melba & Enrico Caruso
    Shane Maloney | Dec 2005 - Jan 2006 | Encounters

    If Nellie Melba and Enrico Caruso were each major attractions, their double act was a sensation. Between them, the imperious Australian soprano and the effusive Italian tenor transformed La Boheme...

  • 'Vulture'; 'Sunday Arts'; 'The Movie Show' on ABC-TV
    Kerryn Goldsworthy | Television | Noted | Dec 2005 - Jan 2006

    Any poet could have told the ABC that with a name like Vulture its new arts program was bound to get negative feedback. A vulture is an ugly, disgusting creature whose presence lets you know...

  • 'The Ballad of Desmond Kale' by Roger McDonald
    Zora Simic | Books | Noted | Dec 2005 - Jan 2006

    In colonial New South Wales – where the convicts outnumber the jailers, the natives outnumber the convicts, and the sheep outnumber the lot – a whispered ballad, a “banded tale”, thrives to the status of legend....