July 2006
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July 2006
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July 2006
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July 2006
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Shane Maloney
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July 2006 | Encounters
He was a hot-shot stock-car driver. She was a winsome 22-year-old brain surgeon. Theirs was truly a marriage made in make-believe.
The film was released as Days of Thunder...
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Patrick Allington
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Television | Noted | July 2006
Never mind three goals in eight minutes and, especially, Tim Cahill’s exquisite second effort. Never mind the controversial Japanese–Egyptian goal, or the sight of “our genius Guus” shoving officials on the sidelines. The undisputed highlight of SBS’s...
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Fiona Hile
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Books | Noted | July 2006
JM Coetzee’s fictional animal rights activist and ageing novelist, Elizabeth Costello, didn’t hesitate to compare contemporary stockyards and slaughterhouses to Nazi prison camps. In The Ethics of...
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Owen Richardson
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Film | July 2006
Published in nine volumes between 1759 and 1767, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentlemanmade a celebrity of its author, the obscure middle-aged clergyman Laurence Sterne, and...
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Kerryn Goldsworthy
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Books | July 2006
Two or three decades ago, my sisters and I would meanly poke fun at our mother when Christmas brought with it a swag of greeting cards filled with catalogues of bodily woes. Thirty or forty relatives and friends would get in touch once a year to keep my...
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Justin Clemens
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Art | July 2006
In 1786 the great German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe made a celebrated excursion to Italy. Though Raphael had previously been Goethe’s favourite artist, the writer was so overwhelmed by the power of Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel ceiling that thereafter...
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Robert Forster
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The Monthly Essays | Society & Culture | July 2006
Grant and I started the Brisbane band The Go-Betweens in January 1978. We’d met two years earlier in the drama department at the University of Queensland, where we were both doing Bachelor of Arts degrees centred mainly on English literature. Most of the...
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