Word: australian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pressed to vote for their favorite films, the first couple would probably bring up the British production Chariots of Fire and the Australian movie Breaker Morant before any of the Hollywood flicks they were able to see in private screenings at the White House and Camp David...
Life on Earth is a series of miracles, some familiar and some so strange as to sound like a tale told by a space traveler returning from a distant galaxy. On the more bizarre side there are the Cycloranas, the water-holding frogs of the Australian desert. Their active life is condensed to brief times when there is water in those arid wastes. After a rainstorm, they gorge themselves on insects, mate, then watch their eggs quickly develop into tadpoles. Finally, bloated with water, they burrow into the sand and wait for the next storm, which may not come...
Rupert Murdoch, the Australian newspaper mogul, bought the afternoon Post in 1976 and knew exactly what he wanted to do. He moved it away from the traditional role of the afternoon paper--providing the day's developing news, with lots of commentary and business reporting--and turned to the stuff that neither television nor the more respectable print outlets were doing. The Post went heavily into crime ("Gutsy Hell Camp Victim Foils Thugs"--a story about a mugging of a concentration camp survivor in yesterday's edition), sentiment ("Medal for New York's bravest little girl...") and gossip (at least...
There was Ragen, the psychotic and angry rapist; Arthur, a rational and emotionless Englishman (replete with accent): Allen, the con man; Danny, the frightened adolescent; Adalana, the introverted lesbian (three of his personalities were female); Philip, the thug; Kevin, the planner; Walter, the Australian big-game hunter; Lee, the comedian; Bobby, the daydreamer; and some 14 others. By securing the confidence of Milligan's main incarnation, Billy, the doctors elicited from the defendant information about each of his personalities...
...Indecent Obsession is a novel of modest proportions. Most of the action takes place on Ward X--for psychologically disturbed veterans of tropical warfare--in an Australian army hospital somewhere in the islands of New Guinea. Where The Thorn Birds spanned three generations, life with the inhabitants of Ward X focuses on the months after the official end of World War II. As the novel begins, McCullough appears ready to try her hand at a limited, intricate dissection of life's anomalies, rather than the universal truths she depicted four years ago. The five men on Ward...