Word: australian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...game of rugby has a long and hallowed history, almost (but not quite) dating back to Norse times. Much more than just football without pads or a derivative of Australian rules football, rugby allows the most physical play to be combined with the subtlest of efforts...
Murdoch agreed to sell the Post, which he repurchased in 1993 under an FCC waiver granted to help him rescue the struggling paper, but the second obstacle proved more daunting. Murdoch abandoned his Australian citizenship and with great fanfare became an American. Next he structured the deal so that he, now an American citizen, and Diller would together own 76% of the voting control of the stations. Through a long chain of intermediary companies, Murdoch's Australia-based News Corp. would own the remaining 24% of the voting stock, just under the federal threshold...
...recent months a retrospective of Fairweather's work, selected by the Australian writer Murray Bail, has been touring Australian museums. Its last stop (through May 7) is at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney. It contains only 64 paintings. Fairweather's output was tiny; he destroyed or lost much of his work, and in the end about 500 pieces have survived, including drawings-not much for a man who began to paint in the early 1920s. And since he was a very uneven artist, their quality varies widely. He cared absolutely nothing for permanence; he used cheap...
...distance from the Australian art world-which, by the early '60s, had begun to see him as a talisman of integrity-was only outwardly bohemian; its ori-gins lay in the sort of calm, fanatical pride that cannot bear the distraction of company. One thinks of him scratching around between studio and sea like Shakespeare's exiled misanthrope Timon on the beach: "Come not to me again, but say to Athens/ Timon hath pitched his everlasting mansion/ Upon the beachEd verge of that salt flood...
...become an unexpected art-house success. This nicely calibrated play-within-a-film, starring Wallace Shawn as Vanya, follows a New York City theater company that is rehearsing the play. Two more film versions are in the works-one directed by and starring Anthony Hopkins; the other an Australian version from British stage director Michael Blakemore. And at New York City's Circle in the Square Theatre, the play has been revived once again, with Tom Courtenay in the title role...