Word: australians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...decades Australian cinema, like the country itself, led the world in woolgathering. Then, in the early '70s, Australian film stepped into the international limelight. None of the movies was a masterpiece, but in sum they suggested a nation of natural-born film makers with a respect for narrative form and a deft way with actors. These artists have created today's most vital national cinema...
...Australia has discovered film, it has rediscovered its own past. Some of the finest Australian films (Picnic at Hanging Rock, My Brilliant Career, Breaker Morant) are set on the cusp of the 20th century, when the country was approaching federation and its citizens were struggling for an identity apart from that of decorous Mother England. This was a country in adolescent turbulence. No wonder, then, that so many Australian novels (and now films) are tales of young nonconformists seeking liberation through maturity or anarchy. In The Getting of Wisdom, a bright upstart triumphs over the snobbery of her classmates...
...West 43rd Street, Executive Editor Abe Rosenthai gathered some top staff members to announce what he described as a "very good" development: "We're going to have some better competition here in New York City." Downtown, at the offices of the scrappy but financially hemorrhaging New York Post, Australian Publisher Rupert Murdoch was not quite so cheery...
...itself cracked, and a day later the yacht lost her mast when an inexpensive piece of equipment let go high in the rigging. To make matters worse, the New York Yacht Club selection committee "excused" Turner, 41, from the last racing season for the "serious indiscretion" of letting an Australian team member join his crew...
Charges that the host country was cheating marred the second week of competition. After a Soviet won the triple jump, Australian Ian Campbell, 23, a senior at Washington State University, complained bitterly that the home judges had robbed him of a jump that would have been good enough for the gold. "They said I fouled by dragging my right foot at the end of the step," he recounted. "When I demanded an English interpreter and appealed for the track referee, the judge just shrugged and had the area raked. I am sick over it!" All told, Campbell and Brazilian Joao...