Word: australians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Travelers who drive far enough into the parched interior of Australia, taking care to lug extra fuel, water and minor spare parts, enter a region of outback so distant and featureless that it lies beyond the reassuring certitude of maps. So says Australian novelist Janette Turner Hospital at the outset of her grim, millennial novel Oyster (Norton; 400 pages; $25.95). Such travelers--an Australian father, say, and an American stepmother, joining forces to track down backpacking adult children who had disappeared months before--would soon become disoriented. Even in their car they would be dazed by heat and a pervading...
...long three-pointer from the right wing by Australian standout Kylie Page brought Hawaii within three, 71-68. When Arkansas guard Christy Smith missed a jumper on the other end, the Wahine had a chance...
This evening kicks off "Imagining the Aborigine: Australian Movies Since the Second World War," a three-day film retrospective at the Harvard Film Archives. Curated by John Rickard, Harvard's visiting Professor of Australian Studies, the series features (among many others) Peter Weir's The Last Wave and Nicholas Roeg's Walkabout, as well as several documentaries about Aborigine-European encounters on this island continent. Put some shrimps on the barbie and stroll down to the basement of the Carpeneter Center to check out these cinematic gems...
...feel-good comedies and soapy ship operas dominating commercial cinema, the visionaries are in retreat. Ridley Scott (Blade Runner) and Paul Verhoeven (Total Recall) have renounced the form. That leaves the creation of dank, luscious worlds within worlds to Alex Proyas. And he'll do fine. The Egyptian-born, Australian-raised director of The Crow has a chilling new fever dream called Dark City--a reminder of how sensuous a visual trip movie watching...
...JUST BEFORE CHRISTMAS Tripp, who like Lewinsky has been subpoenaed, tells her she intends to expose the alleged affair. They discuss Tripp's having a fake "foot accident" to avoid testifying. (At some point, a source tells TIME, Lewinsky even offers Tripp a financial interest in an Australian condo she owns if Tripp will keep quiet...