Word: australians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rich and fashionable Australian woman loses her husband to another woman, and her two children in a mysterious house fire. She then flees into the Outback, where she attempts to erase her identity and, with it, her memories of humiliation and tragedy. As Thomas Keneally paints it, the landscape is almost biblical: an antipodean Sinai, where the flesh is challenged and the spirit purified...
...Step by step, you give up everything in your life," says Lisa Gent, an Australian whose son Peter and daughter Nicole are believed to be with Koresh, as well as Nicole's two children who were fathered by Koresh. "You begin to live for a pat on the head," adds Lisa's husband Bruce. Ex-cult members warn that some Davidians would do anything for their leader. Australian James Thom recalls Koresh asking him one day, "How far are you prepared to go?" When Thom looked puzzled, Koresh asked, "Which of your two children are you prepared to sacrifice...
...PROBLEM WITH FEEL-GOOD MOVIES is that they browbeat the viewer with their strident optimism; like a Stalinist nanny, they shout, "Feel good!" Such a one is STRICTLY BALLROOM, an audience hit at several festivals. In this Australian musical comedy, West Side Story meets Saturday Night Fever, and everyone -- especially the thoughtful moviegoer -- ends up exhausted. On a ballroom dance floor, director Baz Luhrmann sets in motion all manner of human and cinematic gargoyles. You've never seen so many fisheye close-ups of goofy faces caked with bad makeup. Watching the film is like being condemned to perform...
...samples from the nearby Manson Crater, 35 km (22 miles) across and about 65 million years old and perhaps made by a chunk of the comet that killed the dinosaurs. Then, after a weekend back in Flagstaff, the Shoemakers departed for their annual one-month field trip in the Australian Outback, where the ancient and stable land surface, peppered with craters of all ages, is a happy hunting ground for geologists...
David S. Friedman '93 and David J. Kennedy '93 competed against 13 other debate teams--defeating teams from Australian National University, Hart House of the University of Toronto and Macquarie University of Sydney--to become the 1993 World Champions...