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AMERICAN AUDIENCES are just awakening to the breadth of extraordinary cinematic talent emanating from Australia. Initially, only the films with distinctly Aussie themes made it to this side of the Pacific--films like Breaker Morant and Gallipoli, which depicted with a bloody poignancy the British manipulation of the colony's armed forces during the early part of this century. Other successful films like The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith and The Last Wave were classified as uniquely Australian because they delved into the racial tensions between the white settlers of the continent and the Black Aborigines whom they tried to wipe...
...Harvard said no to the Breakers, citing potential community opposition and the belief that the team's use of the Stadium could disrupt Harvard's own sports program. This is reasonable, until one considers the Breaker's whole plan According to George Matthews, owner of the Breakers the team was "willing to double security" for the games and have a clean-up crew go through the Business School area afterwards. In addition, he believes that an agreement could have been reached with the USFI, on scheduling to avoid any particular conflicts such as the Olympic soccer scheduled for Harvard...
...view of the Australian culture, which is filled with highly disciplined schools and lives off the seashore. Beresford is well known for placing his characters against breathtaking, fresh, wide-open landscapes, whether in America's as in Tender Mercies, or in a war-torn Australia as in the poignant Breaker Moram...
...Says Eiichi Adachi, television critic of Tokyo's daily Hochi: "Tetsuko has had more impact on her audience than any other top personality." woman Today, at 49, unshow-business abashedly unmarried and proudly independent in a country where both conditions are frowned upon, Tetsuko thrives as a tradition breaker...
...bounced it off the spongy grass court 15 ft. into the sky, across a fence and into the audience. He also lost, owing to a warning for "racquet abuse," a point's deduction for "an audible obscenity" and a delay of game penalty that cost him a tie breaker and a set. "You cannot default the No. 1 or No. 2 seed because they are the life of the tournament," complained Pfister afterward. "Tournaments don't need a guy like...