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...counts--which is more in production than interpretation--Australia has a vigorous cultural life, sometimes enthrallingly so. The list of first-rank Australian novelists, headed up by Murray Bail, Peter Carey and David Malouf--writers of exceptional power and social insight--is a considerable one. London has a brilliant biographer and diagnostician of past culture in Peter Conrad, an erudite and dark-minded expatriate from Tasmania...
...growth of republican feeling in Australia coincided with, and was strongly encouraged by, the prime ministership (1991-96) of Paul Keating, a brilliant and abrasive Laborite much feared for his insults ("pansies" and "unrepresentative swill" were among the milder epithets he launched at his foes in parliamentary debate) and greatly misunderstood for his tastes: given his passions for antique French clocks and Georgian furniture, Keating was the most cultivated Australian ever to serve as Prime Minister. The movement's chief unelected backer was a formidable young merchant banker named Malcolm Turnbull. (Full disclosure obliges me to say that Turnbull...
...time-starved world, a brilliant newspaper is a very cheap way to make money. If it's luminous, it's well put together, it's organized, you can, in half an hour, get from that what you would spend six hours from the Internet doing. The newspaper industry is growing, quite slowly, but it is growing...
...designed by Courtney S. Thompson ’09, and produced by Kimberly D. Hagan ’09, “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” turned out not to be the expected play about societal themes, but instead a brilliant rendering of a family’s private and inter-personal tensions. The production will be playing in the Loeb Experimental Theater November 9 through...
...follow the pace of the flick, which chronicles the life and times of big-time Harlem heroin dealer Frank Lucas. The movie apparently inspired Jigga to revisit roots in the drug game and get back to making music geared to the streets. On this record, Jay is as lyrically brilliant as ever, proving that he has few peers in this area of the rap game. He also breaks into uncharted political territory, dissing radio host Don Imus, George W. Bush, and even Ronald Reagan. “American Gangster” does get off to a slow start, and it?...