Word: kilda
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...moves about easily, and because he so clearly likes and is curious about people, Gurr is a reliable witness to a changing city. Writing about how property developers moved into bohemian St. Kilda and evicted him from his home of 15 years, Gurr pinpoints the decay: "The first sign, someone said, is an ice-cream parlour." On a train, after meeting two lonely souls, he has an epiphany about the fissure "between ordinary human need and the rhetoric of success." "Believing that your value as a human being is measured by your independence and separation from others is the great...
Spread across a manicured football field in groups of 10 or so, the children dart back and forth like the parts of a complex machine. In one group, they mark balls thrown in the air by Aussie Rules players from the St. Kilda Football Club. In another, they awkwardly practice handballing to the veteran players. They smack into tackling bags, play bullrush, and try to evade the tackles of lurking Saints. And they learn how to scoop balls off the turf and kick short into the muscled arms of two-time Brownlow medalist Robert Harvey...
...Potchefstroom, on the high veldt near Johannesburg. Most of the kids were from nearby black townships, bussed in for a couple of hours' practice with players most had never heard of. For the kids, the meet was a chance to try a new sport. For the St. Kilda players, it was a key part of summer training. And for Australian Rules football, it was part of a push into a most unlikely market: Africa. "We think it's the best game in the world," says Saints coach Grant Thomas. "And with the natural skills and enthusiasm of the kids over...
...latter screens on sbs-tv March 8.) And as for Harvie's existential angst, it's all about Adam. "I've struggled with the meaning of life over the years," admits Elliot, who dropped out of graphic-design school to sell T shirts for five years at the St. Kilda markets. Then, like Harvie, he had a carpe diem call - and seized the day by enrolling in film at the Victorian College of the Arts in 1996. (Elliott's friend and former classmate Glendyn Ivin took out the Palme d'Or for short film at Cannes last year with another...
...exercises in Impressionist landscape, Boyd let his fear and yearning run with startling freedom. "Seek those images/ That constitute the Wild": Blake's exhortation was seldom better fulfilled by a young artist than it was by Boyd. In paintings like The Gargoyles, 1944, the Melbourne beach suburb of St. Kilda, where he lived, became a theater of freaks and demonic hybrids, as real in its way as Mikhail Bulgakov's fantastic Moscow, because grounded in memory. Thus the blond cripple in The Gargoyles is a fellow artist who had polio; and one of Boyd's recurrent images, a person walking...