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...moviegoers. Nobody in the picture business is bringing forth lilies to enliven the poet's "dead land." While everyone's attention is fixed on the Oscar nominations, it's the moment for cheesy slasher epics and the reluctant release of last year's failed genre effort, movies that may mix "memory and desire" but only in the most unappetizing ways...
...Labor's message is essentially the same: Howard's government is tired, it has lost touch with Middle Australia, its changes to workplace relations are extreme, it has neglected the environment, and the country's future wealth will be at risk when the resources boom ends. Somehow, with a mix of clich?s ("Australia has reached a fork in the road") and slogans ("China's quarry and Japan's beach"), Rudd has managed to "cut through"?the dream of political word wranglers. Inevitably, Rudd's success so far has elicited comparisons with former leader Mark Latham, who made local politics interesting...
...bringing back a constitution with lots of transfer of power from the nation states to the center is complete head-in-the-sand. The French and the Dutch voted no. This constitution is dead. It doesn't matter how hard you try to do mouth-to-mouth resuscitation - to mix my metaphors - this bird is not going to fly. So the Conservative Party is in a rather strong position. I was just reading the papers this morning - the government is in rather an awkward position because Blair said a number of things, and [his presumed successor, the Chancellor...
...year-old girl, a 25-year-old playing a disturbed teenager, a middle-aged Mexican woman ... and a real movie star, Cate Blanchett. The category has a lovely demographic mix...
...pool. The French cuisine (with a Khmer touch) uses fresh local seafood and produce and is superb. Menus are drawn up in consultation with guests, and meals are served on terraces or in the open-air dining pavilion. The communal areas at Knai Bang Chatt are appointed with a mix of Art Deco ornaments and furniture and Khmer bronzes sourced by Vervoordt in his other life as an antiques dealer. But his best pieces are probably the comfy double canopy beds, placed on prime sand facing the Gulf of Thailand. As an antidote to the crowds and touts of Angkor...