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...visual diagnosis. So many disease states a re invisible to the onlooker. An infant born with a liver disease or heart disease may require extensive surgery, a premature baby may spend months in a neonatal intensive care unit and have lifelong medical and developmental disabilities, but they don't stand out in the kindergarten class photograph...
Wright's gift to Australian literature is Desperance. A fictional port town bypassed by history and even the tides, which have left it high and dry, Desperance embodies the roots of its name: despair and hope (espérance in French). Wright says Desperance could stand for any Australian town, or Australia itself. And it's her uncanny ear for the particularities of local language and eye for striking symbolism that could carry Carpentaria into the classics sections of bookshelves in years to come. There it would sit comfortably alongside Xavier Herbert's fictional study of Australia's Top End, Capricornia...
Approximately 20 players stood up in protest, with others also about to stand, before Murphy left the room, according to one witness...
...monkeys, several dog breeds and a car tire, plus all varieties of black and white humans. Compulsively confessional, he talks of his cop encounters, his heart attack and his father's death in bed, if you know what we mean. It's a priceless evening with the all-time stand-up shaman...
...sick of men who can't satisfy her. Also, NASA and racist dolphins. But Sykes, a former writer for Chris Rock (whom she sounds a bit like) and the star of two short-lived TV shows, has more than enough energy and tart comic logic for this stand-up soirée. She doesn't just rail at the White House's fumbling of military and financial issues; she's got helpful hints, like putting working moms in charge of the defense budget ("There's a sale on bombs at Target"). Of the newer comics with DVDs, Sykes is the finest...