Germinal
Directed by Claude Berri
Reviewed by Dick Nichols
Nobody except, perhaps, students "doing" French literature reads the novels of 19th century French realist Emile Zola any more, and that's not surprising. It would be difficult to
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A meeting of reactionary minds
By Frank Noakes
"Vote against social engineering. Vote for democracy. Vote 1 for Australians Against Further Immigration", the ALP's Graeme Campbell urged electors in the Mackellar and Warringah by-elections.
By Pip Hinman
and Karen Fredericks
Penny Arcade has had her share of romantic traumas, but she has found the antidote. Once, following a particularly nasty break-up with an emotionally crippled boyfriend, she and a 21-year-old gay friend
Youths held in adult jail
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — Queensland Aboriginal and Islanders Legal Service vice-president Sam Watson said on March 22 that the service would appeal to the High Court or even the United Nations to "stop children
By Tony Smith
Keating's call — one might almost say "threat" — to business to invest some profits to prevent a wages push is yet another signal that he is bereft of foresight.
Throughout the '80s, Keating's economic "leadership" was of
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — Early in March a parliamentary deputy from Orenburg province in the southern Urals contacted Greenpeace Russia with alarming news.
Shunted up a side track just outside the town of Svetly were 16 open-topped
By Peter Montague
According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, somewhere between 2 and 4 million US children have sufficient lead in their blood to diminish their IQ, reduce their physical stature, damage their hearing, decrease their
Clutching at straws
I must endorse, with feeling, the recent WET Tank's award of the brass tampon to the Court government of WA for monumental incompetence and uselessness.
Not only have we had Court denouncing the Gay Mardi Gras with the
Songs and stories of Australia — Kev Carmody: Singer and Storyteller — A program recorded in conversational style. Through his folk songs and storytelling, Carmody reflects on the cultural differences between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal
"To me Dili was a really nice place, very peaceful. Everyone was free, living life without much planning for the future", Timorese painter Sebastiao Silva recalls his home, which he left behind in 1984, prior to the Indonesian invasion.
It is
North Korea: don't be confused
"Chaos. Corruption. Civil war. He's back to lay down the law" runs the promo for Hollywood's latest extravaganza of violence, Robocop 3. It just about describes US policy on North Korea.
The US-supported
By Pat Brewer
The Brazilian Workers Party (PT) has been tipped by many commentators to become part of a new government in the country's national elections in October. The PT is part of an electoral alliance with a variety of progressive parties,
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