Word: australian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Kidman? The Australian actress slides deftly into each of her five roles, though her accent as the model seems lost somewhere between Los Angeles and Sydney. Otherwise, there's nothing wrong with her performance except that any of 20 other competent stage actresses could have done it. Not many of them, of course, would also look as good in the buff (from behind, for about 10 seconds) or be able to command the kind of hype of which great letdowns are made...
...logoed black T that was the cyberpunk uniform way back when. Examining his life as a middle-aged iconoclast, he cackles with glee at his own half-cracked ideas. Which are manifold. His next novel is a "fantasy technothriller" featuring terrorists and assassins. He contributes to Wired and the Australian magazine World Art and spends loving hours maintaining busy e-mail lists on "dead media," foreign-language science-fiction and postindustrial design. And though he's a proper punk skeptic when it comes to politics--"My job is to play with nutty ideas, not grapple with serious issues...
...TELEVISION Sr. Match Play Chall., ESPN, 2:00 p.m. W. Soccer NCAA Semis, ESPN2, 2:00 and 4:30 p.m. J.C. Penney Classic, ESPN, 4:00 p.m. Toledo at Marshall, ESPN2, 8:00 p.m. Australian Open, Golf Chan...
...virtually all respects, the Aussies were not here to show off. Even their decision to open with contemporary South Australian composer Graeme Koehne's Elevator Music, complete with maracas, hypnotic blues lines and African drum rhythms, was not meant to be flamboyant as it was meant to be fun. It seemed that their intention was to enliven the audience...
While traveling in Australia last summer, our art critic, Robert Hughes, saw an exhibition titled "New Worlds from Old: 19th Century Australian and American Landscapes" and read press coverage of it, which included a review by Patricia Macdonald in Australian Art Collector. After the exhibition moved to the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Conn., Hughes' review ran in our Nov. 2 issue. His first three sentences were very similar to the opening sentence of Macdonald's article. "To my embarrassment I seem to have cannibalized it, but it was entirely unconscious," says Hughes. "I apologize to Ms. Macdonald and to TIME...