Word: australian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...used to reduce the surface noise often left the instruments sounding dead and flat. Now the advent of the CD has spawned another prodigious outpouring of reissues. And finally someone has had the time, affection and sheer wizardry to bring this great music alive for the hi-fi era: Australian sound engineer Robert Parker...
...played in all the biggies. The Australian Open. The French Open. Wimbledon. The U.S. Open...
...trust. Should he trust Celia (Genevieve Picot), who desires him even more than she hates him? Or amiable Andy (Russell Crowe), shopping for a friend? Emotional frost is the one power Martin holds over those who would come close enough to wound or even touch him. This Australian drama has faults: a short story's facile symmetry and (ugh!) a wacky car chase. But it gets at the mysteries of isolation and obsession. Like another, better movie about a photographer, a park and betrayal, Proof is a testament to what pictures cannot reveal. This is Blowup, wallet-size...
Personal contacts, and larger ones, are slowly beginning to make a difference to the island continent's overall sense of isolation. Despite Australians' fabled reluctance to learn a foreign language, 65,000 are now studying Japanese, more students than in any other country outside Japan, save South Korea and China. In Sydney, government-funded laboratories are working on giving Australian foods such as jams and processed meats a more attractive taste for consumers in Japan. There are no Asian characters so far in the hit Australian television soap opera Neighbours -- ironic perhaps, given the title -- but there is a fledgling...
...JAPANESE LOST WORLD WAR II, why are they able to buy real estate and corporations of the former Allies? Was victory hollow then? Given the atrocities, is justice being confounded now? Those familiar questions were posed anew but not answered in SHIMADA, an Australian hit that arrived on Broadway last week with a starry cast (Ben Gazzara, Ellen Burstyn, Estelle Parsons and Mako) and a gongs-and-samurai dreamscape production. The plot hinged on hints that a Japanese tycoon who bids on a clapped-out bicycle factory may also be the stockade guard who tortured its founder (as recalled...