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/ 21 September 2001

Slam dunk

Sarah Jones is on a mission to influence the depiction of black people in the media. She’s visiting South Africa along with fellow poet Steve Colman, writes Thebe Mabanga.

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/ 21 September 2001

Art goes digital

The organisers of South Africa’s first significant all-digital, non-commercial exhibition are calling for entries. Hoping to create a new awareness of the digital medium as an art form, the exhibition will open on October 31 at the Vega School of Brand Communication in Benmore, Sandton.

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/ 21 September 2001

Morbid monsters

b>Creature feature of the week: </b> Johnston has dispensed almost entirely with lyrical wonder and concentrated on horror and violence, the result is a dark, almost morbid picture that is unsuitable for younger children and squeamish adults, writes Philip French.

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/ 21 September 2001

Sun dances

Costume drama of the week:</b> In <i>The King Is Dancing</i>, Corbiau leaps from one scene to the next, without much bridging or build-up, and keeps the emotional temperature high. He all but dispenses with the recitative; the film is all arias, writes Shaun de Waal.

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/ 21 September 2001

X-raying America

Argentinian-born film producer Fernando Sulichin will be in Durban during the city’s International Film Festival to conduct several workshops and to introduce the South African prèmiere of the Sulichin-produced <i>Bully</i>, the new film by Larry Clark — a frank and explicit portrait of the violent, nihilistic youth of the United States, based on a real-life murder in Florida.

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/ 21 September 2001

The case for the prosecution

Is the evidence against Osama bin Laden sufficient to unleash a war? Julian Borger in Washington and Ewen MacAskill As far as President George W Bush is concerned, Osama bin Laden is “wanted dead or alive” for the September 11 outrages. The phrase harked back to a bygone Texan age when a lawman’s strong hunch […]

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/ 21 September 2001

The doctrine behind the attacks

Analysis Anthony Holiday It should surprise no one that the real culprit behind the acts of terror that have traumatised the United States and the global hamlet it effectively governs is not some group of Islamic fanatics but a philosophical doctrine, wholly occidental in origin, which is now rampant, not merely in academia but in […]

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/ 21 September 2001

The enthusiasm of the young

CD of the week Ash:Free All Angels Betty Clarke Nowadays it’s not cool to be young and enjoy it. Instead, adolescence is surrounded by negativity and teenagers bemoan the fact that they have their whole lives in front of them. Where are the head-spinning thrills, the heart-stopping lust, the celebration of golden summer holidays that […]

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/ 21 September 2001

The free market tide has turned

Comment Larry Elliott The response to the attacks in the United States last week has been instant. Old ways of thinking have been ditched to fight the threat to the West. Life after September 11 may never be quite the same again. No, you haven’t missed something. The armchair generals who were demanding knee-jerk retaliation […]