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July 22, 1989

Heading for Hong Kong

1989

Murray Bramwell talks with Chris and David Erskine, better known as the Fools Company, about their forthcoming participation in the International Arts Carnival in Hong Kong.

Fools Company have been making friends with young audiences at schools, shopping malls, kids’parties and  community celebrations, as well as conventional theatre venues, for rthe past seven years. They have become well-known both in South Australia and interstate and at the end of this month they will be presenting their show, Galloping Grabbas, …

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Heading for Hong Kong

1989

Murray Bramwell talks with Chris and David Erskine, better known as the Fools Company, about their forthcoming participation in the International Arts Carnival in Hong Kong.

Fools Company have been making friends with young audiences at schools, shopping malls, kids’parties and  community celebrations, as well as conventional theatre venues, for rthe past seven years. They have become well-known both in South Australia and interstate and at the end of this month they will be presenting their show, Galloping Grabbas, …

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July 01, 1989

Pound Devalued

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A Serious Character: The Life of Ezra Pound
by Humphrey Carpenter,
Faber and Faber, 1989.

Ezra Pound has often stood as the quintessence of Modernism. Originating from Hailey, Idaho, in the American West, he presented himself as a cross between Dante and Uncle Remus, James McNeill Whistler and P. T. Barnum. Later, when the masks changed, or slipped altogether, the associations became sinister and unsavoury as his anti-Semitism ran riot and when, during World War II, he openly supported the …

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