The Aporia
14 articles about 14 events for “Strange Stories From US” from The Sydney Morning Herald.
“That included one on an extract from a 1934 Daily Mail article which was a pro-Nazi article reporting on the Night of the Long Knives, asking students to explain the problems the article raises for a historian.”
“And then Maggie O’Farrell’s Land, which promised something wild and strange but then gave us the familiar consolations of a family saga.”
“Blame Ukraine for the price spikes and lift the US sanctions on Russian oil and oil product exports – including sanctions on buyers of Russian energy that Trump himself signed only about three weeks ago – and it will deflect from the fact that the price rises…”
“Teens flood the study rooms, sipping from free sparkling water supplied by the library cafe.”
“But before we put distance between these stories and our own, Logan reminds us that the “same vast expansions and rapid progress that thrilled them also terrified them – just as our technologies do now.””
““I realised it’s because it has sounds from the real world in it, sounds that have their own stories.”
“Lowry, whose portrait of Penelope Seidler won the 2014 Archibald Prize, describes Nolan as “a much stranger artist than his familiarity allows us to see.”
“Then last week deja vu – as Jim Chalmers, seeking to get ahead of Tuesday’s interest rate rise, leaned away from suggestions government spending was driving up inflation.”
“He draws a line from the activism done in the ’60s and ’70s “lobbying successive governments to try and make sure that Australia told its own stories” to the industry we have today – one that helped pave the way for his own career.”
“An agreed statement of facts state that Farag sucked one woman’s nipple, photographed another woman naked and used a combination of ruses such as skin checks and massages to commit his crimes.”
““It’s very strange when you’re in the middle of the journey,” said the one-time star of Australian soap Home and Away.”
““And it’s a strange backlash because on the one hand you get people on the left who think this intensive parenting is turning women into slaves, and then people on the right, who have influence from evangelical Christianity, who think this parenting is…”
“As he peered out from the bench, he witnessed the moments when several of the victims, the oldest and least mobile, were murdered with headshots.”
“On Sunday, this masthead used Instinct to find and buy a t-shirt from Everwear Denim, a small store in Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula, when a different store was out of stock of a similar model tee.”