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Andrew Bullen 51, Andrew Hamilton 51, 43 Th e good and fa ithfu l se rvant Peter Steele Sl, Bill Uren Sl 54 Watching Brief Patrons Eureka Street gratefully Juliette Hughes The audio gets visual fohn Button reviews Tim Rowse's ackn owledges th e support of Nugget Coombs, A Reforming Life. C. and A. Carter; th e trustees of the estate of 45 To have and have not M iss M . Condon; W.P. & M .W. Gurry FEATURES Jon Greenaway analyses Joseph Eureka Street magazine, ISSN 1036-175 8, 9 Th e ethics of stem cell resea rch Stiglitz's Globalization and its Au stralia Post Print Post approved pp349181/003 14, is published len times a Bill Uren argues the 'no' case on Discontents. yea r by Eu reka Street M agazine Pty Ltd, embryo experim entation. 47 Making a mea l of reform 300 Victoria Street. 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Reques ts for Portrait of Sonia Orwell. permi ss ion to reprint materia l from the 27 Still life: a conversation w ith magaz ine should be addressed in w riting to Don Watson th e editor. Kristie Dunn and Alex McDermott FLASH IN THE PAN 52 Reviews of the films Pollock; Th e Ring; Thi s month: 34 An essential ambivalence Cover design by Siobhan jackson Donnie Darko; Crackerjack and My Big Cover photograph and photographs Robert Manne on Barry Hill's epic life Fat Greek Wedding. pp3, 14-15, by Daniel Loughlin of T.G.H . Strehlow. Graphics pp6, 9-10, 24, 37 by Siobhan Jackson 36 Tak ing Turkey SPECIFIC LEV ITY Cartoon p 12 by Peter Fraser Robin Gerster in Istanbul. 55 Joan Nowotny Cryptic Crossword COMMENT:l PETER STEELE Lyre and wheel L ,NK>NG ot CHR'5TMAS, •nd ,iffling thwugh lyre, for instance. Perhaps music is always in some some postcards, I found two of them claiming degree mysterious, but if it is so it is our mystery attention. The first, improbably perhaps, was of a too; whenever it is more than formulaic, it is a way silver ten-stringed lyre from Ur, in Babylonia-or, as of searching as well as a way of saying. The figure of we say nowadays, southern Iraq. It dates from about David playing the harp, whether to solace a tortured 2500Bc, and it comes from the Great Death Pit, Saul or to celebrate things found good, is an emblem excavated in the twentieth century. It has an inlaid of the mind about its work as well as of the fingers in front, and a bull's head adorns one edge. The second their dexterity. card shows a painting, from about 1531, by Maarten And of more than the mind. Music from the Van Heemsberck, of a woman spinning. Her left hand death-pit cannot but challenge sentiment and atti trains the raw fibre towards the spinning wheel, tude-all that we call 'the heart'. At the end of the which she turns with her right hand: the wheel, Second World War, among ruins, ad hoc orchestras balanced on her knees, is supported by an orna began their work in devastated cities, as indeed they mented dolphin. had tried to keep going while the bombs were falling. Versions of the Bible which are arranged accord And before and after that cataclysm, at countless ing to an historical logic begin with Abraham's funerals, music and song have attended both the dead departure from Ur, and on that exodus all that fol and the grieving.