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		<title>Review: &#8220;Red Plenty&#8221; by Francis Spufford</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 17:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Red Plenty Francis Spufford. Faber and Faber 2010, Hardcover, 448 pages, &#163;9.67 It&#8217;s rare to see anything brave or daring emerge from a mainstream publisher these days. For the most part, they are inhibited by those who cling more dearly to accounts ledgers than fine literature and as a result are perpetually unprepared to take [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: &#8220;Food Inc.&#8221;, directed by Robert Kenner</title>
		<link>http://www.whirledpeas.eu/2010/06/11/review-food-inc-directed-by-robert-kenner/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 09:38:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Food, Inc [DVD] [2009] Eric Schlosser (Primary Contributor). Dogwoof Ltd 2009, DVD, &#163;8.49 It&#8217;s difficult to diet. It&#8217;s usually at the point that one decides to cut back that chocolates, cakes and cookies seem to lay in wait in supermarkets and farmers markets, ready to pounce upon one&#8217;s tastebuds. The scent of sizzling steak or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: &#8220;Capitalism: A Love Story&#8221; by Michael Moore</title>
		<link>http://www.whirledpeas.eu/2010/05/30/review-capitalism-a-love-story-by-michael-moore/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 May 2010 08:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Capitalism &#8211; A Love Story [DVD] [2009] Michael Moore (Primary Contributor). Paramount Home Entertainment 2009, DVD, &#163;6.00 I am not a big fan of Michael Moore&#8217;s work. This isn&#8217;t because of a big difference in political outlook, but rather, it&#8217;s because he suffers from a condition endemic in Hollywood: a tendency to oversimplify. I do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: &#8220;Nothing to Envy&#8221; by Barbara Demick</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 10:02:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nothing to Envy Barbara Demick. Granta Books 2010, Paperback, 272 pages, &#163;52.45 If there was a competition for the &#8220;most pointless&#8221; country in the world, North Korea would be a strong contender. It has built up a preposterous cult of personality around a political non-entity, and military might on top of a base of impoverished [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: &#8220;The End of the Party&#8221; by Andrew Rawnsley</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 10:23:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The End of the Party Andrew Rawnsley. Viking 2010, Hardcover, 816 pages, &#163;14.78 I bought this tome shortly after its publication; however, I didn&#8217;t get around to reading it until I had to contend with less than optimal circumstances. On March 17, my paternal grandmother died; a day later, I was on my way to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: “The Road” starring Viggo Mortensen and Charlize Theron</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 10:37:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Movies about the apocalypse are commonplace. Late last year, audiences were &#8220;treated&#8221; to the latest in a long line of films which contemplated the end of the world, namely &#8220;2012&#8243;, which was based on a ridiculous misinterpretation of the Mayan calendar. Like many of its ilk, it was little more than a demonstration of advanced [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: &#8220;The Grapes of Wrath&#8221; starring Sorcha Cusack and Damian O&#8217;Hare</title>
		<link>http://www.whirledpeas.eu/2009/08/07/review-of-the-grapes-of-wrath-starring-sorcha-cusack-and-damian-ohare/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 08:30:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apart from &#8220;I love you&#8221;, perhaps the most dangerous statement in the English language is &#8220;Things couldn&#8217;t get worse&#8221;. In my experience, uttering this phrase is an invitation for evil to arrive. Indeed, I have wondered if the present Prime Minister has said it more than a few times. Faced with a teetering economy, he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: &#8220;Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince&#8221; starring Daniel Radcliffe</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 16:25:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Going to see a Harry Potter film bears a similarity to attending a family reunion, particularly if the relatives live far away. At each event, one expects changes, one sees changes: the kids grow up, the adults get older. There are interesting stories to tell about the intervening period and much to catch up on, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: &#8220;Cyrano de Bergerac&#8221; starring Joseph Fiennes</title>
		<link>http://www.whirledpeas.eu/2009/05/31/review-cyrano-de-bergerac-starring-joseph-fiennes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2009 22:15:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s atypical to write a review of a play after it closes: perhaps such an item bears closer resemblance to an epitaph. However, it&#8217;s impossible for me to let a production of Cyrano de Bergerac to pass unnoticed. I admit this is partially due to the fact that I am a Cyrano aficionado: this work [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: &#8220;Waiting for Godot&#8221; starring Sir Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart</title>
		<link>http://www.whirledpeas.eu/2009/05/17/review-waiting-for-godot-starring-sir-ian-mckellen-and-patrick-stewart/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2009 16:27:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My introduction to the works of Samuel Beckett was botched. It occured in an undergraduate English course, whose purpose was to examine less than common texts, and sadly I had a less than common lecturer. Unfortunately, he was more fixated on talking about Freud&#8217;s ideas on children playing with their excreta (and how we&#8217;re actually [...]]]></description>
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