Word: baie
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hockey arena in the gritty Quebec town of Baie Comeau, lasers flashed and a nine-piece band pumped out noisy dance numbers. Amid the din, 3,000 supporters of the Progressive Conservative Party whooped it up, delighting in one of Canada's most momentous election triumphs -- and waiting for the hometown hero to make his appearance. Then the doors opened, the television lights switched on, and Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, 49, strode in. "Feels great," he said as he shouldered his way across temporary plywood flooring toward a stage set up roughly at center ice, with a huge...
...instance, or in the sliding knot of green and black shapes that defines the leg of the armchair. When Matisse saw the glitter of light on a band of water, he wanted to get it right, along with the curlicues of wrought iron between his eye and the Baie des Anges, and the peculiar Moorish dome of a pier pavilion, and the curl of a dressing- mirror frame, and the flat black cover of a notebook on the vanity, and the way a scrim curtain hung and stirred in the faint breeze -- and all the rest...
...popular votes in all of Canada's ten provinces, making it a truly national party for the first time in 20 years. Drowned in cheers of "Brian! Bri-an!" Mulroney, 45, thanked the 3,000 supporters gathered at an indoor hockey rink in his Quebec home town of Baie Comeau. Said the Prime Minister-elect: "Canada has responded to a call to national unity...
...were elected last week that the Tory benches in Parliament will not be able to hold them all. Some M.P.s will have to sit on the side of the aisle usually reserved for the opposition, crowding out the diminished ranks of those who ran Canada until the boy from Baie Comeau arrived...
...campaign, he attracted widespread support from the Parti Québécois (three Tory candidates were onetime separatist activists). He shrewdly cultivated alliances with such local power brokers as former Labor Negotiator Lucien Bouchard and Senator Arthur Tremblay. And his ads invariably identified him as the "Boy from Baie Comeau." In the end, Québécois simply found Mulroney the stronger candidate. "The French in Quebec aren't Martians," says McGill University Professor Daniel Latouche. "Like all Canadians, they're reacting to Turner's gaffes, the Liberals' patronage issue, Mulroney's perfect...