Word: canadas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...began John Hancock in perhaps the most eloquent justification of secession in the modern era. Unfortunately, such eloquence and reason are rarely to be seen nowadays, especially among those who would wrest Quebec from Canada. Just north of the border, an elaborate campaign is being waged to coax Quebec to sovereignty. It is poorly conceived, desperate and groundless. Thank God Quebecers are smart enough to see right through...
...beginning of this latest Robertson Davies novel, an elderly priest of the Anglican Church of Canada drops dead during Good Friday services. That scene is not explained until the end of "The Cunning Man" (Viking; 469 pages; $23.95). But TIME critic Paul Gray says the overriding appeal of works by "Canada's foremost living author" rarely rides on suspense. Instead, says Gray, the 81-year-old writer "entertains with an old-fashioned fictional mixture" of "keen social observations delivered with wit, intelligence and free-floating philosophical curiosity...
Egoyan, born in Cairo to Armenian parents, moved to Canada when he was three. They were the only Armenian family in an otherwise Anglo community, where the director says he "tried desperately to assimilate at all costs." With warmth characteristic throughout the afternoon, he recounts anecdotes from those times. "My sister's name is Eve," Egoyan says, "I had to go through my childhood with jokes about Atom and Eve.'" The director was attracted to drama from an early age, finding in it a way of creating, "a system where people could behave the way I wanted them to, since...
...storyline is a bit simpler than its flashbacks and interrupted narrative make it out to be. Just a bit. Thomas (Don McKellar) is a gay petstore owner who makes ends meet by smuggling exotic pets into Canada for private collectors. Francis (Bruce Greenwood) is a smug tax auditor by day, a patron of Exotica, a table dancing club, by night...
...actor Keanu Reeves. I hadn't gone to a movie premiere or a fan club rally in search of Him, pushing my way past hordes of teenage girls and Bill and Ted lookalikes. I met Him this summer as a fellow guest at a garden party in Toronto, Canada...