Word: canadianism
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...There is a long tradition in Canadian and British comedy of partial male nudity. Who am I to thumb my nose at that tradition...
...just want to hear an old-fashioned song song. The kind where the singer actually sings, the melody actually has a melody, and the whole thing builds gradually, powerfully, inevitably, and crests with a big golden payoff note. Three new albums would seem to be aimed at that need: Canadian chanteuse Celine Dion's Let's Talk About Love (550 Music), vocal power lifter Michael Bolton's All That Matters (Columbia) and Barbra Streisand's Higher Ground (Columbia). These performers are of differing ages, but they are all from the old school. When they sing, they often...
...showing signs of going away any time soon. And according to the surviving members of the previous most famous multiple birth in the world, media attention is more likely to be a curse than a blessing. In an open letter to TIME, three of the Dionne quintuplets ? whom the Canadian state put on display in "Quintland" for tourists back in the Depression-ridden ?30s ? warn of the potential freak show to come. "To those who would seek to exploit the growing fame of these children," they write, "we say beware...
...Galbraith has changed with the times. He said his strict Canadian upbringing guides him on the issue...
Deep down, we want to hate and fear the IRS. Moreover, we need to. If we didn't, we wouldn't pay them, the nation's infrastructure would crumble even faster than it already is doing, and the Canadian hordes would sweep down from Toronto to overcome our poorly paid armed forces. And when we're pretending to like Molson and sitting through marathon ?Kids in the Hall? reruns, we'll know who to blame...