Word: canadianism
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...allowed Shewchuk to play at the top levels of hockey. Because of her knack for find the back of the net, Shewchuk routinely found her way onto previously all-male teams. She was the first women hockey player to be signed as a reserve for a Midget AAA Canadian team. This Midget league is a feeder for many Junior Canadian team and, to varying degree, the NHL. Learning to play with and against physically larger and faster males has afforded Shewchuk an advantage over most other girls, who played in all-female leagues...
Last week, she played for Team Quebec in Vancouver for the Canadian National Championship. Her team placed second to Alberta, but Shewchuk can find consolation knowing she led her team in scoring, ahead of four girls already named to Team Canada--the Canadian Olympic team which will represent the country in 1998 in Nagano, Japan...
Thus the snowy Canadian winter passed in a zing. One unexpected treat for me was the arrival, shortly after myself, of veteran film star Lori Breckner, who had been my date for the 1998 Academy Awards ceremony, and who played opposite me in the critically successful box-office dud Car Crash 500. ("Yes, Don, I know movies are young young young. But what do a bunch of brats in Glendale know about pain...
While sipping Reverse-Scriptase martinis, Lori and I glanced outside to see the hundreds of beautiful Hereford mommies, glorious and dumb as posts under the great Canadian sky, chewing vitaminized, antibioticized alfalfa while inside each of them our own future little fan clubs incubated. "Look, over there, the one with a white patch on the eye, No. 388--that's yours, honey!" Bliss...
...journalist, Cleo Pira, befriends the dogs and learns their story. Their transformation began a century before, in the crazed ambition of a German surgeon to develop a race of unstoppable soldiers. This Dr. Frankenstein immigrated to the Canadian wilderness, where he and his successors botched generations of malamutes and Great Danes before the dogs revolted. It is this science fiction that clanks: author Bakis, 29, asks the reader to be literal-minded in accepting the surgical wonders, and then piles up so many that common sense balks. Could prosthetic hands, replacing cut-off paws, ever play Chopin? Could they ever...