Word: canadianism
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Last week Michael Moore, director of "Roger & Me" and "Canadian Bacon," and the main man of "TV Nation," stopped by the Brattle Theater as part of his nationwide publicity tour for his new book, Downsize This! Through inventive satire, Moore's work consistently emphasizes the plight of a working class endangered by the trend of downsizing in the marketplace, relentlessly targeting politicians on both sides of the fence...
...extreme limits, and thus expose the ridiculousness of their thinking. Speaking of right-to-life activists, he noted that if a fetus was a human being, it might as well get a Social Security number, everyone should add nine months to their age, and abortion should warrant capital punishment. "Canadian Bacon," which mocks the American people's willingness to follow President Bush into the Gulf War, presents us with an American president who arbitrarily decides that Canada will be the U.S.'s new enemy, and accordingly declares...
Since 1960, Dixville Notch, which is nestled in the White Mountains just 10 miles from the Canadian border, has been the first municipality in America to open its polls. By state law, they are then closed and votes counted if each town resident casts a ballot...
Those are the only real fictional hockey movies. For documentary fans, there's "Miracle on Ice," which chronicles the 1980 U.S. Olympic champion team. Of course, many of Harvard's players are Canadian, so they don't go for that stuff...
...finally, "Strange Brew" is a weird, Canadian comedy about a couple guys going around drinking beer. They then uncover a plot by a brewer to take over the world by putting mind-control ingredients in the beer and bringing it to Oktober-fest...