Word: canadianization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...member all-male chorus has been invited to sing "The Star Spangled Banner" at the opening ceremonies of "Rendezvous '87," a round-robin hockey tournament in Quebec which pits American and Canadian all-stars against one another and the Soviet Union's national hockey team...
About 100 members of the 175-man Red Army Chorus have been invited to sign the Soviet national anthem, and a Canadian group from Quebec City will perform "O Canada...
...Stone graduated and married a Lebanese woman working at the Moroccan delegation to the United Nations; they divorced five years later. He wrote eleven scripts in his spare time, directed a low-budget Canadian thriller called Seizure, and in 1975 got an agent through the graces of Screenwriter Robert Bolt. A year later, as the tall ships clogged New York harbor, Stone sat down and wrote Platoon. "Essentially what I wanted to say was, Remember. Just remember what that war was. Remember what war is. This is it. I wanted to make a document of this forgotten pocket of time...
Critics charge that this complaining has become complaisant, excessively feminist, predictable. Bluebeard's Egg, the most recent collection of fiction by the Canadian, Margaret Atwood, may be a case in point...
...mincing and braising the opposite sex as they recount their lubricious adventures. Down at the gym, the girls are working themselves into a lather on the same subject. Writer-Director Denys Arcand has worked out an amusing role reversal to enliven his intensely talkative movie about middle-aged French Canadian academics. And his actors are willing to bare their less than perfect bodies along with their less than perfect souls, thus lending credibility to their reports from the front lines of the war between the sexes...