Word: canadians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sens' Interview with Ivan Shusikov has his unmistakeable signature: Day At the Office shown last weekend used exactly the same background. It seems to be part of his protest against the Canadian bureaucracy. In this interview, a disembodied voice welcomes to Canada a Russian dissident filmmaker, who hides behind a desk throughout the interview. He is afraid to answer the interviewer's questions about the political reception of his films at home, and their commercial reception in Canada where distributors have refused it "because they might have to buy Canadian short films then too." Shusikov scuttles at last...
...Canada may seem wildly unfair to independent American filmmakers, because the National Film Board of Canada provides steady work, almost a federal subsidy to Canadian filmmakers. But some find a conservative, cute streak in the National Film Board productions, such as Poets on Film, which is a series of poems, presumably by Canadian poets, illustrated so that, as in sign language, metaphors become literal and facts metaphorical...
...Reforma petroleum field near Cactus. Negotiations with six U.S. companies were almost complete and a 900-mile, $1.5 billion pipeline was under construction when Schlesinger abruptly vetoed the deal because Mexico's price of $2.60 per 1,000 cu. ft. was higher than the $2.16 being charged by Canadian suppliers. López Portillo vowed to burn off the gas and leave the oil in the ground rather than sell it to the U.S. The pipeline was rerouted to the industrial city of Monterrey, and as a further gesture of defiance, the Mexicans decided to inaugurate the "gasduct...
...Mexicans have reversed their field completely on gas and oil development." The State Department and National Security Council were both anxious about Schlesinger's inflexibility and told the President so. Nonetheless, Schlesinger held to his bargaining position that the Mexican price would be unfair to U.S. and Canadian producers. That view was disputed by many, but the chief criticism of Schlesinger was that his approach was aloof and arrogant...
...recent roar of jet airplanes over Cambridge is due to icy Canadian gusts that are forcing air traffic controllers at Logan airport to divert the take-off pattern of these planes, an administrator at Massport said yesterday...