Word: canadians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...results for Harvard students who are competing for the Canadian Rhodes Scholarships have not been announced yet. The winners will be announced sometime next week, Bohlmann said...
...petulant enough to alienate the audience as well as Max. Lothaire Bluteau as Horst, the concentration camp inmate with whom Max finds his first real love, is much the strongest of the leads. Bluteau, perhaps best known to American audiences for the title role in the French Canadian film Jesus of Montreal here reprises that role to a certain degree. As a man martyred for his beliefs and his loves, Bluteau still manages to generate enough gruffness and earthy humanity to balance the larger-than-life tragedy of his situation, making his character the most three-dimensional and heart-wrenching...
...darkest of the cautionary tales is that of the Dionne quintuplets of Ontario, Canada. Born in 1934 during the depths of the Depression, the five girls were seen by the Canadian government as a welcome tonic for a beleaguered public. By an act of Ontario's parliament, they were taken from their parents and exhibited behind glass at a facility christened Quintland. At one point they drew more tourists than Niagara Falls...
Before the McCaugheys, the most famous multiple births--by far--were the Dionne quintuplets, five identical girls born to a French-Canadian farmer and his wife in Corbeil, Ont., on May 28, 1934. The media got wind of the event when the father called the local newspaper to ask whether a birth announcement for five babies would cost the same as one. An enterprising journalist filed a wire-service report, and the quints--Annette, Emilie, Yvonne, Cecile and Marie--became global celebrities. Three Hollywood movies were made of their lives; in the midst of the Depression, sales of Dionne dolls...
Many of these ideas came from M2, MTV 's all-video station, and MuchMusic, the Canadian equivalent of MTV. MuchMusic's window-lined Toronto studio inspired MTV's new Times Square set, which with its pool-playing and dart-throwing staff members shuffling around in the background, looks like your parents' basement if you didn't have parents. And, like the new MTV, the station broadcasts live and focuses on music. Not everything the Canadian service does has been imported, however. MuchMusic features a wide-screen video booth, where young Canadians seem to have a penchant for exposing themselves...