Word: dolor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Neither of the two teams made it into the World Series, so that pluvious contest will surely never attain the significance I wished for it in my dolor. But my disinterested effort to view a baseball game as historic certainly avoids the consternation that a partisan fan must confront when his team loses, and it may also be the more honorable attitude for the spectator to maintain in the crush of the pennant race. No justification beyond some stretched definition of civic pride exists for the vehement strain of chauvinism that some people, and I am one, hold...
Canadian Director Donald Shebib, who made the film on the minute budget of $82,000, has a sense of place that is as certain as his sense of mood and character. The metallic touch of downtown and the dolor of the provinces are both conveyed with an empathy that requires no comment. If there are fewer dramatic crescendos, there are even fewer false notes. If there are crudities of editing, there is a delicate palette of local color. Like the scene from a window, the view is curtailed and cornered, but within the frame it is unblinking and whole...