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Moreover, voters are not likely to be asked the straightforward question: Do you want Quebec to become independent? Instead, Levesque and his chief adviser, Claude Morin, have propounded a so-called hyphen strategy, in which the government will seek a "mandate to negotiate sovereignty-association" with Ottawa. Such a phrasing might make it possible for the Parti Québecois to appeal even to opponents of independence, since they would be asked merely to grant Levesque a vague authority to negotiate for unspecified new provincial powers. But it would fall far short of the Parti Québecois' avowed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Quebec: The Separatism Problem | 6/4/1979 | See Source »

...Smugglers of Lost Souls' Rock, as her paperback is titled, becomes Sally's new consolation and Gardner's new form of hyphen: a novel-within-a-novel. Set in boldface type, this parody-saga of marijuana smugglers-the stuff for which lurid covers on airport paperbacks are designed-runs to almost 150 pages and comes dangerously close to upstaging October Light. Among comic-strip characters in Sally's paperback are the smuggling boat skipper Captain Fist, who gets violently seasick even in San Francisco Bay; Jonathan Nit, an inventor who schemes to solve the energy shortage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Making Ends Meet | 12/20/1976 | See Source »

...Kierkegaardian monologues good and evil, the mini-historian of science, progress and civilization, and the pastoral poet. In addition he rounds off his complex work on a note of affirmation that the reader may find more determined than logical, like the highnote climax to a trumpet solo. For the hyphen that Gardner most ardently longs for is the one that might connect night to day, lost to found, chaos to order-all the enemies, all the opposites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Making Ends Meet | 12/20/1976 | See Source »

...have so far wrested 7% of the market away from IBM. Royal and some of the others even claim to have eliminated a minor but noticeable problem with the Selectric: "the flick." When two keys are hit in quick succession, the Selectric occasionally prints the second one as a hyphen. It is a problem that IBM puts down to changes in heat or humidity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Chasing the Bouncing Ball | 6/21/1976 | See Source »

...though, the two largest British unions have shifted radically leftwards and increased the split between M.P.'s and trade unionists to alarming proportions. Wilson has so far, single-handedly bridged this gap. As Crossman pointed out, in Bagehot's terms Wilson has acted as the "bridge or buckle or hyphen" between Labour's two power bases...

Author: By Paul K. Rowe, | Title: Bagehot Updated: I | 10/30/1975 | See Source »

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