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Generation after generation, the great players of Alberta like Johnny Bucyk, the Colvile brothers, and Alex "Killer" Kaleta learned their hockey in the small wheat growing and coal mining towns around Edmonton like Sherwood Park to the East, Red Deer to the South, St. Albert to the North, LeDuc, and Beaumont. If they didn't make it to the NHL, they played for the old local sime-pro teams: the Edmonton Flyers, the Olds Elks, and the Crow's Nest Pass Lascars...
...tons and is constructed like a sail to weather all winds. It was Betsy Rossed in the loft of Marblehead, Mass., Yachtsman-Sailmaker Ted Hood. The grand notion, costing $45,000, was conceived by Len Silverfine, 39, a teacher in Vermont, whose father was a Russian immigrant, and Pierre Leduc, 34, a French-Canadian advertising man from Montreal. The Arm & Hammer baking soda people provided most of the financing; the flag's acre and a half of bunting with 11-ft. stars was supplied by New Jersey's Annin & Co., the nation's biggest flagmaker, which...
Renoir's Toni (1934), with Black Stage, a 1919 Harold Lloyd short, Thursday, Oct.2, at 7:30; Reed: Insurgent Mexico, by Paul Leduc, Sunday, Oct. 5, at 7:30. Both one dollar...
...seat of a taxi and tell the driver to take them on a sightseeing tour while they consummate their passion, they tremble in fear at their parents' wrath. The entire book seems suffused with the giggles of children discovering their sexuality for the first time. But, as always for Leduc, the things of childhood serve as a backdrop for the most unspeakable actions of adults. Even in the act of trying to recapture innocence, she taints it with guilt. She creates children on the point of emerging from the shelter of childhood, and plunges them into life at its darkest...
...Taxi could well become a minor classic. It is passionate, articulate, and well constructed. But it also is the troubled product of a troubled writer, expressive of the confusion its author felt about her own sexuality. This book, her last, could serve as a good introduction to Violette Leduc. For her conflicting passions are summed up neatly in the dialogue of these two children, exactly the kind of children she herself would have produced...