Word: montreal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...into an injury-riddled slump. With only one game remaining, they were in fifth place, virtually eliminated from the four-team playoffs. Their only hope was to defeat the Detroit Red Wings in the final game-and pray that the Chicago Black Hawks would obligingly beat the fourth-place Montreal Canadiens. That would produce a tie for fourth. Then the prized play-off slot would go to the team that had scored the most goals during the season. In that department, Montreal had a formidable margin of five...
...fold. Instead, they simply blew Detroit off the Madison Square Garden ice. In the process, New York stickhandlers took an astounding 65 shots at Goalie Roger Crozier; he stopped only 56, and the Rangers won 9-5, their highest score of the year. Now if only Chicago could beat Montreal and hold them to four goals or less, the Rangers would have their shot...
Without a Net. If the discovery of Canadian women is to be the Yukon of the '70s, the credit will be due, in large part, to their saleswoman. Born in Montreal, Geneviève went through the familiar Catholic training. "For twelve years I was in a convent school," she recalls. "Everything was very comme il faut, very strict, but I remained myself." Then she was caught by one of the sisters reading a proscribed volume, Marcel Pagnol's Fanny. On the school's insistence, Geneviève made her first big exit. Soon afterward she enrolled...
...Almond's highly personal new film, The Act of the Heart, she stars as a St. Joan-like naïve who falls fatally in love with an Augustinian priest (Donald Sutherland). The Almonds live quietly with their 20-month-old son Matthew in a rambling house overlooking Montreal, one mile from the home of Geneviève's father, who still drives his city bus on its appointed daily rounds...
Died. Marie Dionne, 35, one of Canada's four surviving quintuplets; in Montreal. Displayed with her sisters in a fenced yard until she was two and bothered by publicity all her youth, Marie sought privacy in a convent, only to be forced out by poor health; she married at 24, was separated in 1964, and was living alone in Montreal when she died...