Word: montreal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sixth floor of a Masonic temple, at the intersection of Sherbrooke and St. Marc in Montreal, actors wielded hockey sticks as they rehearsed a play called Les Canadiens. The author, Rick Salutin, sat to one side, commenting on his work with noncommittal tenderness...
Politicizing sport, a dangerous business, is never more seductive than when one wanders in Montreal. In suburban Verdun, swarms of children trying to win a midget hockey tournament skate under a flag showing white fleur-de-lis on a field of blue. The flag symbolizes Quebec and French Canadian nationalism. In the Forum, one finds Les Canadiens de Montreal defending their National Hockey League championship in a setting that proclaims élan. Forum announcements on goals are bilingual. Always the French-"Montréal but par Yvan Cournoyer "-comes first. Watching Canadiens named Guy Lafleur and Jacques Lemaire outskate visiting...
...Boston Bruins, still smarting from a loss at Buffalo, invade the Forum at Montreal tonight, hoping to continue their domination of the Stanley Cup champion Canadiens...
...morning jog until the roads are safer. Some of his less active colleagues lost no time in offering personal tips on how to warm yourself up. In the Nation section, Robert Goldstein recommended the "Canadian Two-Step," a lively, though inexplicable, jig that he learned while writing in frigid Montreal. For some reason, more people seemed interested in the antidote offered by World Writer Burton Pines, who recalled how he survived a chilly reporting assignment on the midwinter Baltic Sea: "I found that hot, spicy red cabbage combined with lots of vodka will create a furnace in the stomach that...
Zivkovic started manufacturing fencing equipment three years ago. "There's always room for improvement in the equipment for any sport," he says. One of Zivkovic's innovations has been a dueling strip which was used as the official strip of the 1976 Olympics in Montreal...