Word: montreal
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...past close at hand. In what may be a comment on our times, comic publishers have begun catering heavily to this market with such complete reprint series as Fantagraphics' Krazy and Ignatz, reprinting George Herriman's "Krazy Cat," and their best-selling Complete Peanuts line of hardcovers. Now, Montreal's Drawn & Quarterly has joined in with perhaps the most nostalgic reprint yet, Walt and Skeezix (400 pages; $30), the first volume of the complete daily strips of Frank King's "Gasoline Alley." Wonderfully warm and humane, the book should come with a warning not to mix it with alcohol...
...Olympics can easily disappear. Costs can exceed budgets, job creation can fall short of forecasts, tourists and spectators can fail to materialize, and - especially in the world after Sept. 11, 2001 - unexpected expenses can crop up. Athens spent about $1.5 billion on security, 12 times its original estimate. Montreal turned a significant profit on operations alone from its hosting of the 1976 games. But don't try and convince Québécois smokers of that. Capital and infrastructure expenditures - for venues such as the Olympic Village and the stadium - spiraled so out of control that the city...
...astonishing that even today the U.S. Immigration Service has no uniform policy for handling defections like that of Sailor Medvid. In light of U.S. incompetence at the lowest level, what hope can there be for success at the nation's highest echelons? Heinz Dieter Chiba Montreal Ransoming Relatives...
...birthday parties as well. On Halloween Sal, Ron and 2,600 Rockyites--some from as far away as Montreal, London, Sacramento, Winston-Salem, N.C., and the Bronx--made a pilgrimage to Manhattan's cavernous Beacon Theater for a tenth-anniversary bash. Sal presented sham Oscars to each of seven R.H.P.S. actors, who tried not to look as if they had wandered into a Star Dreck convention. The audience judged a costume contest: dozens of odd fellows dressed as their favorite Rocky characters. Everyone had a ball. Richard O'Brien, dressed for the occasion in a cunning black tube top with...
...unprofitable manufacturer of the Dash-8 commuter aircraft, to the Boeing company. Workers and leaders of both opposition parties would have preferred to see the government find a Canadian buyer for the company. Quebecers protested when the government allowed Ultramar, a British owned oil firm, to close down a Montreal refinery. Suzanne Blais-Grenier, who had already been demoted from her post as Environment Minister, used the controversy as an excuse to resign...