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...Oilers will play the winner of the Montreal-New York Islanders semifinal series, which is tied 2-2, since the four game sweep of Minnesota gave Edmonton the Campbell Conference crown...
...York 3, Montreal...
UNIONDALE, N.Y.--Mike Bossy's second-period goal 97 seconds after goaltender Billy Smith stopped a penalty shot lifted the New York Islanders to a 3-1 victory last night over Montreal and a 2-2 deadlock in the National Hockey League semifinal playoff series with the Canadiens...
Sometimes the author suspects that the whole nation is a theater of the absurd. In the battle between Quebec's French separatists and its anglophone minority, violent verbal gestures are made. The provincial government forbids the use of the English word hamburger; "hambourgeois" is the meat substitute. In Montreal, police become provincial celebrities not by seizing heroin but by impounding 15,000 Dunkin' Donut bags because the printing is not bilingual...
Throughout his travelogue, Richler illuminates general truths with local anecdotes. A grieving memoir reveals the dark side of the immigrant experience and the author's love for his father: the lifelong failure who "came to Montreal as an in fant, his father fleeing Galicia. Pogroms. Rampaging Cossacks. But, striptease shows aside, the only theater my father relished, an annual outing for the two of us, was the appearance of the Don Cossack Choir at the St. Denis Theater. My father would stamp his feet to their lusty marching and drinking songs; his eyes would light up to see those...