Word: quebecer
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...transferring his 1982 Broadway play to the screen, John Pielmeier has achieved a sort of Jane Fonda Workout of rewriting. He has stripped it of dialogue fat and added muscle and connective tissue. The piece, which took place on a bare stage, now roams through a handsome Quebec abbey and beyond. Within or outside the convent, however, Agnes would be a girlish anachronism. She is of another age--perhaps 13, perhaps the 13th century. She believes, like a medieval ascetic, that any seeker of sanctity should flagellate the sins out of her body, and she is convinced that the child...
...child, Dallaire decided that he wanted to follow in his father’s footsteps, and he enrolled in the Collège Militaire Royal de Saint-Jean in Quebec. He eventually moved onto the Royal Military College in Ontario, from which he graduated...
Jean Chretien’s political party, the Liberal Party of Canada, is currently under attack for what has become known as the “Sponsorship Scandal.” In 1995, one of Canada’s more “distinct” provinces, Quebec, thought it might like to leave the country. Though this did not ultimately happen, Chretien’s Liberal government felt it was important to promote Canada, and all its maple-leaf greatness, to Quebec through a massive advertising campaign. To this end, the government paid a number of advertising firms...
...native of French-speaking Quebec, Vaillancourt only began conversing in English two years ago, as she prepared for a collegiate career in the United States...
...Cirque du Soleil show that opened last week, is the latest, largest demonstration that the Quebec company--which began as a circus with no animals--has become the gold standard for live entertainment. Like a circus, K showcases jaw-dropping acrobatic feats, but it cradles them in outsize theatrical wizardry: a huge stage space with many scene changes and a theater designed to suit the show, with side balconies from which the performers can fly over the audience. Like a Broadway show, K has a plot, a dozen or more characters and a sonorous score. It blends these two forms...