Word: stampeders
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Quebec's claim to a distinct identity has for centuries made it Canada's problem child. Novelist MacLennan described the historical relationship between French-and English-speaking Canadians as "the two solitudes." Roman Catholic, French-speaking, stamped by a different culture and tradition, the mostly rural Quebecois lived a separate...
It promised to be a big story, and David Holden, 53, the London Sunday Times's distinguished chief foreign correspondent, interrupted a leave of absence to be on the scene. With the Egyptian-Israeli peace talks still eight days off, he flew into Cairo from Jordan on the night...
The great seal of Maryland bears the Italian aphorism Fatti maschii, parole femine, which comes from Colony Founder Lord Baltimore's coat of arms and is stamped on all official documents. One translation is "Deeds are manly, words are womanly," though a looser rendering is "Let women talk and...
Similar intense descriptions of nature stamped Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Dillard's 1975 Pulitzer-prizewinning book.
All of which sets the stage for a sordid menage a trois. Schneider happens to be the unhappy--and unsatisfied--wife of a pudgy Rod Steiger awash in the throes of alcoholism. Middle-aged and impotent, this pathetic millionaire launches into a self-pitying tirade that evokes memories of Richard...