Word: stick
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...national confederation. The $3.5 million birthday bash was a big change from last year, when merrymaking funds were slashed abruptly by an austerity-minded government. This time the question of national unity overrode any urge for thrift. Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau was determined to show that Canadians want to stick together as a nation despite the election victory of the separatist Parti Québécois last November in Quebec, his country's largest province. Said Trudeau in his Dominion Day address: "The sort of bickering which has too often been characteristic of Canadian life is giving...
Some junk food richly deserves that name, although it must be remembered that one man's meat is another man's corndog (a wienie impaled on a stick and dunked in a bubbling cornbread batter). But much prepacked or rapid-fire fare simply tastes better than the meals Mom used to make-when Mom's was the clapboard greasy spoon tucked invitingly along the two-lane highway, with three cars parked in front, all bearing out-of-state plates. Critics like to claim that the major chains are taking the adventure out of eating, that motorists...
...result is powerful in its simplicity; Figure in the Street at Night (1913) is an outstanding example of the potential force of Meidner's technique. The buildings, suggested in heavy strokes, compress the central explosion of light, rendered in sharp radiating lines. The lone, fleeing stick-figure can find no escape...
...conservatory's commencement soloist this year (with an aria from Mozart's The Abduction from the Seraglio), Denbow has her heart set on an operatic career-but she is realistic about her chances. "Sopranos are a dime a dozen," she says. "You just hope that you stick with it long enough that the others will have given up." Having won a graduate fellowship to the conservatory, she adds: "As long as the voice matures so late, I might as well use school as a haven and not face the cold, cruel world...
...acting in Star Wars will never make the movie stick in anybody's memory. Aside from the usual polish with which Guinness coats his role of the elder Kenobi, both the performances of the cast and the cast itself add up to a forgettable sum. Many of the actors' names appear in a film's credits for the first time or one of the first times as the Star Wars cast is ticked off: Carrie Fisher, Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill. Admittedly, the quality of many of the characters imposes severe restrictions on the range of dramatic possibilities available...