Word: laurentian
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Some of the Laurentian material in this new novel, notably Saville's unsatisfactory love affair, conveys a rare sense of place and emotion. Yet the impression remains strong that Storey, himself a miner's son, is unable to put enough distance between author and subject. His anger does not shake itself clear, and, like the hero, the novel's impressive strength never quite finds its direction. Skow
...Woman" has been proclaimed with a certain regularity for a century and more. Ibsen brought Nora Helmer out of her doll's house in 1879. and succeeding generations have invented her anew: in Shaw's drawing-room heroines, Laurentian sensualists, Brett Ashleys, flappers, women who smoked and drank and swore and brushed their teeth with last night's Scotch, got divorced or did not bother to get married at all, wore pants, and perhaps in the mellow suburban '50s, lived to grow old as Auntie Mame...
...woolen Norfolk jacket until his friend's elder sister Marian (Julie Christie) volunteers to take him into town and buy him more suitable clothes. She is fond of the boy, but she is careful to cultivate him too. Soon he is carrying messages to her lover, a Laurentian farmer named Ted Burgess (Alan Bates), and bearing back replies...
...SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN and RING OF BRIGHT WATER. Both films deal with happy obsessions. The first revolves around a Canadian youth's fascination with the solitude of the Laurentian mountains. The second concerns a Londoner's affection for an otter. Both are children's films, but adults will also find them charming...
...claims, is intended for the whole family. But its main appeal is obviously to the intelligent preteenager interested in natural history. Sam (Teddy Eccles) is a Canadian youth who decides that four walls and two parents are too confining. With his pet raccoon Gus, he runs off to the Laurentian Mountains, befriends a falcon, a librarian and a folk singer (Theodore Bikel). The singer teaches Sam a fundamental truth: no boy is an island, entire of itself-and prepares him for the long hike home...