Word: ontario
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...JUST IN the movie theatres. He's reached the course directories, too, and now the bookshops display a new-spawned product of academia, Loser Takes All by Maurice Yacowar of Brock University, Ontario. For Yacowar, Allen is 'a serious, probing artist with a consistent and distinctive vision.' His films are indeed suspiciously clone-like, but 'serious, probing'? By what standards? Well, says Yacowar, Manhattan can be compared with 'Jean Renoir's La Grande Illusion, another classic analysis of the decay of western culture.' Oh, and 'like Kafka, Allen makes Jews of us all.' We might wonder just what manner...
Things like running a corporation should have excited him, but they didn't. Paunch occluded his once-athletic figure, but he always had a reason not to exercise. He remembered with distant fondness his summers in Ontario's north woods. The holiday season seemed a good time to return to nature...
...quite dead, but it was suffering from a variety of serious disorders, including a seemingly uncheckable algae growth that, like a fast-spreading cancer, was choking off the other forms of life. Though the remaining four of North America's great chain of lakes-Superior, Michigan, Huron and Ontario-were less diseased, they too showed symptoms of serious, man-made illness...
...also catch coho and chinook salmon from the Pacific Ocean. Still, despite the fact that the waters are cleaner and the lamprey has been contained by a concerted attack on its breeding ground, the game fish population can be sustained only by frequent replanting. Says K.H. Loftus, of the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources: "The real criterion of the rebound of the lakes will be when the fish that were eliminated are back taking care of themselves...
...later action, Ron Beck and Western Ontario all-star John Lennard battled through a five-game marathon before the scrappy Beck prevailed, 3-2, to earn a spot in the main tournament, which starts tonight...