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Brilliant: It's a rare joy to hear Van Morrison turning over a song, testing each phrase as though he were looking for gold, says Chris Dafoe of concert at CNE
Brilliant: It's a rare joy to hear Van Morrison turning over a song, testing each phrase as though he were looking for gold, says Chris Dafoe of concert at CNE

Brilliant: It's a rare joy to hear Van Morrison turning over a song, testing each phrase as though he were looking for gold, says Chris Dafoe of concert at CNE

Date8/27/1990
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Original Toronto Star caption: Brilliant: It's a rare joy to hear Van Morrison turning over a song, testing each phrase as though he were looking for gold, says Chris Dafoe of concert at CNE.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0069545F
The French school. Part I : l'écho de Paris : a selection of familiar phrases which a person would daily hear said around him if he were living among French people : with a vocabulary of all the words and idioms used in the work
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Yea. To Principal John Plumpton of Jane Junior High School in North York for trying to get more students to read books. Twice a week staff and students are given 50 minutes of the day just to read - anything they like. Some of them may discover that reading is a joy, even though it's a little more work than watching a TV scree. It's a nice idea.
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Needs work: The news . . . says we're out of the recession, carpenter Chris Zarich says
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Electric Blue bill. Premier William Davis liked the electric-powered van Ontario Hydro has bought for testing in its operations during the next two ye(...)
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