His characters were the men I didn’t know but wanted to. ![]() Though best known for his 1970s pop tunes like “ Sundown” and “ If You Could Read my Mind,” the Canadian singer-songwriter who died a few days ago was rivaled only by John Prine in his ability to animate the stories of ordinary working-class men doing extraordinary things. Not romantically - I’d had crushes on boys well before I ever heard his music - but empathetically. On the edge of the prairie, and in a spacious grove of noble trees which overshadowed a small brook, were traces of an old Creek hunting camp.Singer Gordon Lightfoot performs during the CFL's 100th Grey Cup Championship Halftime Show at the Rogers Centre on Sunday, Nov.It is now slowly expanding out of watertight compartments into a more spacious conception of the social inter-dependence of the different classes of the community.In Nankin a great mandarin owned a spacious building which he could neither occupy himself nor rent to others, because of its evil reputation.On these poles, skins are laid, at the height of twelve or fifteen feet, thus forming a spacious court, or tent.They led spacious lives, and there was something free and fearless about their bearing that I liked extremely.Close to where I saw was a spacious couch, over the centre of which was thrown an antimacassar of silken crochet-work.She turned a spacious forecourt into a formal garden, pulling down wine-stores, presses, and shabby outhouses.From the south cape, about five leagues to the northward, is a most spacious bay with good anchorage, and sheltered from all winds. ![]()
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