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Block Quotes. In a recent column, a well-known journalist and historian remembered the late prime minister this way: In his prime, Trudeau was exciting, charismatic, sexy. He drove sports cars, wore capes, ascots and floppy hats, and always the signature
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Block Quotes In a recent column, a well-known journalist and historian remembered the late prime minister this way: In his prime, Trudeau was exciting, charismatic, sexy. He drove sports cars, wore capes, ascots and floppy hats, and always the signature red rose in his lapel. He slid down banisters, canoed in white water rapids, danced behind the Queen’s back at Buckingham Palace. He made politics fashionable for the upbeat sixties generation that emerged from the sleepy 1950s. (186-187)
A Quote Within a Quote • One newspaper reports that world leaders “agreed that they need to cooperate to develop ‘a long-term global goal for emission reductions’ but the statement does not give any specific targets for emissions cuts”(99).
Explanatory Comments • “He [Mr. Nebbeling] said he has yet to hear from the entire Liberal caucus but is ready for negative and positive responses” (84).
Omitting Something • The ellipsis • “The uprising was the result of indifference on the part of national leaders…and mismanagement on the part of civil servants”(62).
