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...Cajun is the raucous, slightly tragic musical memory of a people, then Zydeco is its ebullient younger cousin. The name is the phonetic rendering of the first two words of the French phrase "les haricots sont pas salas," which means "the snap beans aren't salted," a traditional indicator of hard times. But there is no misery here: while Cajun's intrinsic melancholy can be heard in its grave waltzes, Zydeco is almost nothing but upbeat two-step rhythms. Audiences show their appreciation not by applauding but by getting up and dancing...
...simultaneous swarm of hucksters and mosquitoes, the revolutions of the stomach are all forgotten or, better yet, transfigured into the unforgettable adventures with which we can impress our friends. Paradise's loss is our gain. Small wonder that Proust, great poet laureate of reminiscence, wrote, "Les vrais paradis sont les paradis qu'on a perdus." Nothing is ever what it used...
...cassette tape to a reporter and told her, "To you, my name is Mr. D." A short time later, a man fitting Mr. D.'s description burst into the Quebec provincial legislature, called the National Assembly, firing a submachine gun as he went and shouting, "Où sont les députés? Jevais les tuer!" (Where are the legislators? I am going to kill them!) By the time he reached the second floor and entered the Salon Bleu, the legislative chamber, three people were dead: an Assembly page, a messenger and an aide to the director...
...horreur, l'horreur: Les Canadiens sont morts. --Un Habitant...
Individual students' work in this exhibit is fascination and often well-executed. But the orientation of the VES Department and the artistic inhibition that seems to prevail, tempt one to ask, with the anonymous spray-can graffartisit whose work exhibits itself on the second-floor landing of Carpenter; "OU SONT LES POULETS D'ANTANT...