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...middle. Trimble continued her strong play in California, earning her second All-Tournament honor of the year, while Turley-Molony has taken over as a starter and is having arguably the best season of her collegiate career. On the other side of the net, UNH junior outside hitter Emmy Blouin has established herself as a force to be reckoned with, named to the Michigan/Nike Challenge All-Tournament Team after recording a team-high 40 kills...
...Lozeau (Maxime Collin) lives in a Montreal hovel with his surpassingly strange family. Father (Roland Blouin) is a brute laborer; "wrinkles line his face and reveal nothing but the age that dug them." Mother (Ginette Reno) loves the boy, but she is obsessed with bowel movements as nature's prophylactic -- "Push, my love," she whispers urgently to the infant Leo, a captive princeling enthroned on a potty. His near mute sisters Nanette and Rita shuttle dully from fantasy to insanity, from home to the local asylum. His brother, musclebound Fernand (Yves Montmarquette), is so frail of spirit that...
...next morning three girls, as plump as dumplings, walk into Vasilios's bar, which at this time of day is called a cafe or restaurant. They are teenaged sisters who are as round as their grandfather, Paul Blouin, the county chairman of the Democratic Party. Paul Blouin knows every Democrat in Farmington, no small feat since nearly 7700 in the town's 8000 population belong to the party. Paul practices politics over the counter and the phone, persuading people to register and vote. Most of Paul's hassles come from getting people to register, especially the youth...
...granddaughters sit at a separate table, talking with Pauline about school and boyfriends; Paul Blouin is an old boy politico...
...dope" at the high school), most of Farmington couldn't agree more about federal bureaucracy. "I wanted to have a phone put in--I had to call Manchester, and they said to call Nashua and to Concord, and then back to Manchester, and finally I just gave up," Blouin recalls...