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...delegate." Wednesday, Gramm tried damage control before supporters in Iowa by ignoring his troubles: "I want to say to you that we have five days to go. We have, in the old cliche, a long way to go and a short time to get there." For Pat Buchanan, the Bayou victory was especially sweet, since it comes on the heels of his win in the Alaska straw poll, lending a new patina of credibility to his candidacy. "This win will help Buchanan expand his already solid base among religious conservatives in Iowa and New Hampshire," notes Birnbaum...
...that of Aaron Neville, first discovered Zydeco at a fund raiser for his local Catholic church. "Black people in those days, they worked, they went to church, and they went to Zydeco," notes Simien, whose father was a bricklayer. "That was their life." On albums like Zydeco on the Bayou and There's Room for Us All, his high, near falsetto voice floats lovingly over a driving, rock-hard accompaniment...
Despite its apparent fragmentation, Chelsom's directing soaks the film in an amibiance of insanity and tragicomedy, with the assistance of assorted morgues, haunted houses, circus tents and chorus girls. His unconventional and unsettling angles clutch the viewer in a graphic documentary style. A soundtrack of Bayou blues and French sailor songs as forgotten as the stage acts they accompany complements the screen action, and assures "Funny Bones" a place in the cult film firmament...
...readers with zonky yellow eyes. Did someone put hashish in her biscuits? No. As B.D. "explains," she is the cerulean ghost of the artist's departed four- legged companion Tiffany, now channeled back to inhabit her beloved master's work. Old timey with a New Age angle, this Bayou bowwow should get a good run for your money...
...will eventually ascend to the national stage or whether that kind of leadership -- on the grand scale ! -- has become impossible. One can only cite the hopeful example of Regina Benjamin, a rural physician whose rather modest original goal was to help solve the local doctor shortage in poverty-stricken Bayou La Batre, Alabama. Practicing there for a while convinced her of the need to know something about business. While earning her M.B.A. at Tulane University, she unearthed an obscure federal rule that would provide government money to qualified rural health clinics. Suddenly, in addition to her medical chores in Bayou...