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Cajun cooking, the bayou fare of Louisiana's transplanted French-Canadians, draws on spicy herbs, fish, shellfish, poultry, and pork to create an unusual array of funkadelic flavors. Most of The Yankee's offerings fall under the heading "Hot and Hearty...
...Princefish" Russell, 66, came to the Senate in 1948. Enthroned as the powerful chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, he became an acknowledged master of the tax code, manipulating it to protect his home state's industries. In a series of filibusters in the 1950s and '60s, Long's bayou banter helped slow civil rights legislation; later he softened his views...
Albert's chameleon-like personality is too much for the love struck Giselle, and her trauma worsens slowly to psychosis and finally death, all caused by her broken heart. From there, the Americanization continues as a Southern bayou replaces a German graveyard. As two dozen Willis enter to initiate Giselle, Albert arrives at the haunting bayou. But before he is lured into his own dance of death, Albert is saved and Giselle's generosity releases her soul from the fate of becoming a Willi. Shellman is a powerful dancer to the last moment, his leaps and turns gaining strength...
...such as California and Massachusetts, the Louisiana legislature has approved a jazzy venture-capital program. The new law, believed to be the first of its kind in the U.S., will provide income tax credits of up to 35% for individuals or companies investing in venture-capital firms in the Bayou State. Louisiana has long lacked investment money for young, speculative businesses. Much of the state's cash pool has been pumped into its oil and gas industries...
...fact is, though it may seem a great distance from the shacks of the Bayou backwater to the pink stucco of the Burbank 'burbs. Reynolds, in his latest film, hasn't really changed at all--his acting style is the same. Unlike such granite monoliths as Charles Bronson and Clint Eastwood, he's always gotten by on cuteness rather than caliber. But this lack of depth has never really mattered before...