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...presentation of the award, a parade starting at the Business School and a preview of several scenes from the Pudding's upcoming original musical satire "Bewitched Bayou" will kick off the club's 125th anniversary celebration...
...splendid myth of the West originated in blood and mud, both of which are in abundant evidence here, along with every other cliché of what has come to be called the antiwestern. The action takes place mostly on the main street of Coffeyville, Kans., which looks like a bayou. Whoever is not shot there is pretty sure to catch it in the saloon, which, like every other set in the picture, has been designed and dressed to look determinedly shabby. The actors wear worn clothes coated with dirt, as if they had all been wrestling in an anthracite...
...Republican David Treen of Louisiana's bayou country is nothing if not persistent. Three times he ran against Congressman Hale Boggs and three times he lost. But each time he improved his percentage-34%, 44%, 49%-and this February he ran a strong but losing campaign for Governor. Now Treen, 44, is taking on J. Louis Watkins, 43, an attorney who managed both winning campaigns for retiring Democratic Congressman Patrick Caffery. Politics can be largely personal in southern Louisiana, and on that score Watkins is a formidable opponent. He is a French Catholic whose roots reach back 150 years...
...poacher has bragged that he killed 114 alligators in a single night, and he was equally adroit in eluding pursuers. After throwing the hides out of his pickup truck as a posse closed in, he dove into a Louisiana bayou, swam across the border to Texas and holed up there for six months before being captured. Another, who is now serving a long jail sentence, used to zip across the swamps in a shallow boat that could reach speeds of 85 m.p.h...
Feydeau's beds and bedlam are most happily with us again in the 1896 work Le Dindon (The Turkey), here entitled There's One in Every Marriage. Following a Feydeau plot is like trying to trail a snake through a bayou. It exists by twists and turns, sudden panics and slithery asides...