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From a helicopter whirling 1,000 ft. overhead, the gas and oil rigs look like pieces of some monster Erector Set. Giant beams crisscross to form towers rising 23 stories above the waves. In the swampy bayous near the coast, production and drilling equipment stands in tight clusters at the older drilling sites. But as the mud-brown waters turn to green and finally blue, the rigs thin out; the most remote are exploring for gas 110 miles off the coasts of Texas and Louisiana. Some offshore rigs are pushing their steel drilling bits down through...
Television's invasion into Southern homes has turned the flamboyant old stump speakers into an obsolete breed. Like many another oldtime Southern demagogue, Louisiana's Huey Long, who could have talked the alligators out of the bayous, used his stump-speaking abilities to become the hero of his state's poor people. So did Eugene Talmadge, an on-and-off Governor of Georgia for many years in the 1930s. His son, U.S. Senator Herman Talmadge, makes a then-and-now comparison: "In my father's day, you had big rallies at the county courthouse and, if you could afford...
...most serious problem area is the southern part of the state, where new housing developments have been built along the marshy bayous where the alligators live. Last summer, for example, a family in the New Orleans suburb of Metairie went out to its swimming pool for an evening dip, but stopped short: a 4-ft. alligator was lolling in the water. Alligators have also been pulled, smoked or hosed out of culverts in Golden Meadow, Morgan City and other towns south of New Orleans...
...story is set in the bayous near Biloxi, not too far from Still's birthplace in Woodville, Miss. The young Cajun Bazile falls in love with the spectral Aurore, defying the Cajun stricture against consorting with spirits as evil and punishable by death. The amorous Clothilde, jealous of a love she cannot understand, betrays her beloved to the village priest. Bazile is hanged. At the moment of his death, Bazile's spirit is joined with that of Aurore...
MAYBE THIS LACK of spontaneity is deliberate. What I've noticed since Diamonds are Forever is a trend toward genre self parody. There is much tongue in cheekiness here. The final chase sequence, a fifteen minute combined car-boat chase through the Louisiana bayous, even manages to introduce and develop a major character, a sheriff tightly based on the Dodge Sheriff of advertisement fame...