Word: cajun
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...month run in New Orleans a week ago is the city itself: brooding and flamboyant, raucous and urbane, devout and dissolute. The fair stirs together the razzmatazz of Mardi Gras, the harmony of New Orleans' elegant old buildings and the French-Spanish-African-Italian-Irish-German-Creole-Cajun gumbo gusto of its everyday, every-night street life. With a generous infusion of pavilions and exhibitions from the rest of the U.S. and 24 other nations, the Louisiana World Exposition-to give the $350 million extravaganza its formal name-is the worldliest of World's Fairs...
...also brushed with fantasy, whimsy and quite real magic. One day before Cajun-raised Governor Edwin Edwards opened the exposition by intoning "Laissez les bans temps rouler! Let the good times roll!" the grounds had been a construction site. But somehow overnight the fair was mostly ready to go. By the end of the first week, the last two pavilions were finally finished dressing. And everything painted, powdered and primped looked alluring, if slightly deshabille...
Music is everywhere. Cajun zydeco and cool blues vie with big bands and hot jazz. There are marching bands and washboard scratchers, as well as beer hall oom-pah-pah and big-name oomph. Concert performers will run the scale from Willie Nelson and Linda Ronstadt to Itzhak Perlman and Isaac Stern. Naturally, Al Hirt and Pete Fountain will also drop by to blow a few notes on behalf of the local talent...
...Cajun treasure hunter, a righteous Southern lawyer, a group of feuding heirs, a Harvard scholar named Dr. Brain and a tribe of Indians become embroiled in a dispute over relics excavated from a forgotten Indian village. No less than four lawsuits result...
...team of Harvard scholars of any other professional archeologists who unearthed this academic treasure, but a Louisiana state penitentiary guard with little more than a high school education. Leonard J. Charrier, a Cajun from Avoyelles Parish, La. says he figured out the location of the Tunica settlement by checking historical documents and taking into account changes in the meander of the Mississippi River...