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That recognition prompted the Cajun State to provide matching funds for Williams project In the post funding has crime from the other states in which the research has been carried out--Mississippi, and Louisiana. The private sector and other scientific associations have also contributed money...

Author: By Lisa D. Siegel, CONTROLLING REPORTER | Title: Harvard Archaeologist Digs in South | 7/29/1983 | See Source »

They pay their assistants well down in Cajun country...

Author: By Howard N. Mead, | Title: Ain't College Grand? | 5/19/1982 | See Source »

...shallow, everything else reeks of over-kill. The sex scenes are unnecessarily explicit, and Schrader revels in giving us the gamut on perversion from bestiality and incest to kink and sado-masochism. Schrader also isn't much interested in generating suspense. When Irena suddenly wanders through a surreal Cajun bayou, the audience is too confused to be worried. Occasionally Schrader resorts to the cheap device of startling the viewer--something appears suddenly or moves when it shouldn't. All in all, Cat People is as imaginative as coitus interruptus--and about as subtle...

Author: By Joseph C. Gorini, | Title: Feline Fetishes | 4/13/1982 | See Source »

...swamp, the squad of National Guardsmen gets befuddled. According to the map, there shouldn't be a lake around here. But there is, and unless they steal some boats to cross it, they will not reach their objective in time. This they do, which riles the crafts' Cajun owners, whose tempers are not improved when the weekend soldiers fire blanks at them. Indeed, that is all it takes to turn a war game into a deadly game. The locals are cruel, cunning and know their soggy country. The Guardsmen-except for two, a city sharpster (Keith Carradine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Swamp Fever SOUTHERN COMFORT | 10/5/1981 | See Source »

...colors that Joe picked up on all of his magical misery tours. Ely's band, along with the traditional complement of bass, rhythm guitar and drums, also includes a sax and an accordion, so its sound sometimes takes on Tex-Mex overtones, or even a certain savor from Cajun territory. Ely's sources are scrupulously eclectic. Perhaps his nearest spiritual peer is that old renegade Jerry Lee Lewis. Live Shots contains one old tune, Fingernails, that may once have been intended as a send-up of Jerry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Riding High with Hard-Luck Guys | 5/11/1981 | See Source »

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