Word: leffing
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...have moderated melodrama to the requirements of realism, and they have punctuated their safari with some glorious fun. The episode in which the friendly enemies get looped on native liquor and then go bungling through the boondocks in search of a lone leopard ("You take uh one on uh lef, pal, an' I'll take uh one on uh right") is one of the sappiest hunting scenes ever written. Thanks mostly to the vivid work of the principal players, the central characters come off as wonderfully real and specific people, so much themselves that they couldn...
...south. Since Belgium seceded from The Netherlands 133 years ago, the numerically superior Flemings have always resented the traditional economic and social superiority of the Walloons. "We're the only country in Europe with an oppressed majority," says Belgium's Flemish Premier Théo Lef...
...Lefèvre was overstating the case. Since the end of World War II, Flanders has capitalized on a healthy dollop of U.S. aid to industrialize and acquire a patina of prosperity, while Wallonia, with its played-out coal mines, has been plagued by chronic unemployment. Last year, when violent riots broke out between the two factions, the Flemish majority in Parliament passed a law dividing Belgium into two separate unilingual sections along a line extending from the German border south of Aachen to the French frontier; to the north, Flemish would be the official language in schools, courts...
Just Blues (Memphis Slim; Prestige). A collection of original blues by a singer with a voice alive with meaningful inflections. The laments are universal: "Ah walked into a beer tavern To give a girl a nice time Ah had forty-five dollars when ah entered. When ah lef, ah only had one dime. Was she a beer-drinkin' woman? Don't you know, man, don't you know...
...compromise, even agreed to accept some of the Loi Unique's tougher provisions, such as an increased sales tax. Stickiest question was whether the Social Christians would agree to the release of the hundreds of Socialistled rioters who had been jailed in the January rioting. No, said Lefèvre, but he appointed a Socialist as Minister of Justice so that paroles could be expedited...