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...imploding Conservatives, two new regional parties gained substantial power -- dragging with them the perennial issue of Canada's political survival. For the first time, the official opposition party, the Bloc Quebecois, with 54 seats, is an organization dedicated to the country's dismemberment. The Bloc, led by Lucien Bouchard, 54, aims to take Canada's predominantly French-speaking province out of Confederation. In the west the conservative populist Reform Party won 52 seats. Its leader, Preston Manning, 51, has often declared himself unwilling to make further constitutional concessions as the price for Quebec's remaining in the union...
...other House race on the ballot, Democrat Lucien Blackwell won a four-way race to succeed former Rep. William Gray III in Philadelphia, gaining more than 40 percent of the vote...
...That's Lucien, Genet's lover; see how cute he is! He's now running a garage." Discussing a scene where two prisoners, in separate cells, share forbidden cigarette smoke passed through a straw, White notes, "It's totally improbable; in reality you couldn't put that straw through a brick wall, but it's sexy...
...something happens to resolve the disagreement by the June 23 deadline for the accord's final approval, Canadians will have to face the possibility of a national rupture. They were jolted by a small sample of it last week when Mulroney's most important ally from Quebec, Environment Minister Lucien Bouchard, resigned from the government over what he sees as English-Canadian intransigence, saying, "This country doesn't work anymore. We have to remake...
...Mainers of Letourneau's Used Auto Parts are not the type to be seen at L.L. Bean. They live in a town that is inappropriately named Miracle City, a collection of raw shacks and trailers hard by an automobile junkyard whose owner, Lucien Letourneau, is a down-East version of Big Daddy. Chute skillfully spot-welds an assemblage of impressive vignettes and character sketches, but she has difficulty hooking up the narrative drive...