Word: voila
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...returns to his apartment, and in seclusion, edits the tapes down to what he feels is relevant to his needs, and arranges the segments in what would make the most natural order. Then, taking care to capture the "voice" of his subject, he transcribes the sessions into prose, and VOILA! ... the "As told to ..." book. And a blatant potboiler as well...
VOILÀ," said Philibert Tsirinana, the only president Madagascar has had since it won independence from France and became the Malagasy Republic in 1958. "So you are going to drive to Tamatave? Voila. You will find the road is bad. I will tell you why. First, because we do not have money to do all things at once. Second, because if we improved the road, people would use it and the profits of our railroad would be reduced. Third, because the sooner we improved it, the sooner it would be torn up and the sooner we would have to improve...