Word: voila
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...birth control as "biological teleology passing through stoic reductionism" to a discussion of the nun who thinks that public relations slogans and graphics are this era's most important contribution to the arts. He throws together all sorts of ideas and facts, shakes them up, and up, and Voila! The problem seems so simple, his solutions so perfect...
...Four Seasons. Tape recorder in hand, he simply camps at the seashore or in a rain forest, and lets Mother Nature herself compose an accelerando of breaking waves or a pizzicato polka of storm effects. Then he adds electronic sounds-whirrr, ping, eeeeeee, r-r-r-roar-and voila!, the new art of sonic environments, "music" to the ears of those who would rather "hear" sound than "listen" to it. Walter (Switched-On Bach) Carlos here presents four tone poems-spring, summer, fall, winter-that give a good approximation of what a year's hike might be like...
...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...
...Prenons la Revolution au serieux, mais ne nous prenons pas au serieux."--voila peut-etre la phraseclef dans ce melange de boutades malines, de jeux-de-mots quasi (ou franchement) obscenes, de citations heroiques. "Je suis marxiste tendance groucho," ecrit un etudiant de Nanterre; "Je jouis dans les paves," declare un autre: nous ne sommes evidement pas parmi de graves doctrinaires. Dans l'ambiance febrile et joyeuse de mai meme les minettes du 16eme aident a la construction des barricades; a la colere, et a la passion anti-gouvernementale se mele un desir incoherent de participer au defi solidaire...