the DMZ show-and-tell: Québec squads imported via Avril's expatriate offices
against (this year) Québec’s notoriously hapless Jr. Davis and Jr. Wightman Cup squads, invited down under very quiet lowprofile political conditions via the good expatriate offices of Avril Incandenza to get vivisected by Wayne and Hal et al for the philanthropic amusement of E.T.A. patrons and alums
Context
The border made permeable through one Québecois expatriate: the visiting squads come "under very quiet lowprofile political conditions" arranged by "the good expatriate offices of Avril Incandenza" — a cross-border transit that the phrase itself flags as political, not merely athletic. The scene registers, without pressing it, that Avril has the standing to move Québecois nationals across the reconfigured border quietly, which is exactly the datum later readings of Avril's possible A.F.R. ties draw on for motive. (Avril's family system is family-hamlet's; landed here is only the political-conditions cross-border clause.)