Word: brazilians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DIED. Rahsaan Roland Kirk, 41, blind jazz musician famed for his ability to play three instruments simultaneously; of as yet undetermined causes; in Bloomington, Ind. Kirk played the manzello (a quasi-saxophone), the stritch (a horn resembling a dented blunderbuss) and the tenor sax together, combining themes of Brazilian Composer Villa-Lobos, Atonalist Arnold Schonberg and Bassist Charlie Mingus...
...MANY WAYS, Marcel Camus's Black Orpheus was a revelation for American audiences. Surrounding a Greek myth with the swirling colors of a Brazilian carnival made the story completely universal; Camus's film gave the tragedy new depth, and audiences could not resist its graceful sadness...
Bahia revolves--more or less--around the tale of two lovers. Otelia, a beautiful young girl (Mira Fonesca), comes to Bahia, a spectacularly beautiful area on the Brazilian coast, to work in a brothel. There she meets Martim (Antonio Pitanga), a handsome young member of Bahia's cheerfully disreputable fringe element. By the end of the movie, her simple adulation--she is young enough to clutch a rag doll to her--has won him over from the wiles of more sophisticated women. And so the two are married, surrounded by their friends...
...indigenous populations in South America. It appears that now the governments of South America are trying to compensate for their past laziness. Hunters licensed to shoot animals now pursue Natives as prey in South America, bringing back Indians as trophies. With the new Trans-Amazon highway plans, the Brazilian and other governments are performing "search and destroy" missions on the native people. A Brazilian museum advertised recently that "Indians and other beasts" could be found stuffed for display; this practice occurs at museums in urban centers throughout South America. In Paraguay, the hunting of Indian peoples is not illegal, because...
...Brazilian Playwright Roberto Athayde's feeble premise that the theater goers are the students, and they are encouraged to answer back only to be squelched by Miss Margarida, a form of bearbaiting, not dialogue. If the play means to be a parable of political tyranny, the point is fully made in the first ten minutes. More probably, Playwright Athayde means to say that we are force-fed prefabricated information throughout our lives. He also goes cosmic over morality with the appearance of a skeleton .nd Miss Margarida's big bad news: "You are all going to die." Without...