Word: fado
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Last Tango in Paris and A Clockwork Orange are drawing huge crowds. A dubbed-in-Portuguese version of Deep Throat has been approved for import. Bawdy, undulating, take-it-all-off strippers from France and Italy are lending new interest to traditional vaudeville. Enthusiastic audiences flocked to see Last Fado in Lisbon, featuring a French stripper named Poupée la Rose...
Though no more libidinous than the strip shows at Paris' Crazy Horse Saloon, Last Fado was an erotic milestone for Lisbon. A month ago, a still bolder step was taken by Producer Ruth Escobar, 39, who offered audiences her production of a play called Autos Sacramentais (Sacramental Rites). A dramatization of the eternal struggle between good and evil, it featured 14 Brazilians of both sexes cavorting onstage au nature! for two hours. A 69-year-old orange farmer who watched the production remarked: "It would have been better if there had been more lights...