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A PRAcA De repente, todo carioca parecia ter conseguid o uma picareta ou pa e estava escavando uma praca no subir rbio de Benfica, no Rio, cacando pedras preciosas. Centenas de pessoas tomad as pela "febre de topazios" destruiram os bancos e o parque infantil do local. A busca continuou por dias, ate que o sonho de fortuna foi estilhacado quando tecnicos do ministerio da Infraestrutura anunciaram que as pedras nao tinham qualquer valor comercial. Alguns mais afoitos e mais gananciosos ao receberem a ma noticia decid iram garimpar em ruas vizinhas a praca. Foi quando a policia interveio e acabou corn a brincadeira corn persuasivos cassetetes.
0 govern° federal diz que esti quebrado e que nao tern dinheiro para o Carnaval. Pois bem, retrucou a Liga das Escolas de Samba do Distrito Federal, sem d inheiro ninguem vai sambar na avenida. 0 Planalto prometeu Cr$ 210 milhOes, para cumprir um compromisso que já se tornou um tradicao. Enquanto o govern° vacilava e pensava em voltar atras em seu munhequismo, o pessoal das escolas estava usando um termo inequivoco para sua decisao."Ela é irreversivel," disseram eles.
Um cachorrinho ainda sem nome desenhado pelos artistasdodepartamentode desenhos animados dos estudios Warner Brothers sera o mascote do prOximo campeonato mundial de futebol a ser realizado aqui nos Estados Unidos. 0 animal de orelhas de abano, um narizenormee uniforme vermelho, azul e branco foi ap resen tad o a imprensa por Pete. Na mesma ocasiao, os organizadores da Copa anunciaram que irdo usar
JUST PASS THE PAPER BASKET The American recession is taking a big toll in the way Brazil is being seen ( mostly not being seen) by the world. American foreign correspondents in the country are a species in near extinction. Staff positions are turning into part-time freelancer jobs. And reporters paid by article are asked to write less and to produce shorter reports when they write. Time closed its Rio bureau. UPI and Business Week both closed its Sao Paulo office. Apart from the recente opening of a new bureau for CNN, American television crews pratically disappeared from the land. Anyway, for the reader in the United States, there is no noticeable difference. The reporters continue writing next to nothing about Brazil. Or their editors here keep throwing their work in the trash.
12 cidades para sediar o campeonato mundial de futebol. 26 cidades se cand d a taram a honra. Entre aquelas corn aceitacao aparentemente garantida es tao Atlanta, Dallas, Miami, Orlando, San Francisco e Los Angeles. Aguarde para breve um concurso paradar nome ao mascote latidor. Que tal Frangueino?
Em outras paragens, a revelacao de que o presidente da reptiblica andava colando seria mofivomais que suficiente para que a cabeca presidencial rolasse. Ou pelo menos provocaria uma grita que poria de molhobarbas de presidenciaveis e outros politicos.
Nada disso aconteceu , entretanto, quando Collor de Mello, resolveu emprestar trechos enormes de urn ensaista e colocar seu nome como autor, corn a major candura. Virou municao apenas dos Jos Soares e Chicos Anisios da terra. No pals do 'amanha sera melhor', nao ha nenhum escandalo saboroso o suficiente para vencer o proximo escandalo no
teste do sabor. E se vai de prato picante a prato mais picante. Como obota-fora sem cerimonia do ministro do Trabalho. 0 escandalo aqui foi que ele tenha resistido tanto, tendo sido o protagonista de urn festival de deslizes e besteiras. Obrigado, por estar mais uma vez conosca nesta aventura de tentar entender nosso Brasil. R.M.
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CONTENTS
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Plagiarism
"Black" desmoralizado
The "original" was copied
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Magri, Afinal, na Rua
Broken Excuses
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14 DEPARTAMENTS
Margarida sai, de carona
2 Rapidinhas
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The Gullar Archipelago
Empty pockets
9 Dorzinha Danada!
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Lost Angels
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PLAGIARISM
THE "ORIGINAL" PROGRAM BELONGED TO A DEAD MAN
Rodotfo Espinoza, Rio de Janeiro A series of articles published by Jornal do Brasil e Folha de Sao Pauloand signed by Fernando Collor de Mello were presented as original work and as a contribution of the Brazilian president to the national dialogue. Itwaswithgreatshock then that the nation found out that its lead er had been cheating and had copied whole excerpts of late Brazilian diplomat and writer Jose Guilherme Melchior who died one year ago. According to the Carioca daily 0 Globo, in the first of the eight articles of the series titled "The agenda for a consensus: a socialliberal proposal, Collor reproduces word for word 141 of the
186 lines of the article. Similar borrowing occurred throughout the series. Besides, it was discovered the text had been published in the Dienio Oficial as the platform for a unknown party called Party of the Brazilian Social-Liberalism (PSLB). Trying to protect the president, Egberto Batista, secretary of Regional Development presented himself as the founderof PSLB, even though his name does not appear in the list of the party's founder. How does the Fes id ent exthat: plain "Simple coincidence," said presidential
spokesman Claudio Humberto Rosa e Silva as soon as the scandal came out. Collor himself in a letter sent to Folha de sao Paulo admitted having used work prepared by Merquior, who used to be the Brazilian ambassador at Unesco. The president talked also about other "collaborators", without naming names. With the revela lions s till during the publication of the articles, Collor changed his plans and dropped three of the proposed articles, publishing in their places ideas not written by the diplomat. Trying to put a good face on what looked terrible for his reputation and credibility, the president, in the last article, praised his "ghost write'. "The series of articles about the Social-Liberalism thatl ha ve been publishing, is, unfortunately, transforming in polemics a simple story, which is how they were born, how they were written," wrote Collor in his letter to Folha.. "My election campaign was made based in clear ideas, that proposed a certain way of modernization for Brazil... It was never my claim that these were original ideas... Still during the campaign I met ambassador Jose
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`4 ESIA SAVE CT AitTiGeS PLVE MUllo t VAI PC XoSIr cult. 61ERAIE MERpuloR *A Guilherme Merquior... Our conversations were very fruitful. Merquior was a master of concepts, of precise formulas, and, so, I was able to refine some ideas that I already had, and to deepen others. We found important afinities, although my vision of liberalism was more "social" than that of Merquior." The widow of Merquior excused the president saying the texts Collor used did not belong to her husband. She thought it was "normal" the fact that Collor used the text as being his own. "If the text was not published in any place, he didn't consider it as his", said she, as a way of explanation. All presidents have their intellectuals and experts to write their speeches and articles." The opposition was less forgiving. Florestan Fernandes, assembly man (PT- Sao Paulo) and professor of Sociologyat Universityof SaoPaulo, called the "copy a deception, and shows that Collor is not competent to expose his own ideas." And Francisca Eliodora Severino, a professor at School of Sociology and Politics of Sao Paulo, "academically, if an author copies ideas of
This agenda was born dead, say Color's enemies somebody else and he is discovered, this is the end of the carrier for the professor in the University." The president of the Congress, Mauro Benevides (PMDB - Ceara) is more charitable. According to him, the revelation that the Collor copied his articles "can discourage those parties prepared to cooperate with the'agenda of consensus—. "The 'agenda' is dead and buried", concluded the leader of PT, Jose Genoino (Sao Paulo). "He has already destroyed with no need the understanding, the Republic Council, the Congress Forum and the meeting of the governors." •
BROKEN EXCUSES Josias de Souza, Brasilia
The memory of Jose Guilherme Merquior deserved more respect. To be plagiarized by Collor is already too much. But to see his texts being taken by a little party of back yard is the pits. The brilliant diplomat and writer should be turning in his tomb. Paris, 1990. Already facing the cancer that took away his life, Merquior listened to Collor. The president ordered an essay that would be used in the formation of a new party in Brazil. An alliance with a "social-liberal" doctrine. Encouraged by the idea of seeing the theory that he cultivated practiced by a serious assembly, Merquior started to write. His text ended up in the hands of the person who had ordered them. From the hands of Collor they went to the bottom of a drawer, from where they didn't leave before January 91, month in which Merquior has died. Three months after the funeral, in April 91, the work lost its virtue of being unpublished being printed in the pages of "Diario Oficial". Without any mention as to its author, the essay was
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turned into the program of the PLS., a party arranged on the sly by Egberto Baptista. Now, besides being the program of such party, the essay of Merquior has been transformed in a series of 'unpu blished' articles of Fernando Collor. Masked only with little introductions and one or other sentence introduced, the "texts" of the president are faithful extracts of the workof Merquior. There are sequences of identical paragraphs. There's no different comma. The only original feature in the works Collor decided to publish is the name of the president.Where you read Collor, at the top of every article, it should be written Merquior. The author was doubly betrayed. First by the cunning PSLB; and then, who would guess, by the president himself. In face of the evidence, the explanations arranged at the last minute in the Planalto sound ridiculous. To paraphrase Collor in his attack to businessmen, "Who has no competence does not set shop." It is the same as saying: who has no ideas should not write. The worst part is that Merquior is notamong us anymore to reclaim the copyrights. •
EMPTY POCKETS The hard Christmas for the Brazilian diplomatic personnel around the world The money they were waiting from Brazil didn't come, inDecember. And all over the world Brazilian diplomats were having ahard timepaying thebills.Chec.ks bounce. Ashamed and trying to show loyalty, some of them were denying there was any problem. Diplomats and employees of Brazilian embassies overseas had not received the salary for December and part of the year end bonus (13Qsalario) in mid January. The deposit should have been made January 4. The delay forced employees to give checks without sufficient funds and to delay the payment of their rents, creating problems for many. Also for lackof payment, some were risking to see their children turned down at their schools. The reason for the delaying according to Itamaraty was the over extension of the budget. And people working in foreign countries were not the only ones harmed by the lateness of payment. Among others, public servants from the Ministry ofJustice, government workers in Brasilia and pensioners of late State of Guanabara were also affected by the problem. Inflation is being blamed for the lateness. The salaries were liberated only after a special approval by Congress in December 22. In Rome, the diplomats talked about their situation without money as one of penury. Some employees revealed there that this was not the first time that there was a delay on the salaries. In Madrid, the d iplo mats found a way to avoid these bad experiences: they have a special line of credit granted by Banco do Brasil, which gives an automatic advance in the amount of the salary not received.
Brazilians in the Embassy in Berlin were furious after having heard a rumor that the money destined for them had been diverted so Brazil could pay the expenses for Eco-92, the Ecological Summit to be held in Rio, in June. In Mexico, the emhacsyworkers were refusing to make comments about the situation.Some Mexicans working for the Braziliangovernment, however, con-
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Alice Perri, Sao Paulo Todomundo sabia que o emprego de Antonio Rogerio Magri, o primeiro operand a ocupar urn ministerio no governo brasileiro, estava por urn fio. Desde o principio, sua atua cao nao se alinhou corn a restante do governo, e por vezes o presidente Collor deixou clara sua irritacao corn o auxiliar. 0 primeiro "fora" de Magri veio logo apos a posse de Collor, quando ele recomendou queo presidente vetasse o novo saldrio minimo aprovado pelo Congresso. Collor aceitou o conselho do minis tro mas teve que voltar desgastando sua imagem junto aos trabalhadores. Magri havia sido escolhido por seu passado de lider sindical; o governo pensava que sua presenca pudesse dar respaldo ao Plano Collor, tao carente de apoio popular. JA naquela epoca, em funcao do primeiro conselho errado de Magri, Collor passou a procurar um outro lidersindical, Luiz Antonio deMedeiros, para consultas emquestOes trabalhistas, deixando seu ministro de lado.
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Em abril do ano passado, Magri resolveu trazer a paha:, uma lista de supostos "marajas" da Previdencia, que estariam recebendo aposentadorias milionarias. 0 problema ĂŠ que acabou sendo provado que nao havia nada de anormal corn a grand e maioria do nomes apontados pelo ex-ministro; e Collor ficou novamente bastante irritado corn o seu assessor. Para aprovar as possiveis fraudes no INSS, Collor resolveu nomear Joao Santana - que na epoca era o Secretario da Ad ministracao -para a funcao, revelando que o papel de Magri no governo, estava no minimo, bastante debilitado. Mais tarde, descobriu-se que Magri, o acusador de falsos marajas, era ele proprio um maraja, jĂĄ que recebia akin de seu saldrio de ministro, urn saldrio de Cr$950.000 (cerca de US$ 1,500 na epoca) da Eletropaulo, empresa onde trabalhava antes de assumir cargos sindicais. Em julho, veio aquela fatidica viagem A Suica, quando o ex-ministro ao inves de comparecer A reuniao da Organizacao Internacional do Trabalho motivo NEWS from
do seu tour internacional -resolveu ir As compras e foi flagrado por reporteres brasileiros. Houve ainda os constantes desentendimentos corn os sindicatos e centrais de trabalhadores, na disputa por saldrios e por formas de negociacties dos mesmos. Tudo isso regado por escorregOes dramaticos no portugues, que a imprensa nunca deixava passar em branco. Em marco de 90, por exemplo, logo apOs o anfincio do Plano Collor, Magri inventou uma nova palavra que passou a caracteriza-lo por toda a sua carreira ministerial: "0 Plano ĂŠ imexivel," disse o ex-ministro. Emoutra ocasiao, ele soltou outra perola dizendo que "cachorro tambem e ser humano," ao tentar defender sua esposa que levava uma cachorra ao veterinario em carro oficial. Ao se despedir do governo, Magri anunciou solenemente que saiu "para deixar o presidente tocar o pals." A crise atingiu em cheio mesmo o operario-ministro quando a justica federal resolveu conceder o aumento de 147% nas pensOes pagas aos milhOes de aposentados brasileiros. 0 governo dissse que nao tinha dinheiro para pagar e desafiou a cons titucionalidade de seguidas decisties do Supremo Tribunal Federal beneficianBRAZIL 69
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do os aposentados - uma novela que esta durando quase dois meses e ainda nao teve seu desfecho, principalmente agora que o presidente Collor resolveu usar a forca de um decreto para impedir, ou pelo menos prorrogar, o pagamento. Durante as marchas e contramarchas da novela dos 147%, Magri foi apenas um expectador, sem qualquer funcao significativa. Sua saida foi a consequencia natural de uma serie de acontecimentos que já estavam passando dos limites. Foi interessante notar que ao demitir Magri, Collor nao usou do mesmo expediente que havia utilizado para despedir outros cinco ministros em quase dois anos de go-
MARGARIDA SAII DE CARONA Quem tambem ganhou bilhe-
outro time ha muito tempo
Durante a investigacao das frauNo mesmo pacote em quedemitiu Rogerio Magri, o presidente Collor des, Margarida teria simplesmente Desta vez, Collor se livrou tambem de Margarida dito que a fase de Rosane na LBA esqueceu os floreios Procopio - ex-ministra da Aga° So- havia terminado, e prometeu que diplomaticos e colocou cial. Mas os caminhos que levaram a "nao ia colocar panos quentes em demissao de Procopio foram bem nada." De fato, ela divulgou, entre Magri na rua, sem dife,rentes daqueles tragados para a outras coisas, que a LBA havia distridesculpas. buido cestas basicas para metade dos saida de Magri. Eta era muito amiga da primeira eleitores de 39 municipios de Alagoas, verno. Desta vez, o presidente so dama Rosane Collor, e estava ligada bem as vesperas das eleigOes para o comunicou sua decisao ao ex- ao grupo do presidente desde 1979, governo estadual. ministro ape's ter escolhido seu quando Collor se elegera prefeito de Para o lugar de Margarida, Collor sucessor e sem disfargar o bilhete MaceiO. Mais tarde, em 1986, Marga- nomeou o deputado Ricardo Fiuza azulcomo uma "demissao a pedido." rida de novo ocupou urn cargo execu- (PFL-PE). A saida de Margarida Para o lugar de Magri, o presidente tivo quando Collor assumiu o gover- Procopio e Rogerio Magri, apesar do nomeou o deputado Reinhold no de Alagoas. seu evidente carater ad ministrativo, Step hanes (PFL-PR), que traz em seu Margarida comegou a cair em reveste-se tambem de urn espesso curriculo o cargo de presidente do desgraga quando resolveu apoiar os manto politico. extinto INPS. Stephanes fica corn a adversarios dos Collors na disputa Os dois eram os 6nicos ministros incumbencia de descascar o abacaxi pelo governo de Alagoas em 1990. do governo Collor pertencentes ao dos 147%, dos quais os aposentados Acabou brigando corn Rosane, e ficou PRN, partido que elegeu o presidente brasileiros, encorajados por diversas desprestigiada corn o presidente. mas que se tornou um fardo nas viterias na Justica, nao querem abrir Mas a briga corn a primeira-dama negociagOes corn o Congresso. Atramao. so veio a piablico quando os jornais indo dois importantes deputados Solucionado este problema, Ste- comegaram a revelas as fraudes na filiados ao PFL e corn livre transit° no phanes ficaria encarregado de con- Legiao Brasileira de Assistencia - Congresso, Collor espera iniciar a duzir uma completa reformulacao ()Tao presidido por Rosane, e ligado dura tarefa de reconstrucao de no sistema previdenciario brasileiro, ao Ministerio da Aga° Social, credibilidade do governo - duramenpara evitar que crises como esta vol- comand ado por Margarida Procopio. te abalada nos ultimos meses. • tern a acontecer. • CM**. 0411
An interview with Leland Guyer translator of Poema Sujo/Dirty Poem, by Ferreira Gullar 11,11•17 I
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THE GULLAR ARCHIPELAGO Bondo Wyszpolski, Long Beach In his own country, Brazilian poet and art critic Ferreira Gullar is regarded as a man who follows his convictions - and these have led him down rabbit holes that are closer to Franz Kafka than to Lewis Carroll. Born Jose Ribamar Ferreira in 1930, in the northeast Brazilian city of Sao Luiz do Maranhao, Gullar reached maturity at about the same time as another outbreak of military dictatorship. For many South Americans it meant repression: for Gullar it would soon spell political exile. In Santiago, Chile, military police twice broke into his apartment. "I lived there during the last five months of the Allende government," he told Leland Guyer, the translator of his epic Poema Sujo/Dirty Poem. Those were five months of despair, of pressure, of threats of terrorism, of bombs exploding, of strikes. And, finally, the brutal, bloody military coup." Gullar fled to Buenos Aires. More unrest. He went to Lima, then back again to Buenos Aires. Brazil, meanwhile, continued to snarl. Uruguay and Bolivia, too, were under iron fist regimes. It was 1975, and there seemed nowhere to run. "Since I knew that I could die at any minute," he told Guyer, "I felt that I had to write a poem that said it all, that reflected the sum of my life, that left nothing out, like a last will and testament. That's how the poem was written." This is the Gullar archipelago, the volatile and vast half-song! half howl, thorough selfaffirmation that attracted Leland Guyer, Associate Professor of Span-
ish and Portuguese at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota. His translation of Poema Sujo/Dirty Poem "a city is in :1 man almost :is i tree flies in the bird that drops it everything is in :mother in its own and dillerent way 01 being in it sell a city is not in :1 man the way it is in these plazas streets and trees" Ferreira Gullar
is published by University Press of America. He spoke with News from Brazil about his immersion in LusoBrazilian literature, the obstacles faced by Latin American writers, and in particular his fascination for Ferreira Gullar, man and poet. Leland Guyer: "In 19721 enrolled in the Ph.D. program in Hispanic languages and literature at the Uni-
Leland Guyer, fascinated with the work of Ferreira Gullar.
versity of California, Santa Barbara. I took a few courses from several professors of Portuguese, notably Jorge de Sena and Jack Schmitt, and I was electrified by the profound difference of world vision, of tone, of, well, simple stance before the world that the Portuguese and the Brazilians express in their literature. Different from what I knew of literature written in Spanish and English, that is. The experience was completely disarming to me. I had been quite unaware of the sheer literary greatness which could come from so small a country as Portugal and of the richness and enormity of the vast literature which has been produced by Brazil... "I finished my courses at UCSB and worked in Lisbon for an additional year on my dissertation on (poet) Fernando Pessoa. I taught Portuguese for a few years at the University of Chicago... I left Chicago after three years and divided my time between Santa Cruz, California and Rio de Janeiro/Sao Paulo. In Brazil, I'discovered' Ferreira Gullar's Poerna Sujo. I'd never seen anything quite like it before. I knew I had to translate the work...and some years later, I now call myself a translator." News from Brazil: "What drew you to Ferreira Gullar's work?" L.G.: "Well, Poema Sujo in particular and his poetry in general possess qualities that really excited me. It seems to me that there's everything a person could possibly ant in this poem -or any literary work for that matter... Between the opening and closing pages are paeans to his past, recollections of mo-
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mentous times and moments, songs, free verse, rhymed verse, verse to be accompanied by music, and concretist images in words. There is also the qualitative side -shamefaced reminiscences of the dreadful things we endure and the kinds of things people do to each other in the face of scarcity, fear and unfulfillment. Gullar recognizes both the wondrous beauty, love and tenderness, as well as the despicable filth, of his and everyman's existence, and he achieves a kind of charitable coexistence with it all in a most human and humane way. I don't pretend to know everything there's to know about the work, but the whole damn thing resonates with me. Every page, every line, every word says something special to me." NIB: "Then you consider Poema Sujo the best introduction to Gullar's body of work?" L.G.: "I guess it is the best introduction if you want a globalized view of Gullar's poetics and philosophies right now, in all their magnificence. I like this work best because it's so grand and because at the same time it's so unselfconsciously rough hewn in some ways." MB: "What would you like to see American readers get out of Poema Sujo? L.G.: "It's anything but a tourist comeon for beach frolics in Rio de Janeiro. It's an honestly conceived, deeply felt vision of life in the third-world tropics. It's a vision we all need to experience, but... I know that it's a disturbing book on may levels that can turn many of us off: it's poetry, there's graphic reference to sexual practices, there's a constant confrontation with the grim realities of pov-
of democracy, censorship has been relaxed dramatically. Naturally there are still constraints placed upon freedom of speech, some of which are legal and others which are more subtle, such as the kinds of subjects and language which the marketplace will tolerate. I think that the publishing climate in Brazil today is not too different from what we see in the U.S. today- quite a different scenario from what Gullar knew in Brazil, Chile and Argentina in the 1970's." NIB: "What notable characteristics set Gullar apart from other poets and writers whom you've met?" L.G.: "Gullar is a remarkably multifaceted writer. Early in his career, after a number of fits and starts, he earned an excellent reputation as a concretist and neo-concretist poet. Later he consciously rejected this style as effete and bourgeois and turned toward an expression he judged more socially responsible and more suited to a less lettered class. This, in the end, was not entirely satisfactory either, and what we eventually see in his masterpiece Poema Sujo is a sophisticated amalgam of many styles and substances which embrace a vast, socially inclusive and charitable world view. All of this is complicated by the fact that Gullar asserts that he is much more attracted to the visual arts than to poetry. For years he has written a newspaper column on art criticism, and he has published books Poema Sujo emof art criticism whose influence has braces a vast, soresonated throughout the Brazilian cially inclusive and art community. charitable world "Ferreira Gullar has had the courage to take on the toughest oppoview. nents - even at the risk of his life. And nistic to the writer of his/her ideas. he has done this with a courageous "In Brazil, since the 1984 restitution evolution of art and philosophy."
erty, etc. But then again there's the exquisite beauty that anyone can warm up to. I don't know." NIB: "As an observer of the Brazilian literary scene, has the political climate over the last few years been such as to encourage works as bold as Poema Sujo- without reprisals? Or do you think that Brazilian writers will always have to think twice about what they take to the publishers?" L.G.: "Traditionally in Latin American dictatorships there has been a surprisingly wide opportunity to publish confrontational poetry, despite institutionalized censorship. Partly this is due to the writer's ability to play the game of saying one thing and everyone understanding the words to mean another. Metaphor, allegory, fable, etc., have been useful tools for the poet. Often, however, the writer does not couch language in any subterfuge. Under these circumstances, it must be understood that, given the relatively limited circulation of poetry, or almost any literature, subversive literature in Latin America has either been published in small quantity (by our standards) at home (and, given the small readership, understood by the authorities to be relatively innocuous), or it has been published in a neighboring country less antago-
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Still writing from Brazil, I send my regards to all of our friends who have stayed in the cold weather of Los Angeles. But none of you should feel jealous; it has been raining every single day since I have arrived to this otherwise beautiful country. Despite the rain, being in Brazil is always a pleasure. It is here that we can recapture some of the energy that we lose when we decide do leave our roots behind. This energy comes in the shape of old places, old symbols of our past, and -more than anything else - old friends. Among the old friends that I met once again in Brazil is Edison Dezen, who produced my firs t and only album some ten years ago. Edison is a "builderofrestaurants," perhaps the best in Sao Paulo. He designs a newplace, builds the business from the ground up, and eventually passes it along to other people who continue; he then goes to open another place. He was responsible for a number of houses that are well-marked in the hearts of many paulistas: Quincas Borba, Paulicea 22, Divina Corned ia, are a few examples of his talents. Now he is working with alio Alves Pinto to start a new landmark in Sampa. The restaurant will be named Tao, to mean harmony between extremes, and should be opening during the first days of February. Anybody visiting Sampa should make sure that Tao is in the must list- in the near future, we will be talking about
it as one of the best restaurants in town. We have also visited some other friends who have become part of this amazing city. Edson Alves and Elias Carvalho are partners in a law office specialized in bankruptcies, liquidations and reorganizations. "Unfortunately," Edson told me the other day, "outbusiness is booming." It couldn't be otherwise. The number of bankruptcies is breaking all records in the past months, since Collor started his administration.
so. A reporter found out that there were too many coincidences between the articles "written" by the president and some other articles authored by Jose Guilherme Merchior, a former diplomat who died about one year ago (see our cover story on page 5). The coincidences were so many that soon the facts became public: the president had signed articles that Merchior had written. Although it is common for presidents to hire ghostwriters for their speeches and essays, it is not acceptable that someone signs an article that, in fact was written by someone else.
Claudio Castello, an old friend and colleague at the University of Sao Paulo's Insti- I believe that if something like this tute of Psychol- had happened in the United States or ogy, has become a some European country, the presifamous psycho- dent would be immediately imanalyst. His busi- peached. In Brazil, however, the fact ness, too, is boom- became a joke, and will probably be ing. Those who sung in the streets of Rio de Janeiro in still have the the lyrics of another Carnaval samba. money to pay have to look for inner Listening to the songs that were compeace, since the peting in the new Festival of Music of outside world is Sao Paulo, the lyrics written by Luis d ownright chaotic Wagner have already mirrored the in Brazil. situation of Brazil: "People is already accustomed to the situation," and A good ex- nobody seems to be willing to do ample of the chaos in this country is anything to change it. a fact that apparently has nothing to do with the administration of the On the good-news front, I must say government itself. President Collor that Sao Paulo was lovely during this published a series of eight articles in Summer. The wealthy people went some of the most important newspa- on vacation to the Northeast, the pers in the country. He wanted to set middle-class went to the United the tone for a discussion in search of States, and the poor went to the beach. "social understanding." In the first As a consequence, the city was virtufew articles he laid his ideas about ally empty. The traffic flew nicely, neo-liberalism, and I confess that I and I could find parking space everywas surprised with the solidity of his where. I think that A ldir Blanc was thoughts. It seemed, after all, that right when he said that "love is the there was some gray matter behind absence of traffic jam." So, I must that artificial, Globo-like, look. repeat that Sao Paulo was lovely this Summer. I'll see you all in February. It turned out that it really wasn't • EWS from BRAZIL 69. Fetruary I 15, 1992. Page 19 .
UM DAKARINO IMPROVAVEL Se dependesse do pai, ele estaria hoje de farda e corn muitas medalhas no peito. Mas a arte dentro dele falou mais alto e hoje o brasileiro Max Jr., apos urn ano na California, ĂŠ uma estrela ascendente no firmamento da danca em L.A. Sharon Acioly, Los Angeles
Max nasceu em Nova Iguassu, estado do Rio. Filho de militar, ele foi criado para seguir os passos do pai. Chegou a frequentar dois anos de Escola Militar. Foi entao que comecou a descobrir sua paixao pela danca. Precisou de psicoterapia para fazer a mud anca tao drastica, que se agora ĂŠ dificil, quase 20 anos atras era uma loucura. 0 mais custoso foi convencer o pai que a carreira militar nao era para ele e o que queria mesmo era ser bailarino. Ele foi morar corn a avo, uma pessoa mais liberal. E esta o ajudou muito. Por dois anos Max frequentou aulas de danca, sem conseguir reunir coragem suficiente para participar da parte pratica. "Eu me sentava la," lembra-se ele, "o rnico homem na classe. Prestava atencao a tudo mas Mc) tinha coragem de me levantar. Quando chegava em casa, me trancava no banheiro e praticava o que tinha aprendido na aula." Seu primeiro trabalho como bailarino foi o musical "Eu Vou na Banguela delas", onde contracenou corn Nelia Paula, Reny de Oliveira e o ator Cole. Essa atuacao lhe deu a oportunidade de atuar no Plataforma 1, famosa casa de shows do Rio. Entre outros trabalhos realizados no Brasil, Max fez shows no Scalia e no Hotel Nacional, apareceu em varias pecas de teatro e integrou por cinco anos o grupo de danca que acompanha a cantora Alcione. Na televisao, participou do programa ANaveda Fantasia na Rede Manchete e chegou a fazer parte
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Max Jr., uma estrela ern ascensao. do corpo de bale da Globo. Quando ele comecou a ficar conhecido no meio artistico, nao foi apenas como bailarino mas tambem como coreOgrafo. E sua fama cresceu quando foi convidado a trabalhar no TopBell, urn clube prive do Rio, onde dava aulas para as damas da sociedade carioca. Entre urn trabalho e outro, quando a febre da lambada se alastrou pelo Brasil, Max montou uma companhia de danca chamada Lambada Boa. "Viajamos por tod a a America Latina," lembra-se Max, "fazendo shows, e quase gravamos urn disco de lambada, mas eu ja estava corn ideas de vir para os Estados Unidos." Em uma viagem corn Alcione a Porto Rico, o dancarino ligou a sua amiga Reny de Oliveira, que estava morando ern Los Angeles, dizendo-lhe que queria tentar algo por aqui. Nos primeiros meses, tudo era muito dificil. Reny lhe havia dito que provavelmente nao conseguiria um emprego em sua especialidade, principalmente por ser negro, em urn pals cheio de preconceito. Max resolveu entao voltar para o Brasil. Ele chegou mesmo a comprar passagem e marcar a data da partida. Ele acabou perdendo o aviao, entre tanto. "Voltei para casa e chorei o dia inteiro," revela o artista. Nao sabia o que fazer. Presisava arru mar um emprego mas nao sabia fazer nada que nao fosse dancar." Quase sem dinheiro, ele saiu de porta em porta, em downtown Los Angeles, implorando a alguma alma caridosa
que desse emprego a uma mao-de- cabeca: um carro do ano nao foi por acaso ou obra inteiramente dessqualificada. 0 "Nao quero que as pessoas que sorte. Para ser bem sucedido aqui d ono de uma lanchonete resolveu lhe me conhecem no Brasil pensem que voce tern que ter muita garra e forca dar uma chance. me dei bem logo de cara. Trabalhei de vontade e acima de tudo ser "Ele se riu quando expliquei muito e ainda estou trabalhando pra profissional e trabalhar corn minha situacao," record a Max. " Acho chegar aonde eu quero. Se hoje dirijo seriedade." que nao esperaya que eu fosse tao honesto. 0 que podia fazer? Max nao quer Nunca trabalhei corn que seus amigos nada que nao fosse dentro de minha area. no Brasil "Queimei muito fiquem com a hamburger e ate fiquei preso no freezer uma impressao vez. Ele me chamou errada de que ao escrit6rio e pediu que eu fosse embora. tudo é muito S6 trabalhei duas facil por aqui. semanas mas ele me pagou urn mes de salario e me mandou procurar alguma coisa como bailarino. Nunca you me esquecer disso. Hoje somos grandes amigos e ele me ajudou na prod ucao da minha companhia de danca "Swing Brazil"." Swing Brazil é tambem o nome de um curso de ritmos brasileiros, aerobismo e jazzfunk ministrado por Max. Um dos objetivos do dancarino, diz ele, é "mostrar aos americanos o que 6 a danca moderna brasileira." Max esta casado corn uma fisioteAt Monaco Monaco Club rape u ta americana. 0 casal es tá d epresenting senvolvendo urn projeto unindo
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fisioterapia e danca. E o brasileiro nao poderia estarmais entusiasmado. Seus pianos para o futuro, alem dos projetos artisticos, incluem um projeto bem mais pessoal: um filho. Ele parece confiante: "A Swing Brasil já fez trabalhos para a \Twig, Vasp e McDonnell Douglas. No futuro, talvez produziremos um musical para teatro. Agora, o mais importante pra mime o trabalho que estouy desenvolvendo corn a Vicky. Ela é realmente uma pessoa ma ravilhosa e me ajuda muito. Estou muito feliz por podermos trabalhar juntos." Max é urn dos raros bailarinos brasileiros que tiveram exit° poraqui. Mas ele nao deixa que isso lhe suba
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The Exercise Academy 4010 Colfax Ave. Studio City, CA 91604 Food & Beverages
CPA Importers For Guarani (213) 668-0068 Trinca Cachaca 150W. Channel Island Bl. Oxnard, CA 93033 Victor Hugo Imports 9538 Brighton Way #330 Los Angeles, CA 90210 Vigo Brazil Tropical 10855½ Venice Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90034 (213) 839-2934 Hair
Gigi's 434 N. Roxbury Dr. Beverly Hills, CA 90210 (310) 273-0851 Instruction
Brazil Cultural Center 3025-C Airport Avenue Santa Monica, CA (213) 840-2794 Brazilian Music Center 6226 Santa Monica Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90038 (213) 467-5715 The Dance Studio (818) 985-9773 Modern Language Center (213) 839-8427 Piano & Flute Lessons (310) 559-7347 Taquinho Brazilian Music (213) 281-6950
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Clube Brasi lei ro da California 5414-B Walnut Ave. - Suite 125 Irvine, CA 92714 (714) 971-9403 The Brazilian Club of San Diego P.O Box 83502 San Diego, CA 92138 Brazil California Trade Associat. 2390 Orangewood Ave., suite 100 Anaheim, CA 92806 (714) 939-1740 Brazilian Institute of Arizona 11811 Tatum Blvd - Suite 3031 Phoenix, AZ 85028 (602) 953-7790
Consulate
Brazilian Consulate 3810 Wilshire Blvd. #1500 Los Angeles, CA 90010 (213) 382-3133 Page 22 - NEWS from BRAZIL 69
Insurance
Super Insurance Services 212 S. Atlantic Blvd. #101 Los Angeles, CA 90022 (213) 725-3350 I e2a1
EscritOrio de Advocacia 3550 Wilshire Blvd - suite 830 Los Angeles, CA 90010 (213) 386-1563 Marisa's Legal Services (310) 439-6512 Money Remittance Psychotherapy
The Center for Individual and Family Counseling (818) 761-2227 Gina Ross 9201 Sunset Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90069 (213) 930-2151
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Brazil Soccer 21053 Bloomfield Ave. Lakewood, CA 90715 (213) 865-4276 Translation/Interpretation
Tocantins Communications (818) 343-4451 Brazilian Intern. Affairs 256 S. La Cienega Blvd. Beverly Hills, CA 90211 (310) 854-5881
Express Shuttle 23534 Figueroa Street Carson, CA 90745 (213) 830-7188 Travel Agencies
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