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ONE AND ONLY If everything works out the way congressman Flavio Rocha envisions it, Brazil will have soon only one tax to replace 58 different tariffs. Rocha's idea is the IUT (Impost° Unico sobre TransacOes - Single Tax on Transactions), a levy of 1% on deposits and withdrawals made in the bank system. According to the congressman, Brazil could triplicate its take of taxes, thanks to the lowered cheating by tax payers. The proposal was already approved by the House Cons ti tu tion and Justice Committee, in April. A special commission will study now the suggestion before sending it back to the floor of the House and the Senate. To be approved the measure has to win the votes from three fifths of the legislators from both chambers.
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GENTE UM PASTOR DO BARULHO Pela quarta vez desde 1987, Adolfo Nascimento Pinto, 33, pastor evangelic° e vereador em FernandOpolis, estado de Sao Paulo, esti nas cortes se defendendo de acusacOes de que ele e seus fieis perturbam o sossego da vizinhanca em que esta localizada a igreja Evangelica Quadrangular, corn cantoria e brados religiosos. 0 pastor, que sempre se declara inocente, teve seu equipamento de som aprendido pela justica, ante riomente, por qua tro meses. Mas em todos os casos anteriores, ojuiz o absolveu. Pinto vai largar a vida politica para se dedicarmais a sua missao religiosa. "Recebi ordem direta de Deus," explicou. New Antarctica
Brazilian Roberto Aragdo, 30, pleaded guilty in a Boston court for his role in two land flip schemes in the North Shore area. He was sentenced to the five months he already served since being arrested Nov. 15, 1991, plus a two year supervised release. A land flip consists in a series of purchases and sales of a property, in quick succession. This allows the ultimate buyer to get a mortgage greatly in excess of the value of the property. The prosecutor said it has proof that Aragdo was the buyer of four properties that were "flipped", in the Allston/ Brighton area of Boston. The Brazilian also falsely stated that had a yearly income in excess of $100,000.
MARKETING DIONT STEAL MY IDEAS "They copied me again," says Eduardo Fisher, publicist for Brahma, commenting on the new label prepared by Antarctica to replace the one used now on its beer bottles. Beer manufacturer Brahma accuses the competition of imitating Brahma Chopp's logo details. Fisher goes even farther charging Antarctica with losing its own personality, copying many things the bigger rival does:
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a Carnival box-seat, participation in the Formula 1 championship, and now the label. Antarctica is not saying a thing. This is a big fight. Brahma Chopp has 34.6 of the market, but Antarctica follows very closely with a share of 33%. Brahma was the third Brazilian company in expenditures with publicity last year ($33.1 million). Antarctica came in fourth, with $29 million.
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We hope this fresh contact with our letters will inspire you to reread some of our classic, modern and contemporary authors or make their acquaintance if you still didn't have a chance to do so. Rub em Fonseca' s little sample of short story shows how deliciously tasty a well written Portuguese text can be. As always our recipe has a
little of everything, with a touch of economy here, a little music there (our Jobim this time), and also Eco-92, that is now just a few weeks away. For your information, we are also publishing the cornplete new Collor cabinet. And the news that extravagance seems to be on its way out in Brasilia. KM.
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Rubem Fonseca making waves
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BB: economizar pra que?
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2 Rapidinhas 9 Salada geral 20 The Culture Pulse 21 Por ai 22 That's Brazilian! 23 Calendar
Eco-92: we wish we are wrong
19 Jobim, still the greatest
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Violence permeates Rubem Fonseca's work, a violence macabre and exhibitionist, with no redeeming features. Nelson Ascher, Sao Paulo The scene: a riveillon of snobs, in a chic and roomy house, in a big Brazilian metropolis, such as Rio de Janeiro, for example. The time: end of the seventies, when the economic miracle has already sunk for the middle class (the lower classes not even having noticed it had happened), but not for the select company who got together for the The scene: a band of outparty. laws, let's say from Baixada Fluminense, breaks in to have their own party. The host tries everything according to civilized parameters, asking the invaders that they take whatever they want, but don't harass the guests. This the scene for Rubem Fonseca's short story Feliz Ano Novo, that censorship helped to transform into the most famous narrative of Brazil in the last two decades. As the rest of Fonseca's work, this short story has its strong point in the central idea, with a specific type of violence that advances the plot, and its weak side in the stylistic inadequacy, that is, in the lack of concentration that makes the violence of Isaac Babel's short stories contaminate each syllable, of the laconism that makes Hemingway's muscularity hit in each interjection, of the brusque twists that, in Maupassant, finish a complex situation in one paragraph, placing the reader in a superior and more paradoxical level of perception. The fact itself that Fonseca is beneath this mastery demonstrates how important is the quality of the violence that he made the driving force of his best stories. Contrary to what the mostsimplis-
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tic economy should expect, the outlaws' party dpes not mean to stuff themselves with food or fill theirshacks with electronic gadgets. Sure, there is violence, and heavy, but it is not simply revenge. The invaders have an issue to solve (previously discussed in the short story): would the discharge of certain rifle (or something similar) would be enough to lift a person in the air and keep him or her stucka fewseconds on the wall? The first guinea pig is the host himself; but it doesn't work. A guest is then invited (and all he mutters is "Please", total proof of insufficient will to live). Being smaller and lighter he passes the "test" and the bandits leave satisfied. Fonseca's violence reveals itself as an heir to the one that Machado de Assis scrutinized in A Causa Secreta and Guimaraes Rosa in Grande Sertao, Veredas. Not, as some critics want, as a logical result of a dehumanization promoted by a class society, because there is no thought that the outlaws in question have any grain of humanity (and the victim's doesn't seem more legitimate). Neither as another stream wants, the violence as deviant behavior psychically conditioned. The violence in question derives from a not very secre t cause, but whose consideration provokes repulsion to modern secular reasoning: the evil. 0 Passeio Noturno, another short story in the same book, shows a millionaire that, occasionally, goes out at night to run people over with his Jaguar. Back home, the wife asks: "Are you calmer, now,,,darlingr:The fare collector of, the. title short story of his next collection does these actions reminding always that people (*lib?) qwe:ilipri.:il.lot:poney,-H woman,. etc. Suchnarratives taXg,..clearlIt the sideofCer " shoni:0.0**1-11$0#....
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(Para Megnin e H. Gomes) Joyce, James se emocionava corn a marca marrom de coci5 na calcinha (nem trio calcinha assim, naquele tempo) da mulher amada. Agora a mulher morreu (a dele, a sua e a minha) e aquela mancha marrom de bacterias cameo a tomar conta do corpo inteiro. Atacam em turnos: muca, muscina e cal:fora, belos nomes, dao inicio ao trabalho de destruictio; lucilia, sarcofaga e onesia fabri cam os odores da putrefactio; dermestestes (afinal urn nome masculino) cria a acidez da pre-fermentacao; ant omia e necrobia fazem a transfOrrnacao caseica dos alburninoides;
- Muito interessante, trata-se de uma visao poetica delirante de um jejuador - disse Goldblum, que confessou cometer, nas horas vagas, seus versejares bi_ssextos.- Parece coisa de Augusto dos Anjos - recitou, solenemente : - Verme e o seu nome obscuro de batismo, jamais emprega o acerrimo exorcismo em sua diaria ocupacao funerea, e vive em contubernio corn a bacteria, livre das roupas do antropomorfismo. Lembra? Envergonhado, por ter cometido uma peca de literatura tao mediocre e
suspeita, eu nao soube o que dizer. Goldblum quis saber como eu tomara conhecimento do nome de todas aquelas bacterias, mas eu nao sabia como isto acontecera. Nos escritores temos muitas coisas dentro da cabeca, algumas esquecidas e abandonadas como tastes no porao de uma casa. Quandosao recuperadas, a gente se pergunta, como 6 que isso veio parar aqui? Isso 6 meu? Medico e cliente, no consultorio refrigerado, ficamos conversando calmamente sobre musica, literatura, pintura, ate que a enfermeira, preocupada corn o warner° crescente de clientesesperandoatendimento, entreabriu a porta, enfiou a cabeca e disse: -Já chegou o Sr. J. J. Monteiro Filho. - Diga para esperar. -EtambemdonaEvangelina Abiabade. - Diga para esperar. - E o engenheiro Bertoldo Pingler. - Que esperem, queesperem - disse Goldblum, irritado. A enfermeira desapareceu, fechando a porta. Voce precisa corner - disse Goldblum -. A coisa mais criativa queo homem pode fazer 6 corner. Tenho urn grande respeito pela gula. Corner 6 vital. - uma obviedade as vezes esquecida. Arte é fome. Ante é fome. Naquele ins tante nao compreendi a profundidade da frase de Goldblum. - Vamos jantar juntos hoje ele disse. Goldblum acabara de se separar da mulher e jantava todas as noites fora de casa, variando de restaurantes. - Passo em sua casa as 8 horas. Nao soube dizer nao. Afinal Goldblum fora muitogentil eatencioso comigo, seria uma indelicadeza nao aceitar o convite. Já em casa, naquela noite, estava ouvindo Schumann quando Goldblum chegou. Goldblum, esqueci-me de dizer, era urn homem gordo, corn uma grande barriga, calvo, de olhos redondos e 6midos...
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CRoNICA Queda livre A Igreja Catolica continua a perder uma media de 600 mil fieis por ano. Quem sai ganhando sao as seitas religiosas como a Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus doja famoso "bispo" Edir Macedo, que no fim de semana da Pascoa, lotou o Morumbi em Sao Paulo e o Maraca na no Rio, corn a presenca de cerca de 320 mil pessoas. Talvez estimulado por tanta grandeza, Macedo disse que pode curar ate Aids.
Tempo perdido Aviso aos dorminho cos de plantao: Xuxa esta arrependida de ter passado tanto tempo na vida dormindo. A rainha dos baixinhos e sobretudo de muito marmanjo por al continua corn suas crises existenciais.Disse que ninguem a leva a serio no Brasil e que este ano sera o seu ultimo na TV brasileira. aviso: nao vai mais usar chucas no cabelo. Que pena.
Randall Juliano, que os acusou de terem desrespeitado a bandeira e o hino nacionais, durante um show. Randall, obviamente, nega o fato. Mentira? Quemouviu seus shows na epoca sabe muito bem que ele detestava o grupo Tropicalista. E agora, Randall?
Brasil, capital Orlando E adeus, Miami, que o fluxo de brasileiros agora esti dirigido a Orlando. Atraidos por pacotes tentadores e precos mais baratos, a terra do Mickey é o novo ponto de encontro dos sacoleiros brasileiros, que corn crise e tudo, vem gastar seus &dares. Afinal, alguem pode explicar por que é mais barato ir a Orlando que ir a Manaus?
Macbeth x Macbeth
Dedo duro Caetano Veloso declarou em entrevista a Jo Soares que ele e Gil foram detidos e pos teriormente exilados pelos militares em dezembro de 68 por causa de uma dernancia feita pelo radialista
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No eterno palco das vaidades era inevitivel que isso a contecesse. A peca de Shakespeare recebe dois tratamentos diferentes em Sao Paulo durante duas semanas de maio. Uma montagem é a de Antonio Fagundes, e a outra de Antunes Filho. Em artigo publicado na Veja,este ataca os atores de televisao que querem fazer teatro. Fagundes deu O troco dizendo que nao vai ma is fala r sobre seus projetos para nao ter suas ideias roubadas. Quem ganha corn isso? Certamente o publico que pode ver por conta prOpria qual o me lhor traba 1 ho e deixar o resto queimando na fogueira das vaidades. •
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With the new ministerial arrangement, luxury and action sports are being replaced by discretion and reading. Logan, the president's favorite whiskey is being exchanged for wine. There will be fewer cigars. In their place, there will be pipes. It will be hard to see Justice minister Cello Borja going for a boat trip, Foreign minister Celso Lafer in shorts or minister of Government Office Jorge Bornhausen jumping waves in a jet-ski, as the old economic team did in Angra dos Reis, the 1st of January, in 1990. The favorite exercise is walking - at most a tennis match. Borja, Lafer and Mines and Energy Pratini de Moraes drink wine. Bornhausen only has Johnnie Walker Red Label. Strategic Matters minister Eliezer Batista and Regional Development minister Calmon de Sรก don't drink. The changes affectbars and restaurants like Fiorentino. Florentino should continue empty, as has been happening since the opening of Ascot, few weeks ago. The PFL favorite, the Ascot bar was the stage for many negotiations. Kazebre 13 is definitely sunk although it is president Collor's favored pizzeria. The new ministers prefer meat. And dressing the old way. What does not mean they are old fashioned. Tie pins and wrist-studs are not de rigueur anymore. But the traditional three button jacket - the natural look dictated by Armani, with round and discreet shoulder pads that invaded the last collection of Milanese Dolce and Gabanna - is back with everything. Italian collar of mauricinhos is out. In is the English collar, less open, with little buttons on the their tips. It was in such apparel that Lafer, Borja, Calmon de Sรก and Labor Minister Joao Mellao Neto gave their first interviews. Hermes ties - that oncechoked nine in ten necks in Brasilia - as all clothes with expensive brand names, are being put aside. Even for those who wear Italian silk, discretion is the order of the day.
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READY TO EXPLODE The military is unsatisfied. They want to eat. Their buying power fell 850% in the two years since Collor took power. Rodolfo Espinoza, Rio de Janeiro
The ghosts of Venezuela and Peru, countries that went through coups recently, have been haunting Brasilia. There is more than a passing smell of crisis emanating from the casernes. And this time the danger of military intervention comes from the stomachs of the soldiers and their superiors. Low salaries in the Armed Forces are fueling the unrest. An army general, with 40 years of active service, is earning about $1,761, a month, while anenlisted soldier makes around $171 (more than three times the minimum wage). Feeling the discontent in the air, president Collor de Mello talked to the Armed Forces top-ranking officer, thanking them for their support and asking them to be understand and be patient with the current economic crisis in Brazil. Said the president: "In this moment, when economic stability requires strong budget restrictions, the nation and the government recognize the nobility with which our Armed Forces have faced these limitations." Collor reserved a special mention to the "understanding of military families." Not all of them were that understanding, however. In the middle of April, a group of soldiers and officers' wives tried to sta e a Page 12 - NEWS from BRAZIL 75 May 1-15, 1992
protest for military wage increases, in a residential area, but they were forced to give up, ironically, by 200 soldiers. The protesters promised, however, that they would comeback. Before Collor's address, a pamphlet was circulating in Fortaleza, Ceara, pointing to the dangers of the present situation. "The Armed Forces," said the document, "do not desire to repeat in Brazil the events recently occurred in Peru and Venezuela." The pamphlet, published by local news agencies, was allegedly signed by retired military officers, mostly alumni of the Superior War School. "The unrest is quite widespread and growing," said one army general, adding: "If the government does not adopt some urgent measure, I do not know what could happen. There is no possibility of a public protest, because we military men are prohibited from staging such demonstrations." According to lair Bolsanaro, a retired army captain as well as legislator for the Democratic Christian Party (PCD), "the military men are living in misery, unable to support their families." Bolsanaro, who is believed to have organized the aborted military wives' protest, didn't hide his contempt for Collor de Mello: "The military ministers alongside this corrupt government have no power to demand raises. They just say 'amen' to this president." Collor received a report from the Armed Forces chief, gen. Luiz da Rocha Veneu, showing that the buying power of the military had fallen 120% just in 1992, and 850% in the two years since Collor is in power. According to IBGE (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics), prices have risen more than 90% since the beginning of the year and inflation for the last 12 months was 575%. The government was preparing a package of raises for 1.6 million public employees, including military personnel. The minimum wage would be increased from 96,000 cruzeiros ($45) to 230,000 cruzeiros ($107 a • month).
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XAO Para quern nao tern nada, o lixo pode ser uma mde generosa. Sylvlo Costa, Brasilia
Corn o aprofundamento da crise economica, aumenta a cada dia o numero de pessoas que se dedicam em Brasilia (DF) a uma estranha atividade - a cata do lixo. A menos de 20 Km do Paldcio do Planalto, sede do Governo federal, fica o "paraiso" dos catadores de lixo. E o "Lixao" ou a "Boca do Lixo". Trata-se de uma area de cerca de 50 hectares, onde mora uma comunidade, corn cerca de duas mil pessoas,
que faz do lixo a sua fonte de renda. All, elas garimpamos materiais, que depois sao vend idos para reciclagem. Ha dois anos, urn levantamento do sevico de Limpeza Urbana (SLU) cons tatou a existencia no local de cem barracos. Cadastramento recente, feito pela comunidade, indicou o numero de 176 barracos. No "Lixao" hd luz eletrica, mas as ruas nao tern calcamento, naoexistem posto de sairde nem linhas de onibus. Os barracos da comunidade sao feitos de madeira e sucata encontradas no lixo. Os moradores da vila sofrem a concorrencia de outros "garimpeiros urbanos", que as vezes, vem de bairros distantes. Nesse peculiar territorio, as carretas e os caminhOes do SLU (Orgao do Governo do Distrito Federal, GDF) despejam em torno de 440 toneladas de lixo por dia, que sao disputadas ferozmente pelos catadores. Na disputa pelos restos da populacao, os catadores nao correm apenas riscos de pegar uma doenca, Hd seis meses, uma carreta passou por cima da perna de um menino de nove anos, urn dos oito filhos de Severino Luiz dos Santos, 56. Ate hoje, zip& duas cirurgias, o garoto estd hospitalizado sem poder andar. Os catadores mais antigos tambem contam o caso do rapaz degolado, ha dois anos, ao se aproximar demais da cacamba onde
O lixo era remoido. s No final do ano, foi encontrado no "Lixao" um feto morto, corn idade entre seis e sete meses. Suspeita-se que tenha sido aborto provocado. A ocorrencia foi registrada sob nQ 6.465 no 3Q Distrito Policial. Habituados a viverem em uma realidade marcada pela imundicie e pelo mau cheiro, os catadores preferem guardar as lembrancas felizes. Lembram, porexemplo, do rapaz que achou no lixo, hd algumas semanas, urn saco de jOias (supostamente roubadas). Vendeu as jelias por Cr$ 2,4 milhOes e nunca mais apareceu por Id. Feitos do genero alimentam o sonho da garimpagem "0 papelao é o ouro do lixao", diz Messias de Oliveira, 22, que cata lixo dois dias por semana para completar a renda que obtem como seguranca de boa te. Todo dia, os catadores vendem de sete a oito toneladas de papelao a urn intermedidrio que paga Cr$ 20,00 o Kg para vender o material a Cr$30.00 o Kg. 0 papelao é o mais barato dos materials reciclaveis. Como é o mais abundante, no entanto, é a principal fonte de rend imentos dos catadores. 0 "Lixao", tern uma ma tematica prOpria, em que nao faltam valores para as sobras da sociedade. Plasticos e papelbranco (listagem de computador, papel-oficio, papel de revista) custam Cr$ 25,00 o Kg. Para o cobre, o preco é Cr$ 800,00 por Kg. 0 aluminio fino ( de latas de cerveja, porexemplo) vale Cr$ 200,00 porKg. 0 aluminio grosso,Cr$300,00 por Kg. Garrafas de cerveja ou de aguardente sao vendidas pelos catad ores por Cr$ 30,00 por unidade. Poresses preco's,ex-comerchirios, ex-vigilantes e outras vitimas da recessao ficam As vezes catando lixo ate as 23h, corn a ajuda de urn lampiao. A razdo é que a major pane dos catadores volta para casa no fim da tarde. Por isso, a noite, a concorrencia • é menor.
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ECONOMY
BYE-BYE, NATIONAL COMPUTER The protection against foreign competition ended and with it the whole Brazilian computer industry. Thais Oliveira Costa, Sao Paulo
After having enjoyed for years a market reserve, without having to develop a competitive technology, the national computer industry is now choosing the most simple solution to face the external competition: it imports from whomever is most efficient. Sector, the company that up to 1991 manufactured an average of 13 thousand microcomputers a year, was more radical: it left the productive sector when it found out the renting market was more attractive. "It would be impossible to compete with imported products. That's why we started to rent equipment," admits Alberto Scolnik, director of the company. Computer rentals have been yielding a much bigger profit margin. "Because of that we are also getting into the market of television and freezer rentals and we are already thinking about cars," says Scolnik. Other companies prefer to import from the Orient. This is the case with Sisco, from the Maksoud group; Labo e Med itata; Sid, from the Machline group, and Ed isa, from the Iochpe group. They all have a common understanding: they found out that is cheaper to import a computer plate from Taiwan or Hong-Kong, paying 50% as custom tax, than to produce it here.
Sisco fired 40 people and started to import 1.2 thousand complete plates each quarter instead of manufacturing them. "We closed the plate design and assembly department," said Paulo Patullo, technology director of the company that has 650 employees and earns $50 million annually. At Edisa the story is the same. The firm, in the middle of a restructuring process that started two years ago, the gaUcho factory started to import computer plates and to resell workstations and other imported products. With that, it deactivated part of its factory in Gravatai, Rio Grande do Sul, fired 350 employees and made less than $100 million in 1991, against $136 million, in 1990. "The tendency is to import everything, unless the government corrects discrepancies in the process," says Ed isa's president Flavio Sehn. "To increase the difference between the tax on components and on the complete plate is a way to make interesting its assembly in the country." Labo also abandoned the manufacture of computers due to its association with Medidata, a company from Rio. Together, they are representing here American companies Compaq, Sun, and Pyramid. "The 550 Labo employees are now 400 and the center of production is in Rio," says communication manager Takahiko Yoshida. Sid is no different. "We look for the most competitive product and we import whenever possible," said vice-president Rego Gil.
"The tendency is to import everything, unless the government changes its focus."
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ECONOMIZAR, ORA, ECONOMIZAR Eles sao o Banco do Brasil. Nelson Blec her, Sao Paulo
Enquanto grandes instituicoes privadas do mercado financeiro projetam manter ou ate recuar o investimento publicitario, devido a recessao, o Banco do Brasil vai praticamente dobrar seus gastos este ano. Ad isputa, a qual concorrem cerca de 40 agendas, Ê por uma megaconta de Cr$ 79 bilheoes (cerca de US$ 40 milheies), o que deve posicionar a instituicao no topo do ranking dos anunciantes deste ano. A licitacao ocorre no momento em que o balanco do Banco do Brasil, referente a 1991, esta sendo questionado poor suposta maquiagem. 0 prejuizo acumulado no ano anterior nao permitiria a distribuicao de dividendos e a participacao de funcionarios nos lucros concedidos pelo banco. Em 1991,0 Banco do Brasil gas tou, na veiculacao de suas campanhas, menos da metade que o Bradesco, o maior banco privado do pals. Somadas as despesas de producao e outras acepes promocionais, o montante alcanca US$ 20 milhOes, segundo a assessoria de comunicacao do banco. Neste ano, a posicao se inverte. 0 Bradesco projeta uma reducao de sua verba publicitaria, que deve ser inferior a metade da soma a ser investida pelo Banco do Brasil, o maior banco oficial do pals. Para Euclides Jose de Souza, chefeadjunto da area de publicidade do Banco do Brasil, a verba, em termos relativos, nao dobrou. "Os US$ 20 milhOes gastos em 91 corresponderam a licitaceies pelo prazo de seis meses," afirma, e acrescenta que o atual montante se justifica pelo porte do banco, "a maiorempresa financeira da America Latina." •
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Fora month, the preparatory com- fund, but they agreed to mittee for Eco-92 (Prepcom) went give up the idea when the around in circles. The main ques- developed countries tions received lame answers at best, promised to give " new and as was the case of the "Earth Letter" additional" money for the rebaptized as "Rio Declaration on creation of sustainable Environment and Development," economies and ended golacking a "shorter and stronger" ver- ing back to the green fund sion, as the chief of the American in reprisal for the intransidelegation, Curtin Bohlen would gence in the negotiations, have preferred. The key topics of mostly by the European financial resources and technologi- countries. cal transfer ended the way they had Trying to minimize the started: without any consensus and feeling of a sinking ship, put off till June. the organizers started saying that this The Earth Letter was supposed to was the "normal" process of negotiabe the main document to be signed at tion and that what was reached meant Eco-92 but it ended up being trans- a lot, considering the extent of the formed by the political bickering be- documents discussed. tween Israel and the Palestinians. At "I wouldn't like for the text on 4:00 a.m., the Prepcom president, financial resources to be resolved Tommy Koh, refused Israel's objec- here," said Maurice Strong, general tion to a principle on "protection of secretary of Eco-92. He was defendenvironment and natural resources ing the idea that chiefs of State and for population under oppression, ministers have stronger negotiating domination or occupation," included power and would be able to make a in the text by the Palestinians. Israel better deal in Rio. vows to protest against the amendMany believe that the chiefs of ment in Rio. state are saving their best cards for Originally conceived as a decla- Rio. This is optimistic view point that ration of principles about environ- doe not justify.the impasse in everyment, the Letter is a reflection of thing that was essential. For example: economic and political conflicts be- in technology transfer, the paragraph tween North and South. According on inteleetual ownership and favorto Curtis Bohlen, the final text doesn't able and preferential access for dedeserve to be called Earth Letter be- veloping countries was discussed to cause it is far from being "inspira- exhaustion. At the last minute, the tional". United States decides to go back to The discussions about environ- where they were at the beginning mental plans financing to be imple- and restart the discussion of the paramented after Eco-92 were also a di- graph. saster. The developing countries The discussions on forests were started with a proposal for a green also pathetic. 411 the divergent inter-
es ts between rich and poor produced a document full of exceptions and counterpoints, that one delegate classified as "trash". Greenpeace and hundreds of other non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from many countries, released a document in Rio warning that Eco-92 could result in a complete failure. The entities are criticizing the positions adopted by the countries participating in the Conference. Jose Augusto Padua, 33, associate director of Greenpeace in Brazil, says that the NGOs are "deeply disenchanted" with the results Prepcom in New York. "If the results until June are the ones reached till now, Eco-92 will be a failure," said Padua. The NGOs complained about the impasse in the negotiations created by government representatives of North and South countries. The document, besides Greenpeace International, was signed by Earth Friends International, the Third World Network and the Brazilian Forum of NGOs, representing 1,200 entities. •
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JOBIM: HE JUST WANTS TO BE ETERNAL At 64, he is as busy as ever. Paul Zollo, Los Angeles
What do you do after you've written one of the ten most performed songs of all time and pioneered your own new style of popular music? If you are Antonio Carlos Jobim, legendary Brazilian composer of The Girl From Ipanema, and founder of the "bossa nova" sound, you continue to pen a catalogue of breathtaking gems - over 600 in all, of what he affectionately refers to as "my children." Among this formidable brood, at least a dozen are world-wide standards. Songs like Meditation, How Insensitive, Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars, Dindi and Wave. Jobim's sophisticated sound, with its soft-samba rhythms, gorgeous melodies and poetic lyrics, first enchanted American listeners in the early sixties. Since then, he has become internationally famous, with many of his songs passing the three million performance mark (for radio and TV). His wide reaching influence can be heard in the work of countless contemporary songwriters, including Paul Simon, David Byrne and Sting. Last year, Jobim was inducted into the Songwriter's Hall of Fame, taking his place alongside what he calls some "very nice company" Cole Porter, Johnny Mercer, Irving
Berlin, and Sammy Cahn, just to name a few. In a recent phone interv ie w from his home in Rio de Janeiro, the man who prefers to be called "Torn" exuded an ease-going charm and wit, as he discussed his musical career, which began in childhood with the inevitable reluctant piano lessons. "I thought the piano as something for girls," he says. "I wanted to play soccer, so I went to the beach. But when I returned I'd play some sounds. Some sounds would clash. Some sounds would harmonize. I started playing by ear." His early influences were classical masters like Chopin, Beethoven and Debussy, along the American bid-band sounds of Duke Ellington, Tommy Dorsey and Count Basie. Jobim also cites the tropical environment of Brazil as a major influence on his songwriting. "I believe that helped me write a lot of songs. The forest and the mountains and the sea. Looking at them, meditating on them... also, the girls passing by," he laughs. One of those girls passing by, in his hometown of Ipanema, became immortalized in his biggest hit. He recalls, "the girls who originated that song was a very beautiful girl, blonde and dark green eyes. My partner (Vinicius de Moraes, who wrote the Portuguese words to the song) and I used to drink at a bar, one block from the beach. The girl would go to school and to the beach and we would see her." But life wasn't all drinking and Girl From Ipanema-watching. Early on, the Brazilian composer, who's still actively writing and recording at 64, developed a healthy regimen of discipline. "Yes, I believe I'm disciplined in spite of the chaos," he says. "I'm a tenacious man. I like to work. And I'm an earlybird." He adds, "I have to be in constant touch with the music. I you aren't there, you won't be there
when the song comes. It's a big mystery. Maybe you have to write the more-or-less songs so the moment Corcovado comes (one of his hits), you are there." A multi-instrumentalist and vocalist, Jobim has no set method for writing. "Sometimes I have no piano, no guitar, just a pencil," he laughs. "My grandson and my son, they write with computers. My methods make them laugh." As for beginning with a concept or a title, he is quick to point out, "For me, the title comes last. Maybe some words, some phrase, something from the song itself gives me the title. I believe this also happens with writers when they write a book, then suddenly a word or sentence becomes the title." While many ofJobim's songs have been about love, loneliness and longing, another recent inspiration has been his concern for the environment and ecology. "I'm a woodsman, a song of mother nature. I know all the birds, all the trees, all the animals. And I always try to protect these things," he says. The title sons of his last Polygram release, Passarim, is a beautiful paean to the natural world. Nowadays, when he's not promoting ecological awareness, writing songs and touring, Tom Jobim takes an active interest in the musical career of his family members, several who are talented musicians, singers and writers. His son Paulo and daughter Elizabeth appear on his latest record. Though he tries to maintain a private life, Jobim's living legend status sometimes gets in the way. "Every time I try to go to the piano, I'm wanted on the telephone,' he sighs. "Every time! want to do a new record, I have to answer 25,000 calls. Artists, they strive to be known and then... they go to the mountain and they hide themselves," he laughs. Asked to give words of advice to aspiring songwriters, Jobim replies bluntly, "I thing it's a lot of work." But he offers these words of inspiration, reflecting os his own career. "When you do something you love, it lasts. It's not my intention to write ephemeral pop songs that are on the hit parades for three months. I have the intention to be faithful and serious. I want to be eternal." tisid by permisstimiof 507104 the Imbrication of NqtimtatActailq
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Fischer, who remains gorgeous. Trono de Sangue/Macbeth - The same play with a different vision opens in May, in Sao Paulo. Directed by Antunes Filho and with Luis Melo as protagonist. Antigona- The Sophocles tragedy, in Rio, has Marieta Severo as Antigone and Halo Rossi as Creon. It is a crowd pleaser. Romeu e Julieta - Shakespeare at the Curitiba Theater Festival, directed by Moacyr Goes. Brida- Rio gets into the mystic wave following Brasilia and Goiania.
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9:00 pm - The Constellation Band with Samba, Pagode, Chorinhos, etc... at The Copacabana
10:00 am - 11:00 am - Brazilian Hour on KXLU 88.9 FM with Sergio Mielniczenco 11:30 am - Group Percussion Workshop with Mela Nolte 11:30 am - Alchemy, A Brazilian Video Show at Continental Cable (Hollywood) - Channel 37
10:00 am - 11:00 am — Brazilian Hour on KXLU 88.9 FM, with S6rgio Mielniczenko 11:30 am- Alchemy, a Brazilian Video Show, at Cox Cable - San Diego, Channel 24 8:00 pm - Georgia Martello intepreting jazzy romantic tunes at Kafe Kafka - Brazil Night 8:00 pm - Octavio Bailey & sua Banda at Jazz Bakery 8:30 pm - Alchemy, at Century Cable- West Los Angeles - Channel 3
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9:00 pm - Alchemy, A Brazilian Video Show - Continental Cable (Downey) - Channel 51 4:00 pm - Screening of "Bye Bye Brazil" by Carlos Diegues at UCLA Haines Hall, r. 329
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