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George Bush might do almost anything to win the reelection. Luiz Alberto Monis Bandeira (photo), an ex-professorof Universidade de Brasilia and now a senior researcher for that school, says that the American president has a plan already prepared to invade Cuba, if he feels his dream to stay in the White House is unattainable. The idea behind the invasion would be

Shame tour Brasilia has its own celebrity houses tour, with a twist. The places and the celebrities in this case are all in one way or another connected to a political scandal. The organizers had to cut many lesser scandals so the trip would not take more than six hours used. For $17, the tourist has a chance to see such landmarks as the Clube das NacOes, where exm inis ter of Economy Zklia Cardoso danced Besa-meMucho, cheek to cheek, with married ex-minis ter Bernardo Cabral. An obligatory stop is the residence of businessman Paulo Cesar Faria, o PC, whose story of corruption may bring down president Collor de Mello. Other points of interest: the LBA, where first lady Rosane Collor gave her contribution to corruption, and the resid ence of ex-minis ter Bernardo Cabral, who received a jet ski as a gift from a contractor. There are 70 km. filled with intrigue, suspense and greed. All ingredients of a good pulp novel.

ECOLOG to provoke a big impact on the American public opin- Qucrn, em ion. Bandeira talks about : ..11.1.. .4 1'ilic6;'.i: .,1:41° i.,:;d ,7 !ti:;i..i.:0 :ii.`]11.1ei:'9 "highly reliable sources" in ..:: ''''....-P 1::lei'l ' 9'.: • the United States for his in- 1-iild'0::Ti6f.Pd.:***P::.'' P".".*iifil formation and he also says ' 4ii.',1 v i , .,. ., :co! 1:::.i pteranierm,,P 00.:::... 6 ' that the United States main- :00 : :6'..t.1 .1. 66 :.:9 i.i::,:4 : ::i.,...!:'4;,,:,. .:. ii:1 ,.1,:; : 0 '..08 H° ,":::,"':',":-:.::..,. tains several teams of CIA .i : v9..y0:61.6,6:eiv -:-H".,agents in Brazil waging psy•:] :r..,r,:,! ,. ijo':::5:11ti.i- i60 c chological war, in order to P a i.,i:,t...:i!'.4.4 ii .f.'1 ":8$ .:,.A4 097 H.: :1:.b '5''''' greatly d ebil i ta te the Brazil9.:,i.:......0.: :, 40i- tiiig de ian Armed Forces. 0:::::- 'dr. Page 2- NEWS from BRAZIL 80 - AUGUST 1992

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The Mata Virgem Foundation created by the British singer Sting and the Indian leader Raoni in conjunction with Funai (Indian National Foundation) have started to unify the biggest Indian territory inBrazil. It is Menkragnoti Reservation that will have 489 Ind ians in 4.9 million of hectares. The new reservation in the south of Para State will link the Caiap6 Reservation to the Jarina Reservation, in Mato Grosso, as well as to the Xingu National Park. When put together, the area of these reservations will be the size of one Portugal and a half. The union is going ahead despite the opposition of Para that is losing 4% of its territory and farmers who bought lots inside the area, in 1984. According to Funai studies, the more than three thousand Indians that will live in the three reservations are enemies.

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It's a littlepainful and it might make some of us blush, but it is also reassuring to see so many foreigners in Brazil excavating through our past and our present in search of our national identity. These archeologists of our culture come from places as distinct as Korea, Germany, Bolivia

and the United States. In their veins it runs the same adventurous blood of Spielberg's character, Indiana Jones. And as you will see in our cover story, they are much less greedy - often their salaries seem like a bad joke - but not less ambitious than the Hollywood hero, in their quest of Brazilian treasures.. Closer to home - the US - some

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The Rescuers of a Culture

of this treasure is easier to get. There are three articles in this issue dealing with that. Sergio Mielniczenko, the music man from Brazil, has been spreading thegood sound now for 14years. We profile him. And our critics present Brazilian books and records just released here. We hope you like the mix. Thanks for tuning in again. Abracao. E ate. R.M.

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Friar Boff's farewell to the Church

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Farofa indigesta Uma cremica da pesada

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20 The Culture Pulse

21 For ai

24 Calendar- Los Angeles

25 Calendar- Bay Area

26 That's Brazilian!

18 Literature: 2 by Lispector

19 Profile: the king of the airwaves

22 Musical Treasure Box

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COVER The Brazil that Brazilians don't even know is being discovered by foreigners. With obvious accents, blond hair, Argentine-style mustaches or almond eyes, the "hunters of the lost culture" don'tgo so faras to wear hats like Indiana Jones, but like this character of Steven Spielberg, they have complicated names and the explorer spirit. They delve into everything: Guimaraes Rosa, Jose Lins do Rego, Lima Barreto, the Constitution, even Brazilian sexuality. "I want to demystify the idea generally held about Pedro Alvares Cabral's journey," claims UruguyanGuillermo Giucci. Post-graduate in literary criticism and history in the United States, he has lived the past months bent over ancient books and documents of Portuguese colonization. One of Giucci's pleasures is searching for subtelities in Pero Vaz de Caminha's letter. "Only those who read the text of Caminha's letter simplistically could imagine that the Portuguese saw Brazil as "The Promised Land". Different motives cause these "hunters" to drop anchor in Brazilian waters and surround themselves with the abandoned national culture. "How could I do anthropological research in the United States," inquires American Scott William, a sociology professor at PUC (Pontificate Catholic University) in Rio. "I fled here," confesses Dario Restrepo, who researches literary aesthetics of Guimardes Rosa of the state of Minas Gerais. "Colombia was hellish is 1986, infested with guerrillas and drug traffickers." Partly repulsed by the "questionable funds" that

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were being sent to him by narcotrafficking authorities Restrepo had ties to leftist factions -,but wanting to research the second most important literature in America," he arrived in Rio without a penny in his pocket. To express that he has been successful, he uses political rhetoric. "I am a professor and I have a hard life. But after much struggle, I managed to translate and produce theater by Nelson Rodrigues, in Bogota theaters." If they don't speak the same language, the archeologists

also don't come up with the same reasons when justifying their choice of Brazil. "This is the country of opportunities," explains French Brigitte Hervot, who graduated from the State University of Sao Paulo in literature and now is writing her thesis comparing the works of Lima Barreto with those of the French writer Guy de Maupassant. North American singer David Byrne has his followers even in the Orient. "My father listened to Fixing uinha, danced to the sounds of African rhythms and in addition to all of this musicality, I inherited the love of soccer," adds mandolin player Oh Akioka, the leader of Choroclube, a Japanese trio that specializes in chorinhos. If it is unusual to hear Jacob do Bandolim or Valdir Azevedo on the radio in Brazil, in Tokyo Choroclube's CDs have already sold 20,000 copies. Two months ago they came to Rio in order to discover and take home more of the Carioca musical flavor. To American anthropologist Richard Parker, disseminating information on latino sexuality and helping to raise consciousness about the spread of AIDS, is more than just research - it is a mission. "I was invited to teach classes in the United States. I would certainly be better compensated there." His talks at the Institute of Social Medicine at UERJ (Rio d e Janeiro State

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COVER University) deal with Brazilian sexual culture, and it isn't merely chance that he lives in the most appropriate section of Rio for someone who works in this field: Copacabana. Scott William went farther away. He loved spending eight months with the Yanomani of Amazonia: he ended up learning the Indians' language before he could say a word in Portuguese. Accountant Anis Farah was the first "white man" to strike up a conversation with Williams. It was in 1973, on the plane that took the anthropologist from Manaus to Brasilia, where he was to present an account of his expedition to Funai (the government Indian agency). "In spite of his American manner, he already had a Carioca touch," remembers Farah. Politics is Elisa Danielle's subject. She is from Italy. Instructor at the University of Turin, she has been in Rio for a short period and is still looking for funding for her project. As fate would have it, she chose to research the text of precisely that whick is making her entry into the workforce so difficult: the 1988 Constitution. Accustomed to the ad miration of her friends when she recites by heart articles from previous Brazilian constitutions, in spite of everything Danielle praises certain advances in the country's laws. "This is the first democratic constitution in Brazil." All these people keep coming in large numbers. Who knows... maybe someday a researcher from New Zealand will somehow discover the correct standard for measuring Brazilian saber (knowledge) and Brazilian sabor (flavor).

Why they do that? The money is little, for some the food is lousy and the language hard to fully grasp. They don't care, however. Professor at USP (University of Sao Paulo) Jose Carlos Sebe Born Meihy, published two books on Brazilianists and is preparing a compilation of 28 interviews with foreign researchers. "Brazil, Mexico, and Japan are dream places for research in the Western imagination," he speculates. Anthropologist Roberto da Matta is more pragmatic: "The countries of the First World are like professor factories. There doesn't exist a place in the tropics that isn't infested with curious researchers." Political scientist Helio Jaguaribe prefers to show the benefits a foreign viewpoint can bring to a culture in perpetual agony. "Only those from far away can shed light on obvious realities that the natives have forgotten to pay attention to," he observes. It should be that a worksuch as one by Jose Lins do Rego would be given a more prominent place than the back of a bookshelf in empty public libraries.

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COVER year he will still visit all Latin America That doesn't happen in South Korea. $500 a month is conwith his tape recorder in hand -, he There, Meu Pe de Laranja Lima, by Jose doesn't d isclose the amount of money Mauro de Vasconcelos, is a bestseller sidered a good salary that comes to him from the Danish with over 30 editions, Machado de Ass is goverment. But he sums up the main is even sold at newspaper stands, and idea: "It's in dollars." books like Memorias do CaraTeand Vidas But those getting paid in Brazil have a harder time. If, on Secas, by Graciliano Ramos, are unquestionable successes. There, Brazilian literature is so highly respected that the one hand, xenophobia is a term that relates more to even coneretista writers Haroldo and Augusto de Campos textbooks than to real life, when it come right down to get their works minutely examined in universities There are salaries, foreign professors earn the same as everyone else. 280 students there specializing in Portuguese, five of whom Anthropologist Scott William's paycheck (he is a Doctorate at Oxford University) barely exceeds $500. are writing post-graduate theses. He is not alone in his dissatisfaction. The Colombian Seven years ago, Jae Min Chung was one of them. Ever since he was introduced to Jose Lins do Rego's book, Menino Restrepo, who studies Guimaraes Rosa, competed for a de Engenho, by a Brazilian professor at Hankuk University definitive contract at UERJ and placed first, but still was not in Seoul, Chung achieved the accomplishment of reading given tenure. Not that there has been unfairness in all of this. In fact, the entire work by the writer from Paraiba state; then while still in Korea he became an expert in the subject and now he when it come to the "hunters of the lost culture", what is working on his Doctorate at Unicamp (University of counts is what is written in the Constitution and the Public Functionaries' Law: foreigners cannot be named as full Campinas). He was frustrated by just two things in Brazil. He never professors in Federal Universities. In other words, for the managed to penetrate the linguistic intricacies of Grande time being, Restrepo must hide behind the title of "visiting Sertao:Veredas, by Guimaraes Rosa, and he never got used researcher" in order to be able to continue analyzing scenes to the food. "It's too salty." However, he doesn't hesitate to from Minas Gerais as described in the novels of Guimaraes show his pride in having taken on a more positive attitude Rosa. "The narrative in his texts is a lot like that of Gabriel • during these years. "I'm going to spread the open-hearted Garcia Marquez," he compares. jeito of the Brazilians." Translated by Kathryn Lucas Problems of culinary well-being and the barrier imposed by the complexity of the Portuguese language are minor issues to the adapting visitor. "It's horrible when a foreigner comes to study Brazil with that classic hostility that causes a childish fear of insects and diseases," reflects Professor Everardo Rocha, author of books on ethnocentrism - the tendency to consider the traditions of your own people to be the standard by which to measure all others , and the director of the Social Communications department at PUC in Rio. Quarana Antarctic He only talks this way because he hasn't met Christian Wohlert of Denmark. Broadcaster, writer and musician, Suco de Caju Wohlert not only lost his fear of adventure in the most Farinha de Mandioca inhospitable areas - he has been to Amazonia, he lived with garimpeiros (gold miners) in Roraima - but he also left be hind Came Seca typical attitudes of superiority like that of the old colonizers Qoiabada - Marmelada He left his laziness in Europe: the car of the First World. he uses to chase down MPB (Popular Brazilian Music) Palmito records and interview bossa nova composers is nothing more Fuba de Milho than a repaired fusquinha (Volkswagen bug). Mandioca Fresca Blond, with light eyes and almost two meters tall, Wohlert remembers the tourists that went crazy just seeing & Muitos Outros Produtos the graceful stride of a mulata. But he is farmore serious than they. Even overseas, he coordinates the program Eldorad io, that presents Brazilian music daily on state FM radio in Copenhagen. He already sent interview tapes of Tom Jobim, and now Aberto 7 dias da semana - 7 AM to 8 PM he is frantically searching for composer Chico Buarque. He has, however, no taste for Brazilian rock and roll. "The Tel: (415) 586-6200 rockers here are awful," he analyzes. Inveterate walker- this •

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ticles and stories. I was disappointed to see the ads for "Fogo e Paixao".in the issue of June 15,1992. These types do ads lower the quality of the magazine. I would like to see more ads letting people know where to buy products, records, books, magazines etc... Thank you. Agnes Gibboney Alta Loma, California

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lhe ocorreu: - Please...feeeiiijooaaadaaa. 0 garcom estranhou o pedido. Nao era quarta nem sabado, era terca, dia de dobradinha. Mesmo assim foi la dentro, deu urn jeito. Apareceu corn uma feijoada na cumbuca, corn torresmo e tudo o mais a que o ingles tinha direito. 0 ingles adorou. Nunca havia provado antes um prato tao exOtico, embora tivesse estado ate na Birmania. Pagou em &Aar e foi embora. Dia seguinte, deu fome de novo. 0 ingles voltou ao mesmo restaurante, examinou o cardapio, continuou nao entendendo nada, mas como era quarta-feira, dia de feijoada mesmo, renovou o pedido: -Please, feeiijooaaadaa! Os ingleses tern dificuldade em pronunciar a palavra feijoada, esse do restaurante tinha mais dificuldade ainda. Por isso ele falava feeeiiij000aaadaaa. Mas o garcom entendeu perfeitamente, trouxe uma completa, inclusive corn a laranja descascada e a caipirinha. 0 ingles se lambeu todo. A feijoada da quarta estava melhor e mais ex6tica que a de terca. Na quinta-feira, a cena se repete. 0 ingles estuda o cardapio, tenta descobrir outro prato, algo que lhe seja familiar, e nada. ja meio chateado, mas corn fome, faz um sinal corn o dedo ao garcom, que aguardava o pedido: - Feeeiii... - Pode deixar comigo, mister. Vou mandar caprichar. 0 garcom retornou triunfante e solicito, trazendo a feijoada. Nunca vira ingles gostar tanto de feijoada. Essa vez, de brinde, ele mandou o cozinheiro dobrar a porcao de came seca no feijao. 0 ingles comeu apenas meia cumbuca, pagou, foi embora. Mas deixou sobre a mesa a got eta normal. No decimo dia, o ingles que sO sabia pedir feijoada, já era conhecido no restaurante como "o ingles da feijoada". NEWS from BRAZIL 80 - AUGUST 1992 • Page 9

CRONICA 0 garcom tinha mesa reservada para etc e nem - Non conosce porpetta? esperava que fizesse o pedido. Mal o ingles apontava Uma pessoa pode morrer sem ter lido Cervantes, a porta, as 12h32, pontualmente, o garcom disparava la Divina Comedia, Os Misereroeis de Victor Hugo, a primeira para dentro: parte de Os Sertoes, de Euclides da Cunha, mas - 0, ve ai a feijoada do meu amigo. imperdoavel partir desta para melhor sem ter tido a 0 problema C que o ingles comecou a se sentir mat. De satisfacao de provara bola de came chamadaporpettapor noite tinha pesadelos medonhos. Sonhava que estava falta de informacao tecnica. sendo atacado por corsarios franceses que the furavam o Em Sao Paulo, felizmente, existe uma confraria mais Cinico olho sao e urn sujeito serrava sua perna de pau ou menos secreta, uma especie de ramificacao cultural da antes de atird-lo aos tubarOes. Sem falar da azia. Estava Mafia, que se dedica a orientar os neofitos corn fome e corn uma azia horrenda. fornece indicacOes de como percorrer os labirintos Nesse dia, o ingles estava disposto a corner um misteriosos que conduzem as melhores massas frescas e sandwich, nada mais que um sandwich. Quando o garcom secas da cidade. gentilmente puxou a cadeira para que se acomodasse a Trata-se de urn grupo de experientes comedores de mesa, o ingles segurou o garcom pela manga, e com urn massas que oferecem gratuitamente, sem nenhum fim olhar aflito, fez um gesto pedindo o cardapio. 0 garcom lucrativo, seus conhecimentos a pessoas que somente estranhou, mas tudo bem. 0 ingles debrucou-se sobre o conhecem generalidades, como, por exemplo, macarmenu corn o desespero de urn turfista que vai apostar a ronada. unica cedula que lhe resta no derradeiro pare° do Tal confraria opera corn discricao, nao coloca anancios programa, antes de voltar a 1)6 para casa. em jornal e recusa dar entrevistas na televisao. Seu Urn sandwich. Qua! sandwich? Um bem !eve. 0 ingles trabalho consiste basicamente ern dar indicacOes de escolheu a palavra mais curta do cardapio, respirou enderecos sigilosos, pastificios ocultos, rotisserias fundo, arrisca: disfarcadas, onde podem serencontradas massas fora do - Please...mi iiss circuito normal de exibicao para as plateias. A Wall [0,0 garcom nao qu is acreditar nos seus ouvidos. Gracas a essa notavel confraria pude obter em 1986 Misto? Que ingles esquisito. Em todo caso... urn croquisdetalhado do bairro e da rua onde se fabricava, - Frio ou quente? em estilo caseiro, o segundo melhorgnocchique provei na - Miiissstou, please... vida. 0 curioso é que o autor da proeza era um coreano - Oquei, mister. Quente ou frio? chamado Ho Chi, que depois abandonou o ramo das A azia do ingles aumentou na hora. Tentou insistir: massas e hoje e dono de uma confeccao no Born Retiro. - Mist000u. Mas enquanto Ho Chi fez gnocchi, valeu! - Entendi, chefia. Misto. Quente ou frio? A principal vantagem em se ter amizade e born 0 ingles prometeu a si mesmo que no dia seguinte relacionamento corn esses modernos cavalheiros da tavola embarcaria de volta para Londres nem que fosse de redonda e que nao se precisa enganar o medico e ficar onibus, e rendeu-se: corn a consciencia pesada quando ele nos proibe spaghetti - Feeiiijooaaadaaa! e tagliarini. A confraria das massas tern saidas para esse Rara é a pessoa que algum dia nab se tenha apanhado tipo de problema, fornecendo inclusive um guia ilustrado, em palpos de aranha num restaurante em terra estranha. uma especie de jogo enigmatico divertido, intitulado Nem precisa ser ingles. 0 Salsarullo, amigo meu, urn dia, "Descubra o caminho mais curto para achar a tagliatella ha muitos anos, teve de sair diretamente do bairro do da mamma." Bras, em Sao Paulo, para o bairro do Brooklyn, em Nova urn quebra-cabeca. Mesmo quern tern dificuldades torque. Era garotao, nao manjava nada de ingles, mas a para orientar-se, e nao encontra o caminho certo, vai colonia italiana nos Estados Unidos nao deixa nenhum descobrindo desvios alternativos interessantes, que filho seu morrer de fome. desembocam em enderecos de capelli d'angelo, penne e Salsarullo, como o ingles da feijoada, tambem ia rigati num bairro, fettuccine e pappardelle na Zona Sul, sempre ao mesmo restaurante e nao inventava. Pedia orecchiette, tufoli, cornetti e cirillini no caminho da Penha, sem pre o mesmo pra to: spaghetti. Era spaghetti de manila, e outras tantas informaciies que tornam a vida mais bela, de tarde e de noite. Estava acostumado, a mae dele desde mais saborosa e mais al sugo. pequeno punha spaghetti no leite em p45. .is..j;:i..;44i'4.4.',;i..fi..4to;ii6ii;6.'::i.iy000f.i.00'.( ofr • No cardapio, porem, havia um prato que intrigava Salsarullo e ele nao se atrevia a pedir: spaghetti with meat ball. Meat ball! Devia ser alguma atracao turisticoIcijoada. This is, until lit cannot take it anw,nore and gastronOmica. Num almoco, Salsarullo perdeu a timidez wishes he u'ould never had learned the name of the de revelar a ignorancia, perguntou discretamente ao ithnost fatal Jih. On the other hand, paul i sta s have garcom: I heir own secret clubs and a confraternifu of gent It'- Cosa vol'dire meat ball? lflt'fl of the round tithie for pasta iot'ers. E o garcom complacente:

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POLITICS

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Collor only maintains his power thanks to a polished façade, while the government rottens in the inside. Marcelo Coelho, Se-lo Paulo Nowadays, it is difficult to speak of anything other than politics. The country is intoxicated by accusations and crises. Perhaps it is too easy to describe the reactions to what happens as simple fear or indignation. Such cases as the one of PC Farias truly constitute a somewhat unusual relation to time. It is as though an explosion, filmed in slow motion, has taken place. Investigations drag on, but it seems the world will end at any time. One of the horrible things about

journalism is that, in the beginning, a case seems to be simple, a revelation is bombastic, the certainty of crisis is established, but as it goes on, the study of the matter during the days that follow ends up in insignificance and technicalities that few can keep up with. Thanks to this, the corrupt ones always find an explanation to offer, no matter how unconvincing it maybe. The work belongs to the journalists who pull them down, but the reader gets lost in the meantime. Certainly, the indignation continues, but there is no time to keep up with all of the complications of a case. There is too much corruption for the little time available to the reader. And there are cases so complex that a fog of mistrust tends to replace the sharp outline of all factual details. Deep inside, what happens is that the society bestows the press, as well as some of the more struggling parliamentary members, the function of informing on governmental fraud. It's a division of labor, and even a journalist, who takes case A by storm, will feel insecure if he has to abruptly cover case B. Nobody can take care of everything at the same time. This way, "public opinion" is always the statistical effect of partial information, of erratic watchfulness, of the shreds of certainty that belong to each reader, each person. In conversation and social encounters, in reasonable commentary, the adjustment , the confrontation, if we can say so is made, with each person adapting to the ideal and assumed image of what would constitute "public opinion", the predicted mean of individual activities. It is by means of this mutual adaptation that a tendency, a socially political inclination assumes a definite form: the atoms, the individuals, get organized to share and to d istribute each certainty and each private opinion. Our convictions always reassert themselves when we meet someone (no matter who), who express them on their own. Collor's expression: "Don't leave me alone," is valid for each person that voices an opinion. He wants to make it "public", or at leaast to reassure himself that it is, in theory, shared by others.

There are some interesting points of view in the current governmental crisis. In the first place, the relative tranquillity of the environment. The accusations were heavy, Collor's articulation is not convincing, new factors may appear, the government's situation is practically untenable, but it is impossible to live in this "end of the world" atmosphere. In the second place, there is the quality of resistance in Collor himself. He seemed to be daring, presenting the weakest "proofs"; undergreat pressure he appears "firm", "balanced" and "soaring". It's worthy of taking one's hat off. In the third place, even though there is great desegregation, moral as well as political, in the Executive, I do not see the problem of the country's "governability" as threatened. Everything already depended on the Congress and the ministers. Collor's personal presence, and the loss of credibility that afflicts him, may be secondary aspects of the actual entourage. What could explain so much calm in the midst of so many signs of tension? Doubtless, there is reasonable confidence in institutional stability, be what may. But the most important fact is in the ambiguity of Collor's situation, itself. The government is rotting, immobile. It is more of a collapse than an implosion. The scandals drape themselves in funereal solemnity. Without doubt, Collor is hated by a big fragment of the population, but they hate him with indifference. There is no demands for his resignation. What exists is the expectation that the buffoonery be over. More than ever, President Collor stays in place by the strength of appearances, and his speech on TV showed this. There is one thing that he controls well: his appearance. Paradoxically, he dresses up in a shell of stability, in a very thin layer of firmness. There couldn't be a better actor to play the president's part: he has the voice, the "physique du role", the posture, the intonation. Discredited by public opinion, he addresses the soap opera audience. The government is at its end, but as the Americans put it: "The show must go on," Emerging as an image on the screen, it seems that Collor is not solid enough to fall.

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. 'crisis would continuetogen • ."' . '!"e rate The comfortablelevelof international .nances .,, inflation . . reserves - around $2014% R,.i.19'?.:,..:.1 his.i ri,., °V the:iiii: ttalim the.i.d4:4 1.::eljiio c:0,i..tn :°ntrim buytesddoto neredient to be imposed by the go':,,iert!tent -,--n° . ..:....*:;:*,....-.::,....,..- • • • the Ani:..... ii::i ,i,..„i +1,...Inthi rim djeus ,,,. .h.....s'ca astm ii.4„bagietotielition for making ureesPki:91 in tseeiream th41;:am vee . tr would increase imr.pedithe reserves kind of - --....,.:-.... geritina recipe i'since a reality, can be used as ballast for any initiative in ately the Uniortfmances. All this discussior4sumes also the subthis direction. The biggest risk of such a measure stitutionof themiOterofEconomy.PFL woui4N.,theemurgenceofan inflation in leaders, whose p* has been the main doll .;:accordiiig"'to sciin';i government backing for Collor,Iiad given Marellio till en*advisers.Theythink that with- July to reduce irOation considerably.; out a [i'.t,al it idjutinent tfr public fi srniethmgthatdLdnthappen. 6tasS'esperadaerosao trazida oiarizar a fis1 pelo tempo. ecOritimia pode ser Sc fixarmos Olo)(a de cambio, corn atraente mas nao muito inflacao ainda em ti#o de 20% ao mes, eremetermosaocon*sso um programa dwi4jtOtg, fiscal que kja rejeitado em fii.i.006.„Oicrise politic* em apenas dois ogi.treoin0es a ind astrla brasi le ira perde a OOMpetitivida e a uromente obtida ao lOgigo cIas decadas. krilemoria de Keynes deveria ser h4ifada pleos hete#Odoxos brasileiros qtie se apresentarnicomo membros de se u respeitavel claacademico. Enquanto '60aulo o brilhante eccinomista ingles tentou Pa61a. uparseu pagd as inadequagOes d e um regime deginbio fixo, os keynesianos transformam em monetaA propos ta de 41olatizarfi a eonornia brasIle#6.$.Se rIg*Oakdra lascada, defendendo urn brasileira nao é 'aperias teorkaii.knk,f. ouro do seculo 19, como mais um . equivocada, mas taMbeib.o q40. mais tie de seu infindavel arsenal de grave,.....absolygnrnte Irresponsávc leavara subs tituirnosso verdadeiro quan#0§gir Sgb0PgeiteiCipta esafidi'a autodisciplina consciente que potenqolifiervgdevast4preS'gObieng$ : cterizap sociedade moderna. ra 44' ..a uinaseriede argumentos teoricos 4nints.tro . da Fizen _ de uma taxa "'faVdtkIgipanv.eniencia que espetv tenciosa tUrtuante se traduza em apoio •••proposta, diz que uma crise cambial sol Wasileira. E a funcao da estaBiIklade tal regime seria "aritmeti4menfe cambial como uma ancora do prograirb de estabilizacao sera resultantgja impassivel". Ora, a afirmacao e co.OpletAtiente reversdo das expectativas inflacionariOs produzida pela mudanca dos regini* irrelevante face aavv4.40itu pjoblema fiscal e monetario do pais. que a fixacao inadequada da taxa de Efetuadoo ajuste fiscal e estabelead° cambio traria ao ,i:15th,5i; A verdadeira Banco Central independente,a o ameaca embutida n§ssa irrefletida estabilidade cambial viria como subpikproposta é o sucatearnOto do parque d uto reforcar o circulo virtuoso 4a industrial brasileiro. Sincronizar a recdoksao ciclica, estabilizacao. Tentar inverter a ordem dos fato4, resultante de uma tentatiVa de estabilique em economia altera o produ4 O zacao, corn o impact° estg.titural de uma deve ser discu tido em salas de univer* .i'alkettrai;demetmdkii:kja tern sido um dade e nab em experiencias com 140 d urogolpe sobre a capiOdade prod utiva d a industria. Ad iejpriar 4§§f quad ro um mil heies de cobaias, com o pass ivel pro*, de um sucateamento de nosso parqtii regime.:xle::caniblb fixo e eNno detonar tunaliornba econornicoderitirtronssobre industrial. Paulo Guer.ks,.41, has a PhDfrom Sae5TatiltiPdegaParecem as pessoas

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RELIGION legitimate cultural imperative, in good theological reasoning, it will always be a hierarchy of service and function... Since 1971, I have been frequently receiving„ letters and admonitions, restrictions and punishments. Don't tell me I haven't cooperThere are occasions in life when a ated. I have answered all the letters. person to be truthful to himself has to Twice I have negotiated abandoning change.! have changed . Not my my teachi ngs. I faced "dialogue" battle but my trench. I am leavin Rome before the highest Roing the sacerdotal but not the man-Catholicauthority. In 1984. Chu rch. I am leaving the FrancisI was fired from Revi.sta Eclesiciscan Order but not the tender tica Brusileira and driven from and fraternal dream of Saint Ed itora Vozes... I have accepted Francis of Assisi. everything, to all I have submitI will continue always to be ted myself... a theologian, of Catholic and The subjective experience I ecumenical extraction, coming underwent d uring these past 20 from the poor, opposed to their Genesis) Boff, better known internationpoverty and in favor of their ally as friar Leonardo Boff, is now awaiting years with doctrinal power is this: it is cruel and merciless. It liberation. I want to tell my fellow-trav- permission from the Vatican to abandon his never forgets, it never forgives, life as a priest and religious that he has been and it charges for everything... elers, men and women, the reaThe sensation that I have is son that led me to this decision. living for 28 years. The theologian, whose First of all I say: lam leaving to Theology of Liberation became a household that I hit a wall. I cannot go To go back would mean maintain my freedom and to word all over the world and gave Rome a lot of ahead. sacrificing my own dignity and continue the work that was beheadaches, is saying "Enough is enough," abdicating a fightof some many ing greatly hindered. This work is the reason of and he promises to continue writing about years..: The hierarchic church doesn't possess a monopoly of my fightd uring the last 25 years. Theology. Boff, who lived with the Franciscans at the Gospel values and the To not be true to the reasons that give meaning to life, causes their house in Petropolis (66 km. from Rio), Franciscan Order is not the sole of the Sun of Assisi. somebody to lose dignity and to has bought an apartment in Alto da Boa Vista, heirWith my intellectual work, I dilute his or her own identity. I a neighborhood south of Rio. The priest had want to apply myself to buildwill not do it. And I don't think decided to reveal his decision to abandon the ing an Indo-Afro-American God would want it either. I recall a thought of Jose priesthood only at the end of July. When his Christianity, inscribed in bodMarti, noted Cubanphilosopher secret was leaked, however, he prepared a ies, skins, dances, sufferings and the joys and languages of our of the last century: ' It cannot be letter to explain his resolution. peoples, as an answer to God's that God puts a thought inside In 1985, the theologian was forced into an gospel that wasn't completely a person's head and that a 11 month "obsequious silence" by the Vatican, given after 500 years of Chrisbishop, who is not as big as after the publication of his book Igreja, tian presence on the Continent. God, forbids its expression." I will continue in the univerCarisma e Poder. Besides that, Rome pointed Let us re chart our path a little. Starting in the 70s, together to several "doctrinaire oversights" in other sal priesthood of the faithful, with other Christians, I tried to works by Boll. Atica, a non religious pub- which is also an expression of the priesthood of the laic Jesus articulate the Gospel with the lisher, is going to publish America Latina: da as the author of the Epistles to social injustice, and the cries of his last book. the Hebrews (7, 14, 8, 4) rethe oppressed with the God of Conquista allovaEvangelizactio, He was having a hard time getting an impri- minds us. life. I don't leave in sadness but matur from the Church to print the work This effort resulted in the in peace, because I make mine Liberation Theology, the first through -a Catholic publisher. the poetry of our great poet, Latin-American Theology with Fernando Pessoa: a universal relevancy. Through "Valeu a pena? it we were trying to rescue the Tudo vale a pena, freeing potential of the Chrisse a alma nao Ê pequena". tian faith and restore "the dan"Was it worthwhile? gerous memory" of Jesus, breaking that iron circle that maintained that is for the majority pure and All is worthwhile Christianity, here, as the captive of simple disorder. We suffered being if the soul is not small." I feel that my soul, thanks to God, accused by our brothers in faith of the interests of the powerful. This effort took us to the school of heresy and collusion with Marxism wasn't small. United in the journey the poor and outcasts. We were evan- and seeing our fraternal links being and in the grace of the One who knows the secret and the end of all gelized by them. We became more broken publicly... our paths, I greet you with Peace and We are not against hierarch 1. If humane and more sensitive to their passion. But also more lucid in the there is hierarchy, since this can De a Good."

Leonardo Boff

Letter to the companions of journey and hope

find ing of the mechanisms that make them suffer repeatedly. From the sacred fury, we went to solidarity practice and committed reflection. We have been suffering, in communion with them, the slander from those social sectors that find in traditional Christianity an ally for the preservation of their privileges, under the pretext of preserving the order

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Onde o bilhete é rei Conceicdo Freitas, Brasilia 0 Ernesto ate que pediu desculpas mas "nos num aceitemo". Afinal, ele bem que podia ter d eixado urn recado na porta. Adoniram Barbosa, em Samba do ' icia usual: Ernesto, daaobilhetea importar O de ser mero portador de informacOes curtas e de emergencia, de conteudo prosaico e sem revelacOes estupendas. Agora, o filho cacula e modesto da mensagemescrita temestado todoprosa: nos ultimos dias, o presidente da Republica, Fernando Collor, tern-se valid° de bilhetes para dar vazao a seus desabafos Sao manuscri tos d i rig id os em geral ao secretario de Imprensa, Pedro Luiz Rodrigues, onde Collor aponta a existencia do que chama de "sindicato do golpe". Já era hora de reabilitar o discreto bilhete de sua condicao de irmao mais pobre das cartas, projetos de lei, teses, poemas econtos.Uma d as limas vezes em que foi tratado corn tanto destaque e virou manchete de jornal foi em 1%1, quandoeravisto todosos dias naspaginas do Dietrio Carioca, que tinha o cuid ado de publicar todas as versOes produzidas pel9entio p res iden te d a Rep Oblica, Janio Quadros. Aquelesenhordesobrancelhas grossas administrava por billaetes, que tratavam tanto do piano quinquenal de obras rodoviarias, como autorizava urn observador a verificar os estragos provocados por tuna tromba d'agua ern Bias Fortes, Minas Gerais. Houve um dia emqueranio produziu 26 bilhetes, cuidadosamente reproduzidos na edicao de 25 de abril de 1%1, pelo ousado Diario Carioca. 0 jornal, que ganhou fama de polemic° e foi fechado per pressOes do govemo autoritario nascido em 1%4, escrevia bilhetinhos a Janio diariamente, na primeira Vagina, mandando tambem seus recados ao presidentedaRepiablica..Era ulna coluna cercada per tuna linha vermelha, guase sempre do lado direito da pagina. Epoca aurea para o bilhete. Eapressadopensarque este pequeno trecho manuscrito que ocupa menos de uma folha de papel so se ded ica a ques tOes aridas como as que motivavam Janio e incitam Collor. 0 compositor Brigad ei ro, 70 anos, fez uso m ui to mais poetic° d es te

condutor de mensagens. Conquistou a mulher, Gild a, corn quern esti casado ha 46 anos, escrevendo bilhetinhos "bem gostosos, bem amorosos" para a natnorad a, numa epocaemque narnorava-se a dois metros de distancia um do outro, como lembra Brigadeiro. "Nosso amor / nosso amor / nao e falso amor / e real. Seu carinho, amor / seu calor / baniu todoo mar, dizia uma balada que Brigadeiro fez e mandou a mulher,, em forma de bilhete. A ex-vendedora desanduiches, Henriette Cardoso, 30 anos, trocou maioneses e paes per uma mobilete que a leva como portadora de bilhetes, geralmente entre enamorados. E o Correio Elegante que Henriette criou em Goiania, ondevestida de branco, corn flores no cabelo e tuna cestinha na garupa, ela transporta flores, presentes e bilhetes de urn lugar a outro. Certa vez, Henriette leu o bilhete em voz alta, a pedido do remetente: "Meu bem, a casa esti cheia de flores, o jantar vai ser a luz de velas. Na cama o lencol é de cetim. Prepare-se. La em r sa hoje vaiser festa. Chegue mais cedo." Num dos bares mais ferteis em conjuncOes amorosas de Brasilia, o Beirute, ha orientagio para que os garcons nab transportem bilhetes de uma mesa a outra. "Ate por respeito ao cliente. 0 profissional pod e se darbemou levar um tapa na cara", diz Francisco Marinho, urn dos donos do bar. Mas, o folclore beirutiano registra casos como o de amores que nasceram e morreram no bilhete. "0 povo transformard a atoarda do golpismo insensato em ruidos de triste memOria da crOnica da nacao", diz o presidente Collor, em bilhete escrito em julho. Dito assim, em palavras sem som, escritas em tetras miUdas, sob o brasao da Presidencia da Republica, fica bem mais espetacular, como assistir a urn acidente de Formula Urn em camera lenta.

Por isso, o bilhete leva vantagem e, urn pouco mais esticado, vira carta e serve, corn muito mais desvelo, as confissOes e declaracoes amorosas. Sao turas as que sem tra tarde amor, ganharam a historia pela contundencia de seu conteddo. As cartas correm o risco de derrapar na monotonia quandoo tema nab étAo candente. Talveza mais famosacarta dahistOria doBrasiltenhasido escrita per um presidente da Republica. Antes do suicidio, Getfilio Vargas escreveu sua carta-testamento, corn a pungencia que o momento exigia: "Mais uma vez, as forcas e os interesses contra o povo coordenaram-se e se desencadearam sobre mim. Nao me acusam, insultam; nao me combatem, caluniam, e nao me ddoodireitodedefesa.Precisam sufocar a minha voz e impedir a rninha acao, para que eu nao continue a defender, como sempre defendi, o povo e principalmente os humildes..." Semelharcas entre o torn desta carta de agosto de 1954 e os bilhetes que vem send o escri tos per quern ocupa o mesmo cargo sao bem mais que ingenua coincidencia. "Deixo a vida para entrar na histOria," declarava Vargas, como quem nao suportava desempeharoutro papel que nao os de declarada importancia. Janio Quadros tambem produziu uma carta destinada a constar dos arquivos histOricos: "...Sinto-me, porem, esmagado. Forcas terriveis levantam-se contra mim e me intrigam ou infamam, ate corn a desculpa de colaboracao", escreveu ele, nasua indecifravelrenunciaapresidencia da Republica. Caso nao fosse heresia violar a producao de um poeta, poder-se-ia acrescentar ao verso "todas as cartas de amor sao rid iculas", d e FernandoPessoa, outru: todas as cartas pretensiosamente definitivas sao ridiculas. Mas como pode ser lindo o ridiculo: "Bern vejo que te amo como tuna louca. No entanto, nao me queixo de toda violencia dos arrebatamentos de meu coracao; e you me acostumando as suas perseguicOes e nao poderia viver sem esse prazer que descubru e de que gozo amando-te no meio de mil dores". E s6ror Mariana Alcoforado, em Cartas Portuguesas, um dos mais sigmificativos textos que se utilizaram de cartas para falar de amor. •

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The raw and the rare The forceful voice of Clarice Lispector can be heard again in the U.S. thanks to new translations Bondo Wyszpolski, Long Beach New Directions has apparently taken a strong liking to Clarice Lispector. Two year ago they published Soulstorm and Near to the Wild Heart (see my review in News from Brazil #45), and now they've given us The Hour of the Star ($8.95, 96 p.) and The Foreign Legion ($10.95, 219 p.), both translated by Giovanni Pontiero. The Hour of the Star is a blunt portrait of Macabea, an anti-heroine "as appetizing as cold coffee". Furthermore, "There are thousands of girls like this girl from the North-east to be found in the slums of Rio de Janeiro...They aren't even aware of the fact that they are superfluous and that nobody cares a damn about their existence." Fortunately, perhaps, Macabea is too dense to realize that she's unhappy. Her simplicity seems to enable her to cope ad to accept her inadequacies. Were she more intelligent, she would truly be a tragic figure. Now, what's really going on beneath the thin and unappealing surface of this tale? The narrator - we know him only as Rodrigo S.M. - is reluctant to begin his brief account of Macabea's life. Is it because, sometimes, banality is the most difficult subject to write about? Or is it because "The girl embodies a truth I was anxious to avoid"? Lispector is apparently suggesting that Macabea is a mirror who reflects a bare, unembellished truth that few of us can look upon without flinching. And Rodrigo S. M. is no exception: "...through her I utter my cry of horror to existence." Macabea has come from nowhere, only to slip back and be shipped back - into nowhere. Hers is a story our narrator can't tell without squirming, as if Macabea's story shines a spotlight on his own. Perhaps it does:

perhaps, also, there's a bit of Macabea in all of us. Under the hot beam, do we squirm as well? A seemingly plain, singular life, has thus turned out to have rather disturbing implications: "The facts are sonorous," Rodrigo S. M. tells us, "but among the facts there is a murmuring. It is the murmuring that frightens me." 40.47

The Foreign Legion is an altogether d ifferent kind of book, the first of its two sections comprised of thirteen stories. While these tales are commendable for iI their originality, closer in feel to abstract canvases than to conventional short prose, the downside to most of them is that they simply may not engage the reader - except as theoretical constructs. Giovanni Pontiero has certainly given them a seamless translation, so the problem isn't readability. This reviewer was only slightly intrigued and but sporadically entertained. The second part of The Foreign Legion is a miscellany of newspaper cronicas, or chronicles, the majority of them like brica-brac pulled from a drawer and set out for display. As might be expected from this grab bag approach, some catch the eye and some don't. As jotting, abstractions, sketches, and scenic but often meandering prosaic excursions, their literary value seems highly subjective: Does this one catch your fancy? Does that one? Good. Here, it's yours. The cronicas range in length from one sentence to several pages. Berne Cathedral on a Sunday Evening seems to represent Lispector's style and approach, and here it is in its entirety.

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PROFILE

Tuned In His programs became an • obligatory stop for anybody traveling through the rich Brazilian music. • Francine Alexander In 1978, Sergio Mielniczenko set out to bring the bestof Brazilian music to the United States with a radio show called The Brazilian Hour. Since then he has kept the music coming— for the benefit of listeners and musicians alike. It started with one station, KXLU in Los Angeles. Today, the audience has grown to include fifty countries around the world, with forty stations carrying the show in the United States. "I came to college here for radio and television," says Mielniczenko of the show's inception. "When I was in my second year, I came to work at the Brazilian Consulate, and around that time they were about to develop the cultural sector. I've been involved with music all my life, so I proposed a radio show." Fifteen years later, the show maintains a musical depth that few other radio programs can match. "It takes more than just personal taste," says Mielniczenko, who single-handedly programs both The Brazilian Hour on KXLU and the two-hour Sounds of Brazil on KPFK. "I think I ought to play traditional Brazilian music to keep our perspective, our history." With this basic philosophy as a backdrop, Mielniczenko broadcasts a wide range of artists and styles, from samba to rock to jazz to classical. And, of course, MPB (Brazilian Popular Music). "Brazilian music is unique," he says. "There's not much machinery behind the music. It entails the work of a lot of people, a lot of pioneers, like Djavan, Milton. The music is all

of us. All these poets writing—Chico, Milton—they are telling things that we want to tell. And when you listen to them, most of all outside of Brazil, it's an assertion of your own existence as a Brazilian, and part of your culture is with you. So that makes you strong." Mielniczenko balances tradition with variety and the unexpected. He regularly tracks down new talents to include in his programming. "I like to find music that is not put out by major record companies," he says, "music that has quality." He returns to Brazil at least once a year to interview artists, scout new music, and gather news from other cultural arenas, such as science, economics, and the visual arts. "That's when I get in touch with a lot of things and fill my bag with records I don't have." Much of this research goes into the September four-hour "Brazil Special" on KPFK. When he's not producing the radio shows or working on "Brazilian Scenes," a cable video show produced with partner Cida Goncalves, Mielniczenko gets involved in the recording side of the music business. "A lot of my time for the past few years has been devoted to finding music from Brazil to be released in the United States," he says. Most recently, for example, he was instrumental in getting Flora Purim's latest album, Queen of the Night, released on Sound Wave Records. Other projects have included Sounds of Bahia (Volumes 1

and 2) and the music of Olod um and Rique Pantoja. Boosting sales of Brazilian records in the U.S. through increased exposure and better availability is one of Mielniczenko's primary goals. "Hopefully, I will be a success in that sense," he says, "not only for the pleasure of exposing people to new music, but making the music successful as well. I will keep bringing more music so people can actually go and buy it." Mielniczenko adds that efforts in this direction have been paying off, especially in recent years. "When we started in 1978," he says, "very few companies would release Brazilian albums here. But nowadays, they are first released in Brazil and then they come to the United States. Like Djavan, Milton, Ivan Lins. It has increased about fourfold at least." Born in Sao Paulo, Mielniczenko had an early career as a musician in Brazil, and can claim a top-10 hit ("Corn o Radio Ligado"). And although he put aside his music career in 1974 to pursue studies in media, he knew that music would be with him all his life. "It's incredible to do things in life that you like so much," he says. "I don't think I would do anything in life that I didn't love. I'm not the type of person who compromises. My goal is, then, using this flow of energy to bring the best we have in ourculture— one of the richest aspects of Brazilian culture, which is music."

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The Plays

Mucho Corazon - This is a mix of

theater and dance, and a pot-pourri of musical styles including salsa, tango, rumba, mambo and bolero. Beco- A opera do Lixo - The story of a group of beggars living in a dead end street. Through de videocassette they are introduced to and get inspired by Hollywood musicals. De pernas pro ar - Screwball comedy a la Howard Hawks dealing with matrimonial blessings and wounds. Created and directed by Flavio de Souza. Luarern preto c branco -By Lauro Cesar Muniz, directed by Sergio Mamberti.

A corn ination of theater and film depicting a man living in a phantasy world. Nao quero droga nenhuma - Humor show about a girl who after being shown at Silvio Santos "Boa noite, Cinderela", become a drug addict. Grace Giannoukas wrote, directed and stars. 0 analista de Bage na Casa da Dinda New version for the text created by Luis Fernando Verissimo with his fictional gaacho psychoanalyst panning some politicians. Written and directed by Claudio Cunha.

Best-sellers Non-fiction 1. voce Pode Curar Sua Vida Louise L. Hay - Mental patterns for curing diseases 2.Amar Pode Dar Certo - Roberto Shinyashiki and E. Dumet —Facing love relationships 3. 0 PoderDentro de Voce -Louise L. Hay - Discovering the inner wisdom 4. A Caricia Essencial - Roberto Shinyashiki - How affection can help people survive. 5. Meninas da Noite - Gilberto Dimenstein - Extensive newspaper report on child prostitution in Brazil

Fiction Radio Auriverde - Brazil, 1990 - Black and white documentary trying to unglorify the participation of Brazilian soldiers in World War II. Directed by Silvio Back. Critics hate it. II Viaggio di Capitan Fracassa - Italy, 1991 - Directed by Ettore Scola, based in Theophile Gautier story about a troupe of destitute actors travelling through France. They meet a baron who joins them. Q&A (Sem Lei Sem Iustica) - United States, 1990 My Cousin Vinny (Meu Primo Vinny) - United States, 1991 Las Edades de Lulu (As Idades de Lulu Spain, 1990- Directed by Bigas Luna, with Francesca Neri. At 15, Lulu gets

involved sexually with an older man, three homosexuals and sadomasochists.

Scream of Stone (No Coracao da Montanha)-Germany / France /Canada, 1991 -Directed by Werner Herzog. Based on Italian alpinist Nasestri adventures. Amantes (Os Amantes) - Espanha 1991 - With Victoria Abril and Jorge Sanz. A love triangle, during Franco's era in Spain, involving a young man looking for a job in Madrid, his virgin fiancée and a crook lover.

II Sole Anche di Notte (Noites corn Sol) - Italy, France, Germany, 1990 - Directed by Italian brothers Paolo and Vittorio Taviani. Based in Tolstoi.

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I. Juizo Final— Sidney Sheldon — Shameless soap opera with ecological touches 2. Romance Negro - Rub em Fonseca - Seven previously unpublished short stories by this carioca writer $. 0 Alquimista --Paulo Coelho - An individual trying to find himself and his destiny 4. 0 Manipulador — Frederick Forsyth - Spy adventures of an agent of the British Secret Service 5.0 Brilho das Estrelas -Danielle Steel - Story of a peasant girl who becomes a Hollywood star in the 50s

The author of Brida, the Brazilian super best-seller, is expanding his book empire. Paulo Coelho; who in the 70s of his books published in became famous Spanish, here. They are writing lyrics Difirio de urn Mago, 0 Brida. for singer-composer Raul Alquimista, and These books have already Seixas, is better known nowadays for having sold been published in English more than one million cop- by Harper of San Francisco. ies of his books in Brazil, In a very short time he bethe first one to break Jorge came the second most sold Amado's record. Now he is Latin-American writer in making contacts in the the United States. Gabriel United States to have three Garcia Marques is still the champion.

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WITH A GAUCHO TASTE While some Brazilian restaurants and businesses are not resisting these mean times - just to cite two, Rio Express closed its doors and Via Brazil is forsale -By Brazil apparently is thriving. The Torrance Restaurant, who brought us the famous and very common in Brazil rodizio barbecue, where you feastyourself in all kinds of meat for a reasonable fixed price, was sort of born again, recently, with a second opening. To show the restaurant's new impetus, Valdir Silva and Hiroko Kanomori promoted a party for all those who love the authentic Brazilian churrasco. By Brazil caters for birthday parties and any other event. Saturday and Sunday, the restaurant is open from noon to 9:30 pm. On weekdays, only lunch is served. The address: 1615 Cabrillo Ave., in Torrance. Tel: (310) 7877520. Naturally, By Brazil is still a good place to taste other Brazilian delicacies: salgadinhos, docinhos e feijoada. Born apetite!

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MUSIC

Treasure Box Blue Note/World Pacific has released a string of Brazilian CD's that should have gotten more exposure than they did. In case you're wondering, they comprise some of the best Brazil has to offer whatever your musical choice may be. They are not exactly easy to find, but are available. Happy hunting. Robert9 t,A?stinge, LOs Ange ep Clara Nunes, Bestof Twenty tracks of the most i Mitten. that narnhista whose legacy still persists. in works of 411 singers like Alcione or Beth Carvaiho, to stick to samba singers only. I'm not ibig k4rtii-s4 6tn, hut this is as good as it can get. Clara Nunes. diedin83 becau . se. Of a 'rnedical errorduring surgery, but left a body of work thatdefine modern samba. Full of energy and yet melodic.TryCuntri das Tre. Racas, Morena de Angola, Portelq4a Avthriaa for a good sample of a singer who used all the roo of Braiilian music and gave the samba a broader specSimone trum. from the Sin-tone, Best of- Simone is good still alive, but musically she times. stopped producing anything of interest a long time ago, Fortunately this 17Song compilation tracks her down to a time when she was considered one :of,: the best in the MPB (Brazilian Popular Music) along with Gal and I3ethania. Classics like Comecar de Novo, Cigurra, Tia Voltando are part of history in Brazilian music. Still a.ma.jorsonglil<olarqs de A nior is missing among a few othe rs.Gerald Seligman. who Out this collection togethOliqi.ild have done Some reseal. tOfi find e which songs Meant the most at the time theywere .. le4sed rather than trust his.porsonal judgment. Still worthwhile, Marisa Mona .â&#x20AC;˘ ThiSliS. ber first. release, that finally is available in theLl..tVerything that has been said about Marisa, her vrsatility...ir(Singing different styles, her wide vocal range...analindr6dil,W Sensibility for giving well-known songs an unproved version can be heard here. From Kurt Weill to Tits passing by Gershwin, all with an incredible ease that only the great singers can risk. All this made Marisa Monte a hard act to follow, although her current release Mais, (also available) did quite well in Brazil and certainly deserved a better fate in this country. Page 22 - NEWS from BRAZIL 80. AUGUST 1992

Ton inho Horta - Also his first release in Brazil, from 1981, this album is not a single bit dated. Toninho reigns supreme when it comes to harmonizing and then young guitarist Pat Metheny learned more than a lick or two while sojourning in the rolling hills of Minas Gerais. Checkout Pratolcito, a gentle song where Toni nho shares the spotlight with Pat and the result is brilliant. None of those tiresome and redundant faster than light guitar rifts totally devoid of emotion. Viio dos Llrubus, the beautiful Minha Casa and Manoel, o A udaz with Lo Borges on vocals and Pat on guitar make searching for this CD a guarantee of listening pleasure. Djavan &Alunibrainento - A few years ago some record companies had the decency to offer two previously released albums put together on one CD, for the price of a single one, since CDs can accommodate more than 70 minutes of music. Looking for bigger profit they quickly abandoned the practice that once again proves to be a great idea. These are Djavan's second and third albums, and as it happens with Simone, represents a part of his most creative period. In these 21 tracks you can find some of his best songs like Rot nu Linha, Lambada de Serpente, Meu Bern Querer, Cara de Indio, A Rosa (with a rare upbeat performance by Chico Buarque and many others. If you have been to Djavan concerts in the last few years but couldn't find any of the songs you heard on his most recent releases in the U.S., it is because those great songs were taken from here. Now you know.

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RADIO & TV Sounds of Brazil - Every Thu day, 9:30 am, KPFK, 90.7 with Sergio Mielniczenko Brazilian Hour - Every and Sunday, 1 LU, 88.9 FM ko

10:00 am - 2:30 pm - Pele's Day Take a picture and get an autograph from soccer legend Pele at South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa - (714) 435-2000 10:00 am - 11:00 am - Brazilian Flour on KX11.1 8:00 pm -Georgia Martell° interpreting jazzy romantic tunes at Kafe Kafka - Brazil Night Special benefit concert for the Rain Forest. 9:00 & 11:00 pm -1 he Rio Thing at La Ve Lee

SUNDAY 2 10:00 am - 11:00 am - Brazilian Flour on KXI.0 1:00 pm - Afro Brazilian Drums Workshop, at Lula Washington's Dance Studio 7:00 pm - Cultos Evangelisticos with Pastor Joel at Ibra 10:00 pm & 11:30 pm - Ana Robles at Truly Yours

TUESDAY 4 7:00 pm - Brazilian Percussion Classes & Escola de Samba at Brazilian Music Center

10:00 am - 11:00 am - Brazilian I lour on KXLU 8:00 pm-Georgia Martell° interpreting jazzy romantic tunes at Kale Kafka - Brazil Night 9:00 & 11:00 pm - The Rio Thing at La Ve Lee

10:00 am - 11:00 am - Brazilian Hour on KXLU 8:00 pm - Georgia Martell° interpreting jazzy romantic tunes at Kafe Kafka - Brazil Night 9:00 & 11:00 pm -The Rio Thing at La Ve Lee

SUNDAY 9

SUNDAY 16

10:00 am - 11:00 am - Brazilian Hour on KXLU 1:00 pm - Afro Brazilian Drums Workshop, at Lula Washington's Dance Studio 7:00 pm - Cultos Evangelisticos with Pastor Joel at !bra 10:00 pm & 11:30 pm - Ana Robles at Truly Yours

10:00 am - 11:00 am - Brazilian Hour on KXLU 7:00 pm - Cultos Evangelisticos with Pastor Joel at Ibra

MONDAY 10

7:00 pm - Brazilian Percussion Classes & Escola de Samba at Brazilian Music Center

9:00 pm & 11:00 pm - The Rio Thing at Le Cafe

TUESDAY 11 7:00 pm - Brazilian Percussion Classes & Escola de Samba at Brazilian Music Center

WEDNESDAY 12

WEDNESDAY 5

8:00 pm - Paraty at Truly Yours

8:00 pm - Paraty at Truly Yours

THURSDAY 13

THURSDAY 6 9:30 am - 11:30 am - Sounds of Brazil on KPFK 9:00 pm - Octavio Bailly and Trio at Club Orsini - 9575 W. Pico Blvd.

FRIDAY 7

9:30 am - 11:30 am - Sounds of Brazil on KPFK 9:00 pm - Octavio Bailly and Trio at Club Orsini - 9575 W. Pico Blvd.

FRIDAY 14 7:30 pm - Estudos biblicos with Pastor Joel at IBRA

7:30 pm - Estudos Bfblicos with Pastor Joel at [bra

10:00 pm & 11:30 pm- Ana Robles at Truly Yours

TUESDAY 18

WEDNESDAY 19 8:00 pm - Paraty at Truly Yours

THURSDAY 20 9:30 am - 11:30 am - Sounds of Brazil on KPFK 9:00 pm -Octavio Bailly and Trio at Club Orsini - 9575 W. Pico Blvd.

FRIDAY 21 7:30 pm - Estudos biblicos with Pastor Joel at IBRA

lchemy, a Brazilian Video Show Every Monday, 1:00 pm, Paragon, Downey, Ch. 38 cday, 9:00 pm, Every We 51 Conti owne Eve y, 11:

10:00 am - 11:00 am - Brazilian I lour on KXLU 7:00 pm - Cultos Evangelisticos with Pastor Joel at !bra 10:00 pm & 11:30 pm - Ana Rob les at Truly Yours

TUESDAY 25 7:00 pm - Brazilian Percussion Classes & Escola de Samba at Brazilian Music Center

8:00 pm - Paraty at Truly Yours

THURSDAY 27 9:30 am - 11:30 am - Sounds of Brazil on KPFK 9:00 pm- Octavio Bailly and Trio at ClubOrsini - 9575 W. Pico Blvd.

FRIDAY 28 7:30 pm - Estudos biblicos with Pastor Joel at IBRA

SATURDAY 29 10:00 am - 11:00 am - Brazilian Hour on KXLU 8:00 pm -Georgia Martello interpreting jazzy romantic tunes at Kale Kafka - Brazil Night 9:00 & 11:00 pm - The Rio Thing at La Ve Lee

SATURDAY 22 10:00 am - 11:00 am - Brazilian Hour on KXLU 8:00 pm - Georgia Martell° interpreting jazzy romantic tunes at Kafe Kafka - Brazil Night 9:00 & 11:00 pm - The Rio Thing at La Ve Lee

10:00 am - 11:00 am - Brazilian Hour on KXLU 7:00 pm - Cultos Evangelisticos with Pastor Joel at !bra 10:00 pm & 11:30 pm - Ana Robles at Truly Yours

SITES & #s To place your free announcement, send your fax to (213) 257-5487, mail Inforination to P.( ).Bo x 42536 Li o.. Ang,e les, CA 90050 or call (213) 255-8462

Kale Kafka - 6069 W. Sunset BI -Hollywood -(213)464-3938 La V6 Lee - 12514 Ventura Blvd. - Studio City - Tel: (818) 980-8158 Le Café - 14633 Ventura Blvd - Sherman Oaks - (818) 8962662

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Lula Washington's Dance Studio. 5179W. Adams B1(213) 484-1370 Lunaria - 10351 Santa Monica Blvd. - West L.A. - : (213) 2828870 Nucleus Nuance - 7267 Melrose Ave. -(213) 939-8666

Truly Yours- 18588 Ventura. BI -Tarzana - (818) 996-3131 Venice Bistro - 323 Ocean Front Walk, Venice, (213) 392-3997 Waterfront Café- 205 Ocean Front Walk, Venice, (310) 392-0322

RADIO Canta, Brasil -Every Sun pm - 8:00 pm - KKUP, with Xuxu, MariaJose Iteyman Ira - I A 1-bra KPFA, day, d Er.

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Tropicana Brasiliana - Every Friday, 7:00 pm, KUSF, 90.3 with Raimondo Franco Brasileirinho - Every Wedneslpm, KZSC, 88.1 FM with rota

SATURDAY 8 3:00 pm - A bra Brasileira on KPFA, 94.0 FM 8:00 pm - Voz do Brazil with Samba Swing and Suor at Bahia Tropical

SUNDAY 2 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm - Canta Brasil on KKUP, 91.5 FM 8:00 pm - Live Reggae at Bahia Tro â&#x20AC;¢ ical

MONDAY 3 8:00 PM - Funday Monday at Bahia Tropical

TUESDAY 4 8:00 pm - Club Bahia at Bahia Tropical

Capoeira National Encounter continues - See Thursday 6 3:00 pm - A flora Brasileira on KPFA, 94.0 FM 8:00 pm - Celia Malheiros 8r Friends with Brazil Dance Review at Bahia Tropical

SUNDAY 9 6:00 pm -Capoeira Batisado -See Thursday, August 6 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm - Canta Brasil on KKUP, 91.5 FM 8:00 pm - Live Reggae at Bahia Tropical

3:00 pm - A bra Brasileira on KPFA, 94.0 FM 8:00 pm - Batucaje Showcase at Bahia Tropical

SUNDAY 16 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm - Canta Brasil on KKUP, 91.5 FM 8:00 pm - Live Reggae at Bahia Tropical

MONDAY 17 8:00 pm - Celia Malheiros & Friends at Bahia Tropical

MONDAY 10

TUESDAY 18

8:00 pm - Funday Monday at Bahia Tropical

8:00 pm - Club Bahia at Bahia Tropical

TUESDAY 11

WEDNESDAY 19

8:00 pm - Club Bahia at Bahia Tropical

6:00 pm - Jack Gates with Bossa Nova at Chambord 8:00 pm - Ivson Lins & His Band at Bahia Tropical

WEDNESDAY 5 6:00 pm - Jack Gates with Bossa Nova at Chambord 8:00 pm - Marcos Santos & His Band at Bahia Tropical

THURSDAY 6 Capoeira National Encounter starts today at San Francisco Institute of Choreography - International Building, 50 Oak St. $10 donation -Call (510)236-8901 or (510) 655-8207 6:00 pm -Doug Gittins with Bossa Nova at Chambord 8:00 pm - Bobby Escovedo Orquestra at Bahia Tropical

FRIDAY 7 Capoeira National Encounter continues - See Thursday 6 8:00 pm - Viva Brasil at Bahia Tropical

SITES &#s Alberto's- 736W. Dana St., Mountain View, (415) 968-3007 Aioli -469 Bush St., San Francisco, (415) 2490900

WEDNESDAY 12 6:00 pm - Jack Gates swith Bossa Nova at Chambord 8:00 pm - Ori xi Baba at Bahia Tropical

THURSDAY 13

THURSDAY 20 6:00 pm -Doug Gittins with Bossa Nova at Chambord 8:00 pm-Candela at Bahia Tropical

FRIDAY 21

6:00 pm -Doug Gittins with Bossa Nova at Chambord 8:00 pm - Los Compas at Bahia Tropical

8:00 pm - Voz do Brasil at Bahia Tropical

FRIDAY 14

SATURDAY 22

7:00 pm - Tropicana Brasiliana on KUSF, 90.3 FM 8:00 pm - Celia Malheiros & Friends at Bahia Tropical

3:00 pm - A Hora Brasileira on KPFA, 94.0 FM 8:00 pm - Combonation at Bahia Tropical

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm - Canta Brasil on KKUP, 91.5 FM 8:00 pm - Live Reggae at Bahia Tropical

MONDAY 24 8:00 pm - Funday Monday at Bahia Tropical

TUESDAY 25 8:00 pm - Club Bahia at Bahia Tropical

WEDNESDAY 26 6:00 pm - Jack Gates with Bossa Nova at Chambord 8:00 pm - Ginga Brasil at Club Bahia

THURSDAY 27 6:00 pm -Doug Gittins with Bossa Nova at Chambord 8:00 pm - Cubanacan at Bahia Tropical

FRIDAY 28 8:00 pm - Rhythm & Steel at Bahia Tropical

SATURDAY 29 3:00 pm - A flora Brasileira on KPFA, 94.0 FM 8:00 pm - Celia Malheiros & Friends with Ginga Brasil at Bahia Tropical

SUNDAY 30 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm - Canta Brasil on KKUP, 91.5 FM 8:00 pm - Live Reggae at Bahia Tropical

MONDAY 31 8:00 PM - Funday Monday at Bahia Tropical

Bahia Restaurant - 41 Franklin St. - S. Francisco - (415) 626-3306 Bahia Tropical - 1600 Market St. - S. Francisco - (415) 861-8657 Chambord -152Kearney St., San Francisco - (415)

434-3688 Sol y Luna - 475 Sacramento St., San Francisco - (415) 296-8696 Yoshi's- 6030 Claremont Ave., Oakland - (510) 652-9200 NEWS from BRAZIL 80- AUGUST 1992 - Page 25

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Th Southern California Roberto Roifrigues (310) 530-8955 Sheila G. Shanker - CPA (310) 836-3436

Airlines Varig (800) GO VARIG Vasp (310) 364-0160

Food & Beverages Ana's Catering (818) 509-2906 Catering by Lucia (805) 584-0582 Delicia - Brazilian and Portuguese (310) 207-9796 Via Brazil - Food &Magazines (310) 318-5922 Vigo Brazil Tropical (213) 839-2934

Graphic Arts Lux Creations (213) 255-8062

Restaurants

Beauty Salon

The Amazon Cafe (213) 371-2915 By Brazil

Bibbo 415 421-BIBO

(310) 787-7520 Carioca

Saber do Brasil (415) 826-2010

(213) 837-8957 The Copacabana (213) 957-0616 Lulu's Alibi (310) 479-6007 Pan Handler (714) 970-5826 Yolie's Brazilian Steak (714) 251-0722

Clubs Friends of Brazil (415) 982-2438

Consulate Brazilian Consulate (415) 981-8170

Costume Designer Architecture & Design Sonia Rodrigues Los Angeles, CA (310) 530-8955

Hair Gigi's (310) 273-0851

Imports Art Bakari Art Studio (213) 938-0523

Dehydrated Bananas (714) 785-5677 Rio to Babylon - Fashion (213) 653-4948

Automobile Renato Ferreira - Ford (310) 546-4646 Ext. 232

Banks Banco do Brasil (213) 485-0030

Body Care Fernanda's Therapeutic Massage (310) 391-4923

Churches Evangelical Formosan Church (714) 636-6996 Full Gospel Assembly (213) 773-2301 IBRA - Igreja Brasileira (818) 773-2646 - Pastor Joel

Instruction Brasil Brasil Cultural Center (310) 840-2794 Brazilian Music Center (213) 467-5715 The Exercise Academy (818) 985-9773 Modern Language Center (213) 839-8427 Piano & Flute Lessons (310) 559-7347 Taquinho Brazilian Musk (213) 281-6950

Musical Instruments Importer & Distributor (213) 957-0721

leâ&#x20AC;˘al Clothes Vaneyde's Custom Made (310) 827-4031

EscritOrio de Advocacia (213) 387-0500 Marisa's Legal Services (310) 439-6512

Clubs & Associations Clube Brasileiro da California (714) 748-4669 The Brazilian Club of San Diego P.O Box 83502 San Diego, CA 92138 Brazil California Trade Associat. (714) 939-1740 Brazilian Institute of Arizona (602) 451-7360

Consulate Brazilian Consulate (213) 651-2664

Dental Care Gilberto Henriques, D.D.S (213) 464-0524

Events Promotion Brazilian Nites Production (818) 7604600 Samba & Saudade (818) 997-8821

Match Maker Fogo e Paixio (213) 384-1144

Money Remittance Vigo-California (619) 286-2979

Psychotherapy The Center for Therapy (818) 761-2227 Elizabeth Almeida 310 281-7536 Brazilian Magazines- Via Brazi (310) 318-5922 Brazil Today (213) 667-0715 News From Brazil 213 255-4953 The Prudential Bryant (213) 255-8062

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Events Promotion Celia Malheiros & Friends (415) 387-2981 Samba da Alegria (415) 282-1273 Voz do Brazil (415) 586-2276

Food California Produce (415) 586-6200

Travel Agencies Brazil Expert Travel (213) 387-2111 Brazil Tours (818) 767-1200 Brazilian-American Travel Ctr (213) 670-9347 Cheviot Hills Travel (213) 202-6264 Costa Azul Tours & Travel (213) 384-7200 Dynasty Tours & Travel (818) 845-5757 RTB Travel (800) 974-4RTB South Star Touts Inc. (800) 654-4468 Southwinds (800) 533-3423 - (310) 568-8426 Yes Brazil 213 461-2233 ctus 'ri uctions (310) 820-7195 VIDEO WORKS Betacarn - ENG (213) 650-2824 Zuruk Video (310) 915-0952

Euro Exclusive 415) 589-6067 FMC Autobody Collision, Inc. 510) 687-1900

Instruction/Translation/Inters). ran Cu lure S rts (510) 428-0698 Portuguese -Annita M. Frame (510) 339-9289

Music & Dance Classes Mexe Mexe (510) 525-2574 Ginga Brasil (510) 428-0698

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