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But a hero who might be our neighbor or our brother, so close and so vulnerable he seems to be. A hemophiliac struck by AIDS who one day decided hunger is a mortal and unnecessary sin in a land of plenty such as Brazil. His campaign, started a few months ago, is energizing the country. Some people, who had never before seen afavela closer than their TV screens, are joining in and going up the hills, and feeling much better for that. Nay sayers and eternal negativists have already squealed their, "Stop
this paternalism. This won't solve the problem." This fragile man had the vision that it is time to stop doing nothing. "Nobody without food has ever called being fed a paternalistic act," he says. It is as if the whole country has found out its heart and decided to pour it generously. If Brazil is going to bed tonight a little less hunger and a conscience a little lighter, it owes it to this sociologist, who once had to flee the country due to his leftist convictions, and now is inspiring a nation. He is our cover story, our hero Saint Betinho. R.M.
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"Unhiding" Laurindo
Battling hunger
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Soccer's diabolic duo
Mafra Carbonieri short story
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15 Gearing up for voting
Cover by Carla Guimarh-es
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Damn inflation!
6 Rapidinhas 12 Letters 34 The Cultural Pulse 35 Por ai 38 Los Angeles Calendar 39 San Francisco Calendar 40 That's Brazilian
18 In search of an immortal
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28 Reading through Xuxa
29 Edu Lobo off the cave
31 Seducing CDs
32 Little & charming Sergipe
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Cell service A little misfortune such as being in jail shouldn't discourage anyone from celebrating a wedding anniversary. It didn't for Paulinho de Andrade, one of the bosses of Rio's jogo do bicho, an illegal numbers game, behind bars since being condemned for fraud and racketeering earlier this year. To celebrate 20 years with his wife, de Andrade threw a party which Polinter (the special prison he is in) had never seen before. Privileged guests were treated to lobster and French wine. His infamous father, Castor de Andrade, who had been jailed with Paulinho, wasn't able to make it. He was out taking care of business and his health, even though his jail term will not end before 1999.
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Not in my beach Affluent Rio is trying to distance itself a little more from its misery and crime belt. After a series of disturbances on buses coming from favelas (shanty towns), the Military Police is boarding buses on weekends and preventing groups of more than five youngsters from riding them to the southern beaches. The bus companies went even a step further by cutting on Sundays and holidays, until noon, all lines that run from favelas to the beaches. In Copacabana and Ipanema, police shot into the air and expelled some young men from the beach at gunpoint. 6
Xuxa after the scare
Ailutirdo(bee) has gained an eerie connotation in Brazil. This gathering for collective work is being used now for collective murder. In September, 200 residents from Fayela do Dique, in Rio, went in amutirtio to the shack of paper picker Adilson Barroso, 33. They dragged him to a soccer field and there stoned him, after tying his hands and throw-
ing him in alWire. It took _ one hour for him to die. Reason: Revenge against the death of 9 month old Rafaele Cavalcante. The baby's mother had accused Barroso of stealing her watch. When her house was burned and the baby was killed, she assumed this was Adilson's work. Nobody had seen the accused setting the house on fire.
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After nine days at the Beth Israel Hospital in New York, wearing dark shades and almost four pounds lighter, Xuxa went back to her Manhattan apartment to rest. The TV star was getting ready to be interviewed on Good Morning, America, when she fainted and was rushed to the hospital. This happened the same day her program in English debuted in the U.S.. According to doctor Richard Stern, who treated her, the Queen of the Shorties has had a dislocated nerve, something common for people with a lot of physical activity. "She will be better with physiotherapy, time and the medication she is taking," said Stern. A little frightened, Xuxa is vowing to work less and take longer vacations from now on.
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hen President Itamar Franco as sumed power after the impeach ment of ex-President Fernando Collor de Mello, he focused his eyes upon one of Brazil's most staggering and lingering problems: hunger. In a nation of over 150 million souls, 32 million Brazilians are on borderline famine; another 10 to 15 million are just barely above starvation. He declared his so-called "War on Misery". His plans are ambitious, deliberate, and have stepped on some powerful peoples toes also. The person he chose to confront this social time-bomb was Herbert de Souza, a frail 97 pound sociologist who carries a permanent smile and is Brazil's icon of moral conviction. A political exile during Brazil's turbulent military government during the 60's and 70's, Betinho - as he is affectionately called by everyone - lived and toiled in Chile, Mexico, Canada and the U.S.; he remained in exile for a decade, mostly lecturing in universities. Caetano Veloso, one of Brazil's best known singer-songwriters has stated: "The moral conscience of Brazil is battling hunger with Souza." Most other Brazilians agree with his statement as well. Possibly some Brazilians still haven't heard what "Aga° da Cidadania contra a Miseria e pela Vida" (Action of the Citizenry Against Misery and for Life) is. Very soon, however, virtually all of them will. Betinho set off the movement this past April. It has since snowballed into a social movement of unforeseen proportions, and has triggered a massive national response from the whole spectrum of Brazilian society. Barra do Pirai, a town of about 90,000 people in the interior of Rio de Janeiro State became the initial staging point for this campaign. A small committee was formed there. Their sole concern? To collect food items from well-to-do people and businesses, and then distribute them among the poorer sectors of the town's populace. Immediately after, Lavras, another town of similar size in the State of Minas Gerais, followed suit. The campaign has never stopped since. The movement is certainly strongest in Rio and Minas Gerais, somewhat slower in Sao Paulo. and it has just taken off in Bahia. The South and the Northeastern states have also jumped in. "The movement has created a new type of synergy," says Betinho. -with action emanating from all directions." In barely 5 months, more than 3,000 plus committees had been formed all over the country. In Rio alone there are hundreds of committees; virtually thousands upon thousands of
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Spring flowers in alifornia desert, sands upon • sands of voiu esrs in Brazil ng up their allets and ogether in a Y crusade 1 t hunger. T ARLO8 RAVELO ' „HOTOS: CARLA GUIMARAE
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volunteers are engaged in the numerous tasks of collecting, warehousing and distributing food among disadvantaged Cariocas. In Bahia, more than six tons of food items were collected to feed 600 impoverished families living in the fringes of the city of Salvador. Sao Paulo took off with its campaign by forming 50 committees under one steering committee; now there are over 200 within the borders of Brazil's most populous State. And in Rio Grande do Sul, seven tons of food have been collected and distributed so far. No politics - One of the reasons why Betinho has been able to draft such a remarkable cross-section of Brazilians from all walks of life, is the fact that he is a respected sociologist, and has never directly been identified as belonging to any of Brazil's major political parties. In the past, the military government accused him of leftist sympathies, and he acknowledges to like leftist presidential candidate Luis Inacio Lula da Silva of the PT (Workers Party). Another compelling factor that has sparked the enthusiasm of his legions of followers has been his unselfish efforts to promote public awareness about the extent of the hunger in the cities and countryside; this, in spite of the fact that he is suffering from AIDS and is in frail health. In fact. Betinho has become the moral conscience of today's Brazil. 8
AIDS killed Betinho's two other brothers who - like Betinho himself - were hemophiliacs. The anti-hunger campaign has obviously begun to produce some tangible results for the homeless and favelados (shanty town dwellers) of Brazil. However, a less visible but equally powerful effect has taken place within the minds and behaviors of hundreds of thousands of middle and upper class Brazilians as well. A typical example is Regina Coimbra, a 48 year old housewife and retired civil servant who resides in Botafogo, an upper middle class neighborhood in Rio. Regina decided to join a local committee. She carries out weekly trips to Mono de Dona Marta, an impoverished favela located in one of numerous hillslums overlooking many of Rio's middle or upper class neighborhoods. Like so A less visible many other effect has w ell-to-do Brazilians, taken place Regina always within the looked upon minds of the morros with a combihundreds of nation of fear thousands. and distrust towards thefavelados who dwelt there. She always suspected that they were either bicheiros (number runners), vermelhos (drug traffickers) or simply tough scoundrels; people best kept at a distance. She now drives willingly up the hill in her car, without any fear or apprehension. "I've never participated in anything. Now I can't wait to get involved," she says. The anti-hunger campaign and its success have become a researcher's dream. Why? Well, aside from recruiting thousands of average citizens, it has also drawn many a disenchanted leftist, liberals, conservatives and even the military into its fold. It has brought together artists, students, union organizers, businessmen and even housewives. Notably absent from the participation process however, has been the Brazilian Banking Federation (FEBRABAN). Although many individual bank managers as well as middle and top level executives have personally contributed to the campaign, FEBRABAN as an entity, has NEWS from BRAZIL - NOVEMBER 1993
steadfastly refused - even after being urged - to contribute something to the cause. But then, what else could anyone expect from banking consortiums anyway? No false hopes- In spite of the continued and growing success that the antihunger campaign is having, the majority of the people actively involved in it are not fooling themselves at all. Chico Buarque, a well-known writer and composer, sums it all up: "If doing this does not solve anything, then not doing it would solve even less." One sector within Brazil that has been caught almost totally off-guard and which has barely taken any significant steps has been the Brazilian government itself. Although President Itamar Franco has given his personal approval and did indeed stimulate Betinho's work, it was actually Lula who pushed the hardest for its success. In April the government Almost $4 formed the billion worth Conselho de Seguranca Aliof food rot mentor (Counannualy in cil of Food Segovernment- curity): but newly this owned formed agency warehouses. has been dragging its feet since. Nevertheless, there was one notable exception: Banco do Brasil. Its 120,000 employees and officers in more than 3,000 branches have adopted over 2.000 committees, and have actively utilized their nation-wide networks and connections to assist those entities in charge of collecting and distributing food to the poor. The spark of know-how and enthusiasm that they have added to the campaign has been remarkable and indeed contagious. Rotting bureaucracy - Incredible as it may seem, a series of recent exposĂŠs have demonstrated that almost 4 billion dollars worth of foodstuffs rot annually in government-owned warehouses all over Brazil. The food is simply thrown out, if it is determined that it is not "fit for human consumption." Meanwhile, Betinho's think tank in Rio has drawn-up statistics which indicate that if only 20% of the discarded food were utilized, that alone would be sufficient to appease the hunger of more than 32 million of those Brazilians currently going hungry. NEWS from BRAZIL - NOVEMBER 1993
The government - aware of the potential political and social consequences - has been trying to place certain measures into effect. But the wheels are slow.., and rusty too! An example? In Serra Talhada, a town in the northeastern State of Pernambuco, the mayor's office announced that the a government would sponsor the distribution of over 30 tons of food for the needy; thousands of people young and old - poured into the city's downtown area near the soccer stadium. By 8 o'clock in the morning distribution had begun. Less than 20 minutes later, without any warning, the campaign grinded to a halt. Due to "orders from above", the operation was put on holding pattern" until further orders. The crowd waited patiently until noon. Then all of a sudden, the scraggly crowd of hungry people simply broke into a frenzied riot and plundered the warehouse and its contents. "Some were eating raw flour right out the sacks; I even saw people eating green bananas with shell and all," said Jose Lutero da Costa, a witness to the events. Said Pedro Lacerda, Jr., a farmer: -That's the law now; he who has not stolen yet, will have to steal. How can I see my children starving at home, when I know that there in the city there is a warehouse full of food?" According to a recent article in Veja magazine, crowds have plundered warehouses and food markets in over 85 cities within the States of Ceara, 9
Pernambuco, Rio Grande do Norte, Paraiba and Piaui. Those states form-up the bulk of the so-called tricingulo da fome Nordestino, the triangle of hunger formed by these NortheasternB razilian states. One further step that the government is taking to try to appease the people is government sponsored anti-drought work programs that will eventually employ about 1 million Nordestinos. The cost for the program is over $180 million. Part of the reason why President Itamar Franco found such a speedy "quickfix" solution for the northeastern states was because hundreds of hungry farmers invaded governmental offices in Recife, and held hostage scores of mayors, bureaucrats and other officials for over nine hours; they demanded that President Franco receive one of their delegates to hear out their complaints. He did. Within 24 hours steps were taken to distribute food in those areas considered to be "hot-beds" of social discontent in the Northeastern Serra°. One institution that has apparently done a 180 degree social "about face" has been the Military Police. Hounded by an atrocious track record - which this year has reached rock-bottom most of Brazil was certainly stunned when colonel Edes Costa, Commander-in-Chief of the Military Police for the Federal District (PMDF), announced that they would actively participate in the anti-hunger campaign in Brasilia. They behooved all to donate non-perishable food items which would be collected and kept at military institutions, for subsequent distribution. They even opened a special bank 10
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SHORT STORY
Four hoes MAFRA CARBONIERI
cabras. C ar duas desbrotas - uma em janetid— agosto. Tirar os galhos secoS, trepadeiras, cipos. Replantar as falhas, utilizando a muda dos balainhos que a fazenda colocaria no carreador. Enterrar palhada de qualquer origern, seja de café ou de amendoim. E ainda o esterco do mangueirao. Conservar a lavoura no limpo. 0 velho lembrou a epoca certa da arruacao e disse: - Fui criado na miseria. - Pois nao. - JA puxei o guatambu por dez homens. Riimundo suspendeu um olhar escuro. - Pdrefe'que valeu a pena. rn peoes no rancho. 1-tio „ o. undo,apagou a braPos o cigargi atra relha.- Descansava 'avcorpo mittia perna. o bateu a tala na carriPichadado 4 borzeguim. - As 0 vei as•co da' fa ra duma enxada. ,XDroximou a tam nrugada, s6 um pouco tremu plde g s las azuis, e fitando Ranpundo,qgm firthz , d a medida da fundura e 'do co riYfjnIénto.
0 patrao era velho, porem rijo. Q ebrando a aba do chapeu na testa, quase escornha a cara. Sobravam relhas, onde fiapos do cabelo descorado faziam um chumaco. Er e punho na direcao da lavoura. A tala, pelaalca de couro trancado,#e ou no brag° ate o cotovelo. ,QTatrao montavatini tordilho, - Corn, quantas enxadas voce conta - Quatipcornigo , - respondeu Raimondo. - Serve.* , Railiiiiiido`tnrolava a palha do cigarrol-Tinha dois filhos na idade Alltriltada. A mother la adoecer em mako.. yento que s va &IVA agitava leVemente o cimo dos cafeciros. patrao afi - Sou ho ' de palaYra. , V - Sei. _ Um fio a nit a barba v e como s Ase untselo. - Isso me' falaram - disse Raimundo agaThando-se Sob as alpargatas de Iona. -Vamos combinar, ..,,.. Puxou a fumaca.r)Solton-a. Olhaya a trilla de grama pisada. Embaixo, a estrada,Olhava algumas*asas de madcira depois do bosque de eucaliptos. Urn carnarada, entre os ino roes de cedro ja Si -coVa fincados, desenrolava o arame Via-se cidade alem dos ., . - farpadri. „ galpoes cli,estacao ferroviarm 0,,caVato,masco ma haste de capim' - Em e o velh ''''apeo Apoi' rnaRairnun - Po fez que easa de tábtil 0 CO argot cobe • dos atijolacco alcancarida Na casa: dois hanco ,pArtesa, um arman Antes de,r a o ca ela de cozinha e um estraao. trazendo o mantimento. Ra • ntiu no peito arag 0 cavalo, placid°, socaVa os bracos e fez uma pressao„na camiseta rala. 0 v repuxava os mitsculos. As - Quantos alqueires tern'agora o Joao Fernand receram alem duma reboleira. Nao sei. E4'Aflendava passo desengoncado. por cento, - Eh. Frieira de casco de vaca ta. -Tinha Raimundo a experiencia e que nem admit j t tudo o que o velho dizia precisava r ouvido. Encostando-se ao trcinco da jaquelia, riscou Ten • evend corn a unha a resina que cscorrera na casca e •acordo. endurecera, semelhando lagrima de mein°. t16ciisau na terra.dTsô"ctio V ra Li Longe do's, nenhum'sa arasse de`pe. Vdt&Ad E cima do ;ino, quandp,, — cantasse, Nao cornett? adiria os campos de mato •desceria comidoe stintoo aimundo baixpu os olhos enco a • . Sims. a nos reex. 'yerdes do Escondeu na mao o zigoma, esfregando a pel' de !ix ez por dia lo. Nfio faltas e ha de s uguerfo para o - de outubro a setembr - havia comido. OSIpelos "brotavam , ' sarampo da ultimainxada. No armazem: arroz espeto como pieties, alguns brancos. A mao cornprinun os bica-cornda, feijad, tngo, acucar preto, sal, po Caldo de osso, milh° , mandioca, rapadura; ba rdade de café ra adura pano fita botao meada volanterdibdia-fria nao tinham tanto. A mulh ca Va bichos o de linha, a ha, arame, cor a, eachaCa. jaba. Seja"p enhor louvado. E igualmente Sant u as quatro - Ningue lacava mais,jpidb. II enxadas s aguas e na seca - haviam comido. 0 velho a non a crina do cavalo4 nnundd - Iss toncluiu o patrao. ouviu o ruido do caminhao na es Rairn,r do via o cavalo. Concordou: eram afeeiros. - Born. E minha roca? e couro Levanto se perto do outro. 0 velho recendia umb, c 0 velho apontou corn a tala. suado. S'Fcombinassem, o caminhao da fazendaitia birsca na cidade - Amendoim no oaf *, duas mulher e carreiras. S6 nas agbasj as tres enxadas. 0 sol atravessava a galhaca dalaqueira os meninos estariam no patio da estacao, em silencio' ndo conta Imundo olhava dos trapos e da canastra. 0 0 vplho empurrou o chapeu de feltro para nuca, rzeguim ando a ponta, olhar azulaclo. Ao desocupar as terras, deixá4as no no estribo, o velho falo esparramacao do cisco ja pronta, sem aviso. Q caval - Plante uma earreIra e eijgo sem cip6 em mosca&. cada ma de cafe, To. .s'a ruas. N Aguas e na Cafe colhido. Café na tulha. Café secado. Café eniacadp. explicava a obrigacao de Raimundo. Montando que a aba di”chapeu na - lncluindo a sacaria e o barbante. No azinazem voc ompra o testa. necessario. Nao pago nada. Partilha no telhetro. Meio o. milho PUla . Nao quero Raimundo conItaia o costume. Vinlia descend° inta ueca idiobrigado Au to,
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a arrancar a soqueira depois da tblheita.-
- Meu filho tern nove anos e bate amendoim por dois homens. Na ansiedade as caras se contraiam vellibolhou de cima para baixo. debaixbdits chapelees, oucloscabelos NA° derrubar madeira de lei. Deixar encardidos, ou dos trapos amarrados dez sacos de café na ma° do patrao, na cabega. As bocas abertas, o cheiro ate seis dias antes de largar a terra, de roupa mofada, o suado oferecomo garantia da esparramacao e da cimento. Urn nortista cocou a barba desbrota. Invemar apenas um animal. duma semana, grisalha. Manter em ordem o cercado. Rocar 0 Dentro do botequim: pasto. - Germano - disse o ajudante. 0 caminhab surgiu na curva. DA tempo para outro martelo? velho levou tres dedos ao chapeu. A mulher magra: - Entendido? - Mario... Afastou-se. Raimundo afundava mot§rista ligou a chave. Tao sol na areia as solas de corda. Enquanto dissipar o frio da manhA. Apos o que acendia a palha corn as rnabs em convifia o caminhao do peixeiro corn cha, via que o motorista carregava barns de sardinha em gelo e pa-de-serDerto do depasito, em dois galoes, a ra, sob urn encerado de lona. gasolina do trator. Um negro destravou Raimundo jogou o cigarro. 0 a guarda da carroceria, saltou, pas urn Chevrolet, vazio. Despencou uma caixoteao ombro. 0 motorista encheu chuva. A trovoada corria alem da o radiador, despejando a alum dum capela. Raimundo consertou as balde. Era urn Chevrolet ja rodado. goteiras da casa. No primeiro calor Raimundo apertava'p cigarro nos ele e os filhos fizeram por fora a dentes. Soprou a fumaca. Ia andando. caiacao. A mulher colocava agua Mastigando fiapos,--de fumo. De fresca na moringa de barro. A quinta madrugada, no mercadovelho, quando enxada nasceria em marco. Sentado chegava a epoca da baticao do amen- .,,na soleira da porta o mais velho doim ou da catacao do,a1g9dao, o 'It'esguichoti o cuspo pelos dentes Chevrolet encostava-selia ,guia dafpodres. Poram o mais novo tinha voz caleada, fazendo fila corn, outros para rnoda. caminhefes. Madrugada cscura, a familia saia Os gatos e os ajudantes, aos gritos, rumo a lavoura. 0 aranhol da relva punham os camaradas em alvoroco. peneirava o orvalho e, vindo o so!, as - Venha voce. gotas se esfarelavam numa raiacao Esco lhiam. irisada. - Voce. Voce. Morreu a mulhcr de Raimundo na A Os camaradas trocavam cotove- jjtima noite de marco, no cstrado, ladas. tam puland& as grades, tendo ' 1u do lampido. Igualmente a quinta os pneus de tras por apoio. enxada. - Bobagem. Nao pegando esse Chegando a derrica, o patrao pas a caminhao a gente pega outro. negrada da cozinha na lavoura de - Mario. Hoje you junto - pediu cafe. Estragararn o amendoim do café urna mulher magra, de olhos saltados. corn urn desbotado vestido 'prt$0*.: 4 Bone stew, corn, - Nä°, dona. A faze.nda ito é asilo. - Nem liospicio - disse urn menibo. Deram risada. A mulher afibu 6,:" manioc, molasses, sun olhar agudo. Foi empurrada. A luz do'-', ' meat. The peons didn't poste e do botequim amarelava a get even that. The wife madrugada do =lead°, vincando na ?ra feigAo doua lias um abatimento. picked up the worms - Ja veldt) minhao do Taguihj., Erguiam' s bragos. Urf velhgi. from the sun meat. segurava a stia trouxa contrab peito. Ctispiu de lado, Praise the Lord. • -Por ressa? 0 amendoim nAo var fugir novo. 0 arroz se perdeu na varzea. - Bo i 1 ; compadre. Corn o milho e o feijab Raimondo nao - E o agushi? pOde pagar nem os volantes nem o - Mario... - gritou a mulher magra. annazem. Foram os filhos ganhar por Na porta da garapana, fechada, dia corn UM porcenterro do Joao teve um mulatob cuidado de passaro Fernandes. seu pente of cabeleira ondulada, Pesadamente Raimundo subiu os guardandozO depois no boiso (la blusa. degraus da escada. Falaria corn o Dois carninhoes descerarna velho. Houve um momento em que a - NA°. Vou esperar a conaugao do opressao do peito ganhou a garganta, Lazinho fechando-a numa dor. Enxtigou o rosAs mulheres se entreolhavam, to na manga da camisa Nunca foi falando alto. Algumat• vestiam calga vergonha pedir. Suava frio. comprida, de bri cima a saia. - Corn licenca. 14
Andow devagar pall:MEW velho naeestava,ali. cachorro lambeu-lhe,o'lorso da natio: Irtle4 e s fre g a v a `1**tachOlfOrtreffir a boiadeiro, fumarido cigarrilha, sentava-se na rede e mudava as pilhas dun' radio. 0 menino, em pd, ia trangando tuna redea de crina. No canto da varanda, dois peoes paratlos. - Boa tarde - falou Raimundo, num esforco. 0 cachorro deitou-se sobre um saco de estopa. Do interior da casa veio a, tosse do patrAo. Raimondo ouviu 06' som cavo dos tacOes e o tilintar das., rosetas. Ao entrar na sala, agarrava corn as duas mabs oshapeu de couro: Aparecia o sol atraves da cortina de croche, grossa de poetra. A sombra rendilhada movia-se no soalho. Raimundo disse:
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6Car ue fida. cinco iatgs de c e. IsSo em troca do ano perdido. 0 velho pos no prat° fu do tre conchadas de feijap. ,Pressionando lata de azeite. serviu-se. Corn escumadeira tirOu 61 rroz da cacarola,! cobrindo o feijab e nadoas amare-* ladas. Colocou em ci ea couve duma ternna. Ao ladb,Tarinha delqiiicli ' ' Dois ovos fritosiLingirica' de, Salada de tomag ,corn cebola pada. o velho bebeu meio copo de pingi e pegou o garfo. Comia corn a boca aberta, ia mastigando comida e sat num mid° molhado. No silentio , sala, corn a aratem a dependurar-spa cortina, so o barulho diktilio almogando. Grtios de arroz taiiiir-lhe ao cob. Passou o miolo dO pao no prato yawl A cabega inclinada, tendoros olhos ulna esperteza senil. 0 patrao chupava o ar entre os dentes. A negra trouxe o café num bilk de aloud*. O'velho tomava o cafe aos7fReAtittios goles, repuxando os tendoes do tiescoco. Arrastando a. cadeira, krgueu-se. Olhou dos dois lades. Disse a Raimundo que nab dava 4Smola. foi ftfrnar na varanda. . ' . . - Descobnu q, defetto, Zrco 0 boiadeiro Ligon o radio. No ndo, . os dois peeei parados , Co mend'rem fios de crina., Tinha' aiinundO , corpo seco e quene t ,. lido hie" do cachorro, derce ada do alpendre. la o rio num leitc4 de pedras. Na margem a area. Os Terleicbs verdes na alma. Raimundo,arnolotea lamina da pcixeira ",Embora4,seilpmbrasse de que durante breve ;limo,. eramiquatro enxadas, nab sofrfn-fgithupl tremor. Escondeu a aria soli' a ithmisa, atras da fivela da cinta. ,Subiu o morro e encostou-se ao tithe° 'di jaqueira. 0-velho, o merlin°, e b cachorro vinham pela trilha de greha pisada. .,... , roil,t ,k v.S gringos NEWS from BRAZIL- NOVEMBER 1993
POLITICS
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n October, 1994, Brazilians will be going to the polls for a historic election. It will be their biggest ever, with voters being asked to choose the new president, as well as governors for 27 states, and all federal and state representatives (deputados). About 35,000 candidates will be competing for a small or big piece of power. Thanks to an agreement among the big parties' leaders, Brazil already has an idea of how the campaigns will be financed, how the small parties will work, and what are the rules of advertising on TV. The changes should be considerable when compared to the last time Brazilians participated in a national election. In 1989, only individuals could donate money for candidates with a maximum limit of 200 monthly minimum wages (about $15,000). Now, companies will also be able to contribute with up to $100,000 or 5% of its gross income - whichever is bigger. That means that a big company that earns $1 billion a year might contribute $50 million to one party only. To present a candidate to the presidency is a little harder now. Before, to register a party and submit candidates, all a person needed was 101 signatures and 11-member commissions in 9 states. Today to elect a senator or the president, a party needs to have at least 3% of seats, or 15 members, in the Parliament. Because of this, seven of the 17 parties are not eligible to introduce their candidates for national elections and state governorship, unless they enter an alliance with another bloc. The candidates will be benefitting also from something very Brazilian, the so called Free Time on TV. The concept is not new to Brazilian politics; but next year, there will be a rigorous set of rules governing the way candidates can use this gift from the government. For sixty days before the elections, all TV channels will be preempting morning and prime-time shows for two hours to give room to free political campaign programming. Paid political advertisements are illegal on radio and TV; and any program, film or show that even indirectly offends a contender can place the TV owner in hot water with government, the owner of the airwaves. The presidential campaign will be in a national pool of all networks and TV channels from 7 AM to 7:30 AM and from 8:30 PM to 9:00 PM,, on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays. Candidates for governor, senator and representative will have their half hour chance on the same days, at 7:30 AM and 9:00 PM. State and local deputados get one hour in the morning (7-8) and one hour at night (8:30-9:30) on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays to air their promises and ideas. The time will be allotted depending on the number of elected officials each party has. In contrast to the past election when all the wizardry of TV was used, presenting filmed political rallies, computer-generated graphics and special effects, the new law allows the candidate to film only its message in a studio, and forbids them to attack opponents. Publicity professionals are being hired to make these two daily hours a little more dynamic, but some are already predicting that these programs are going to be much more boring than last time, provoking a record number of turned off TVs. In a country without a democratic tradition and where only a fraction of NEWS from BRAZIL - NOVEMBER 1993
the population reads magazines or newspapers, TV is the only effective way for candidates to reach most of the voters. "To turn the political campaign into idle chat among intellectuals is the best way to kill it. Not even the devil is going to watch the programs," comments Jose Americo Dias, the Journalist who in 1989 coordinated exlabor leader Luis Inacio Lula da Silva's presidential campaign. Lula, the polls show, is the early favorite for the next race to Palacio da Alvorada.
ihĂŤ new House introduction of the newl Just before', electoral law, congressmen shuffled around looking for a party where they could pitch their tent. In four days, PSD grew from a minuscule six-member party to a twentymember body capable of presenting its own candidate to the presidency. Only in this case, there were thousands of dollars involved - from 30,000 to 50,000 a head - and some turncoats could lose their reputation if not their positions 4," Party M embers
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ECONOMY
Freeze! Brazilians have been living for so long with a crippling inflation that it seems sometimes life has always been like this. There is, however, a revolution brewing against a yearly 2,000 plus inflation rate. EMERSON LUIS
ed up with the high fever of an inflation that refuses to come down from its nagging 30% plus a month. Brazilians say that they are ready to take some bitter
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medicine, even if it means more sacrifice in an already battered society. And they are asking government to share with politicians the responsibility for adopting measures that can rout that ever-starving monster. A recent poll conducted by Brasmarket in 15 big Brazilian cities showed that 82.9% of the population is expecting some package to control inflation any day now. They all agree with the need for a paulada (stick blow) to inflation as suggested by Finance Minister Fernando Henrique Cardoso. Almost 38% think that the President shouldn't take all responsibility for the program and 57% believe that politicians should be consulted about the measures to be taken. And they are in a rush. More than 62% want the paulada now, while 20.6% would prefer a slower pace for any reform, and 6.7% propose that matters should be left as they are. Some people say they are ready to accept sacrifices as long as the burden is distributed evenly among all (35.6%), while others are so eager to get out of the nightmare that they don't impose any condition (24.8%). There is also a small percentage of Brazilians (6.1%) who want the richer to carry a heavier burden. Minister Cardoso, or FHC as he is referred sometimes by the Brazilian press, seems to have lost momentum after several hints that some program would be implemented soon. Right after assuming his post, in June, Cardoso stated, "What we have to do now is tidy up the house." Less than two months later he commented, "This inflation has turned into hives. It's time we stop scratching and do something." The big paulada was planned for October, then November, while Cardoso's aides confided that the blow could have to wait till the next year. If nothing has been done by now it hasn't been for lack of studies. Among the options presented to correct the distortions there were price freezing, price fixing, wage fixing, dollarization, creation of two different currencies, the end of correceio monetaria (indexing). No one however made the final cut. And there is another hurdle before any plan can come to light: Congress. Andre Lara Resende, one of the most prominent thinkers in Cardoso's team, has proposed in an academic paper the creation of a Currency Board which would be independent from Banco Central (Federal Reserve) and would issue its own currency (stock) in limited quantity. This currency, guaranteed by Brazil's foreign currency reserves, would exist along with the Cnizeiro Real, the country's money at the moment. Resende's proposal has to do with the lack of reserves, preventing the country from "dollarizing" its economy the way it happened in Argentina. NEWS from BRAZIL- NOVEMBER 1993
The Minister and his team want to cut the Sarney introduced the Plano Cruzado, creat$25 billion public deficit expected in 1994. To ing a new currency of same name; and freezing accomplish that, they are proposing some salaries, prices and exchange. The economy measures that will have a hard time with vote- heated up, inflation decreased for a fleeting hungry congressmen in Brasilia. moment; but one year later, monthly inflation Among other things they want to eliminate was 16.82%. The Plano Cruzado II finished some ministries, slash subsidies, end the gen- off any credibility Sarney still had. Inflation erosity of the federal government that builds rose to 26%. schools and roads in states and municipalities, In June 1987, the Bresser Plan - for its and create a new 35% bracket for those with creator, Finance Minister Bresser Pereira higher income. reintroduced price freezing. Inflation fell to Besides that, they want to increase taxes on 3% in the first month. By the end of 1988, it cosmetics, cigarettes and alcohol, and privatize had skyrocketed to 28%. The next package, some state-owned companies whose status are known as the Summer Plan, has the dubious now protected by the Constitution. distinction of having produced a record-setFor some states, the proposals would mean ting monthly inflation increase: 84%, in March a 70% cut in public service expenses. Facing 1990. such a dire predicament, which deputado (repPresident Collor de Mello would try two resentative) or senator would dare vote for the belt-tightening plan? When then vicepresident Itamar Franco took over the presidency on October of last year, after FernanJoining forces with FHC, pauhsta (from Sao Paulo) businessdo Collor de Mello's Men created the Citizens' Movement Against Inflation. "Inflation impeachment, monthly has become the cause of the true apartheid in which the Brazilian inflation was at 27.7%. nation lives," said Thomas Benes Felsberg, one of the movement's A dozen eggs, for exleaders. Minister Cardoso'praised the movement, saying inflation ample, cost CR$ 4.56 will only fall when society wakes up and stands up against it. The in a supermarket. One group released a document that reads like the nine capital sins of year later, the same inflation: dozen had risen 1. Inflation is embezzlement by which the resources of all are 2,421%, costing appropriated, without consent, by government so the rulers can CR$115. sPerl, aiion concentrates income, benefiting some to the During the same detriment of the great majority, and is directly responsible for the period, the minimum appalling distribution of income in the country, for high unemwage increased ployment, and for the social distortions that worry Brazil. 1,739%. Some pharma3. Inflation is the direct cause for the republic failure and ceutical products like affects the efficiency of the government's action. Eno antacid medicine 4. Inflation inhibits medium and long term financing, preventhave had an increase of ing small companies from becoming medium-sized, and medium2,730% in the same sized ones from becoming big. period. But there are 5. Inflation is responsible for the so-called Gerson law, that other sectors where predominates in the country. (Gerson, a soccer player, had a famous TV ad for a cigarette, in which he used to say, "Brazilians prices are rising at a always want to have an advantage in everything.") much faster pace than 6. Inflation creates insecurity that inhibits domestic and forthe inflation rate, ineign investment, fomenting the flight of capital. cluding school tuition, 7. Inflation erodes wages, making unaffordable insurance public services (buses, shields and retirement plans. energy, water) and 8.,Infltion,ends prices' reference system and stimulates high bank services. 7,404,10 Pne6' The fight against 9. Inflation is an assault against the dignity of each human inflation has had many being in our country, directly castigating his rights as a citizen. rounds since the begin ning of the so called Nova Republica that new programs known as Collor I and Collor II. followed more than two decades of military The first one blocked 80% of all the money in dictatorship. With a monthly inflation of circulation, by freezing the population's bank14.36% in February 1986, President Jose ing accounts; at the same time imports had the NEWS from BRAZIL - NOVEMBER 1993
door opened. Result: mass layoffs, higher interest rates, a rash of bankruptcies. Inflation which was 7.87% in May was close to 20% in January 1991. The plan Collor II was useless, lowering the monthly inflation to 7.3% ,but not for long. Despite an inflation persisting over the 30% mark, Itamar Franco's administration, having learned from so many disasters, has beer.' reluctant to use any shock measure. Recently, FHC offered guarantees that no traumatic treatment is in store: "I am going to repeat until my voice gets hoarse: there will be no shock. There will be no money confiscation." Brazilians and foreigners, however, are not very trusting of Brazil and its promises these days. On his last trip to Washington, Minister Cardoso met International Monetary Fund Director Michel Camdessus. For public consumption, the man who two years ago gave Brazil a letter of recommendation to private creditors, has been declaring that negotiations with Brazil are going great. But in a private conversation with FHC he was very candid, and asked the country to spare him any letter of good intention, since Brazil has been all talk and no action. His message: "I want to see real change. Then, we'll talk." 17
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Ruffling feathers For more than three decades, the Brazilian Academy of Letters had the image of the man who steered it with•an iron grip. Now he is dead, and the Academy is searching for an identity. ELMA LIA NASCIMENTO
"The Academy needs a change." This has been the refrain among some of the more progressive members of the mostly conservative Academia Brasileira de Letras (Brazilian Academy of Letters), the ABL, since it lost 95-year old president Austregesilo de Athayde. Thanks to hard work (he made the Academy a wealthy institution with a rich patrimony in real estate), rhetoric, and some arm-twisting. Athayde was able to preside over the ABL for the last 35 years. His death last September left the Academy a widow, but it also opened the doors for some urgently needed overhauling. A recent meeting to talk about reforms almost ended in a fist-fight. "The material accumulation period has ended. It's time now to start the cultural accumulation," says writer Ledo Ivo, one of the 40 immortals. Just one of the buildings owned by ABL in Rio is valued at $100 million. Ivo would like to see the institution involved with movies and the publication of more books. That's an idea supported also by Josue Montello, the writer from Maranha-o who would like to sec a constant program of debates and courses promoted by ABL, as well as a bigger role for Revista Bras//elm. the Academy publication. "The Academy has to be a forum for high-minded debate. It can't be put aside." As the 18
likely new president, Montello's words carry a significant weight. Some academicians, criticizing the little democratic system established by the late president, want to change the rules in a way that no one can be reelected more than once for a one year term presidency. One of the most vocal proponents of radical change is academician-jurist Evaristo de Moraes Filho. "It's inconceivable that anyone would be president for 35 years," he comments. The death of Athayde also left empty Chair Number 8 in the Academy. Big names of the Brazilian cultural world have been cited to fill the vacancy. The first to announce his interest in seating in that chair was Roberto Athayde, 43, playwright and son of Austregesilo. His letter to ABL expressing his aspiration shocked most of the immortals. "This is not a hereditary post," complained Marcos Vilaca. "I'm just fulfilling my father's wish," the younger Athayde defends himself, recalling that his father refused to wear his academy uniform so the son could have it. The dispute for the vacancy will be a clash of giants. Among the names with better chances are writer Antonio Callado, attorney and journalist Oliveiros Litrento, and Bossa Nova pope, Tom Jobim. Some say that Rio's Cardinal Eugenio Sales would be unbeatable if he decided to accept his candidacy. "That would be a great honor, but I can't go to the ABL due to the multiplicity of jobs I have," explained the Catholic authority. The Cardinal might be persuaded to enter his candidacy as long as the others would withdraw theirs. That probably will not happen. Jobim, 66, already an immortal as a musician, made his wish official during a churrascada (barbecue party) at a Rio restaurant. "The fardiio (the pompous uniform the academicians wear) is good for straightening out the Portuguese language, which has been terribly written," informed the composer who always was closer to whiskey and draft beer than to the Academy's traditional 5 o'clock tea. Everybody seems to have forgotten now that in his youth the author of Garota de Ipanetna had lambasted ABL's tea ceremony and uniform in his book Ensaio Poetic() (Poetic Essay). Among those who defend Jobim's candidacy are Jorge Amado, Marcos Vilaca, Darcy Ribeiro and ex-Brazilian president Jose Sarney. Roberto Athayde criticizes the composer's ambition, saying that Jobim doesn't have the literary stuff required from an academician. "My father," he Jobim, with heavy-weight backers argues, "was in favor of choosing luminaries from other areas, and I think this is valid, if the candidate has a minimum of literary vocation. The writer should always take precedence." Writer Antonio Callado seems to have the inside track to win this competition. "I decided to accept the kind invitation to run. I have many friends at ABL," says Callado. Nelida Pinen and Rachel de Queiroz, the only two women in the Academy, have already promised their vote to the author of °tramp and Bar Don Juan. NEWS from BRAZIL - NOVEMBER 1993
What are the main duties for the Ministry of the Amazon? I see two duties for the short term: The first is to define an integrated policy for the Amazon region and the second is to devise emergency plans for crisis situations, such as the case with the Yanomami. The policy would be a long-term program with long, medium and short term goals where all the different aspects such as environment, sustainable development, indigenous policy, education, health, A world-class diplomat applied scientific research, territorial security, drug traffic, relationships with neighboring countries, all is trying to untangle of these issues would be put together in search of the Amazon liana web. balance. You've said the Am azon should be seen through Industrial chimneys the eyes of opportunity... There is a tendency to view the Amazon from a should be an answer, problematic, conflictive, menacing perspective. That exists, it's part of life, I don't ignore it, but it is he says. something that can be found all over, not only in the Amazon. CARMEN CRUZ What are the problems that threaten the Drafted in a hurry to head a newly- Amazon's security? No. I don't see any threat. People here are the created Ministry of the Amazon, following the massacre of the Yanomami ones who tell me about this. I see opportunities. I see Indians, Rubens Ricupero hit the the Amazon as a potentiality for opportunities. How about foreign interests? ground running. Soon after, president I believe that foreign interests can be channeled Itamar Franco decided to combine the new cabinet with the one of the Envi- toward positive goals, as long as we know what we ronment, keeping Riciipero at the want, we can define a plan, and we can establish priorities and criteria. wheel. Could you talk about the projects of the Pilot The ex-ambassador of Brazil in Washington stayed in Brazil only long Program for the Tropical Forests, which will use enough to gather some ideas and put G-7 money? This program is proof that Brazil, through the together a team, before heading back to the U.S. capital with a very concrete Amazon, has the capacity to obtain resources and credits, and raise investments. We already have ten mission: loan guarantees loans approved by the World from the World Bank and Bank and the Inter-Amerithe Inter-American Decan Development Bank velopment Bank for pres(IDB). They total between ervation of the rainforest. 600 and 700 million dollars, In this interview he all for the Amazon, but not talks about his belief that everything for the environindustry in the jungle ment. The release of these could be the salvation for funds, in some cases, will the Amazon area. start in a few months. There are cases in which the Can you reconcile the projects have to be restrucpurpose of the Environtured. ment Ministry, with its You've talked before conservationist vision, about industrialization as with that of the Amazon a way to develop the AmaMinistry that has been The Mmiste r of the Amazon zon area. Do you believe created to establish a strategy of development for this con- industrialization could help with preservation? Few people know, but in New York State there is flictive area? I think this is perfectly possible, today much more forest than there was 100 years since the two ministries were com- ago. This has been accomplished through industribined because Brazil's environment alization instead of agriculture. The population recontains a large part of the Amazon planted the forests. Where there are industries there region. Though the Amazon Ministry is less pressure on the environment. Of course we deals with some non-environmental will have other problems such as pollution, but this such as regional integration, scientific is something different. Could industrialization in the Amazon inresearch, health, education, there is a clude also mineral extraction? very big area of overlapping. Not exclusively. An extractive reservation is a
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good idea, but it can only be economically viable if tied up with other activities such as agriculture, pisciculture, industry, etc. In any country, in all economies, mineral extraction is always the worst-paying activity. How would the Amazon people get involved with this industrialization process? We would have to give technical assistance to investors and small businesses. Pisciculture is an important vocation for this area. The development of research in the biodiversity area will enable us to use many of the region's plants as raw material for medicine or other products. What will be the role for the Indians, the riverbank dwellers, and other people of the forest in this program? I've already said that our priority is the local population, not only the Indians but all the residents. The strategy is very diversified because on some occasions the solution can include mineral exploration, on others the cultivation of such trees as the rubber tree or dende, and many times will deal with the rational handling of the forest. How about the demarcation of lands for the Indians? Can it be an instrument to help with preservation? The answer is yes and no. In some reservations we are experiencing a predatory extraction of wood. Everybody knows in Brazil that in some reservations, the exploitation is done with the agreement of the Indian leaders. So whether or not the demarcation will help depends on the way the communities can manage the reservations' resources. • 19
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How to get rich and never be ashamed of it In his latest book. 0 Sucesso Nit° Ocorre par Acaso. Ribeiro give some recipes for economic success.
The Pope of Wall Street He reprograms rich and famous and teaches that touching, counting, smelling dollar bills is a holy medicine. ALESSANDRA DALEVI
Lair Ribeiro. The name might not mean anything to you. However, in a Brazil crippled with mega-digit inflation, and a stagnating public, and sometimes, private sector, his name draws admiration and awe in some circles. During the last year alone, Lair Geraldo Theodoro Ribeiro kept three different books on the Brazilian best seller list, and his latest one 0 Sucesso NĂŁo Ocorre por Acaso (Success Doesn 't Happen by Chance) has passed the 150,000 mark. This in a country where selling 10,000 paperbacks is considered a big success. Ribeiro likes to compare humankind with a flea. He explains: "When we place a flea inside a bottle its first reaction is to jump out. After a number of attempts it will start jumping lower and lower. If you uncover the bottle, the flea still will not leave it because it has given up. Humankind is also conditioned to never leave the bottle." Not the ex-poor employee of Banco do Brasil, who was trained as a Doctor of Medicine at the University of Juiz de Fora, in Minas Gerais, where he was born, and specialized in Cardiology in Rio and Boston. A consummate karate expert and musicologist not known for being modest, at age 46 Ribeiro commands thousands of dollars for his speaking engagements, which at times are charged at $500 dollars per head. Ribeiro's path has been long but certain: he migrated north to the U.S. in 1976 searching for success, and it is precisely success which has taken him back south to his homeland. His annual income today is $600,000. He doesn't smoke, doesn't drink and doesn't have a steady girlfriend at the moment. After two marriages that ended in divorce, he says, "I intend to write a book proving that men's and women's brains are incompatible." NEWS from BRAZIL - NOVEMBER 1993
1. Prosperity is a birthright. 2. Don't run behind but ahead. 1 Don't listen to those who say. -Money doesn't bring happiness." 4. Those who want to win in detriment of others are causing a planetan. ecological unbalance. 5. Make money work for you and not vice-versa. 6. Handling money gives you the direct feeling of having money. 7. Count your money twice a day. If you don't have a lot, make a xerox of the bills. 8. Financial problems are not solved with money' but with imagination. 9. Forget personal beliefs about wealth and money. They can thwart you. 10. Anyone can increase by 100% his mental capacity. 11. Success brings success. love brings love. 12. If you keep doing what you've always done, you will keep getting what you've always gotten. 13. The brain is a hardware. thinking is a software. You are the one who creates the program. 14. Smile all the time. This stimulates the brains, betters self-esteem and brings love. 15. Repeat these sentences all the time: "Money grows as a tree. Money brings happiness. Money is clean. Rich people are blessed. The universe is prosperous. The human being was born to be prosperous." 16. And repeat: "I (tell your own name) deserve to be prosperous and rich."
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Lair Ribeiro has some very de- are ashamed of becoming rich," states voted and rich fans. People like Saul Ribeiro, "and although there are rich Brandalise Jr., vice-president of people who are dishonest, I can show you Perdigao group, the sixth biggest com- how to become rich and remain honest." pany in the food processing area. However, in spite of his best selling books, Brandalise asked for Ribeiro's help sold-out conferences and widely accepted after a trauma caused by the kidnap- public acclaim, Ribeiro is increasingly ping of his two small children. Con- criticized for his lack of modesty ("He vinced that the same ideas could help who does not know who Dr. Lair Ribeiro his company, the executive hired is, cannot consider himself to be a true Ribeiro to talk to his directors. Re- cardiologist."), his ostentation ("Countcently, an impasse during a meeting ing money is good!") since he routinely brought a smile to the carries thousands of dolparticipants' lips when lars on his person, taking "I consider somebody cited the every possible occasion to Master: "When a probhis logic to be look at it, count and relem seems insoluble, count it, and even smell quite that means the solution the paper. is close." Nevertheless, it is rudimentary." Kevin Judge, an exfrom the professional and ecutive from the American company academic community versed in NeuroMerck, is another Ribeiro supporter. linguistics where most criticism is being Says he, "I loved Lair's speeches so leveled against his teachings. Several much, that I'm giving lectures using experts in this field recently gave their the same material." Swiss Ciba-Geigy opinions to newspaper Folha de Selo is so impressed with his method that Paulo. According to Edson Francoso, decided to translate one of his books Professor of Linguistics at UNICAMP into English to distribute it a gift to (University of Campinas) "The teachings their executives. (of Lair Ribeiro).. .are not what has been In times of crisis, self-help and indicated as being Neurolinguistics; at motivational books such as Ribeiro's least not academic Neurolinguistics as it have a receptive market. "Brazilians is taught and practiced in Brazil and in
the U.S.' Doctor Ricardo Nitrini, from the Neurology Department at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Sao Paulo says: "I consider his logic to be quite rudimentary." He indicates that Ribeiro's latest book lacks bibliographical references or data necessary to support his thesis. Benito Damasceno, coordinator for the Department of Neurolinguistics and Neurophycho logy at UNICAMP agrees with Nitrini. "Neurolinguistics studies the relationship between the process of language and its representations in the human brain. It is an investigative science," he adds. "It has no practical application. Neurolinguistics is never used as a method of therapy and much less as some auxiliary method for commercial transactions." Finally, Dr. Francoso - who also studied at the Cognitive Science Center, Rutgers University in New York - indicates that he has never heard of the Neurolinguistic Institute in New York, nor of the Brain Technology Institute in Colorado, where Ribeiro affirms to have studied his techniques. • Publicidade
VASP, sinonimo de oportunidade Eliane de Oliveira Costa (foto) é co-piloto na VASP, a empresa que proporciona uma importante opcao de trabalho para as mulheres, mostrando que na aviacao ha lugar para os mais diversos segmentos, sem discriminacilo de sexos. E a prova ë que hoje. alem de Eliane, mais duas co-pilotos cruzam o Brasil de norte a sul, levando o nome VASP nos seus uniformes. Carioca de nascimento, corn uma filha de 11 anos de idade, que pretende ser veterinaria, Eliane de Oliveira Costa ingressou na VASP em 1991, e esta seguindo a carreira percorrendo a hierarquia normal 22
para ser comandante dentro de pouco tempo Comecon a voar em 1974, tornando-se piloto profissional em 1977, em Salvador, BA, e por seis anos voou para a Petrobras. sendo que por quatro anos e oito meses como comandante dos aviOes daquela estatal. No inicio encontrou algumas dificuldades, mais devido conjuntura do pals do que pelo fato de ser mulher, mas na VASP, como copiloto das aeronaves 737-200 é respeitada e dignamente tratada por todos os colegas c superiores. Alegre, comunicativa e profissional acima de tudo, orgulha-se de pertencer ao quadro operacional da VASP, demonstrando esse sentimento a toda hora e em qualquer lugar.
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fter a 50-year recording career, Laurindo Almeida continues as active as ever. From, vanta . pomt in California, the Brazilian legend is still a charm.
here's a hidden treasure in the hills of Sherman Oaks. It includes unique riches, such as the chair Segovia sat in to listen to new compositions, the graceful figurines that danced and played a still life opening for the FRANCINE classic film Black Orpheus, other ALEXANDER statues that honor long hours of practice and a gift that enriches anyone within earshot. That treasure is the les come to be the guardlyrical genius of Laurindo Almeida. ian of such a jewel? "My mother was a piaIn a day when most people dine on music fast-food-style, many of us nist," says Almeida, remay not be familiar with Almeida's calling the birth of his life music, a gourmet feast of beauty and in music. "She played technique. He has expressed his concert music. Of course musical gifts in many voices - clas- being Brazilian, she also sical, jazz, traditional. He has trans- played Brazilian music, lated music into many forms - al- but she was more concert bums, films, concerts, with great _ inclined. So she played a lot of Chopin, Beethoven, bands, with close friends, solo. His compositions keep company of course. I was five years with those of Segovia, a close friend old and very tender. And whose chair sits in the living room that's when I heard the facing the music speakers; and with first sounds of music. She Stravinsky, with whom he tied for a taught me music, not harGrammy award. His partners in mony or chords, but I music have included legends such could read melody. I was as George Shering, Charlie Byrd, the only kid in school who and Stan Kenton, colleagues who could read a melodic line." The music comes from have filled Almeida's career with deep friendships as well as great his mother, the instrument of choice from his father. accomplishments. Almeida's story is a musician's "My father was a guitarist dream, and his gracious manner and a man who loved his holds the beauty of a man whose family, very dedicated to rare talent has been matched by a us. But he died very life that has treated that talent in the young. I-Te died in 1931 of He way it deserves. How did Los Ange- typhoid fever.
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wouldn't have died today. I was nine. That's when I really started the guitar." The sad event sent Almeida's family from Santos to So Paulo. "It's cold and damp and rainy all the time," he muses. "I started my career in So Paulo, playing on the radio. But I had my eye on Rio. So when I was sixteen, I went to Rio and stayed there. I was very well received. I was on the best station there after two years." Playing classical guitar and jazz and popular music allowed him to bring his family to Rio. "I built a house for my Mother and all the family - we were eight. They're still there." From the very beginning, Almeida was in the company of the best. "At that station were the greatest talents in Brazilian music. Carmen Miranda. Chico Alves, Pixinguinha. I worked with Pixinguinha for eleven years at the radio station. We were like brothers. What a talent!" All the time Almeida was working at the radio station, he was studying English, preparing for another move. "My vision, my aim, was to come here," he says, "but I went to Europe first, because it was easier." Almeida played guitar at dinner time and used the rest of the trip to explore Portugal, Spain, France, Belgium, Holland, and Germany. "At every port of call it took a long time to unload the cargo. So I got to know Europe." When Almeida returned to Brazil, however, his heart was still set on going to the United States. He went back to the radio station and along with his other work, began to compose music for Carnaval. "One of my carnaval songs, Aldeia da Roupa Branca,, was a big hit in Brazil," he says. "And the American publishers pay attention to that. If there's a hit, they want to know if they can use it here. That happened to many songs from Brazil. So my song was a hit, and it came to America. It was called Johnny Peddler. Thanks to Johnny, Almeida was able to accelerate his plans. "I was working very hard, saving to come here," he says. "One day, I got a check, a royalty check. Sol looked at the check, and! thought, 'You are going to take me to America.'" He arrived in California in 1947. Today, Almeida lives in a house he designed himself to accommodate his love for cooking, for drawing, for dogs, and for swimming in warm water. He looks out over a panoramic view of the San Fernando Valley with warm memories of his life and a mixture of modesty and excitement at his fame. With a recording career of 50 years, five Grammy awards, sixteen nominations, and some 800 films on his rĂŠsumĂŠ, including The Ten Commandments and The Robe, membeiship in the Motion Picture Academy, Almeida could stop working tomorrow and still have seen more dreams come true than most musicians hope to realize in a three lifetimes, but he continues to compose and perform. He recently completed the suite, Aquarela de Los Angeles, a six-movement tribute to the Southern California city recorded by a five-guitar orchestra. "He is next planning to commemorate his native country with Aquarela do Brasil. He is also preparing to compose a second guitar concerto for guitar and chamber orchestra. "The most exciting thing for a musician is to have a new composition recorded," he says, smiling. May Almeida have many more exciting times ahead. 23
SOCCER ince Pele and Tostao in the 1970 World Cup in Mexico, the Brazilian national soccer team hasn't had a duo so accomplished and inventive. When both are in the field, Brazil's team regains that magic that made the national futebol an entertaining and esthetic experience full of surprises and goals. Romario and Bebeto, the villain and the hero, respectively, for their behavior outside the stadiums, are convincing Brazilians that the so-calledfutebol inoleque (urchin soccer) is still alive and kicking. For the last few years Bebeto has been the MVP of all soccer national teams and last year he silenced his remaining critics becoming the MVP of Spain's soccer championship, with 30 goals. Romario has been integrated into the present squad as an answer to fans who practically forced head coach Carlos Alberto Parreira to draft him. He went back to Brazil after five successful years in Holland, and after that, one month in Barcelona where he became a celebrity scoring 17 goals during that period. Together they have scored close to 50 goals in the last season, each with an average of 1.5 goals per match. Now that Brazil has guaranteed its presence in the U.S. next year for the World Cup, both seem to have been guaranteed a visa from the coach to play in the American stadiums. When Bebeto and Romario started in different soccer clubs in Rio - Flamengo and Vasco respectively - both wanted to be number one. Partly in jest, but also due to their mutual dislike, they were always exchanging little insults. "Romario is a fake," Bebeto used to say about his colleague. "Bebeto is a crying baby," Romario would reply. Today they swap mutual praise. "The shortie plays a lot," says Bebeto. "Bebeto is an ace," ripostes Romario. They couldn't be more different. Irresponsible, egotistical, abusive, explosive, arrogant, radical are some of the adjectives used to describe Top of the world Romario, even though he's also been called talented, Brazil is now number one fast, whiz, and on soccer on the FIFA/Coca- prince when playCola World Rankings. The ing. A kind of John classification takes into ac- McEnroe of soccer. count the most recent games the player has made a career insulting played by the national soccoaches and colcer teams. Brazil jumped leagues. He was only from eighth place to the top. 15 when Carioca while Germany which was (from Rio) team in first, slipped to fifth Vasco gave him a month suspension place. for insubordination. Team Points In August '85 he was 1. Brazil 59.11 cut from the junior national soccer team 2. Italy 57.02 after making ob3. Norway 56.60 scene gestures to two 4. Denmark 56.47 girls in Copacabana. 5. Germany 55.86 But he has also England 55.86 his soft side and has 7. France been altruistic, buy55.61 ing a home for his 8. Russia 55.42 family as soon as he 9. Ireland 55.38 started making good 10. Switzerland 55.28 • money and sticking
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The diabolic duo, as some newspapers in Brazil call them, is bringing back to the soccer fields what some people thought Brazilians had lost forever, their soccer-dance-and-magic. LAUREL DARNEL his neck out for friends. He doesn't offer any apology for his colorful behavior, but has a semblance of an explanation: "I'm the only one who knows how hard it was to get to where I got, in soccer. And I'm the only one who knows how hard it is to stay in the limelight. There's more war than peace around a ball. Whoever doesn't fight has no say. I know my rights and I have, character to defend them. Sometimes I exaggerate, but let bygones be bygones." At home or in the streets, Bebeto has nothing of the fiery determination he shows in the field. Introspective and timid, he is quick to blush when somebody praises his work. He doesn't take fatherhood and husbandhood lightly and he doesn't leave home by himself unless he has a professional commitment outside. Even though his favorite actors are muscle-packed Arnold Schwarzenneger and Sylvester Stallone, in music he prefers the more intimist sounds of a Caetano Velloso or Gilberto Gil. both Baionos like himself. What would he do if he weren't a soccer player? He doesn't know. "I was born to play soccer,- he says. Coyly he confeSses, "I love to be famous.' • NEWS from BRAZIL- NOVEMBER 1993
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The right chemistry Now you may find out why Paulo Coelho has been a bestseller in Brazil for years. The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho, trans. Alan R. Clarke (S16, Harper San Francisco, 177 pages) BONDO WYSZPOLSKI As the title suggests, The Alchemist bubbles over with formulas. First, there's the author's own winning combination, the one that turned lead type into gold bullion, and second, there's the handful of formulas that may yield similar treasures for the astute reader who puts them to good use. One doesn't have to look far to discover what these formulas are. As Paulo Coelho's enigmatic King of Salem tells the young shepherd, Santiago, "To realize one's destiny is a person's only real obligation... And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it." Easily said, but as Santiago finds, not so easily done. Afteryears of attending a seminary, he yearns to see the world. His father tells film that only rich people and shepherds can afford to travel, so Santiago becomes a shepherd. He herds his sheep across Andalusia, becomes infatuated with a merchant's daughter, has a recurring dream about the Egyptian pyramids, and encounters the above-mentioned King of Salem. The latter loses Little time in passing along what he considers the world's greatest lie, which is, "that at a certain point in our lives we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate." In other words, we find a comfortable niche, we climb into it, and we don't come out. Why? Because, as a camel driver will later tell Santiago, "We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it's our life or our possessions and property. But this fear evaporates when we understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand." Even the Alchemist whom Santiago NEWS from BRAZIL - NOVEMBER 1993
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meets towards the end of the book treats fear and uncerThe Alchemist, tainty as disposable products: "Tell your heart that " The closer he got to the realization ofhis the fear of suffering is worse dream, the more difficult things became. It than the suffering itself. And seemed as if what the old king had called that no heart has ever suf`beginner's luck' were no longer functioning. fered when it goes off in In his pursuit of the dream he was being‘, search of its dream." constantly subjected to tests of his persi" Fortunately, for the sake tence and courage. So he could not be hasty,,,, of credibility, there are setnor impatient. If he pushed forward impul- backs for Santiago - and he sively, he would fail to see the signs and does suffer. He journeys from omens left by God along his path. . Spain to Tangier, where he's God places them along my path.' Heida promptly relieved of his life surprised himself with the thought. Until then, savings. You learn through he had considered the omens to be things of your mistakes, Coelho seems this world. Like eating or sleeping, or like to be saying, and in the long seeking love or finding a job. He had never run a setback or two will thought of them in terms of a language used by only weed out the unbelievGod to indicate what he should do." ers. "That night, the boy slept deeply, and, 'Santiago doggedly purwhen he awoke, his heart began to tell him sues his dream and his vithings that came from the Soul of the World. sion, and The Alchemist is It said that all people who are happy have God finally about the need for within them. And that happiness could be each one of us to take confound in a grain of sand from the desert, as the trol of his or her life. If our alchemist had said. Because a grain of sand is desires are to be realized, we a moment of creation, and the universe has ourselves have to make them taken millions of years to create it. "Everyone happen. We improve the fuon earth has a treasure that awaits him," his ture by improving the heart said. "We, people's hearts, seldom say present. And so on. much about those treasures, because people Santiago has to work no longer want to go in search of them. We hard to replace the money speak of them only to children. Later, we he's lost, and although he's simply let life proceed, in its own direction, toward its own fate. But, unfortunately, very been delayed, he hasn't been few follow the path laid out for them - the path sidetracked. He joins a carato their destinies, and to happiness. Most van, crosses a desert in the people see the world as a threatening place, company of an Englishman and, because they do, the world turns out, who's also in search of his destiny, and while biding indeed, to be a threatening place." time in an oasis Santiago 27
meets both the Alchemist who will urge him onto his final goal, and a woman named Fatima who may turn out to be, who can tell? a big part of that final goal itself. If Coelho had not deliberately cast his story in the form of a fable, one might be tempted to raise an eyebrow or two. Fatima of the oasis, for example, seems wise beyond her years; and when Santiago and the Alchemist cross the desert by camel they tread dangerously close to becoming simple mouthpieces for the author. But The Akhemist finally veers away from Hallmark Card City, and it likewise eludes the preachy and the sentimental. What it is, is emphatic. Emphatic in underlining that one must believe in oneself and not give way to setbacks and despair. Now, what kind of audience is this book reaching for? I would say it slides into a category that embraces the young adult, self-help/pop psychology, and new age markets. That may sound worse than it's intended to, because The Alchemistdoes deliver the goods: It's straightforward and simple, it's upbeat and encouraging, and it packs a readable story. Each of us, we learn, is a potential alchemist, able to control our destiny. The older reader may take Coelho's book with a grain of salt. It's true, we need a clear picture of what's possible, but realizing one's dreams takes persistence and courage - especially if one is not as young as Santiago and has other mouths to feed. While Santiago seems to be resilient and resourceful, fortitude and determination must be nourished, over and over. Coelho implies that we are ultimately responsible for everything that happens to us. In general, I applaud his message, and I'll concede that it's nobler to blame ourselves than to blame others, but it seems unfair to downplay the odds that invariably hinder our efforts, Courage and faith may better our chances; they don't, however, promise a reward for our endeavors. In the long run, the true gauge of our success may have more to do with how we bear up under our responsibilities than with any visible display of wealth and riches. 28
How marketing turn porn actress and Playbo into a model for childre cultural icon for milli Xuxa (The Mega-Marketing of Gender, Race and Modernity) by Amelia Simpson (Tempi University Press, 237 pages) HARRIET ROBBINS Xuxamania has spread throughout Bra other Latin American countries, and now is movin the northern hemisphere where Xuxa, Brazil's dynamic TV personality has just made he debut in an English language children's program on American TV. Author Amelia Simpson who teaches in the Department of Romance Languages and Liter es at the University 01 Florida, has taken on the task of exploring Xuxa's rise to fame. From her humble beginnings the singer-presenter rose to stardOini. Inks to a strong work ethic, the discipline instilled by her military father and complete d tcation to whatever project she is involved in. Xuxa says she is a good model for children because she was Oencedora (winner). This view of a strong, determined personality was balanced by her blotie blue eyed femininity which was not threatening to traditional views of gender. Xit tapproaches the border She portrayed a between sex symbol and sex worker, but without crossing it. prostitute in the 1982 movie Amor Estranho Amor (Love Strange' : edia' Xuxa's image reflects the well-to-do who can afford leisure l ton than Pkiptp„the lives of Brazilians is monumental. Brazilians witch', 'hiid world people. From recent statisti s 90% watch teleiLsiOfl regularly luring the any o n. weekei nd 26 % are heavy viewers. ly The ildlike quality that Xuxa displays is an important part ofh#`,ap Iatiqnal sex her worlPwith children. This dual image of erotic appeal and innuebnce TV producers. and a caretaker of children - has been carefully program Øle q sexual provocateur on the children's program was suentSsiOillSt marketed from ughout her career in children's television Xuxa has triedf•WaSsociate7,,herself . ove her es‘s-1 ons, f rebellion and liberation through a kind,4%-a
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stent With, e genrl pattern ton' of the white ideal on Xuxa's program is littijelevision, which the soap operas exemplif*--Viiiit-Weirracist casting policies reibtedf ifii'4% Simpson states. Race operates as a hieratøh,y Within the Ied to women.. Film maker Arnaldo laaelai':•pointed out that television a old picture: "Television imprints the concept immortalized by the PortngiteSizt ite women are for marrying, mulatas are for bed and blacks are only,466d-fok irk. Blondes (as distinguished from dark-haiifetVikliites) are untonthablOinc
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crisis in the real Brazil which cannotheoverlooked.-Xuxa's image is changing ecent cartoon in a Brazilian newspaper;',$nxa is portrayed neither as a saint is 1 In just as another target of the nation'i; stration. Brazil in the nineties ts,at 'ad. There is a loss of faith in the ability ofth entintirtndeliVer'on the promise pf'8:' iierXuxa's show reflects this mood. un son has brought the facts andpersona lQf Xuxa together in, this 'welt' l-written analysis of the Brazill'flh. superStar. She touches the bases on men tr,:tade and changing patterns in Brazil. Xuxa is rich 'cVitblnformation, laced with insig t the methods, practices and abuses that abound with'iliettiiirketing of a personalitY:', rodnt and the effect of TV on all who watch it, especially the children. NEWS from BRAZIL - NOVEMBER 1993
Hour of the wolf After more than a decade inside his lair, singer-composer Edu Lobo (Wolf) is out in the streets with a new album and on the stages in a national tour in Brazil. He hasn't lost his touch. Au contraire. PAULO PESTANA
Edu Lobo. then and now.
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du Lobo, the same musician who became famous during the Music Festivals of the Sixties (he was the one who composedPonteio -"Quem me dera agora eu tivesse a viola pra cantar, ponteion waited till he was 50 to break a silence that has lasted 12 years. He has just released a new record. It's not a celebration of a career as some other 50-yearolds of MPB, such as Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil have done recently, but rather a return. With his black shiny hair still untouched by tones of gray, the singer-composer wants to dispel the notion that he has been away from music. "People have the habit of thinking that some musical projects are not part of your work. I haven't missed recording a solo album." He admits his singing career took a back seat during this time, when his emphasis was on composing and producing. "It wasn't really a 12-year silence," says he. That's because he doesn't like very much his own voice. Edu explains, "A song like Beatriz sounds much better when sung by Milton Nascimento." There is another factor there. Edu Lobo is extremely exacting when he enters a recording studio. Besides, he explains, "There hasn't been any interesting proposal from the recording companies." Financially, things have been running smoothly. Royalty income for his overseas releases keeps pouring in. Emotionally, life has been a little harder, but he is not complaining. Edu is keeping himself busy and single since his separation from music Professor Wanda de SA, his first wife and mother of their three grown children. His romance with singer-actress Liza Minelli lasted only a few months. When in her company he spent some time as a guest in Frank Sinatra's house, he didn't resist the temptation of pilfering a roll of toilet paper as a souvenir. It seems that recession changed a little the habits of this recluse wolf. In order to bolster his budget, Edu made a few sporadic appearances on the stage in the last three years. The warm reception he had apparently warmed him up to the idea of recording again and made him forget the disputes he had with the big recording labels. At the end he joined Velas, a fledgling recording company owned by his fellow musicians Vitor Martins and Ivan Lins. "Edu's music, like mine, is not marked by parades and fanfare," says friend Torn Jobim. "He is studious, knows classical music, writes for orchestra, and composes beautiful pieces. It 's just for this reason that all our records, in total, don't amount to the sales achieved by Xuxa." Edu grew up with music. His father is the journalist, poet, and composer, Fernando Lobo. From age six to 13 he took up the accordion. He would trade it for the guitar that he learned by ear. After the agitation of the festivals, the composer decided to live for some time (from 1969 to 1971) in Los Angeles. He used his stay to study orchestration and also to "escape singer's life", that is, frequent trips. "If I'm doing many shows and traveling a lot. I can't get the quiet I need to compose," he Says. 29
Edu didn't want to go back to Brazil, but problems with the INS forced him to. Now he thinks it was a providential return: "As hard as it is, it is very important that the musician has contact with his country and with the music that is made in Brazil, by a highly professional group." Corrupicio (Onole), which is the title of the new record, as To assure the musical quality he requires, the composer gathered an A team nothing remiss about it, but for Edu Lobo it is rather a sequence of for his latest recording effort. He also work that began in 1962 when he formed a partnership with Dori went back to Los Angeles where he got Caymmi and Marcos Valle and released his first album. No one some help from friends Toots Thielemans should expect from Edu Lobo anything less than coherence of a and Ed Daniels during the mixing pro- work developed according to Brazilian roots: "The fifty years will be duly celebrated, but the record has cess. Gilson Perenzetta (keyboard and ar- nothing to do with that," he says. According to the composer, this rangement), Paulo Bellinati (guitar), , recording is a product of what he has been doing the past twelve Jurim Moreira (percussion), and Nico 1'years, a period in which he did not record, but composed for the Assumpcdo (bass) are present in all the ,, theater, ballet, and other projects. "I had 30 compositions ready, cuts, but there are also some special and from those I selected six that were recorded immediately, guests such as Mauro Senise (sax and After. I did four more especially for the album, that was to flee the flute) and Marcio Montarroyos (trum- character of an anthology," he says. The first cut on the album. Corrupitio, already shows what Edu pet). His American schooling didn't turn Lobo wanted to accomplish with his return. It's a collection of rhythms, rich music, greater him into a classical composer. "I was in value for being an instruand continue to be a popular musician," mental theme, the only one he states. "All I wanted with these studon the album. The guitarist ies was to learn the grammar of music to practices harmonies over be able to talk using the exact terms with rhythms that are quintesother musicians, without appealing to sentially Brazilian, but does abstractions. That's it." not seek to make a surprise In the eighties, Edu Lobo worked in ?, of this, so naturally does a series of sound tracks for works in the music flow. On the rest theater, dance and television like Jogo, of the album, Edu Lobo de Danca (81), 0 Grande CircoMistica, sings. "I confess that I like (83), 0 Corsario do Rei (85), Danca da to sing, even though I only Meia Lua (88), and Rรก Tim Bum (90). started singing to be able to Too bad the national cinema seems to bef, make money. But I'm a in a one hundred year slumber. Lobo composer and I want to alwould have helped it a lot. To work nowadays Edu hides in his somber stuways have the right to go dio in Sao Conrado, a neighborhood in through periods of time when I'm only composing." Rio. Son of Fernando Lobo, on of the most prominent lyricists of The composer has a classical ear. He Brazilian music, Edu prefers to use someone else's words in his listens frequently to Debussy, Ravel, Bela songs and the partners are Chico Buarque, Paulo Cesar Pinheiro, Bartok, Stravinsky and Brazilian Villa- and Aldir Blanc. On the album, he does a revisit to Tom Jobim's Lobos. "I listen to a lot of Villa-Lobos. Falando de Amor. And for those who desire more heresy, he If you ask me if I have a vademecum permitted the percussionist, Marcos Suzano, to include a cuica in composer, I would say that he is Villa- the middle of PreIndio. "People have the habit of thinking that some albums are not Lobos. The emotion I feel with him I don't feel with any other composer. It part of the body of work. Corrupicio is a tradition1 woik.has waltz Va sa Bran etra), always surprises me what he is capable of doing with supposedly folkloric frevo (Frevo Diabo), samba (Nego Alaluco), and choro (Choro themes. Unfortunately, he is still little Bandido). It is a work to be savored at a leisurely pace. The most known in Brazil. All the partituras I have appealing song in the record is Nego Maluco written with Chico from him, they were obtained outside Buarque, which works as a parody of Nega Maluca, one of the Brazil." biggest hits of his father Fernando Lobo. Edu made the song before Edu now is preparing to release his she knew the intention of Chico with the lyrics, so the reference is songbook with his partituras written in basically verbal: "I was playing 21/A crazy black man showed up/ his own handwriting, a work that has He was carrying a huge radio on his lap/ Playing a samba at top consumed about one and a half years. Winne/ And tellling people the samba was mine. 30
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A gift you can't refuse MANFREDO FEST - OFERENDA Jazz meets samba, meets salsa, meets bossa nova, meets funk-rock, all rolled up into one... Sounds confusing? Well, not if you are able to catch the grooves of Manfred° Fest's 1993 debut album Oferenda on the Concord Picante label. From the opening lines of the album's very first cut Frajola (Hip Dude), to the Nordestino rhythms of Guarapes, Fest's sheer command of the keyboards is enthralling. Even such well-known standards as Smoke Gets in Your Eyes and Antonio Carlos Jobim's Desafinado, Passariin and Agua de Beber get a new lease on life under his keyboarding virtuosity. The whole album is a full-throttle, nonstop musical high. Fest, a Gaucho (from Rio Grande do Sul), carries a polished style without any loss of improvisation in the process; melody and percussion blend perfectly, and his playing techniques are highlighted by the overpowering use of a striking chord style. A further dimension is added to the album by the accompaniment of his son Phil, an accomplished jazz-rock guitar player himself. Styled a la Wes Montgomery, he also adds a teasing twist of rock to his distinct playing style. Phil definitely carries his own weight in this album. Featured also are two other excellent Brazilian musicians, Cyro Baptista and Portinho on drums and percussion, respectively. Fest also brings in soprano sax player Scott Hamilton as his featured guest in his debut album. Most surprising, however, is the outstanding bass-guitar work executed by a non-Brazilian musician named Paul Socolow, whose bass-playing ability in Latin -jazz styles is impressive and at times outright mind-expanding. The general flavor of this album is heavily Afro-Cuban-samba-jazz, but it's definitely it's 100% Brazilian. Oferenda is certainly an offer you can't refuse. C.R. NEWS from BRAZIL-NOVEMBER 1993
From the first chords of Tudo é Festa, to the captivating chorus of Morena Partiu, you immediately sense that band Fundo de Quintal is not just another run-of-the-mill samba groups. Performing neat vocals and some excellent guitar work by Cleber Augusto and Mario Sergio on thecavaquinho (a ukelele-type instrument), the band pumps out samba and pagode rhythms of the highest caliber. Originally formed in 1978, the band has been performing continuously for almost 15 years. They have traveled extensively in Europe, Africa, the U.S. and Japan. In Brazil, Fundo de Quintal is almost an institution, and they have won the coveted "Sharp Music Award" 5 years in a row (1988-92), as the best samba and pagode musical group in Brazil. Although they have released more than 13 albums already, One Globe Music and WEA have released a compilation of some of their best songs ever. The album reflects their music and polished vocal harmonies, so lacking in many other better known Brazilian samba bands. Cacique e Mangueira, Canto Major, Divina Luz and Cantei pra Distrair are definitely catchy tunes that will have you moving your feet right away; nevertheless, the other songs in the album also convey an urge for acaipirinha (margarita with lime and sugar cane rum) and a stroll at Copacabana. Já! C.R.
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You won't forget its sting In Tupi language, this State name means stinger crab. Small and without resources to publicize its riches, Sergipe has been out of the traditional tour circuit of Brazil. Good for you! AR IANE DALLA DEA
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found at Atalaia beach, in downtown, where you carp sample the deliciousguaiamum (cooked marsh crab) and enjoy the amazing batidas(cocktails) prepared with cachaca (sugar cane rum) and local exotic fruit, ginger, and herbs; a true delicacy. Parque dos Cajueiros with its 72,000m2 offers an area of ecological preservation and leisure, and it is completely integrated with the urban environment. Visit the Museum of the Military Police, where objects of the cangavo time (a South American version of the Wild West) are in display. The local arts and crafts are a must see, and they can be found at the Centro de Turismo. The Catedral Metropolitana and its 19th century architecture is another attraction you shouldn't miss. Also take a fifteenminute boat trip and visit the charming Santa Luzia island, with its astounding beaches of Atalaia Nova and Barra dos Coqueiros. Your next stop is Laranjeiras, a Brazilian colonial gem, just 20 km from Aracaju. Besides the ruins of old sugar mills and colonial facades, the city's big attraction is the almost completely unexplored Pedra Furada cave, famous for sheltering the Jesuits during the war. Laranjeiras was the center of the sugar commerce in early 17th Century and today it is an open air museum. Then take off to Itabaiana and enjoy its waterfalls and mountains. The colorful folklore of Sergipe is made of traditional and regional songs and dances like the Ouilombo, Reizado, Bacamarteiros, Taieira, Vaquejacla,
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Ajuda-me a Lembrar - Author: Jean Claude Carriere, director: Gilberto Gawronski, with Lucelia Santos and Rogerio Fabiano Alem da Vida - Author: Xico Xavier and Divaldo Franco (psychographed text), director: Augusto Cesar Vannucci. with Felipe Carone, Lea Buick), and others. Candid°, ou o Otimismo - Voltaire's story was adapted and directed by Luiz Arthur Nunes. With Shimon Nahmias and Nara Keiserman. Como Encher urn Biquini Selvagem The premiere was on 62 but this play written and directed by Miguel Falabella in its last revival continues to pack houses in Rio. Claudia Jimenez plays several characters adopting different accents in this monologue about life and psychoterapy. Dois Perdidos Numa Noire Suja Author: Plinio Marcos, director: Emilio di Biasi, with Marco Ricca and Petronio Gontijo Entre Amigas - Author: Maria Duda, director: Cecil Third. with Regina Restelli and Nani Venancio A HistOria e uma Historia (e o Homem o enico Animal que Ri) - Author: Mill& Fernandes, director: Gracindo Jr., with Paulo Gracindo, Francoise Forton, and Paoletti 0 Tiro que Mudou a Histaria - Written by Aderbal Freire-Filho and Carlos Eduardo Novaes. Freire Filho also directs and stars. 0 Ultimo Mambo - Written by Joao Bethencourt, directed by Claudio Torres Gonzaga. 34
American films just released: The Fugitive (0 Fugitivo), Jersey Girls alma Garota em Nova York), Sleepless in Seattle (Sintonia de Amor), Hot Shots II (Top 'Gang II! A Misseio), Street Knight (Justiceiro da Nolte), The Firm (A Firma), Best of the Best II (Operacilo Kickbox 2 - Fencer ou Veneer), Poison Ivy (Relaceio Indecente) The Vanishing (0 Sile.ncio do Lago) Whore (A Prostituta) Marcados pelo Sangue (Blood In Blood Out) The Playboys (Romance Proibido). II Grande Cocomero (A Grande Melancia) - Italy - By Francesca Archibugi. The story of a friendship between a doctor and his teenager patient, a girl who suffers an epileptic seizure. La Carne (A Came) - Italy - Directed by Marco Ferreri. A couple with nothing in common but their sex drive. Le Château de Ma Mere (0 Castel() de Alinha Mae) - France - Inspired on Marcel Pagnol's work. Happiness is a childhood's castle. Les Aimants de Pont Neuf (Os Amantes de Pont NeuJ) - France- Directed by Leos Carax. A fire eater and a rich girl live an extraordinary romance at the oldest bridge in Paris. Much Ado About Nothing (Muito Baru/ho por Nada) - England - By Kenneth Branagah. Adaptation from Shakespeare's play. Madadayo (Aladadayo) - Japan - By Akira Kurosawa. Inspired by legendary Japanese professor Hyakken Uchida (1889- 1971), it tells his life after he goes into retirement.
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Fiction 1. Agosto Rubem Fonseca 2. Parque dos Dinossauros Michael Crichton 3. Dossie Pelicano John Grisham 4. Escrito nas Estrelas Sidney Sheldon 5. Doze Cantos Peregrinos Gabriel Garcia Marquez 6. 0 Cavaleiro Inexistente Italo Calvino 7. Sem Pecado Ana Miranda 8. Recomecos Danielle Steel 9. Xamd Noah Gordon 10. A Firma John Grisham NEWS from BRAZIL NOVEMBER 1993
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BTV - BRAZIL TV Over the years, many have tried without success to bring Brazilian programming to the TV and cable waves of California. There was even an ambitious Portuguese channel that signed up people for a, channel that never took off. Now, Metropolis Entertainment is giving the idea another chance, with their Views of Brazil. They start with the advantage that the weekly program comes practically ready from Brazil and has shown promise on the East Coast, since its debut in New Work last April. Views, according to its promoters, is being also shown now in New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Florida. The new program is being made in association with TV Record, a Brazilian TV network headquartered in Sao Paulo, and is divided in three segments: news; culture and sports. Initially, the California edition of Views of Brazil will be presented on cable access channels, but the idea is to have it on commercial TV very soon. For more informations, call (310) 559-5382.
TASTE OF BRAZIL A native of Sao Paulo has opened a shop in Southern California to sell Brazilian clothing, folk art, jewelry, musical instruments, CD's and books. Setsuko "Rosa" Otsubo's Folk Creations should serve the needs of those on the West Coast interested in Brazilian art, music and literature. Until now, they had to patronize out-ofstate stores, mainly in New York, Florida and Massachusetts. Among the items on sale are Caruaru ceramic figurines and woodwork from Minas Gerais. Folk Creition, despite its Brazilian emphasis, has folk art from all over the world, including Mexico, Guatemala, Thailand, Kenya, India _ and Nepal. Their one number: (310) 693-2844. NEWS from BRAZIL NOVEMBER 1993
"There is no doubt that acoustic music is coming back into the limelight. These days, I've been lucky to be able to work with real strings and wind instruments on my movie projects, as opposed to synthesizers, and that's led to the fresh acoustic sound on Tropical Heart." This is Carioca Oscar Castro-Neves talking about his latest incursion into CDland; where he has come from with his latest release: Tropical Heart. The work contains a baker's dozen of originals created and interpreted by CastroNeves. The CD opens with Holding With an Open Hand, a chorinho-like song, which is a study of the Brazilian soul. Says the composer, "I wanted Tropi-1 , cal Heart to be a glimpse into my own heart, what I'd like to give back for all that I've gotten from life, The music is just bits and pieces of what I am." The CD is being released by JVC.
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Something Weird Video presents by special arrangement with JOSE MOJICA MARINS...
Strange isn't the word...When we say there is no way to describe the films of Brazil's first and foremost horror director, Jose' Mojica Marins, it isn't clever hype designed to get you to buy the movies! It's a fact! They simply defy description! Themes of violent psycho-sexual horror are played out so excessively, and in such a weird atmosphere, that your favorite European horror directors will seem almost mainstream in comparison! And now, S.WV. is proud to present—by arrangement with Coffin Joe himself-4 of the mad genius' best films translated into English for the first time with highest quality, easy-read SUBTITLES! Once you've taken the trip into THE STRANGE WORLD OF COFFIN JOE, you'll never be the same again!
AT MIDNIGPT I'LL TAKE YOUR SOUL
First Time On Video! SUBTITLED IN ENGLISH!
STRANGE WORLD OF COFFTIV JOE
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The first appearance of Coffin Joe (Jose' Mojica Marins). The evil hero is a gravedigger who haunts a small town in search of the woman Nwho will give him the perfect
3 episodes of blood, horror arid despair. The first story shows a bizarre dollmaker whose creations look almost human. Almost? In the second story, Mojica shows us the pleasures and dangers of necrophilia. Then, in the third episode—in order to prove his theory that love is dead—Coffin Joe (Mojica)
son to continue his legacy of horror. A classic of South American Horror, this is a gruesome piece of art and a masterpiece of gore and blood. Makes Night of the Living Dead look like Driving Miss Daisy! A movie that hasn't lost its power after 30 years and a must-see for all of Mojica's fans!
appears disguised as a doctor. He captures and tortures a couple of non-believers in the most bizarre, cruel and nail-biting moments ever put on celluloid.
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Mojica put together all the scenes that were censored by the military dictatorship in Brazil in one movie! Hallucinations of a Deranged Mind shows the curse of a young
title is LSD. Mojica shows the suffering of a drug user who is tormented by visions of terror and pain.
man haunted in his dreams by Coffin Joe. For the first time, Mojica's fans can see tbe
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banned scenes from over ten of his movies! which prove the genius of this director an actor.
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Subtitled editions of At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul Strange World of Coffin Joe. Awakenings of the heat, Jiallucinations of a Deranged Mind © 1993 S.WV. Inc. & Jose 'Mojica Marins. All rights reserved. NEWS from BRAZIL - NOVEMBER 1993
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calendar - november 93 - los angeles MONDAY 1 8:00 pm - Brazilian Music at Baked Potato
WEDNESDAY 3 8:00 pm - Classical guitarist Carlos Barbosa-Lima with Patricia Griggs at the Ambassador. Call (800) CONCERT
FRIDAY 5 5:30 pm - 9:30 pm - Brazilian Jazz at Grand Avenue Bar 8:00 pm - 11:00 pm - Axe, the Brazilian Jazz Ensemble at Zabumba 9:00 pm - Pagode with Banda Constelagao& MILA (Mocidade Independente de L.A.) at Cafe Danssa
SATURDAY 6 11:00 am -4:00 pm - Capoeira Conferencesponsored by Brasil Brasil Cultural Center with workshops and guest speakers. 3021 Airport Ave., #104-B. Call (310) 840-2794 8:00 pm - Banda Constelacao at Zabumba 9:00 pm - Eliana Estevao at La VC Lee 9:30 - 1:30 am -Banda Constelagao at Zabumba
Baked Potato
RADIO & TV Sounds of Brazil - Every Thursday, 9:30 am - 11 am, KPFK, 90.7 FM with Sergio Mielniczenko Brazilian Hour -Every Saturday and Sunday, 9 00 am - 10 am, KXLU, 88.9 FM with Sergio Mielniczenko Brazilian Scenes -Every Wednesday, 7:30 pm - Channels 3, 37, 52, 61 - Public Access Views of Brazil - Fridays 12 Noon - Century Cable Ch 3 Sundays 1 PM - Continental Cable Ch. 37 / Mondays 9 PM Continental Cable Ch 37 / Thursdays 6 PM - United Artists Cable Ch 25 / Sundays 10 PM - CVI Cable Ch 27
FRIDAY 19 5:30 pm - 9:30 pm - Brazilian Jazz at Grand Avenue Bar 8:00 pm - 11:00 pm - Axe, the Brazilian Jazz Ensemble at Zabumba 9:00 -Pagode with Banda Constelagao & MILA at Cafe Danssa
SATURDAY 20 9:30 - 1:30 am - Banda ConsteIna° at Zabumba
FRIDAY 12
SATURDAY 13
5:30 pm - 9:30 pm - Brazilian Jazz at Grand Avenue Bar 8:00 pm - 11:00 pm - Axe, the Brazilian Jazz Ensemble at Zabumba 9:00 -Pagode with Banda Constelagao & Mila at Café Danssa 8:00 - Freddie Ravel at La Ve Lee
8:00 pm - 11:00 pm - Axe, the Brazilian Jazz Ensemble at Zabumba 8:00 pm - Georgia Martello at Vine Street 9:00 pm - Eliana Estevao at La Ve Lee 9:30 - 1:30 am -Banda Constelagaoat Zabumba
SATURDAY 13
SUNDAY 14
8:00 pm - Toots Thielemans presents Oscar Castro-Neves, Dori Caymmi, Eliane Elias and Ivan Lins at the Wadsworth Theater. Charge by phone (310) 8252101
11:30 a.m - Octavio Baily at Windows. Call (213)462-7121.
MONDAY 15 8:00 pm - Brazilian Music at
Ve Lee 9:30 - 1:30 am - Banda Constelac5oat Zabumba
SUNDAY 28 11:30 a.m - Octavio Baily at Windows. Call (213) 462-7121.
MONDAY 8
MONDAY 29
8:00 pm - Brazilian Music at Baked Potato
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FRIDAY 26 5:30 pm - 9:30 pm - Brazilian Jazz at Grand Avenue Bar 8:00 pm - 11:00 pm - Axe, the Brazilian Jazz Ensemble at Zabumba 9:00 -Pagode with Banda Constelagao & MIL A at Café Danssa
SATURDAY 27
SUNDAY 7
Redondo B.- (310) 371-2915 Atlas - 3760 Wilshire Blvd.- Los Angeles - (213) 380-8400 Baked Potato - 3787 Calmenga N. Hollywood - (818) 980-1615 Brazilian Music Center - 6226 Sta Monica BI. (213) 467-5715 Cafe Danssa -11533W. Pico BI. West L.A.- (310) 305-8387
MONDAY 22 8:00 pm - Brazilian Music at Baked Potato
9:00 pm - Eliana Estevao at La
11 am - 1:00 pm - Ca poeira Conference -See Saturday 11:30 am -Octavio Ba ilyat Windows. Call (213) 462-7121 3:30 pm - 6:00 pm - Capoeira Baptism at 4310 Degnan - Call (213) 295-9685
Alice's - 1043 Westwood Blvd. Westwood - (310) 208-3171 Amazon Café -2301 Artesia BI.-
SUNDAY 21 11:30 a.m - Octavio Baily at Windows. Call (213)462-7121.
8:00 pm - Brazilian Music at Baked Potato
Catalina Bar & Grill - 1640 N. Cahuenga Bl. (213) 466-2210 Coffee Emporium - 4325 Glencon - Marina-(310) 823-4446 Fais-Do-Do - 5257 W. Adams L.A. - (213) 932-9034 Grand Ave. Bar -Biltmore -506 S. Grand Av(213) 612-1595 Kafe Kafka -6069 W. Sunset B1 -Hollywood - (213) 464-3938 La Ve Lee- 12514 Ventura BI. Studio City - (818) 980-8158
Le Cafe - 14633 Ventura BI. Sh. Oaks - (818) 986-2662 Lunaria - 10351 Santa Monica BI.. -W. L.A.- : (213)282-8870 Moonlight Tango - 13730 Ventura - S.0.-(818) 788-2000 Nucleus Nuance -7267 Melrose Ave. - (213) 939-8666 Pedro's Grill -1739N. Vermont, L.A. -(213) 660-9472 Stein on Vine - 848 N. Vine St. Hollywood - (213) 465-4762
Tilly's- Wilshire at 11th St. Santa Monica - (310) 451-1769 Truly Yours -18588 Ventura BI - Tarzana - (818) 996-3131 Venice Bistro - 323 Ocean Ft Walk, Venice, (213) 392-3997 Vine Street - 1610 Vine St. Hollywood - (213) 463-4375 Waterfront Café -205 Ocean F. Walk,Venice-(310) 392-0322 Zabumba -10717 Venice Blvd Culver City - (310) 841-6525
NEWS from BRAZIL - NOVEMBER 1993
MONDAY 1
pm - r0 • sion and Dance at Alberto's 6:30 pm -Viva Brasil in Samba Dance Class at Yoshi's, followed by dancing at 830 pm 8:00 pm - Brazilian Music at Bahia Tro ical
RADIO
8:00 pm - Brazilian Music Bahia Tro ical
Canta, Brasil -Every Sunday, 600 pm - 800 pm - KKUP, 91.5 FM, with Xuxu, Maria Jose and David Heyman A Flora Brasileira - Every Saturday, 3:00 pm, KPFA, 94.0 FM with Elvira Cola and Eric Taller Tropicana Brasiliana - Every Friday, 7:00 pm, KUSF, 90 3 with Raimundo Franco Brasileirinho - Every Wednesday, 9:30 pm, KZSC, 88 1 FM with Renato Frota
:11 pm - boug ittins wit Bossa Nova at Bahia 8:00 pm - Brazilian Music at Bahia Tropical 8:00 pm - Carlos Henrique, Viola° & Ami • os at Nino's
6:00 pm -Jack Gateswith Bossa Nova at Chambord 8:00 pm - Brazilian Music at Bahia Tro ical
8:00 pm - Brazilian Music at Bahia Tro • ical
THURSDAY 4
5:00 pm - Doug Gittins with Bossa Nova at Bahia 7:00 pm - Paulo Kamira interprets Bossa Nova at Aioli 8:00 pm - Brazilian Music at Bahia Tropical 8:00 pm - Carlos Henrique, Violao & Ami • os at Nino's
5:00 pm - Claudia Gomes at Bahia 7:00 pm -Lisa Silva& Batucada at Aioli 8:00 pm - Brazilian Music at Bahia Tro
SATURDAY 6
pm - . pm- armn os Oliveira in Feijoada Musical at Brazilian Fruit Basket Restaurant 8:00 pm - Brazilian Music at Bahia Tropical 8:00 pm - Samba dance class followed b Lambada at Alberto's
SUNDAY 7
11 am -ercussion an Samba with Mestre Beigola at Brazil Culture & Arts 8:00 pm - Brazilian Music at Bahia Tro ical
MONDAY 8
:11 pm - ro- razi Ian ercussion and Dance at Alberto's 6:30 pm -Viva Brasil in Samba Dance Classat Yoshi's, followed by dancing at 8:30 pm 8:00 pm - Brazilian Music at Bahia Tropical 9:00 pm - Orquestra Bahia at Alberto's
TUESDAY 9
V II pm - raz an usic at Bahia Tro.ical
WEDNESDAY 10
6:00 pm -Jack Gateswith Bossa Nova at Chambord
SITES & PHONES Alberto's - 736 W. Dana St., Mtn View, (415) 968-3007 Aioli - 469 Bush Street San Francisco- (415)2490901) Bahia - 41 Franklin St. - S. Francisco (415) 626-3306 Bahia Tropical - 1600 Market St. - S. Francisco (415) 861-8657 Brazil Cult. & Arts - 659 S. 22nd St. - (510) 215-8202
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WEDNESDAY 3
1• pm - toug ittins wit Bossa Nova at Bahia 7:00 pm - Paulo Kamira interprets Bossa Nova at Aioli 8:00 pm - Brazilian Music at Bahia Tropical 8:00 pm - Carlos Henrique,
THURSDAY 25
THURSDAY 11
:11 pm au la omes a Bahia 7:00 pm -Lisa Silva& Batucada at Aioli 8:00 pm - Brazilian Music at
SAT RDAY 3
2:00 pm - 6:00 pm - Carlinhos Oliveira in Feijoada Musical at Brazilian Fruit Basket Restaurant 8:00 pm - Brazilian Music at Bahia Tropical 8:00 pm - Samba dance class followed b La mbada at Alberto's
SUNRAY 14
I. II am ercussion an. Samba with Mestre Beigola at Brazil Culture & Arts 8:00 pm - Brazilian Music at Bahia Tro ical
MONDAY 15
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..THURSDAY 18
pm - bug I ins Bossa Nova at Bahia 8:00 pm - Brazilian Music at Bahia Tropical 8:00 pm - Carlos Henrique, Viola() & Ami sos at Nino's
FRIDAY 19
:00 pm - aus la omes at Bahia 7:00 pm -Lisa Silva& Batucada at Aioli 8:00 pm - Brazilian Music at Bahia Tro ical
SATURDAY 20
II. pm 11 : pm - ar mhos Oliveira in Feijoada Musical at Brazilian Fruit Basket Restaurant 8:00 pm - Brazilian Music at Bahia Tropical 8:00 pm - Samba dance class followed b Lambada at Alberto's
SUNDAY 21
am ercussion an Samba with Mestre Beigola at Brazil Culture & Arts 8:00 pm - Brazilian Music at hi Tr • I 1 11
MONDAY 22
6:00 pm -Afro-Brazilian Percussion and Dance at Alberto's 6:30 pm -Viva Brasil in Samba Dance Class at Yoshi's, followed by dancing at 8:30 pm 8:00 pm - Brazilian Music at Bahia Tro 'cal
Bahia 7:00 pm -Lisa Silva& Batucada at Aioli 8:00 pm - .Brazilian Music at ,
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SATURDAY 27
2:00 pm -6:00 pm - Carlinhos Oliveira in Feijoada Musical at Brazilian Fruit Basket Restaurant 8:00 pm - Brazilian Music at Bahia Tropical 8:00 pm - Samba dance class followed b Lambada at Alberto's
SUNRAY 28
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WEDNESDAY 31
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Brazilian Fruit Basket Rest. - (415) 626-6434 Chambord - 152 Kearney St. S. Francisco (415) 434-3688 Nino's - 1916 Martin I,. King Jr., Berkeley (510) 845-9303 Sol y Luna - 475 Sacramento St.- S. Francisco (415) 2968696 The Ramp -855 China Basin San Franuisco (415) 621-2378 Yoshi's -6030 Claremont Ave. Oakland (510) 652-9200
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