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...scene: a Brazilian government outpost called Abunari Two, on the northern fringes of the Amazon Basin. There, recently, 27 Indians of the Waimiri and Atroari tribes emerged from the jungle. Ostensibly, they came to trade for food and medicine with Gilberto Pinto Figueiredo, an official of FUNAI, the government-run National Indian Foundation, but they were clearly angry about the building of new roads through their tribal lands. They came equipped with bows and arrows decorated with red macaw feathers, a symbol of war. Even after a supply of food and gifts arrived by plane, they remained dissatisfied and agitated...
...play was written by the company's director, Bobbi Ausubel, under a grant given by the Radcliffe Institute. It is about (using the word advisedly) a woman filmmaker, Toni, trying to create a film prototype of a strong woman. She parades before us a succession of archetype images (amazon and mother), discarding each in turn as insufficient. He finally settles on one that is supposed to be a synthesis of the best of our male and female stereotypes--a breadwinner...
...struck hardest, the death rate was still high. Estimates of the total number of cases there rose to 20,000 and deaths to as many as 3,000, but firm figures were unobtainable, partly because of censorship. In Porto Alegre, and in communities as far north as the Amazon, the disease was still on the increase...
...legend of the "vast food-growing potential" [April 8] of the Amazon and Congo basins dies hard. It is a hydra of error, espoused in times past by such luminaries as Walter Lippmann and Richard Nixon...
Curucu, Beast of the Amazon [1956]. Chances are that nobody has ever heard of this movie or would ever want to see it. The best alternative at this hour, unfortunately, is The Tonight Show with Roy Clark and Phyllis Newman. Ch. 5, 11:30 p.m. Color, 1 1/2 hours...