Word: bahia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...incredible that you did not discuss the effect of mental stress on one's health. Getting rid of tension and strain can play a role in reducing or controlling cardiac disease. You cannot expect that diet and exercise alone will protect you. DAVID W. HOWARD Bahia, Brazil...
...north of Rio, the city of Salvador da Bahia, which will be celebrating its 450th birthday, promises to have the country's most sizzling street party. For the Bom Jesus dos Navegantes celebration, which honors sailors, thousands of boats with banners aflutter will fill the harbor. Along the ancient cobblestone avenues and more modern thoroughfares, trios eletricos, samba-reggae bands on trucks with eardrum-shattering loudspeakers, will play. Barefoot, bare-chested youths in white cotton trousers will perform the traditional capoeira, a carefully choreographed martial art dating back to slavery that combines somersaults and kickboxing and prohibits contact with...
Consequently, Bahia is divided into factions: one supports the Governor, the other is in favor of the Ravascos. What follows is a melange of arrests, murders, machinations and comic ribaldry...
Gregorio de Matos, a priest, judge, satirist, poet, scholar, theologian and the best-known lover and whoremonger in all of Bahia, recites Gongora to prostitutes in his favorite brothel. He writes scathing satires on the Governor's physical attributes and probable impotence. De Matos eventually emerges as the hero, for, despite his many peccadilloes, he has a keen sense of right and wrong...
Once she gains the reader's good will, he or she follows her to every corner of Bahia, from the Governor's palace and the Jesuit College to the ubiquitous brothels and country estates...