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Leader of capoeira's transformation into respectability is Manoel Does Reis Machado, now 71, who is called Mestre (Master) Bimba by his devotees. A renowned Salvador rowdy as a youth, Bimba took up capoeira seriously in his late teens and after several prison terms opened an academy to propagate it. In the mid-'30s, after he whipped three rivals on the same afternoon, his reputation began to spread...
...Today Bimba runs the most popular academy in Salvador. Most of his students are enrolled at local high schools and universities. There are also doctors, engineers and lawyers among his clients and two former state governors among his alumni. The average student attends classes for six to eight months, progressing up the proficiency hierarchy from blue neckerchief on to red, yellow and white. All students are given a capoeira name by the master: Fer-de-Lance and Strong-as-a-Rock are two examples...
...American dancer now studying capoeira in Salvador, the growth of the folk art is only natural. "Brazilians are very proud of their mental quickness," he says. "They like to live by their wits; capoeira is not a sport of brute force but rather of outwitting the other fellow." Agrees Bimba: "Capoeira is something truly Brazilian-it's our own blend...
...Bimba ("Get away? Just to change the mosquitoes? No, thanks") are hooked on the same cruel question mark: How to get back to civilization? Suddenly they get a vein-freezing answer. An oil well catches fire. Only an explosion can put it out. The nearest nitroglycerin sits in a shed 300 miles from the blaze-in the very town where the men happen to be. The oil company, a U.S. outfit, offers $2,000 apiece for four good drivers with the guts to truck the soup, over roads that hardly deserve the name, to the scene of the fire...
...dozen desperate men step up. Mario, Luigi, Bimba and another are chosen; Jo is the fifth man, but one murder is all it takes to make him the fourth. Off they go in two trucks, two men to a truck. From that moment forward, the moviegoer is in physical danger from this picture, and should be warned of the fact. Whatever else may be said of it, Wages of Fear is one of the great shockers of all time. The suspense it generates is close to prostrating. Clouzot is not interested in tingling the customer's spine, but rather...