Word: bossa
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...native awareness of the medium's power to teach and persuade. But before you can send a movie audience marching out to the barricades, you must get them into the theater. Don't cerebrate - celebrate. Bye Bye Brazil does just that, setting a naturalistic tale to a bossa nova beat. It follows a tatty caravan of entertainers through the backwaters of Bahia, making music and mischief and the occasional friend or lover. The glittery magic means more to the actors than it ever will to the villagers; the show must go on so that the showmen can continue...
...Brazil's diplomatic corps until the country's puritanical military bosses fired him for his "vagabond" ways, which included nine marriages. In his later years he was a fixture at Rio's all-night cafés and clubs, where he sang for his supper the bossa nova and samba tunes he helped to make world-famous...
...jazz highlight of this weekend is 30 minutes out of town. Bossa nova master Stan Getz is bringing his tenor sax and his quartet to Sandy Berman's Jazz Revival in Beverly (54 Cabot St., 922-7515) through July 3. In addition to regular evening sets, the Getz quartet will play a special Sunday matinee from 4-7 p.m. Monday night traditional jazzmen Dave Whitney and Reggie Phillips take over...
Brazil's music makes rich use of its mixed national heritage: samba, conga, bossa nova and salsa mingle with rock and jazz influences from European groups. But today, musicians like Ben or his equally popular and more jazz-oriented contemporary Milton Nascimento are being enjoyed by the gringos who used either to sneer at "torrid-fun-in-the-sun rnythms" or water-down tangos for lounge lizards...
...abandoned her. She consoles herself with Jacques. Hélas, the affair is only a dream; in the end it is shattered by the little ironies of circumstance. During their chaste interlude, Jacques and Marthe bathetically wander the streets of Paris, serenaded by muzzy folk singers and a bossa nova group whose sentimentality matches the scenario. Four Nights of a Dreamer is adapted from a story by Dostoevsky. Surely not the Feodor Dostoevsky...