Word: brazil
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...flew over the Santiago fairground. A giant C-17 air cargo plane rumbled along the taxiway with a Chilean flag fluttering from a cockpit window. The State Department was furious with the stunts, but the air show accomplished exactly what the Pentagon had wanted. Within six months, Chile and Brazil had sent formal requests to Washington for information on buying F-16s and F/A-18s...
...venture, funded by Spielberg and DreamWorks, Sega Enterprises and Universal Studios, plans to open 40 locations by the year 2002, at about $10 million a pop, in other U.S. cities as well as far-flung places like Brazil. Next up: an even bigger arcade in Las Vegas, although the GameWorks creators don't like to think of their gaming spaces as arcades. "It's truly a unique social environment, and that's what's missing from the arcade experience," says GameWorks' president, Michael Montgomery. In other words, parents and kids can pursue separate game paths under one roof and call...
...idea of a dictator's being genetically duplicated is not new--not in pop culture, anyhow. In Ira Levin's 1976 book The Boys from Brazil a zealous ex-Nazi bred a generation of literal Hitler Youth--boys cloned from cells left behind by the Fuhrer. Woody Allen dealt with a similar premise a lot more playfully in his 1973 film Sleeper, in which a futuristic tyrant is killed by a bomb blast, leaving nothing behind but his nose--a nose that his followers hope to clone into a new leader. Even as the fiction of one decade becomes...
...Bent with the Eyes" (1970) is just one of the many pieces in the ICA's thoughtfully installed show which explicitly explore the viewer's relationship to the work of art by confounding normal perception. One of Brazil's most important contemporary artists, Meireles is often associated with Conceptual Art, which engages the viewer with an idea rather than an actual art object. Meireles, like the most famous Conceptual artists, including Joseph Kosuth and Lawrence Weiner, gained critical acclaim in the 1970s. Through the medium of language, Kosuth and Weiner examine such issues as the commodification of the art object...
...country as avowedly macho as Brazil, can a soft-spoken female executive pull such an unwieldy behemoth together? If anyone can, it is probably Marques. Brazil's Finance Minister, Pedro Malan, calls her a "force of nature." A legendary workaholic, she stayed at her CSN desk right up to the day before her first children--twins--were born last October. "The doctor told me if I didn't stop working, I'd have had to leave [the office] in an ambulance," she recalls. Feeling that the standard four-month maternity leave was excessive, Marques was back at her desk exactly...