Word: brazil
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...main characters, British teenage girls who dream of becoming the next Mia Hamm, stare at a television screen, jaws agape. They are watching a promo for the Women's United Soccer Association (WUSA), the American professional league that featured the best female players in the world, including Hamm, Brazil's Katia and Bai Jie of China. Brandi Chastain knocks a header into the net. England's Kelly Smith shakes a defender. Unbelievable, the girls say. We can make a living in the game we love...
Life has to be busy for the man who helped make Latin movies the hot dish in world cinema. From Spain, Mexico, Brazil and Argentina, filmmakers have created works of whirling vigor, social conscience and a visual style just this side of surreal. And in these films audiences see compelling actors. Often in Almodóvar films--Antonio Banderas, Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem got early spotlights in them...
Over our beers, Klaus tells me he’s a national pool champ. He has also been to all the countries in the world, except for Brazil and Corsica, which are too dangerous. It’s hard to believe what he says. But I don’t have the guts to admit that I’m exhausted and just want to sleep. An hour after midnight, we still look at his holiday photos. Then, he reveals his big dream...
...Brazil, some misguided people vow that it increases sexual prowess; others are under the delusion that it makes a man impotent ... Graceful gondolas carry it along the narrow canals of Venice, and sturdy, resigned burros tote it into the dusty Mexican hills. Bright red signs proclaim its worth beneath the blank, unastonished eyes of the great Sphinx ... The late William Allen White once described Coke as the "sublimated essence of all America stands for." To find something as thoroughly native American hawked in half a hundred languages on all the world's crossroads from Arequipa to Zwolle is still strangely...
Situated in an upscale residential neighborhood in Sao Paulo, Daslu is a repository of Chanel jackets and Frette linens. What makes the store's unbridled luxury even more pronounced is the yawning chasm between the rich and the poor in Brazil. Daslu has no elaborate window displays a la Barneys--the exterior resembles a bunker--and the store is encircled by a phalanx of unsmiling security guards...