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...Alan Livingston, Bozo debuted on Los Angeles TV three years later, played by Pinto Colvig, who had provided the voice on the records. During the clown's heyday in the mid-'60s, 183 different TV Bozos entertained kids in almost every major U.S. city, as well as countries from Brazil to Thailand. His popularity even prompted a dispute over authorship. Larry Harmon, an early Bozo who bought the rights to the character in 1956, for years promoted himself as Bozo's creator, until Livingston and others exposed this as revisionist clown history. The embarrassed International Clown Hall of Fame even...
...have been suddenly lost, or seized, report later that their greatest fear was that no one would know what had happened to them. Evelyn Waugh wrote a hilariously spooky novel-as-parable called "A Handful of Dust," in which an Englishman, his marriage destroyed, joins an archaeological expedition to Brazil; the expedition falls apart, and the Englishman, hopelessly lost in deepest jungle, falls into the hands of an illiterate half-breed whose European father years before had left him a complete set of Dickens. The Englishman - vanished from civilization, lost to friends and family, presumed dead - lives on for years...
...girl was 11 a child of the streets of Fortaleza, Brazil, whose future seemed as bleak as the slums in which she lived. Then Carla Nisiane Anacleto da Costa saw a ballet performance by students from a dance school called EDISCA, a troupe that included other impoverished girls from her street. EDISCA (the letters stand for the Spanish name of the School of Dance and Social Integration for Children and Adolescents) was not your average ballet company, and this was no Swan Lake. It portrayed Fortaleza's poorest kids begging at traffic lights and living on the street. "That really...
...Costa enrolled in EDISCA, and the school changed her life, as it has the lives of 800 other girls ages 6 to 19--and a few boys--from Fortaleza, a coastal city in Brazil's poverty-racked northeast. The school was founded in 1992 by Dora Andrade, 42, a dancer who cut short her career in the U.S. to come home and teach girls to dance their way out of the slums. Most of the children who enter EDISCA can't read or write. Many have health problems and are close to running away from violent homes or being lured...
VIVA LA BOLSA A new President in Peru and a debt deal in Argentina last week helped volatile Latin American funds rise 2.4%. But the broader story is in Mexico, which with Brazil makes up 90% or so of the region's portfolio. Brazil's stock index is down 14% since January, but as an Evergreen manager says, "Mexico is on a tear." Its export gains and slower but solid growth will drive this fidgety sector through expected summer doldrums...