Word: brazile
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...band’s recent fortune. Their hook-riddled single “Bandages” is in rotation at the country’s largest alternative rock outlets. The song’s music video, borrowing heavily from the facial surgery scene in the 1985 film Brazil, maintains heavy rotation in its third month on MTV2...
...travel to the hardest-hit regions of Guangdong province and neighboring Hong Kong and airlines to cut flights to affected zones. Despite hope early last week that the virus might be burning out on its own, suspected new cases popped up in countries as disparate as Fiji, Israel and Brazil. Mainland China and Hong Kong each announced more deaths from the disease last week, bringing their death tolls to 49 and 20 respectively. In Canada, the most seriously affected nation outside of Asia, three more patients died, bringing the total there to seven. On Friday a 29-year-old woman...
...league's rosters, compared with only 6% a decade ago. A third of the 18 players chosen for the All-Star Weekend's Rookie-Sophomore game came from overseas, among them standouts like San Antonio Spurs guard Tony Parker (France), Denver Nuggets forward Nene Hilario (Brazil) and Orlando Magic guard Gordan Giricek (Croatia...
...assistant general manager for the Denver Nuggets. Many European teams play only two games a week, giving scouts fewer opportunities to see prospects in action. To protect their talent, some coaches often won't play their stars when an NBA scout is visiting. Lately scouts have been journeying to Brazil, Eastern Europe, Senegal and, of course, China in their search for the Next Big Thing...
...counts as another south-of-the-border coup. These films are worth the hype, and then some. And for once, they have plenty of regional company. Years used to separate successes like Argentina's The Official Story (1985), the only Latin film to win the foreign-language Oscar, and Brazil's poignant Central Station (1998), the Oscar-nominated tale of a cynical Rio woman who helps a street urchin find his family. But starting with Central Station, Latin American directors have found what many critics are calling buena onda, a consistent "groove" of relevant, top-drawer filmmaking that uses distinctly...