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...Barrera helps give a fuller understanding of the tensions involved. But the film offers more to the American viewer, an added dimension to which the native Latin American would probably be oblivious. It is the same quality, though more muted, that is so impressive in the vibrant scenes of Brazilian life in Black Orpheus. The Traitors, with its filmed scenes in the crowded neighborhoods of Buenos Aires, captures the struggle of life waged by these impoverished workers so exploited by their leaders. Whether through a scene explicitly intended to demonstrate the plight of the lower class, or through the unconscious...
Died. Darius Milhaud, 81, French composer of some 450 symphonies, operas, quartets, concertos and other works; of an apparent heart attack; in Geneva. Just after World War I, Milhaud became a member of Les Six, an informal group of irreverent young composers. His racy treatment of Brazilian popular songs, Le Boeuf sur le Toit, caused an uproar at its Paris première. La Création du Monde, the 1923 ballet that is perhaps his masterpiece, was the first major classical composition effectively to incorporate elements of jazz. Of Provencal Jewish lineage, Milhaud fled the Nazis in 1940. Throughout...
...String-known in Brazil as the Tonga-which is derived from an ancient Indian loincloth and consists of two minuscule triangles of cloth joined by a cord over either hip. The Tanga is a huge hit with Rio girl watchers because it bares a large part of the derriere-Brazilian males tend to be nádega (buttock) rather than peito (breast) admirers. The String spread to Italy a while ago, and now it is having its first tanga north of the border...
Early sales figures suggested that the String could become one of the most important Brazilian inventions since coffee. Bloomingdale's in Manhattan sold out its first order of 150 suits in two weeks. Ralph Paterno, owner of a Madison Avenue boutique who has his Strings made at his factory in Italy, sold 160 in two days. "I've had calls from all over for them from men-boy friends and husbands," he says. His suits cost from $35 to $40-v. $6 in Rio-and come in a variety of materials, including cotton and jersey, which Paterno favors...
...Helder (the dom is an old Portuguese title of respect) was born 65 years ago in the northeastern Brazilian city of Fortaleza in the back room of a schoolhouse where his mother taught the primary grades. His father, an anticlerical journalist, chose the boy's name from a dictionary rather than the calendar of saints but did not keep his son from studying for the priesthood. Ordained at 22, Father Camara soon moved into religious education-and flirted briefly with the Brazilian version of fascism before moving...