Word: brazilianizing
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...antebellum, pickup trucks with riverboats, the gargantuan with the precious. Like Atlanta, it desperately wanted to be liked by everybody, and it succeeded. The Call to the Nations, which opened the show, recalled both the French-Canadian Cirque du Soleil, which was a creative consultant, as well as a Brazilian samba school. Yet the two songs were written by two distinctly American composers: Summon the Heroes by Academy Award winner John Williams and The Call to the Nations by Mickey Hart, the drummer for The Grateful Dead. For the national ceremony that followed, the music went to a moving gospel...
...hangover, the radio in the village office had been turned off the morning that news broke of the power struggle between General Lebed and Yeltsin's security chiefs. No one heard the reports. Villagers who did learn of the Kremlin intrigue seemed to find it less gripping than the Brazilian soap opera they had watched the night before. Igor Dudinsky shrugged off the radio reports as he tucked into a breakfast of cream cheese and fish soup. "The devil knows what that all means," he said...
Jones is widely regarded as a master of musical hybrids, having combined over the course of his long career pop, soul, hip-hop, jazz, classical, African and Brazilian music...
...world's richest man, Bill Gates, and the world's luckiest hooker, Divine Brown, are both doing commercials for Brazilian TV. Brown, who was "discovered" while working in a white BMW, is promoting Valisere lingerie. "If you don't want your man looking for someone else," she says in the ad, "If I were you, I would use Valisere." Gates is shilling for Unibanco's online personal-banking services. "Wish my bank had thought of that," he says. Only one of them is doing it for the money...
DIED. LAURINDO ALMEIDA, 77, Brazilian classical and jazz guitar virtuoso; in Los Angeles. Best known for his 1962 album Viva Bossa Nova, Almeida won five Grammy awards for his compositions and contributed to the soundtracks of such movies as The Godfather...