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Fernando Collor de Mello won the Brazilian presidency in 1989 by reaching out to the descamisados, the country's shirtless poor. Now Brazilians by the thousands are putting on shirts -- black ones -- to demonstrate their disgust with a Collor regime that is haunted by scandal and economic failure. An inflation rate of 20% a month and record unemployment had already eroded support for the once popular Collor even before congressional investigators recently uncovered a kickback and bid-rigging racket engineered by top presidential aides. The embattled President made the mistake of asking followers to dress in green and yellow...
...most troubling question now is who, or what, will follow Collor. So far the Brazilian military has shown no desire to retake the power it held for 21 years before 1985. But Brazil's democracy is still such a fragile structure that a long and painful impeachment process could do irreparable harm. More and more Brazilians are convinced that the best solution is for Collor to resign. But that, Collor has said several times, he will never...
...Another downside is the sheer size of the stage and audience, which can tempt film stars, fearful of understatement, into almost operatic playing. That happened last week to Marisa Tomei, the street-corner ingenue of My Cousin Vinny, in a vaudeville-influenced staging of The Comedy of Errors. While Brazilian director Caca Rosset emphasizes the many shades of emotion within the text, Tomei, a gifted stage veteran, struck one note: screeching fury...
...METHENY are still the best evidence around that jazz-pop fusion works. But Secret Story is not just another eloquent instrumental statement. It is a "theme" album with a surprising subject: Pat Metheny. The tracks form an emotional though virtually wordless chronicle of his ill-fated romance with a Brazilian woman. Above the Treetops uses a sweet-voiced Cambodian women's choir to herald the excitement of new love. The intensity builds through the poignant Longest Summer (on which Metheny makes his piano debut). The wrenching finale, Not to Be Forgotten, won't be. And neither will Metheny's daring...
...Latin and biggest Third World debtor, worked out an arrangement with 19 banks representing 300 private creditors. The lenders will choose among six different ways to ease Brazil's burden of $44 billion owed to private banks. Those electing to take smaller payments of principal or interest will get Brazilian government guarantees that they really can collect the remaining amounts...