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...those reasons soon become clear. The film moves from Santore's funeral back a week to the day in which Santore and the Brazilian consul to Uruguay were kidnapped by the Tupamaros. The Tupamaros operate with both efficiency and care. They brandish guns but don't use them. The "expropriate" cars and their owners for their operations, but leave the owners unharmed and deposit the cars scattered over the city when they no longer need them. They make it clear that they will kill if necessary but they are also smart enough to realize that their ends are not served...
...absolutely ruthless in his refusal to countenance the lies Santore feeds him about the nature of Santore's work in Uruguay. Whenever Santore makes an allegation, the Tupamaro's information is so good that he is forced to assent by silence. Hugo shows him a photograph of two Brazilian police officials accused of torture. Santore denies he knows them. He is shown two more -- again a denial. Finally Hugo gives him another photo and says, "Here, you shouldn't have much trouble with him." It is Santore himself. Hugo repeats his earlier questions. As he does so, he arranges...
...combination of prosperity and censorship has diverted attention from the Brazilian military regime's arbitrary arrests of political opponents. Now the arrests are increasing (at least 1,000 in the past three months). Part of the new crackdown is a heavy emphasis ensuring that suspected subversives never cause trouble again. The routine called "disarticulation," a word that used in Brazil to mean the "breaking up of a gang." A student in Sao Paulo was rather severely disarticulated this month, for example, after apparently reneging on a promise to finger one of his friends. Before springing the trap, he supposedly...
Perchance, if Providence is kind, Woody will be tied up on June 13 making his latest film, whatever and wherever it may be. Make no mistake, Woody Allen can be a marvelously absurd figure, ordering 1200 hamburgers to go for his revolutionary cadre in the middle of a Brazilian rain forest and then running the check. And not many humorists would undertake the filming of Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About...
...sucessdo," reads the entry in a little black book of censorship rules kept by the managing editor of a leading Brazilian daily. "Don't touch the succession." The term of President Emilio Médici, 67, still has another year to run, and the military junta that has ruled Brazil since 1964 has made clear its feeling that the process of picking Médici's successor should not be complicated by unwelcome discussion in the press...