Word: brazilianizing
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...murals at the Brazilian Pavilion in the 1939 New York World's Fair and in the Library of Congress, and one-man shows in Detroit and Manhattan gave him a U.S. reputation. But things have not always gone well with him at home. He painted the Via Sacra on the walls of a modern church near Belo Horizonte, which Architect Oscar Niemeyer, friend and fellow Communist, designed. The archbishop refused to consecrate the church (TIME, May 13, 1946). Says Portinari: "The priests don't like my way of expressing, sacred things. They want Virgins that look like Ingrid...
...Under Brazilian law, if a couple, one of whom is dying, wish to marry, they can declare that intention before six witnesses. A court then decides whether to make the marriage legal. Divorce does not exist in Brazil, and both Carol and Magda have been divorced; however, Brazilian courts sometimes recognize the divorces of foreigners. A knottier gimmick in the Carol-Magda nuptials is a Brazilian legal provision that the deathbed wedding procedure is invalidated if the ill spouse recovers...
...Brazilian Government thought it had just the place for the oft-postponed Inter-American Conference, now scheduled for next month. The place was Quitandinha, the plush resort hotel just outside the summer capital of Petropolis. But the Government had hardly announced its choice when foreign correspondents let out a loud squawk...
Time for Talk. Afterwards, the two presidents crossed the river into Brazilian Uruguayana. At an old-fashioned residence of a Brazilian colonel, they withdrew with five top advisers for 2¼ hours' talk. Reporters who peeked around a curtain saw a cozy semicircle. Perón dominated the talk. Dutra, quiet by nature, weary and weighed down with Communist troubles at home (TIME, May 26), did little but listen. Besides, he still had to go 75 miles to Quarahy, for a second border meeting the next day with Uruguay's President Tomás Berreta...
...continental event," pontificated President Perón. Brazil's press had almost nothing to say. A Brazilian proposal for joint mediation in Paraguay's stalemated civil war stalled. The tired topic of a wheat-for-rubber trade treaty stood where it had before-on the shelf...