Word: brazilianizing
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...acts would play to acres of empty seats, the top shows in London and New Jersey were all but sold out, and more than 400,000 people arrived for a free concert on Rio de Janeiro's Copacabana Beach headlined by Lenny Kravitz and Macy Gray - even though a Brazilian judge had only authorized the concert days before. Even the smaller shows seemed well-attended, if a bit schizophrenic: the Tokyo concert segued from the gentle folk of Japanese pop star Cocco, who tearfully sang about manatees threatened by a military base on her home island of Okinawa...
...After three weeks in Brazil, I have found that appropriation and contradiction often typify Brazilian society and culture. Like feijoada, the concoction of meats enveloped in beans with which Brazilians so identify, Brazilian culture consumes many foreign and extraneous elements and makes them its own. Sometimes the mix is inconsistent, and there are some unlikely amalgamations. Here, the first and third worlds are often on the same block: in some parts of the skyline, chic apartment buildings seem to ascend out of seas of squat favelas, the urban slums that dot the urban landscape. Though oft-publicized violent crime...
...Crimson news editor, is a history and literature concentrator in Pforzheimer House. He is interning at Folha de São Paulo as part of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) Summer Internship Program, and has four friends on Orkut, the Brazilian version of Myspace...
Lula and Unger were also recently at odds over a legal claim Unger made in the U.S. in which he sought “close to $2 million against some pension funds controlled by Brazilian state-owned companies,” according to Reisen de Pinho. The suit prompted speculation in the Brazilian media that Unger might not assume his post, but he was inaugurated last week despite what seems to be a rocky relationship with Lula...
...sure with the way Brazilian politics is organized whether he’ll be effective or not,” said Rodrik. “But I do know that he couldn’t resist taking the job regardless of the risks...