Word: brazilians
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...grooving that Chicago had seen since the ’68 riots.The four biggest highlights were easy to pick out, and anyone with a brain stem should try and catch each when they next come through the Boston area code.Number one, by far, were recently-reunited-after-forty-years Brazilian legends Os Mutantes.They got top billing on the second day of the two-day-fest, which was exactly where they belonged. More than a few spectators probably had no idea who they were listening to. Of course, that didn’t prevent hipsters with no knowledge of the band...
...Francisco Costa, the Brazilian-born designer who has filled Calvin Klein's very large shoes at his namesake house, has a futuristic and somewhat tough vision of fashion. For several seasons Costa has been struggling to pay homage to Klein in a sort of literal manner. But with this collection he seemed more confident to go his own way. Like Wang, Costa is working in the lightest fabrics, layering them over tank tops and carefully worked athletic-style corsets. But unlike Wang, Costa has a razor-sharp cut that can appear inchoate with the softness of his silhouette...
...BECOME ALMOST ROUTINE in the booming luxury business for curious minds to draw back the industry's proverbial Oz-like curtains to learn the tricks of the trade?how a $10,000 French handbag is stitched or where Brazilian gemstones are mined. But at Swarovski crystals in Wattens, Austria, a town of 8,000 about 20 minutes northeast of Innsbruck by car, the factory?and all the technical knowhow stashed inside?is strictly off limits...
Jaciy Pimenta, the director of the English Teaching Professional-English as a Second Language (ETP/ESL) program in Manaus, praised Badaracco extensively in an e-mail. Volunteers in the Brazilian program are given credits based on participation and enthusiasm, and Pimenta wrote that “in ten years of…ETP/ESL program activities, [Badaracco] was the only participant who could get a score of 100 credits, for her high dedication, sense of cooperation, and responsibility toward her students...
Friends ranging from Brazilian students to Currier House residents to Brookline community members have commented on the inspiration they found in the young woman and how greatly she will be missed on Badaracco’s Boston Globe ‘Guest Book’ website...