Word: braziller
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...least not enough to please Latin leaders. Indeed, since the U.S. Secretary of State proclaimed a "new dialogue" in 1973, he has canceled three announced trips to the southern half of the hemisphere. Last week Kissinger finally got the new dialogue going with visits to Venezuela, Peru and Brazil. This week, to wind up his tour, he will stop in Colombia, Costa Rica and Guatemala...
...boards of several companies, including KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, Hoogovens Steel and Fokker Aircraft, and began a new career as globetrotting good-will ambassador and ardent promoter of Dutch exports. Former Brazilian President Juscelino Kubitschek called him "the best commercial traveler I've ever met-and in Brazil we meet them...
...BOYS FROM BRAZIL by IRA LEVIN 312 pages. Random House...
...Levin has other ideas. In The Boys from Brazil, he pulls 64-year-old Mengele out of shady retirement to play a grotesque caricature of himself. As he did in Rosemary's Baby, Levin bases his new plot on a perversion of planned parenthood. This time the mumbo jumbo of the occult has been replaced by the gizmos of science fiction...
Liebermann's job is to learn what Mengele is up to and then convince the appropriate people to put a stop to the Hitler baby boom. Author Levin's job is harder. He must convince his readers that The Boys from Brazil is more than just a sick joke. He cannot. Levin's primitive literary skills aside, the turning of Josef Mengele into a mad scientist from the pages of a 1940s comic book requires more than a suspension of disbelief. It also requires a suspension of taste. Exploiting such a monster for entertainment and profit...