Word: braziller
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fact that such repression seems to be spreading. The Soviet Union's habit of putting dissenters into mental institutions, for example, is now being copied in Argentina. Behavior-altering techniques-like torturing a prisoner while he is being shown slides of his family-are showing up in Brazil. (The prisoner comes to associate his wife and children with pain-and the effects seem to endure.) In Greece, a favorite technique is the falanga, in which the soles of the feet are beaten to a pulp with sticks. South Viet Nam is accused of using a well-known form...
...Brazil, home of Soccer Star Edson Arantes do Nascimento ("Pelé") and Champion Race Car Driver Emerson Fittipaldi, has a new game that combines the most violent aspects of both sports. Autobol, as it is called, is played roughly-very roughly-according to soccer rules except that the players drive stripped-down Renault Dauphines and bump the ball instead of kicking it. The result is a kind of motorized madness that seems perfectly in tune with a country that has one of the world's highest auto fatality rates...
...sort of impeccably cool, unimpeacable face which is perfect for the part he plays. His role is recognizably based on the life and death of assassinaaed AID official Dan Mitrione, who was trained in the U.S. to operate in close undercover conjunction with the repressive policy in Brazil and Uruguay. Montand is perfect because this dream of a family man, whose actions are propelled by a pure form of bourgeois liberalism, is so unconscious an oppressor. Charles West...
...these, nevertheless, are thin straws. While Geisel can be counted on to keep Brazil's economy booming, it remains to be seen whether he will ease the junta's restrictions on Congress, political parties and the press. Brazilians can remember Médici's 1969 inaugural promise to see "democracy definitely installed in our country." That promise was never kept...
...sort of impeccably cool, unimpeacable face which is perfect for the part he plays. His role is recognizably based on the life and death of assassinated AID official Dan Mitrione, who was trained in the U.S. to operate in close undercover conjunction with the repressive police in Brazil and Uruguay. Montand is perfect because this dream of a family man, whose actions are propelled by a pure form of bourgeois liberalism, is so unconscious an oppressor. Charles West...