Word: braziller
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Paulo, Brazil...
...Brazil's prim, puritanical military government, which last January banned certain erotic drawings by Pablo Picasso as obscene, has moved ahead with its campaign to keep the country pure and clean. In a tough new press-censorship decree, it banned 60 foreign and domestic magazines-including Playboy, Penthouse, Lui and, curiously, the German newsmagazine Der Spiegel-because they offended "morality and proper behavior" by exploiting erotic themes. The decree also provided that all magazines circulating in Brazil must henceforth submit copies to police censors to determine whether they conform to government standards. If the journals are not approved...
...comes on the heels of a general crackdown on political comment within Brazil. Two weeks ago, police stopped the presses of Opiniño, a liberal magazine that has frequently been critical of the military rulers. Censors have also been assigned to monitor the operations of newspapers that dared to defy the government's ban on speculation about the presidential succession. Considering the fact that nubile maidens on Rio's beaches regularly display almost as much epidermis as do Penthouse pets, many Brazilians thought the campaign against girlie magazines a bit quixotic. What was the purpose? an inquisitive...
...military regime's arbitrary arrests of political opponents. Now the arrests are increasing (at least 1,000 in the past three months). Part of the new crackdown is a heavy emphasis ensuring that suspected subversives never cause trouble again. The routine called "disarticulation," a word that used in Brazil to mean the "breaking up of a gang." A student in Sao Paulo was rather severely disarticulated this month, for example, after apparently reneging on a promise to finger one of his friends. Before springing the trap, he supposedly went to a bar and ordered a beer, then suddenly dashed...
...father, who later became a professor of literature, was then 17, and his mother 15. Because his parents were so immature, little Carlos was packed off to be raised by his maternal grandparents on a chicken farm in the back country of Brazil...