Word: braziller
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...journeyed to Poland to bolster the spirits of his countrymen in the face of Communist oppression. He has visited Britain and Argentina while they were at war with each other. Before the leaders of Brazil and the Philippines he has decried violations of human rights. Within earshot of the Northern Ireland border he has denounced terrorism. But none of Pope John Paul II's 16 previous foreign tours was as perilous, in terms of either church politics or of his own physical safety, as the one he begins this week...
Sometimes imagination is not enough. During his tour of Latin America late last year, President Reagan generously offered to prepare a Brazilian astronaut for a seat on a U.S. space-shuttle flight. There was one small problem. Brazil has no astronauts. Facts must be faced: most North Americans neither know nor care to know too much about Latin America unless, of course, someone shouts, "The Russians are coming...
Garcia Márquez's success and critical reputation have undoubtedly boosted the fortunes of younger Latin authors like Brazil's Marcio Souza (Emperor of the Amazon), Colombia's Jaime Manrique (Colombian Gold) and Argentina's Manuel Puig (Kiss of the Spider Woman). Notes New York Translator and Agent Thomas Colchie: "In 1979, Souza sold Emperor of the Amazon for only $2,000. His forthcoming book, Mad Maria, went for $5,000, and his third has just been signed for $10,000." Colchie adds that Armando Valladares, the Cuban poet who was recently released after...
...financial skid that Mexico has been in since late summer, when the country nationalized its banks after devaluing the peso for the second time in less than a year. U.S. private lenders alone have some $25 billion at risk in Mexico, a sum that puts that nation, along with Brazil, at the top of the list of foreign borrowers from American banks. Brazil, however, does not rely on oil for its income. Mexico's major creditors include Citicorp, which has loaned $2.8 billion to government agencies and companies there...
...Geology, based on McPhee's travels through the far West with a proponent of plate tectonics. This branch of earth science grows from the theory that the planet's great land masses slide around like dishes on a boat. Over time, Africa could end up in Brazil's feijoada, Australia in China's egg foo yung...