Word: braziller
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DIED. John Moors Cabot, 79, career diplomat and former U.S. Ambassador to Brazil, Colombia, Poland and Sweden, who was one of the first foreign affairs specialists to anticipate the 1948 break between Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union and who represented the U.S. in the Warsaw negotiations that led to the resumption of diplomatic ties between the U.S. and the People's Republic of China in 1973; after a stroke; in Washington...
...Church has never really been able to overcome this charge. The Vatican often scolds right-wing extremism but always seems to go after the left with a vengeance. Pius XII denounced Nazism but excommunicated all Catholic Communists. John Paul II upbraids the dictators of Brazil and the Philippines for their unfeeling attitude toward the poor but warns that nothing can be achieved through revolution or "the lie that is Marxism." At the same time, the Protestant fundamentalist penchant for ultraconservative politics sends frightened liberals scurrying away toward skepticism. Liberalism and Christianity, it seems, have become opposing forces...
...mission to Latin America, Walters, formally deputy chief of the CIA, visited Mexico and Venezuela, and this week he plans to stop in Brazil, Argentina and Chile. Though Walters conferred with Mexican President José López Portillo, neither country would confirm the meeting publicly; Mexico sympathizes with the Salvadoran guerrillas, and Walters' visit could be an embarrassment...
Beyond the exotic cinematic locale and roguish approach, the clearest assets in Bye Bye Brazil are Jose Wilker and Betty Fariah as the veteran troupers. Wilker seems to have only two expressions--an unconvincingly heroic sternness and a wonderfully fatuous smile of beneficence--but he deploys them willingly. He provides a continual comic center to the film with his sly corruption and his charmingly sleazy hokum, often delivered at omnipotent volumes over what one suspects is the only amplifier in the Brazilian backlands. Diegues subtly uses Wilker's ridiculously inept shamming to represent more seriously the modern demand to sell...
...Indian woman newly dislocated from her tribal existence listening raptly to the Everly Brothers on her Sony or the appearance of Polices in rustic back country hamlets--with a comic finesses that never excludes serious meaning, yet never preaches it. Diegues remains oddly hopeful as he charts Brazil's delirious, stumbling trip into the modern world, celebrating the zest of the new Brazil even as he laught at its absurdities. This third World production has a funky charm and affords a welcome art house alternative to frothy French comedies and intellectual German angst...