Word: braziller
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...traveling hero sent back in time to find out about a virus that killed most of the world in 1997, this all-star, megamovie chases time backward to a painful image. It's just what you'd expect from the director of that brilliant dark-side retro-futuristic vision, Brazil. But this film is no Brazil, says Corliss: "Intent on both dazzling and punishing the viewer, Gilliam gets lost in creepy spectacle and plenty of old film clips." Ultimately, 12 Monkeys has the same message of all dour sci-fi satire, Corliss concludes. "I have seen the future...
DIED. DON CHERRY, 58, jazz musician; of liver failure; near Malaga, Spain. In the 1950s, the trumpeter experimented with "free jazz" sound and rhythm opposite the sax of Ornette Coleman. By the '60s, Cherry was a world-music pioneer, exploring influences so diverse--South Africa, Indonesia, Brazil, Bulgaria, the Middle East--he was dubbed "the musical Marco Polo...
...need not only a nuclear-free world but a world free of civilian atomic garbage. And above all, we need a world free of poor leadership. It has been said, if we seriously want to disarm, we must first disarm the spirit. ROGER FERDINAND LOUIS FAURE Sao Paulo, Brazil...
...initial shock of the arrest of Simpson was dying down, the United States played host to the 1994 World Cup--an event that featured both the thrill of victory for Brazil, the agony of defeat for Baggio and his Italian teammates and its own dose of tragedy in the murder of a Colombian soccer star who inadvertantly scored the winning goal for the United States when those two countries squared...
...surely it would have been insensitive to hold the conference in Brazil, where wife murderers routinely get off with a slap of the hand...or India, where the number of women killed by husbands and in-laws eager to collect a second dowry is more than 6,000 a year and growing...or Bangladesh, where a fatwah remains in force against writer Taslima Nasreen...or Ireland, where divorce is still prohibited no matter how violent and life-threatening the marriage...