Word: braziller
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Books: John Updike imagines the Tristan myth in Brazil...
What is he doing in Rio de Janeiro? To judge from the antics in his latest novel, Brazil (Knopf; 260 pages; $23), he seems to be having the sort of good time that not everyone will appreciate...
Finding taboos in Brazil is not easy. How many can be left in a country where homeless children are hunted by death squads? White skins still lord it over black skins, but, unlike North Americans, Brazilians have a working concept of interracial society. "All colors merge into one joyous, sun- stunned flesh-color, coating the sand with a second living skin," writes Updike of Copacabana, the beach where Tristao meets Isabel. In a gesture of courtly love, he presents her with a ring stripped from the finger of a matronly tourist. The initials on the crest are DAR (Daughters...
...BRAZIL. The continent's largest economy is consumed by hyperinflation and a huge congressional corruption scandal that has paralyzed the government and renewed rumors of a possible military coup...
...duranta tree from Brazil, which in bloom has "lots of little purple flowers...