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...Caravana: The darling of last May's Sydney fashion week, Australian Cathy Braid employs more than 400 women in a remote mountain village in Pakistan, where she now lives, to make her stunning hand-stitched collection. Braid creates the designs, but the women decide on a fair price for their labor. "You can't work with these women every day, live with them, understand their lives and then pay them unfairly," says Braid. "You just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Couture for the Globe | 12/11/2005 | See Source »

WERE SOON SURE he knows when he appears at the end of the movie with a new truck for the "Caravana," red-light-district-on-wheels, complete with a trio of dancing girls and a huge neon hand flashing the finger at three second intervals. Whether dancing or sizing up her latest admirer, Fariah displays a weary amusement and a matter-of-fact satisfaction in her own eroticism that reminds us strangely of an equatorial Wife of Bath, a figure of all womanhood. And young moderns will appreciate the Femme fatale's Cheilike pink cat's-eye sunglasses. In both...

Author: By F. MARK Muro, | Title: To the Brazilian Beat | 2/5/1981 | See Source »

...plot follows the ceaseless tour of the "Caravana Rolidei," a hilariously low-rent travelling carnival under command of Lord Gypsey (Jose Wilker), a tacky magician impresario. With him is his lover Salome (Betty Farish), "the Rhamba Queen," a tawdry sexpot who moonlights as a hooker, and a Black deaf-mute muscleman named Swallow. When this troupe rolls into Pirhanhas they become the way out for an idealistic, accordion-playing farmboy. Cico (Fabio Junior), who fears an existence rooted in the sleepy backlands and joins the outfit with his pregnant young wife. The old pros and the innocents rattle together from...

Author: By F. MARK Muro, | Title: To the Brazilian Beat | 2/5/1981 | See Source »

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