Word: carioca
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Saludos Amigos (José Carioca, Donald Duck, El Gaucho Goofy; TIME...
Saludos Amigos (José Carioca, Donald Duck, El Gaucho Goofy, Pedro; TIME...
...Donald Duck's adventures on Lake Titicaca (between Peru and Bolivia); 2) the stormy flight of a young Chilean mail plane named Pedro; 3) Goofy (Disney's canine cowboy) as an Argentine gaucho; 4) a "Water Color of Brazil" that introduces a brand-new Disney character, Jose Carioca, a dapper Brazilian parrot, who is as superior to Donald Duck as the Duck was to Mickey Mouse...
...film (and others to come) Disney took 15 of his staffmen on a three-month, 20,000-mile tour of South America. They hobnobbed with artists and musicians, soaked up so much local color that when Saludos appeared, South Americans instantly recognized themselves. He constructed the character of Joe Carioca from thousands of papagaio (parrot) jokes Brazilians told...
When bluntspoken, disheveled Carioca* Villa-Lobos went to Paris in 1923, he did not go to get polished. "I didn't come here to study," blurted he. "I came to show you what I have done." When he had finished showing them his blunt, smoldering music (much of it written for Brazilian tom-toms and gourd rattles), the Parisians decided he was a sort of musical William Saroyan. His Paris apartment became a rendezvous for admiring Left-Bankers. Villa-Lobos, who couldn't afford to keep open house, threw them out, told them not to come back unless...