Word: cavalcanti
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...blind man who doubles as "squopper'' or tragic chorus, a gypsy who spouts Greek that translates into Saroyanese. ("All is not all. How could it ever be?" ) Also in the cast of characters: a girl who is having a baby by an American named Marlon Brando Cavalcanti and who worries about radioactive fallout, a Scotland Yard inspector named Overboard, and a Russian who stands on his head. And then there is an "ambassador from the audience" who sits onstage and asks for encores of certain attractive bits of business, notably the thunder sound effects...
Emiliano Augusto di Cavalcanti Albuquerque de Mello-better known as "Di" -is one of Brazil's best painters. Fourteen of his cheerful, chubby pictures (including the three on the opposite page) are a feature attraction of the most comprehensive show of contemporary art ever staged in Latin America. In the exhibition in São Paulo, which includes 1,700 works from 21 countries, Di has a room to himself...
...Hours (Ealing-AFE) reduces Graham Greene's fast-paced, improbable story (Went the Day Well?) to a slow-moving, improbable film. Oldtime Director Cavalcanti, heretofore much admired by cinesthetes as a shrewd theorist of sound, is not helped much by William Walton's* undistinguished score, was not wise in splattering Prologist Mervyn Johns's excellent speeches with cheery bird noises...
...mulberry trees, tapping rubber, raising coffee. In 1933, 23,152 entered the country. A bill is now before the Brazilian Congress to amend the Constitution, limiting annual Japanese immigration to 2% of the present Japanese population. Foreign Minister Hirota wrote thus to Acting Foreign Minister Felix de Barros Cavalcanti de Lacerda...
...mention my having written two operas, i.e. the music. That is more important than my written criticism. I mean to say I have "set to music" a great deal of the best poetry of Villon and Cavalcanti with the intention of getting it out of books and to the consumer or recipient. When I can sit in the electrician's kitchen in Rapallo and hear the words (I mean understand which word is which not merely hear a blurr of melodious noise) of Maitland. Marquesita, Ferrari and R. Collignon singing Villon's poems in London I have done...