Word: este
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CHICO MENDES: VOICE OF THE AMAZON (TBS, Nov. 1, 10:05 p.m. EST). This one-hour documentary focuses on the martyred Brazilian's efforts to save the Amazonian rain forest and includes the last television interview Mendes gave before his 1988 assassination...
...news. A quarter-century later, they are still just talking. But upstart Cable News Network, the 24-hour information service that began in 1980 and reaches 52 million households, has taken that step. Last week CNN launched The World Today, a 60-minute newscast (airtime: 6 to 7 p.m. EST) that in much of the U.S. competes head to head with the shows anchored by Dan Rather, Tom Brokaw and Peter Jennings...
Latin music--qu'est-ce que c'est? That was the question on the minds of 300 people yesterday as they listened to musician David Byrne explain his recent foray into Afro-Brazilian rhythm...
What the assassination ban amounts to in practice is a rule against killing people whose names you know. Killing anonymous soldiers or even civilians is merely war. C'est la guerre. Killing someone with a name attached is assassination. Not done, old chap...
...severe test for Picasso, whose Blue and Rose periods had been full of both. (On the other hand, both men's paintings and collages were seeded with puns, sly allusions and In jokes: when the fragmentary writing on one of Picasso's paintings from 1912 declares that "Notre Avenir est dans l'air ((Our Future is in the air))," one remembers that the two men liked to wear mechanics' clothes and compare themselves to the Wright brothers, who had given flying shows in Paris in 1908, and that Picasso's nickname for Braque was "Wilbourg" -- Wilbur.) It is difficult, subtle...