Word: funke
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...Mexico City life made it one of the smartest movies of 2000, in any country; the hauntingly beautiful Behind the Sun (Brazil, 2001) and Argentina's bittersweet, Oscar-nominated Son of the Bride (2001). The leap, however, is most evident in City of God, whose driving samba-and-funk artistry provides a rare glimpse of the Dantean squalor bearing down on Brazil's tourist beaches. Hailed as one of the best Latin American films of the past half-century, it was snubbed by Oscar, many critics complain, because of its violence. Set in Rio's notorious Cidade de Deus favela...
...Crimson (1-6) seemed to emerge from its funk the previous weekend in Saturday’s first game against Bucknell, opening with a strong effort and quickly taking the lead...
...just see them as different sounds all in a sort of hot pot,” Vadim says. “There’s elements of all kinds of stuff in my music, because I listen to everything, from reggae, to rap, to hip hop, to soul, to funk, to jazz, to ethnic music...
...DIED. MONGO SANTAMARIA, 80, Cuban-born percussionist who fused American jazz, funk and R. and B. with Afro-Cuban sounds in such standards as Afro Blue, made famous by John Coltrane, and a popular 1963 rendition of Herbie Hancock's Watermelon Man; following a stroke; in Miami. A veteran of the Tito Puente Orchestra, Santamaria recorded albums ranging from salsa and contemporary soul to congo-driven percussion and chanting...
...exception is the Music, an energetic Leeds four-piece that takes its cues from Pink Floyd to the Stone Roses and have committed to an exhausting tour schedule in the U.S. Another less conventional method to break America is from within. Like Bush and Dido before them, the funk-soul duo known as Floetry are currently almost entirely unknown in their native London, but they're looming large in Philadelphia's neo-soul scene. Both graduates of the Brits Performing Arts School, Marsha Ambrosius and Natalie Stewart had a Top 20 album, wrote for Michael Jackson and were nominated...