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...rural Ribeirao Bonito in the Mato Grosso on Oct. 11, another Brazilian bishop went to the police station with Jesuit Father Joao Bosco Penido Burnier to investigate the torture of two women prisoners. After a nasty argument a policeman shot the priest to death before the bishop's eyes...
FUNAI has tried to pacify the Indians by moving them to new lands away from the construction, but the tribes' delicate social fabrics have often not survived. Last year, for example, the Kranhacarore Indians of Mato Grosso state were moved to a plot of land away from their ancestral area but still only a few miles from the new road. Within ten months, Indian men were begging on the construction sites. Eventually, the government had to transfer the demoralized Kranhacarore away from the construction sites to Mato Grosso's 13,750 sq.mi. Xingu National Park...
What the Baroque is really all about can be gleaned from the original use of the French word baroque to describe irregular or misshapen pearls. Explains Kipnis: "In Baroque music of Bach, Handel and Rameau, the pearls are the musical forms-such as the sonata, the concerto grosso or the da capo aria. Trills, other ornaments, colorful dissonance, wildly uneven rhythms-all these are devices that create tremendous tension, yank the listener back and forth and leave him in anything but absolute comfort...
...nowhere in sight in The Seven-Ups. Like the previous film, and Bullitt, this is a Phil D' Antoni production, mindless and numbing. D'Antoni is more careful at limiting his hero's powers in this second-effort: delivering the further exploits of Egan's former partner, Sonny Grosso, he lends Grosso's fictional counterpart, Buddy Mannucci, an institutional weight that Egan lacked. Mannucci heads a special plain-clothes corps aimed at gaining arrests (by unorthodox means) of men wanted for prison terms of seven years and more. Mannucci uses most of his guile and gall to manufacture evidence...
Last Saturday, Robert Hart Baker conducted a solid program of Bach's fifth Brandenburg Concerto, Corelli's Concerto Grosso number 8 (opus 6), Mozart's Bassoon Concerto in B flat (k.V. 191), and Haydn's Symphony number 103 in E flat. Many of the ragged edges and hesitant entrances of the previous Bach Society concert had disappeared, and the violins followed concertmaster Lynn Chang's example, sawing into their strings with a vigorous attack which was missing in the first concerts of the season. Chang, who is one of the Music 180 graduates, was joined in the Concertino (solo group...