Word: helio
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...well-produced orientation video, Meireles likens the place of a Latin-American contemporary artist to the spectator at the back of a movie theater, watching the film and the audience reacting in front of him. So while he and other Latin-American artists like Lygia Clark and Helio Oiticica may have had their eyes on the art world, few could see them in the back row. Yet as his retrospective proves, he has consistently engaged, and sometimes foreseen, the same theoretical issues and artistic strategies of his better-known international counterparts. His installations of room corners, whose walls and base...
Police Chief Helio Saboya reckons that if his 12,000-member force were twice its size, he might be able to make a dent in the crime. But in a country grappling with a foreign debt of $112.4 billion, the budgets for local services are going nowhere but down. The policemen themselves, who know they are undervalued, lacking respect and easily corrupted, earn on average about $100 a month. "When you have a family and you're risking your life on the job, that's not much at all," says a young officer. His fellow patrolmen all have other jobs...