Word: jo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Itaipu, the world's largest hydroelectric project, which has a dam almost five miles long. To date, nine years after it was begun, Itaipu has cost $18 billion and has generated not a single kilowatt of electricity for Brazil and only a small amount for Paraguay. Says Joāo Camilo Penna, the Minister of Industry and Commerce: "We have $50 billion worth of incomplete projects with zero degree of usefulness...
Grief-stricken, Simenon felt an understandable need to make sense out of Marie-Jo's suicide. He began a journal, addressed to his sons and particularly to his late daughter. His first entry assures her: "This book will be not mine but yours." Not true. As it took voluminous shape day after day, Intimate Memoirs be came exclusively Simenon's, his rambling attempt to prove, as he assures the dead Marie-Jo, that "I have nothing to apologize...
Perhaps such a man should never have had a daughter. Simenon hints that D. made a sexual advance toward Marie-Jo during the child's eleventh year; when the book was published in France, D. sued successfully to have two passages making this charge explicit suppressed. Whatever the facts of this tangled, pathetic affair, Simenon proudly displays Marie-Jo's incestuous feelings toward him. He danced with her to the strains of the Tennessee Waltz wherever he and his entourage happened to alight. He wrote her passionate letters before she was twelve: "Good night, good night, my tender...
...capitalizing on the popular discontent with the military government, lobbied hard for the amendment, which would provide for direct election of the next President. The government has resisted, however, trying to hold on to power as long as possible. They prefer a gradual return to civilian rule, after President João Figueiredo steps down next year...
...Fatha" Hines. Rather, the Count's talent lay in his knack for organizing the tightest, swingingest bands in the land; populating them with some of the best sidemen ever to grace a dance floor or a recording studio, including Tenor Sax Player Lester Young, Trumpeter Buck Clayton, Drummer Jo Jones and Blues Singer Jimmy Rushing; and later backing the likes of Ella Fitzgerald and Frank Sinatra. Although his elliptically eloquent, spare style of playing, influenced by Fats Waller, gave his band its characteristic texture, Basie slyly soft-pedaled his technique. "I just play my one or two notes...