Word: lias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...understood better," she recalls, "people I wanted to know, people I admired. The cinema began to mean something to me beyond simply being an actress." Moreau went back to work with a passion, and in two years she made four films, among them three of her best: Les Liaísons Dangereuses, Le Dialogue des Carmélites, and Moderato Cantabile...
...politics, Brazil's deposed President Joāo Goulart has reason to rue the day women got the vote. Less than a year after Goulart came to power in 1961, Schoolteacher Doña Amélia Bastos, 59, organized the "Women's Campaign for Democracy" to fight his leftist regime, sent her female followers to bombard politicians with telegrams, letters and personal visits. The climax came in Sāo Paulo last March, when Doña Amélia's women staged an anti-Goulart "March with God for Freedom." It drew 800,000 marchers...
...theory got out of hand. Ever since World War II, successive governments have felt a compulsion to build by spending wildly-and to pay their bills by printing more money. As President in 1956-61, Juscelino Kubitschek performed prodiies of development: a new inland capital of Brasiília, a vast network of roads, thriving new steel and auto industries, all at a cost of giddy inflation and staggering debt. His successor, Jânio Quadros, recognized the dangers, but quit after seven months, leaving the economy at the mercy of Goulart. In a 31-month spending spree, Goulart literally...
...anyone's knowledge repaid a cruzeiro; the new government is drawing up a list of the loans for possible use in justifying confiscation of his property. More than 500 phantom employees have been found on the payroll of Goulart's Planalto and Alvorada palaces in Brasília-all hired by Jango. Government-paid employees worked on Goulart's ranches; the Brazilian air force built landing strips on them; the Fundação Brasil Central pitched in on construction work...
Next day at 3 p.m., all across the huge land, church bells tolled, artillery boomed, factory whistles screamed and horns blared on thousands of buses, trucks and cars. Before the assembled state Governors, national Congressmen and generals in Brasília's Chamber of Deputies, former General Castello Branco solemnly took the oath of office as his country's 26th President. Said he: "I shall do everything possible to consolidate the ideals of the Brazilian nation when it rose-splendid in courage and decision-to restore democracy and free itself of the frauds and distortions that made...