Word: luiz
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bring their daughter to Venice to claim her husband, only to find that not only is no one sure which of two gondoliers (Marco or Guiseppe) is the actual heir, but also that both men have already gotten married. To make matters worse, Casilda is passionately in love with Luiz, the lowly drummer-boy of the Duke and Duchess and cares nothing for her predestined husband. The operetta is spent unraveling all this insanity and making sure everyone ends up happily with the person they truly love, as conveyed by various "patter" songs--bouncy, often silly songs with rapid-fire...
...line of patter-talk; they just weren't loud enough. Seth Fenton '01 as The Duke of Plaza-Toro seemed to have the "patter" down perfectly (try saying "celebrated, cultivated, underrated Nobleman" five times at breakneck speed and in tune), and his entire court (he, the Duchess, Casilda and Luiz) was pretty adept at dishing out the tongue-tying lyrics...
...armed forces," says Luiz Pinguelli Rosa, a nuclear specialist at the Brazilian Physics Society, "are continuing their nuclear programs." If funds for them are not halted, Rosa predicts, Brazil's military could produce a Hiroshima-size bomb in a year or two. Gary Milhollin, director of the Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control, a Washington think tank, agrees. "The State Department has not been willing to recognize that Brazil is a proliferation risk," he says...
...legislators are up for re-election in October and face enormous pressure from their constituents who worry about whether they will get their frozen assets back. "The poor are demanding I vote for the package, but the middle class will kill me if I do," says Congressman Luiz Henrique...
...yell too much and become hysterical," Kavera explains, "and old people can suffer heart attacks, and we don't want to kill anybody." He is willing to make exceptions, though. The last man he killed was a beggar who was trying to rape a three-year-old homeless girl. "Luiz poured gasoline on him," says Kavera, pointing to a 16-year-old friend, "and I lit the match...