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Ersatz Election. Overwhelming problems still face President Emilio Garrastazii Medici, a former four-star general who was named President 14 months ago. Brazil's prosperity is benefiting mainly the upper 10% of the country's 90 million people. The more than one-third of Brazil's workers who are tied to the minimum wage (now $40 a month) have watched their real purchasing power shrink by about 50% over the last ten years. Then, too, Medici has yet to make good on his early talk of "free universities, free political parties, free unions and freedom...
Ruben's Life of Marie de Medici by Jacques Thuillair. 158 pages, plus 108 color pages. Abrams. $125. In 1622 history's richest and most lavish painter was retained by the vainest and most powerful woman in France to create an appropriate tribute to herself. The result -more than a score of enormous panels-now fills a whole room of the Louvre. There visitors are free to ramble past acres of pearly, naked flesh and hectares of jewels and velvet, observing Marie, attended by nymphs, monsters, peacocks, courtiers, gods, satyrs and angels, as she makes a near mythological...
...aside for the royal family on their ceremonial visits to Florence, thus meeting the heirs' condition that the works be displayed in a group, as if in a private home. The collection is the largest gift of art to a public museum in Italy since the vast Medici collections became state property 200 years...
...huge sums of cash raked in from an interest in an international slacks cartel. The homicide squad itself includes such legends of cop-hood as Detective Teener, who has been so chipped away by criminals' bullets that his body is composed almost entirely of spare parts, and Detective Medici, the Dean of Child Molestation. Put with all the robust vulgarity and double-entendre that Bruce Friedman obviously intends, the book's central issue is: Can 40-year-old Ken LePeters get his parts together long enough to become a full-blooded American Dick...
...seemed to work that way last week. In Brasilia, the President, retired Army Marshal Emilio Garrastazu Medici, who is usually withdrawn and formidable, declared a two-day holiday and played host to Pelé & Co. at a victory lunch in his modern Palace of the Dawn. During the jubilation over the win at Mexico City, Medici himself strode out of his palace in shirtsleeves to join a crowd of young Brazilians who were celebrating the national triumph in the streets...