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...offers more dancing in the aisles than Five Guys Named Moe, more exposed flesh (of both genders) than Miss Saigon, more relentless good cheer than Crazy for You and more Carmen Miranda fruit-bowl hats than any other musical in Broadway history -- except for its predecessors of the same name. Yes, the brainless Brazilian musical celebration is back in all its feel-good glory, blending campy musical novelties, twanging folk songs, a jamboree of gymnastics and color-drenched carnivals when the entire 75-member cast is onstage, shamelessly seeking to please. The show serves a more diverse, multicultural crowd than...
...crusty matron, was once an intimate of Ruskin and Rossetti, as she will remind you without prompting. Lady Caroline (Polly Walker) might be a pre-Raphaelite princess, but adrift in the jazz age and bored by the clammy attentions men pay her. The others, Lottie (Josie Lawrence) and Rose (Miranda Richardson), are trussed in marriages that seem more like mergers. Lottie's husband, an attorney, wants her to be a housemaid and party ornament. Rose's husband, a writer, wants her to stay at home, out of his lightly lecherous way, and tend the emptiness she feels after a miscarriage...
...DANIEL MIRANDA, who flew drug profits to Panama, will serve two years but then will get his pilot's license back, along with a U.S. visa...
...make peace with nature beyond the boundaries of the patchwork of parks and protected areas, which cover less than 1% of the globe. Through a combination of respect for the land and luck, the Pantaneiros have shown that this might be possible. At the headquarters of the huge Novo Miranda Ranch, manager Ito Menezes says, "The Pantanal has always vanquished human attempts to mess...
...Miranda's book may be uneven, but any novel with a silver-armed villain who suffers from an inferiority complex, an ecclesiastical hero driven by lust and armed with Gongora and a rapier tongue and set in a city where the whores exert the most influence--is irresistible...