Word: novas
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...happy to argue every debatable point in Roger & Me, "these critics see themselves as culture police, telling us what a documentary is. Roger & Me was intended as a movie for people to go to on a Friday night. It's not an NBC White Paper, not an episode of Nova. To the guardians of the documentary, I apologize that the picture is entertaining...
...weapons of modern warfare, none is more venerable than radar. The seemingly magical technology that enables planes, ships and artillery units to spot the enemy from afar has made the difference between defeat and victory in many a battle. In a Nova TV episode called Echoes of War, which was shown on the Public Broadcasting System last week, radar was hailed as the military's unsung hero of World War II. As physicist I.I. Rabi once recalled, "Maybe we could have won it without the atomic bomb . . . but without radar we could have lost...
...Costa, 43, whose unforced vocal range and sweet tones are the envy of her peers, has interpreted works ranging from bossa nova to tropicalismo to mainstream pop. Multi-instrumentalist Hermeto Pascoal, 50, coaxes music out of everything, it seems, from teapots to hubcaps to sewing machines. Singer- songwriters Djavan, 40, and Ivan Lins, 42, are purveyors of easygoing, soulful music in a sophisticated urban style. Djavan, who hails from the northeastern state of Alagoas, began making records in the mid-1970s; his most recent albums have included songs in English. Lins' songwriting is freighted with rich chord changes; like Djavan...
...quarter-century after the bossa nova, U.S. musicians, led by the likes of David Byrne, are rediscovering Brazil's spicy mix of African rhythm and European melody...
...work force will be eliminated. This means the loss of the Canadian and the end of an era. Additional cuts affect thousands of riders across Canada, and their reaction was loud and indignant. "They've cut the Maritimes and the prairies adrift," cried Charles Crosby, mayor of the Nova Scotian fishing town of Yarmouth. "The railway was one of the things that held us together...