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...play. Barefoot, bare-chested youths in white cotton trousers will perform the traditional capoeira, a carefully choreographed martial art dating back to slavery that combines somersaults and kickboxing and prohibits contact with one's opponent. To showcase this feast of the senses, several major luxury chains--including the Meridien, Othon and Tropical groups--are offering packages for their hotels in Salvador, with costs starting at $300 a couple...
...show, like the portrait of his grandmother from 1900-02, are timid, earnest homages to Corot and Boudin. In 1905 he saw what Matisse and Derain had done at Collioure, under Van Gogh's spell, with the hot colors and white light of the Midi. Prodded by his friends Othon Friesz and Raoul Dufy, he began to paint the colder northern light of Antwerp in a fauve style. But in this early work there is a sense of discomfort. Braque did not draw very well, and, as he lacked the graphic fluency of his mentors, his responses to fauvism were...
...boost. During the first two months of this year, Pan Am carried 4,800 Americans to Africa, about 10% more than in the same period last year. South American countries, notably Brazil, are attracting greater than usual numbers of U.S. tourists. Says Paulo Marcos, promotion manager for Brazil's Othon Hotels: "Usually after carnaval, they all head home. But this year there are still many around, and we understand that more are coming in June and July...
...channel of direct communication when it is needed. The difference at these schools from Harvard, according to Ivy League student government officers, is primarily an absence of a particularly powerful faculty structure, resulting often in student and faculty cooperation for changes in administrative policy. Says Columbia Student Assembly President Othon Prounis: "In terms of influence, they're [Columbia faculty members] almost like students...
Brazil's Senate was coming to a boil over reports of U.S. investigations and potential boycotts of high-priced coffee. Then Senator Othon Mader rose to call attention to four U.S. housewives touring the coffee country as guests of the Brazilian government. "These donas de casa," said he. "represent a real power coming to examine our coffee problem. They may have such power as to change the opinion of the American Senate and even the Government itself...