Word: roda
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Dates: during 1968-1968
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...downtown Teatro Municipal, where he had just addressed a graduating class. Also reported arrested: Helio Fernandes, publisher of the newspaper Tribuna da Imprensa; Osvaldo Peralva, director of the opposition paper Correio da Manha; several high officials of former regimes; and Singer-Composer Chico Buarque de Hollanda. His stage play, Roda Viva, was recently raided by right-wing thugs and its leading lady was tossed nude into the street, supposedly because it portrayed sexual intercourse on the stage. In addition, as many as 40 Congressmen, including members of Costa e Silva's majority, as well as the opposition...
...warning against leftist infiltration among Brazilian priests. One group, calling itself the "Communist-Hunting Command" has fanned across the nation. The vigilantes have invaded even the theater, most of whose producers and actors sympathize with the left. In the midst of one performance of the theater-of-violence satire Roda Viva, a whistle blew and men armed with clubs, pistols and boxing gloves rose on signal, smashed chairs, cudgeled the audience and actors, ripped up the scenery, stripped the leading lady and sent her scurrying nude into the street...