Word: salvadore
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...north of Rio, the city of Salvador da Bahia, which will be celebrating its 450th birthday, promises to have the country's most sizzling street party. For the Bom Jesus dos Navegantes celebration, which honors sailors, thousands of boats with banners aflutter will fill the harbor. Along the ancient cobblestone avenues and more modern thoroughfares, trios eletricos, samba-reggae bands on trucks with eardrum-shattering loudspeakers, will 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...
...resolutions and letters circulate condemning the conflicts in Colombia and Mexico and call for peace. If the U.S. is willing to aid any country militarily, it must also be prepared to become involved in the wars recipient countries are fighting. With recent comparisons to the U.S. involvement in El Salvador in the 1980s and even to Vietnam, recognition of the role we play in these conflicts is not forthcoming...
...BOZENA, 28-33 Circle of Hell: II Seems like: Salvador Dali, the clown Next Seinfeld...
...Salvador Dali paints The Lord's Supper...
...artists can only be described as enormously influential. Hemingway was suspected of lifting passages in A Farewell to Arms from Glimp's novella Say Goodbye to Your Feet, a tender love story set amid the depravities of the Bulgarian-Estonian war. Visiting Paris one weekend, Glimp told the young Salvador Dali, "I like the watches, but why are they all so hard? A watch should be soft." Later that day, he bumped into Henry Miller and startled him by shouting, "Your stuff is boring! Get some sex into it!" Once asked about Cubism's debt to Glimp, Picasso angrily replied...