Word: samba
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...achieved commercial success with the Purple Rain sound-track four years ago, he has been edging steadily away from its rock-like sounds. He has turned out an album every May since 1984, each with very diverse, direction-seeking tracks. Each has had sounds ranging from Minneapolis funk to samba to "house" music to the psychedelic...
Saturday's concert will last about two hours.In addition to Kay's works, the ensemble willperform "On the Nature of Things" by Henry Brantand "Introduction and Samba" by Maurice Whitney...
...February is usually carnival time in Petropolis, a mountain resort near Rio de Janeiro. But two weeks of storms washed away this year's pre-Lenten samba parade and general merrymaking. More than 20 in. of rain pelted Petropolis (pop. 250,000) and other cities, triggering floods and landslides that buried whole neighborhoods in tons of mud. By last week the devastation had left more than 200 people dead and 600 injured. But at least 17 people, some buried for 48 hours, were saved when civil defense teams pumped oxygen through tubes pushed into...
...struck by the time warp. Outside, the 20th century is petering out; in here, it's just getting warmed up. Enormous white tents suspended high over the dancers are lighted to blush pink. On the floor are some real hotshots. They samba, mambo, rhumba, tango, fox-trot, lindy, peabody and what can only be called, in street language, get down! It's like an eternal prom...
...glitz, in which an illuminated gas-filled plastic rainbow will arch 600 feet across the Charles River from Harvard's campus in Cambridge to Boston. Along the riverbank, a larger-than-life marionette of the university's natal benefactor, John Harvard, will prance to the music of a female samba group called the Batucada Belles. Saturday night the fete will peak in a pyrotechnical dazzle put on by Tommy Walker, who helped stage the finale of the Statue of Liberty centenary. Skyrockets will spell out the name JOHN HANCOCK -- one of eight Harvard men, thank you, who signed the Declaration...