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Among wealthy Brazilians, such pastimes as sunbathing and the samba have been joined lately by stock-market speculation. Since May 1987 the bourse in Rio de Janeiro has jumped almost 400%. Lebanese immigrant Naji Robert Nahas, who alone accounted for nearly half of the market's trades in recent weeks, brought Brazil's bulls to a halt last week after several brokerage houses discovered that $31 million of his checks had bounced on them. To avoid a bearish stampede, the Rio and Sao Paulo markets were forced to close last Monday. When trading resumed the next day, the benchmark I.B.V...
...hard to sing as fluidly with lyrics." He will slap his thumb against his chest to make a bass tone as his hand becomes the snare drum. The mike, rubbed against his close- cut beard, can be the chug of a train or the swoosh of a samba beat. Whether in a Beatles number like Drive My Car or a dazzling reworking of a '60s classic like Good Lovin', the point for McFerrin "isn't to be instrumental but to tell a story. Like an actor, I get into character...
...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...