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...from the hardscrabble northeast state of Alagoas, where political ambushes are the rule, not the exception. For more than 20 years, Góes Monteiro and his family ran the state as a private political reserve. Once, when a political enemy was mysteriously killed, Góes Monteiro ordered samba music played on public loudspeakers...
...tenth Station, paralleling the moment when Christ is stripped of his clothes, a band of ragged Brazilian peasants straggles onto one end of the field. They watch in silence while dozens of flamboyantly dressed carnival dancers do the samba and throw paper streamers. Asked how much he paid for his costume, one dancer replies: "Ten million cruzeiros." The samba suddenly breaks into a tortured twist. Finally, of course, humanity is crucified-all 720 players form a giant Cross and carry their torches into the night to the tune of the Colonel Bogey March...
...French embassy was smeared with ink and tar. and someone painted "Lobsters yes, De Gaulle no" on a downtown wall. Brazilian diplomats boycotted a dinner aboard the liner France when it docked at Rio, sales of French wines slumped, and Carnival revelers dressed as lobsters danced a new lobster samba. Inevitably, in newspaper cartoons o grande Carlos was depicted as a long-nosed lobster...
Satins & Silks. This week the night of glory rolls around again. And up on the hillsides, no one is better prepared than the 12,000 glory-minded people in the Salgueiro favela on the city's industrial north side. Salgueiro's samba club started planning early. Those who could read pored over history books at the national library to find a theme; sewing machines whirred through billows of satins and silks, artisans hammered away on floats, musicians thrummed their drums, and thousands of lively feet ran through dance routines over and over again...
Salgueiro's extravaganza costs something like $140,000, more than a month's wages contributed by each member of the samba club. The money comes from savings, from stickups, from the world's oldest profession, from pay-as-you-guzzle drinking parties. But everyone contributes, and everyone wants to dance. Says Salgueiro's Carnival Director Joaquim Casemiro, known to his fellows as "Droopy Drawers": "I direct them only with a whistle. I don't need a gun or a knife. I've never had to shoot anyone yet in Salgueiro to get them...