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...pictures and giving them bigger space. It may be that too many were celebrity portraits and glamour shots, but the galvanizing news image and the serious photo-essay were never squashed by the sparkle and hype that squeezed them. Magazines in the U.S. and abroad sheltered indispensable projects like Sebastiao Salgado's global survey of work, Alon Reininger's portrait of the age of AIDS and the essays on homelessness by Mary Ellen Mark and Eugene Richards. A few imaginative newspapers began generating stories that had the quality and ambition that used to be the exclusive domain of magazines...
...Savimbi's National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA). Apparently willing to forgive and forget, Neto's government hopes that the returnees, many of whom are technicians, professionals and skilled workers, can help rebuild the devastated country. Says Luanda's ambassador to Lisbon, Adriano Sebastiao: "All skilled Angolan workers who want to return will have a job waiting for them. What we need to do now is reactivate the industries that closed down when the Portuguese left...
...people are actually killed off during the fighting between the elite revolutionary cangaceiros and the beatos, the hired killers of the landowning aristocracy. Rocha deals with Warrior Saints and Dragons of Evil, cut off from the masses by their self-consciousness as legend and their mystical level of existence. Sebastiao, for instance, the revolutionary "Black God," seeks to "revenge the death of Christ with the blood of the innocent" (he kills babies) and to reunite the entities of the earth and the sea. In Terra em Transe the mysticism shifts to the realm of political and economic power. The right...
Cause of the panic was the allegation that men had been feminized by eating beef of steers fattened with the aid of a female hormonal substance, stilbestrol. The Tribuna do Povo reported that husky Sebastiao de Lima Serra of Aragatuba, 500 miles north of Rio, had suffered a "veritable metamorphosis, turning into a docile, falsetto-voiced creature of strange customs." Serra blamed his plight on the hormone-treated beef. Rio's state government proclaimed: "The necessary measures will be taken to end this evil...
Wing & a Prayer. In Pŏ;rto Alegre, Brazil, aeronautics inspectors grounded Pilot Sebastiao Afonso Corbeta when they learned that 1) he had been landing his plane at night on a pitch-dark 100-yard strip, 2) his carburetor was full of sand, 3) his tires were patched with cut-up inner tubes, 4) he had no pilot's license...