Word: vinicius
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...moved on to the other group sitting around a television set that depicted a fiery but indiscernible image. “An airplane crashed,” someone said in Portuguese. Suddenly, our editor Denise started screaming reporters’ names and the newsroom plunged into frenetic activity. Vinicius, a reporter, stopped by my desk. “Want to come?” he asked. Five minutes later we were in a car, weaving furiously through heavy traffic on sodden streets as Laura, another reporter, bellowed obscenities of incredulity at the radio reports...
...soul--into futuristic music that echoes the past. On his debut album, Samba Raro (released last year on the Trama label), De Castro's lyrics, all in Portuguese, have an engaging, understated simplicity. The title song compares the movement of a beautiful woman to a samba (Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes made a similar comparison on their bossa-nova standard The Girl from Ipanema). Another song, Pra Voce Lembrar, tells the story of a man who breaks up with his lover during Carnaval. As the easygoing lyrics glide by, the focus for listeners is on De Castro's stuttering, intricate...
...first places we pass by is the site of the old Garota de Ipanema, the Brazilian bar that was named in honor of the famous song "The Girl from Ipanema," which Antonio Carlos Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes wrote in 1962. From my seat on the bus, I can't actually see the sign for the bar, but I recognize the outside from pictures. It turns out there actually was a "girl from Ipanema," Heloisa Eneida Pinto, and she used to stroll "like a samba" past the bar every so often on her way to Ipanema Beach, and her "tall...