Word: volta
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...menacing the country, while the Catholic "Bloody" Queen Mary's public burnings of Protestants (presented in lurid excess in the opening of the film) only intensify the conflict. Into the middle of this maelstrom, Kapur places Elizabeth: young, innocent, with flowing hair and a penchant for dancing the volta. There may be something tenacious and unreadable in Cate Blanchett's Elizabeth, but Kapur doesn't help much, filming the young royal in pastel gowns with a bevy of handmaidens and a robust beau, prancing giddily in some absurdly verdant corner of the English countryside. This is the Virgin Queen before...
Marques' fiscal heroics made her a leading candidate to succeed Cesar Maia as Rio mayor in last October's elections, but she chose the steel-company job instead. Now her goal is to revamp the internal management at clanking CSN, whose steelworks began operating in 1946 in Volta Redonda, a town 100 km northwest of Rio. Marques is introducing new management policies--such as dividing the company into separate profit centers by product--that are virtually unknown to Brazil's insular corporate world. "If I don't watch out," she allows, "someone will start importing what I produce within three...
College radio has become the exposure point for independent-label records. Over the past 10 years, the Record Hospital has launched the careers of many local bands. Members of The Lemonheads were Record Hospital DJs, and the program was one of the first to play Bullet L Volta, another successful Boston band...
...wisecrack that made the rounds in the 1980s characterized the Soviet Union as "Upper Volta with missiles." Now, as then, the economy is not that bad off. But Boris Yeltsin's Russia last week seemed closer to being a Weimar Republic with missiles. Images of violent communist-fascist mobs dedicated to strangling Russian democracy in its cradle no doubt helped galvanize international support for Yeltsin, a figure whose impulses are sometimes seen as suspect. The ambiguity of the crisis was reinforced by the televised spectacle of tank commanders loyal to Yeltsin shelling the Parliament Building...