Jul-Ago 2006 |
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Anita
Malfatti - Shifting Ground of Modernism>
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Anita Malfatti’s pioneering
role in the history of Brazilian Modernism has been
unequivocally recognized. This essay delves beneath
such recognition to underscore the role international
Modernist exhibitions and anti-academic art instruction
played in the artist’s early career [Part 1] (...)
By Marguerite
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Columns
Being
a Lecturer, Being a Friend? > read
He carried my luggage. He helped me to move houses.
He lent his car for our holidays. He stayed awake for
the better part of a night next to the telephone awaiting
my calls to know the fate of my family (...)
By Dr. Paul A. Roche, Ph.D.
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Brazil: questions & answers> read
1. Is it true that a foreign tourist
should never venture on the streets at night? 2. Is
it necessary to speak Portuguese to communicate with
Brazilians? 3. Is it advisable to take preventive vaccines
before visiting Brazil? 4. Is it possible to see Brazil
by railway, as a way to see more of the country? Aside
from Rio de Janeiro, Foz do Iguaçu and the Amazon
Forest, what else is worth seeing?(...) By
Capt. Donald R. Reid |
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Clipping Desk
Two
Brazilian candidates with much in common
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Brazil’s election season
is under way, and from August 15 voters will be bombarded
by free electoral broadcasts on television and radio.
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Source: Financial Times |
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No
black and white matters >
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Think of Brazilians, and a dizzying
palette comes to mind. Half a millennium of mingling
by Africans, Europeans and indigenous Indians gave
this New World nation a hundred faces and more colours
than Crayola. (...)
Source: The Economist
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Nova
Friburgo - a reference city for lingerie
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The Brazilian Underwear Fashion
Fair (Fevest) to be held between the 8th and 11th of
August, is going to gather 200 exhibitors from around
Brazil in the city of Nova Friburgo and hopes to receive
some 20,000 visitors (...)
Source: ANBA |
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Business
tourism grows in Brazil >
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According
to a study developed by the Ministry of Tourism, 29.1%
of foreign visitors who were in the country in 2005
came on business, against 28.7% in 2004 (...)
Source: ANBA |
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