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Anita
Malfatti - Part 2 > read
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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Pronto...
Cheguei aos 50!> read
Nunca pensei que seria assim.
Assim tão fácil. Assim tão rápido.
Assim tão inesperado! Quando o bolo chegou, mais
parecia um incêndio de tantas velas. Metade dos
amigos sorria me dando as boas vindas, a outra metade
exibia um sorriso amarelado imaginando o dia em que
também chegariam lá. (...)
Por Celina Penteado |
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Being
a Lecturer, Being a Friend? PART 2
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Walking on moist and spongy
grass, over fallen leaves of oak, maple, silver birch
and willow, and listening to the gentle rush of the
river that flows behind our building in the wooded
Thomson Park in Scarborough, Toronto, I think of the
sea, the sun and the wide variety of flowers that
I left behind in Papua New Guinea. And I miss them
all. (...)
By Dr. Paul A Palayam. Roche, Ph.D.
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Brazil: questions & answers> read
Is it true that in certain cities
in Brazil Carnival lasts more than a month? It's
not quite like that... but almost. In Salvador, in Bahia,
Recife and Pernambuco, festivities really extend to
quite more than the four official days and celebrations
can last the whole week, aside from the preparations
that precede the official days (...) By
Capt. Donald R. Reid |
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Clipping Desk
Alberto
Santos Dumont. The real father of flight>
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In the United States, every schoolboy
knows that the Wright Brothers were the first men to
fly. In Brazil, everyone knows that's wrong - the father
of flight is Alberto Santos-Dumont. (...)
Source: The Christian Science Monitor
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Give
me land> read
Brazil will spend more than $1-million
to map two sprawling shantytowns as the first step toward
granting land titles to residents who otherwise have
no property rights in the sprawling slums, officials
said.. (...)
Source: Associated Press
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Lula
won support of toughest critics>
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Four years ago, the thought
of electing a radical former union leader from a poor
background made Brazil's business classes cringe.
But today, populist President Luiz Inacio Lula da
Silva is widely praised for reducing hunger and stabilizing
the country's economy, and he appears poised to coast
to re-election. (...)
Source: The Globe and Mail
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Brazil
tells foreigner to stay out of Amazon>
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Brazil
has rejected foreign proposals to buy and preserve land
in the endangered Amazon, just weeks before its negotiators
were due to their own rainforest protection plan at
global climate talks. (...)
Source:
Reuters |
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