TV Madrugada Sexy The over-the-air channel, which didn't show any ratings during the period, has with Madrugada
Sexy (Sexy Wee Hours) jumped to two points, or roughly 160,000 viewers. Most
appropriate, the show produced by Daitan Video survives on ads for 900-number erotic phone
lines. Typical of the Brazilian TV schedule in which programs have no precise time to
start or finish, Madrugada Sexy goes on the air from Monday to Saturday sometime
after 1:30 AM. Lesbian sex, group copulation, sadomasochism, gynecological exposure, all is allowed.
The producers, however, have been placing a strategic strip to cover the erected penis in
scenes of penetration. "We show everything but penetration," says Carlos Ishi,
the show's director. "We are taking it to the limit until someone complains." Ishi shouldn't be too worried. Risqué action and talk have long been the territory of
prime-time TV. The all-pervasive prime-time novelas (soap operas), for example,
have a formula that doesn't allow for more than a few scenes before someone takes their
clothes off, makes out, or jumps into bed. Even Xuxa, the angel-faced blonde, who became worldwide famous and rich doing
children's shows, has a new program, Planeta Xuxa, in which she likes to tease,
asking her guests intimate, embarrassing questions. "Doesn't the purpurina (multicolored metallic powder used in makeup) get
inside there," she recently asked model Valéria Valenssa, who during Carnaval
goes to the avenue dressed only in some paint and purpurina over some of her
anatomy's strategic locations. From another guest she wanted to know if she used to pee
while taking a shower. Other programs have also been competing in this titillation game. TV Bandeirantes's Realidade
(Reality), for example, a brand-new daily show that starts around 7:10 PM, uses
everything as an excuse to disrobe. In its première Realidade brought strip-tease
pro Malu Bailo, who didn't take it all off, but bared her soul including details
about her lesbian romances. Realidade's director, Nélson Hoineff, has a ready answer to those who
question his judgment for presenting foul language and bare bodies during a time when so
many children are watching the tube: "I'd rather have the children watching pubic
hair than the cadavers in decomposition presented by the other channels at that
time." Herbert de Souza, the man who every Brazilian knew as Betinho, has always been a
fighter. He was born fighting against his hemophilia—he was only 15 days old when he
almost died of an umbilical hemorrhage—but he died on August 9 in his apartment in
Rio's Botafogo neighborhood at the age of 61. Betinho was victimized by liver failure
while fighting the AIDS virus that he caught in 1986 from a tainted blood transfusion.
Since 1993 he has been involved in the Ação pela Cidadania Contra a Miséria e pela Vida
(Action Pro Citizenry Against Misery and Pro Life), a project also known as Campaign
Against Hunger, which he created, dreaming of a Brazil more compassionate and just, and
less hungry. Betinho, a minuscule, wiry, blue-eyed workaholic sociologist, participated in many
other personal and collective fights. He had to battle tuberculosis as a 14-year-old
youngster. He fought the military dictatorship that took power in 1964 and for many years
lived in exile in Europe, Canada, Mexico, and Chile, even spending time in internal exile
in São Paulo's ABC region, where he lived for two years using a false identity. Herbert became a social activist as a student, starting at the Juventude Estudantil
Católica (Catholic Student Youth). In the early '60s he helped create the
Christian-inspired leftist Ação Popular (Popular Action) movement. After the
government's amnesty that brought him back from exile in September 1979, Betinho decided
to develop a project to democratize the access to information. In 1981 he started IBASE
(Instituto Brasileiro de Análises Sociais e Econômicas—Brazilian Institute of
Social and Economic Analyses), a think-tank that continues to help Brazil find solutions
for its social problems. Among the various efforts sprouted from Betinho's fertile mind
was the Natal sem Fome (Christmas Without Hunger) campaign, which in its fifth year now
numbers 350 volunteer committees, 30 percent more than last year. In their farewell to Betinho at the Assembléia Legislativa building in Rio, his wife
and children were joined by hundreds of friends and admirers. Together, TV stars,
musicians, politicians, religious leaders and the simple folks from the streets sang
"O Bêbado e a Equilibrista" (The Drunk and the Equilibrist), the song by João
Bosco and Aldir Blanc that talked about the military dictatorship and named
some of the famous exiled, including Betinho, who is presented as "irmão do
Henfil" (Henfil's brother), a well-known cartoonist who was also hemophiliac and
died from AIDS in 1988. Betinho was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992. Two years later, a police raid
on bicheiro (numbers game runner) capo Castor de Andrade uncovered a
secret list on which Herbert de Souza appeared as a beneficiary of $40,000. He didn't
touch the money, but passed it along to Associação Brasileira Interdisciplinar de AIDS
(Interdisciplinary Brazilian Association of AIDS). It was enough, however, to cast a
shadow over his reputation. Betinho didn't show any remorse or shame for this act. "I recognize that I made a
political mistake," he explained matter-of-factly. "Even knowing that the money
was for saving lives, I should have foreseen the consequences of this decision." And,
he added, "I am not a saint." But in his eulogy, former priest Leonardo Boff,
the prophet of Liberation Theology, a personal friend of the apostle of the poor, made an
appeal to Pope John Paul II to declare Betinho a saint. It was more an oratory
ruse, but the public cheered the idea loudly anyway. In a recent interview before his death with weekly newsmagazine Isto É, Betinho
said, "I cannot be happy in the face of human misery. The end of misery is not a
utopia." As was Betinho's wish, IBASE has lost all control over the growth of
hundreds of committees, food co-ops, and schools that encouraged volunteers to start all
over the country. It is estimated that 25 million Brazilians, 15 percent of the
population, enlisted themselves in the action against hunger. In 1995, on his 60th birthday, Betinho, after criticizing the government for its slow
pace in combating misery, talked with optimism about life and his hope of being alive for
the year 2000: "For a hemophiliac, to celebrate 60 years is already a mirage. It is
as though I had endured several deaths in all my life." Just a few days before dying he told his son Daniel, 31: "I want to be
cremated. To live inside a coffin is not a life." His last wish has been fulfilled
and his ashes have been spread over the flower beds on his ranch in Itatiaia, where he
loved to spend the weekends with his wife Maria Nakano and younger son Henrique,
14. How far is Brazil from the First World? Well, it's getting a little closer. The final
tally of the intercensus is in and many Brazilians think there are plenty of numbers to
cheer about. "Brazil's future has arrived," celebrated President Fernando
Henrique Cardoso upon learning the results of IBGE's (Instituto Brasileiro de
Geografia e Estatística—Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics) latest
effort to count heads and classify people. According to the intercensus, there were 157,079,573 Brazilians at the end of 1996,
compared to 146,825,475 in 1991, the date of the previous count. That means that the
country is growing at a rate of 1.38%, well below the 1.93% growth rate of the '80s. The new numbers also show a country with a longer life expectancy (67.4 years vs. 60 in
the last decade), less people living in the big cities (23.72% compared to 24.08% in 1991)
and more youngsters in the schools (67% of 15- to 17-year-old children are studying while
only 48.8% were doing so in 1980). The population's average age jumped from 21.7 in '91 to 23.2 in '96. And on average a
family now has 2.8 children and not 6.8 as in the 40s. Cardoso seemed worried with the
lower birth rate. "If the rate continues to fall at this pace, by 2020 Brazil will
have to start encouraging people to have children," he commented. Two leaders defend opposite views. João Pedro Stedile opposes her decision,
arguing that Débora has surrendered to the petit-bourgeois mentality. José Rainha
Júnior, who¾after being condemned to 26 years in prison for murder and is waiting a
second trial¾defends her action as a personal choice that "in no way reflects on the
movement's image." There are also those whose only complaint is against the magazine, who, according to
them, is paying too little for the pictures. The landless model has already decided what
to do with the $20,000 (about 20 years of work when you make minimum wage) she is
receiving: build her own house and take her children (Jacqueline, 11, and João
Paulo, 9), who are now with their father, to live with her. "It will be just one
more `less' in my life," she says with a street-smart smile. "I am already
landless, jobless, homeless." One of the pioneers of TV programming in Brazil and still going strong on her
Oprah-like interview television show, Hebe Camargo, 68, was caught off-guard by one
of her guests. Singer Rita Lee, 49, was so moved by Camargo singing one of her
(Lee's) compositions that she unexpectedly leaped on stage and kissed the veteran show
host on the mouth, while the cameras rolled right along on the live show. A straight-arrow married to Lélio , who refused to say a word afterwards, Hebe
lost her composure, but not for long. After a short embarrassing silence, she proved that
she still had her quick wit. "Do you know that my romance with Lélio started like
that," she told the impulsive Lee. Despite having to answer questions like "What
did you feel?" to friends, Hebe has nothing to complain about. She is known for her
own little scandals now and then. And her show really needed a little boost for its
sagging ratings. To address a U.N. international conference is no small challenge, even for the experts.
But for Maria das Graças Marçal, who makes her living picking up paper from trash
cans in Belo Horizonte, the capital of Minas Gerais state, such a mission didn't seem so
daunting. Marçal, who is known as Dona (Mrs.) Geralda, is also the coordinator of
Asmare (Associação dos Catadores de Papel e Materiais Recicláveis—Association of
Paper and Recyclable Material Pickers) in Belo Horizonte. She had eight whole minutes to
make her point in New York during the three-day conference on sustainable development.
What did she think about the gathering? "It was great. The problem is I couldn't
understand a word." And what about the New York lixo (trash)? "Lixo?
Lixo lá é luxo!" (Trash there is luxury!) Brazilians let out a collective gasp early in August before they concluded that the
news was either an extemporaneous April Fool's Day joke or a tasteless bluff. João
Havelange, president of FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association,
soccer's maximum authority) and himself a Brazilian, threatened to leave Brazil out of the
World Cup next year in France. This will happen, Havelange says, if the Brazilian Congress
approves new legislation proposed by sports minister, Édson Arantes do Nascimento,
who is known throughout the world as Pelé, or simply Athlète du Siècle (Athlete
of the Century), a title bestowed on him by the French. Havelange's threat was just one more chapter in an enduring feud between the two most
powerful sports characters in Brazil. "Pelé needs to remember that I was the one who
put all the pressure so he would be included on the national team when he was still
17," said Havelange recently. Pelé hasn't been ungrateful. He has constantly
repeated that he regarded the FIFA boss as a father figure. Even when Havelange barred him
from participating in the lottery that selected which groups the national soccer teams
would play in during the 1994 World Cup in the U.S., Pelé maintained his cool. Havelange's act was in reprisal for an interview the soccer player gave Brazilian Playboy
in August 1993, where he denounced CBF (Confederação Brasileira de Futebol—Soccer
Brazilian Confederation) for taking millions in bribes. It happens that CBF is presided
over by Ricardo Teixeira, Havelange's former son in law and still a good friend.
Since the interview, the two titans have alternated diplomatic disdain with open
hostilities. In a rare candid moment, Pelé told reporters: "Maradona told me once
that Havelange had become gagá (senile) and I protested. But I think now he really
is gagá. And I feel pity for him." Havelange's threat seems to have had the opposite effect he intended. Some congressmen
who were undecided or opposed to Pelé's bill are now leaning towards approving it. Even
President Fernando Henrique Cardoso called to say, "Don't worry, Pelé. You
have my whole-hearted support." The purpose of the bill—already baptized as
Pelé's Law—is to clean up the way business is done in Brazilian soccer. It would
make the teams of private companies accountable for all transactions—like the sale of
players to foreign countries—many of which are now done under the table. "A child's place is in school," says the slogan of the Brazilian government's
campaign against child labor. The catchy phrase, however, won't be enough to make Brazil
look good at UNICEF's (United Nations Children's Fund) three-day-long International
Conference on Child Labor, to be held in Oslo, Norway, starting October 27. According to that organ's preliminary report, 12.7 million Brazilian children between
the ages of five and seven now work or are trying to find a job. That represents 8% of all
children in that age bracket. The study also shows that 3.5 million children have left
elementary school to work and help their families. In 1990, says the report, 53% of
Brazilian children, or 32 million, were living in total misery and their parents were
making less than $50 a month. Traditional foes, Brazil and Argentina seemed to have solved their main differences.
But passions have flared anew, effectively reigniting the old rivalry. Recent comments
made by Argentinean President Carlos Saúl Menem to the daily paper O Estado de
S. Paulo did not sit well, even with some of his political allies in Argentina. Menem made it clear that eventual acceptance of Brazil as a member of the United
Nations Security Council would "break the balance" in Latin America. "These
comments were imprudent and out of place," said Carlos Alvarez, leader of the
newly-allied Frepaso party. In Brazil, former President José Sarney, now a senator, accused the U.S. of
being behind a row between Argentina and Brazil in order to harm Mercosul, the South
American common market formed by Uruguay, Paraguay, Argentina, and Brazil. "It seems
clear," he declared, "that the United States has decided to destabilize
Mercosul, breaking the strategic balance in the region." Sarney sees Menem as an instrument for the U.S. agenda. As for Brazilian President Fernando
Henrique Cardoso, he is only said to be "surprised" with the Argentinean
president's comments. It was a close-call (24 votes to 23) and a small victory, but abortion supporters were
celebrating the news anyway. After being stuck for six years in the Câmara dos Deputados,
the Brazilian House of Representatives, a bill guaranteeing the right to abortion for rape
cases and women risking pregnancy-related death was approved on August 20 by a
congressional panel. Abortion has always been illegal in Brazil, even though, according to estimates by the
Health Ministry one million of them are carried out every year. The new bill is being
opposed by a powerful lobby formed by Spiritists, Protestants, and Catholics.
Representatives for these groups started to jeer, cry and scream "murderers"
when the final tally was announced. Brazil's Communications minister, Sérgio Motta, also known as Serjão (big
Sérgio) and Sérgio Gordo (Fat Sérgio) has always acted as a loose cannon in his close
friend Fernando Henrique Cardoso's administration. Even with his penchant for
shooting himself in the foot, nobody was prepared for his recent interview with weekly
newsmagazine Veja, where in one breath he was able to badmouth 14 people, most of
them colleagues in the ministry or political allies of the government. "It was a
`sugary water' interview," he explained later. In it he called justice minister Íris
Resende and transportation minister Eliseu Padilha "nobodies." For a
moment everybody was betting Serjão was history. After all, stocks fell, three parties
that support Cardoso threatened to leave the boat, and the government's leader in the
House, Luís Eduardo Magalhães, hand delivered his resignation letter to the
President, all because of the minister's loose mouth. The quake has passed now. The stock
market is running smoothly, no party left the government coalition, Magalhães continues
leading, and Serjão keeps on talking. He has already been called "the prettiest man in Brazil." Now some people are
calling model and businessman Luciano Szafir, 28, the luckiest one, too. He has
been chosen by Xuxa, the gorgeous blonde Queen of the Shorties herself, to be the
father of her child. Intent on having a child, Maria da Graça Meneghel, had
threatened to use artificial insemination to conceive if she couldn't find a fitting sperm
donor. Szafir has modeled for Calvin Klein and Giorgio Armani, but nowadays his image is used
only to promote eyeglasses and watches made by Fossil, an American company that he
represents in Brazil. Being Xuxa's boyfriend has already paid him some professional
dividends. Globo TV, Brazil's virtual television monopoly, has already invited him to work
in a novela (soap opera) as an actor. Discreet, and very shy, Xuxa's elected doesn't talk about his relationship with the TV
star. But, Xuxa is not keeping any secrets. In a recent TV show she showed up dressed as a
bride and stroked her belly saying to the audience, "You'll have to wait a little bit
more. And I will have to wait nine more months." "What do people want to
know?" she asked. "Whether or not we are `nhanhando' every day? No, we
are not." Nhanhar is a new slang that means to make whoopee. The chupa-cabras, according to several eyewitness accounts, have been
seen frequently in Brazil as of late. The creature, which first appeared in Mexican
stories and then became famous after attacking she-goats and other animals in Puerto Rico
—it sucks all the blood from the victims leaving them dry, says the legend—has
already haunted cities in the states of Minas Gerais, Paraná, São Paulo, and Rio de
Janeiro. Brazilian ufologists have been enthusiastically following leads since they
believe that the creature is an extra-terrestrial collecting specimens to take back to
their outerspace address. For Cariocas (Rio's residents), who'll lose a friend but won't lose a joke, chupa Brazilians, who already made best-selling authors out of esoteric writers Paulo
Coelho and Mônica Buonfiglio, have found a new guru. His name is Fausto
Oliveira. Meu Anjo (My Angel), his book on celestial beings and twin souls, has
sold an incredible 700,000 copies in only three months. The philosophy of the 47-year-old Pernambucano
(from Pernambuco state) and former TV repairman is quite simple: good thoughts draw
good vibes. According to the book, every person has a guardian angel and 33 twin souls. Oliveira says that everything started after he had a vision of the Virgin Mary when he
was two years old. For close to 20 years now he has been seeing people in his
parapsychology office in Tijuca, a neighborhood in Rio's north zone. His previous book, Sabedoria
em Gotas (Wisdom in Drops) sold reasonably well, but didn't prepare him for the
phenomenal success of Meu Anjo. "This caught me by surprise," he said. Is this the revenge of the moralists? In the '50s when asked what she wore to bed, Marilyn
Monroe indicated that she wore two drops of Chanel No. 5 and nothing else. She
certainly didn't know that with this provocative answer she was contributing to the
extinction of pau-rosa, a Brazilian plant that grows in the Amazon. Very few people
knew. But the Robin des Bois (Robin Hood), a French ecological organization, is opening
the eyes of the world to this fact. They are threatening a world boycott to No. 5 if
Maison Chanel does not stop using the essence of pau-rosa to manufacture its famous
perfume. Created in 1921, this was the first fragrance introduced to the market by French
designer Coco Chanel. Why No. 5? Among several bottles with perfume, she preferred
the one labeled 5. According to America's Business Week, 18 of the 100 largest companies in
emergent countries—which includes Russia, Mexico, Korea, Indonesia and
Taiwan—are in Brazil, starting with the number one-ranked Telebrás. The magazine
tags Telebrás with a $43.3 billion market value. Spots three and four also belong to
Brazil, thanks to Eletrobrás ($25.5 billion) and Petrobrás (23.1 billion). The companies
are state monopolies in the areas of telecommunications, electricity, and oil. The
calculations were made in May. In July, according to American investment firm Morgan
Stanley, the value of Telebrás in the stock market had shot up to more than $51 billion.
Not bad at all. AT&T is worth around $60 billion. Car insurers and car owners in Recife, the capital of the Northeastern state of
Pernambuco, have just found out why they never got their stolen cars back. The police were
driving the vehicles and apparently had no intention to return them. "It was normal
practice for detectives to commandeer stolen cars and use them as if they were their
property," said Pedro Francisco da Silva, the security department spokesman. So Kafkaesque was the situation that all 40 cars being used by the department in charge
of solving car thefts were stolen. Authorities found out that at least 100 of the vehicles
being driven by Police in Recife didn't belong to them. With these findings, officers have
been without transportation in the city of 1.3 million people. And it might soon be
without a police force if authorities decide to do what civilized societies normally do
with thieves. It seemed like a great gift: 3.2 million condoms donated by the United States Agency
for International Development (USAID). Brazil, however, refused the present. Reason: the
contraceptive didn't meet Brazil's minimum specifications for the product. How could that
be? The U.S. sent a team of technicians ready to debunk Brazilian allegations. They were
soon humbled, however, after watching the work at IPEM (Instituto de Pesos e Medidas de
São Paulo—São Paulo's Institute of Weights and Measurements) and decided that from
now on they would adopt the Brazilian norms when donating condoms. The ones sent to Brazil
could handle only 20 liters (about 5 gallons) of water before they exploded, while the
Brazilian code demands that they hold at least 30 liters (about 8 gallons). The first campaign should soon start on CNN. In one-minute-long films, Brazil will show
that it has more to offer the world than tanga-clad babes and sensual dancers. For
this rare promotion, the country is reserving $15 million to be used until the end of
1998. It's a pittance. But for Brazil, which never learned that self-promotion is
investment, the amount is a fortune. Representative Paulo Bornhausen has introduced in the House a brief bill stating
the obvious: volunteer work is for free. No joke there. This was the way he found to try
to stop a spate of lawsuits from some smarter-than-thou people—the clergy
included—who engage in charitable and other non-remunerated work only to sue the
organizations that accepted them as volunteers for back wages. Charge this to the
so-called cost Brazil. In his just-released third and best CD to date, Gabriel O Pensador keeps on
rapping but with an extra dash of humor. Less than two weeks after being released, Quebra
Cabeça (Puzzle) had already sold 250,00 copies and "2345meia78" (a
telephone number), one of the cuts, became an instant success. Sony, the recording
company, was so ecstatic with the good news that they didn't seem worried with threats of
suits by people who owned that telephone number in different area codes and were being
bothered by jokers. Says the song, "2345meia78, está na hora de molhar o biscoito/ Eu tô no osso,
mas eu não me canso/ tá na hora de molhar o ganso" (2345half-a-dozen78, it's
time to whet the cookie/ I am at my rope's end, but I don't get tired/ it's time to whet
the goose." When you know that molhar o ganso means to copulate it is easy to
imagine what kind of call people with the infamous number are getting. With lines of
people waiting for a phone, changing a telephone number is not as easy as in the U.S. O Pensador (The Thinker) continues trashing hypocrisy, as on his previous albums. In
"Pátria que Me Pariu" (Country that Gave Me Birth), a play with the profane
expression a puta que o pariu (the whore who gave you birth), he says with raw
cynicism: Garbriel O Pensador became (in)famous even before the release of his
first album, Gabriel O Pensador , which sold 300,000 copies. In 1992, the rapper
composed a song called Tô Feliz (Matei o Presidente) (I'm Happy. I Killed the
President) when the President was soon-to-be impeached Fernando Collor de Mello.
The tune was played at Rio's RPC FM Radio, the only one that presented rap in Brazil.
Soon, then-justice minister Célio Borja decided to forbid the ditty to be played. É
Só o Começo (It's Just the Beginning), the composer's second CD, went nowhere fast,
selling only 80,000 copies. During seven days in July, 23 national apparel manufacturers used dozens of models to
exhibit in full view or through the veil of transparencies hundreds of boobies. The
message for the Summer 98 fashion seems to be: breasts are for showing. This was more a
show of areolas and thighs than of clothes, many of which were made from so-called liquid
cloth (a transparent material made by Brazilians using plastic and nylon with French and
Italian technology) and dévoré (a corrosive process that applies designs while
making the cloth transparent). The Morumbi Fashion show also ended up being a display of happenings and some
theatrical presentation. Controversial theater director Gerald Thomas helped to
create some of the dramatic stir. The more talked-about show, however, was that presented
by Lino Villaventura from Ceará. His show was a spectacle inspired by the nymphs
from Debussy's ballet piece "L'Après-Midi D'Un Faune," in which his nymphs with
fluttering clothes showed more than they hid. The fashion-show-ballet was a hit. And at
the end the public cheered with bravos and gave it a standing ovation. Like in the opera. 
RAPIDINHAS
Sex Appeal
Stuck in IBOPE's
(Brazil's Nielsen rating system) basement and having nothing to lose, TV Gazeta from São
Paulo used a daring although not original strategy that in less than a week took it from
last to second place among the graveyard-shift shows. The secret? Sex. Unabashed sex talk,
sexual innuendo and just plain, raw, explicit sex scenes taken from porno movies and home
video peep shows.
Obituary
Odd Man Out
Brazil's
X-ray
Behavior
Clothesless
Landless Débora Cristina
Accustomed to hunger
strikes, death threats, perilous cross-country treks, and months-long patience games in
which they wait for the most opportune time to invade a farm, the MST (Movimento dos
Sem-Terra—Landless Movement) adherents weren't ready for this. One of its members,
stunning blonde Débora Cristina de Moura Rodrigues, 29, accepted Brazilian Playboy's
invitation to show some of her own bare turf, and the landless have been at odds ever
since.
Killing with
a Kiss
Garbage Lessons
Heard the Last?
Sad Portrait
Bad Blood
One for
Abortionists
No Harm Done
Her Prince
Has Come
Tamed Beast -
cabras have become the name of a seasonal flu and also a new way to refer to boring
people. A group of homeless invaded some empty land next to Rocinha favela, Rio's
biggest shantytown, and called the area Vila Chupa-Cabras. The authorities didn't think
this was funny and expelled them the same day.
Tuned to Heaven
Sinful Fragrance
Big Shot
With Police
Like This…
Watered Down
Here Comes
Brazil
Greedy Charity
Music Naughty Thoughts
Pega essa criança com um tiro de escopeta
Calibre 12 na cara do Brasil
Idade: catorze; Estado Civil: Morto
Demorou, mas a sua Pátria Mãe gentil
Conseguiu realizar o aborto
Get this child with a carbine shot
Caliber 12 on Brazil's face
Age: 14 /Civil state: Dead
It took a long time, but his Gentle Mother Country
Was able to carry out the abortion.
Fashion
Show and Tell 
If those who went to São
Paulo's Morumbi Fashion show—in its third year it has already become the most
important fashion exhibit in Brazil—wanted to find out in which direction clothes are
going and what parts of the body they are supposed to cover, they learned some quick
lessons. Clothes are going up, down, and every other way you please—it is the season
of choice—and they seem intent on revealing more than covering. As for color, it's
the summer of no color. Almost everything is in black. 
The Morumbi Fashion also
revealed at least two new models: Ana Cláudia Michels, 15, from Santa Catarina and
Marina Dias, 21, from São Paulo. Two very promising talents, two completely
different styles. Ana Cláudia goes for the androgynous-aggressive demeanor. She has
shocked some people with a gallery of 16 tattoos spread over her body and four piercings:
one in the tongue, another in the nose and two others in each of her nipples. She dreams
of conquering New York. More traditional Marina is going to Japan for some time and would
love to make a career in the Paris-Milan circuit.
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