Brazil - BRAZZIL - Betinho's death, Hebe Camargo, Xuxa, Gabriel O Pensador, Marylin Monroe, sex on TV, latest census - Brief News - Rapidinhas - September 1997


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TV 
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.

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."


Obituary 
Odd Man Out

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.


Brazil's 
X-ray

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.


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.

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."


Killing with
a Kiss

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.


Garbage Lessons

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!)


Heard the Last?

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.


Sad Portrait

"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.


Bad Blood

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.


One for
Abortionists

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.


No Harm Done

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.


Her Prince
Has Come

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.


Tamed Beast

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- 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

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.


Sinful Fragrance

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.


Big Shot

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.


With Police
Like This…

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.


Watered Down

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).


Here Comes 
Brazil

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.


Greedy Charity

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.


Music Naughty Thoughts

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. 


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.

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 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.

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.

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