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Economic woes hit carnival celebrations Tuesday in this city whose bayside promenade throbbed with the beat of "batuque" even through the darkest years of civil war.
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Heavy African drums that beat out "batuque" rhythms, bright costumes and masks were "de rigeur."
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You just turned off your eyes and sat there with the headphones on, listening to batuque or Bach or something" "
Speaker for the Dead Card, Orson Scott 1986
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