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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.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • Heavy African drums that beat out "batuque" rhythms, bright costumes and masks were "de rigeur."

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • 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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