The Marx Brothers: During the Depression, They Made Moviegoers Laugh

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I'm Mary Tillotson.

And I'm Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program PEOPLE IN AMERICA. Today we tell about the Marx Brothers. They made many funny movies in the nineteen thirties and nineteen forties that are still popular today.

There were five Marx Brothers. The most famous were Julius, Leonard and Adolph. They wereborn in New York City between eighteen eighty-six and eighteen ninety. Their father made clothing. Their mother wanted them to become performers. Julius, Leonard and Adolph started performing when they were children. Along with their two brothers, they performed in stage shows called vaudeville in New York. They sang songs, danced and told jokes.

Julius, Leonard and Adolph Marx began making funny movies in nineteen twenty-nine. They changed their first names. Julius became Groucho. Leonard became Chico. Adolph became Harpo. Another brother, Herbert, appeared in the first five Marx Brothers movies. He was called Zeppo. He did not play a funny man like the other three. He played a good-looking young man.

Groucho Marx looked funny. He had large black eyebrows and a hairy mustache. But they were painted on his face. He spoke very quickly. And he walked in a funny way. He played people with funny names, like Rufus T. Firefly. Otis B. Driftwood. And Doctor Hugo Z. Hackenbush.

Groucho was not a very nice person in the movies. He often insulted or made fun of rich or important people. He made fun of doctors, college officials, opera singers, diplomats and government officials. He even insulted his son, played in this example by Zeppo.

ZEPPO: "Dad, let me congratulate you. I'm proud to be your son."

GROUCHO: "My boy, you took the words right out of my mouth. I'm ashamed to be your father. I'd have horsewhipped you if I had a horse. You may go now. Leave your name and address for the girl outside and if anything turns up, we'll get in touch with you. Where are you going?"

ZEPPO: "Well, you just told me to go."

GROUCHO: "So that's what they taught you in college. Just when I tell you to go, you leave me. You know you can't leave a schoolroom without raising your hand, no matter where you're going."

ZEPPO: "Anything further, father?"

GROUCHO: "Anything further, father? That can't be right. Isn't it "anything father, further"? The idea! I married your mother because I wanted children. Imagine my disappointment when you arrived!"

Chico Marx talked as if he was born in Italy. He spoke English that was not correct. Many other funny men spoke as though they came from other countries. They were making fun of themselves and other immigrants who did not speak English well. Chico also made funny jokes about words and expressions that sound alike but have different meanings. For example, in one movie a woman sings with a very high falsetto voice. She says "I have a falsetto voice." Chico then says "Well, my last student had a false set of teeth."

Chico also was known for performing what was called the comedy of the absurd. He talked about things that were so untrue or unreasonable that they were funny. Here is an example. Chico is supposed to spy on someone called Rufus T. Firefly. Chico reports his progress to the man who asked him to spy on Firefly. To "shadow" someone is to secretly follow that person.

CHICO: "Well, you remember you gave us a picture of this man and said follow him?"

MAN: "Oh, yes."

CHICO: "Well, we get on the job right away. And in one hour, even less than one hour, we lose the fix. That's pretty good work, eh?"

MAN: " I want a full, detailed report of your investigation."

CHICO: "All right. I tell you. Monday we watch Firefly's house. But he no come out. He wasn't home. Tuesday we go to the ball game, but he fool us. He no show up. Wednesday, he go to the ball game, but we fool him. We no show up. Thursday was a double-header, nobody show up. Friday it rained all day. There was no ball game. So we stayed home. We listened to it over the radio".

MAN: "Then you didn't shadow Firefly!"

CHICO: "Oh, sure, we shadow Firefly. We shadow him all day."

MAN: "What day was that?"

CHICO:" It was Shadowday (Saturday)! That's some joke, eh, Boss!"

Chico also played the piano in a funny way. Chico did to music what he did to the English language. He made fun of it.

Harpo Marx had curly yellow hair, but it was not really his hair. It was false hair, called a wig. He never said a word in any of the movies. Instead, he acted out what he wanted to say. He could make people laugh without saying a word. People always knew what he was thinking. He made funny sounds with horns and whistles to express his thoughts and feelings.

In one movie, a kind policeman tries to give him some advice to stay away from bad people. As the policeman shakes Harpo's hand, you can hear pieces of silver that Harpo has stolen fall out of his clothes.

POLICEMAN: "You better come with me, young fellow."

GROUCHO: " Don't take him away, officer."

POLICEMAN: "All right. I'll let him go this time. But I want to give you some advice. You're running around with the wrong kind of people. Why don't you go home?"

CHICO: "He got no home."

POLICEMAN: "Go home for a few nights. Stay home. Don't you know your poor old mother sits there, night after night, waiting to hear your steps on the stairs?"

CHICO: "He got no stairs."

POLICEMAN: " I can see a little light burning in the window."

GROUCHO: "No you can't. The gas company turned it off."

POLICEMAN: "Now, what I'm telling you is for your own good. And if you listen to me, you can't go wrong."

As you might have guessed from his name, Harpo Marx was famous for playing the musical instrument called the harp. He made beautiful music like this on the harp in several movies.

The three Marx Brothers -- Groucho, Chico and Harpo -- made fourteen movies together. The movies made fun of officials in many areas of society, like colleges, hospitals or the government. The Marx Brothers made most of their movies during the nineteen thirties. This was during the great economic Depression. Many Americans had no jobs and not much hope. Many people went to the movies to try to forget their troubles. The Marx Brothers thought people might like to see funny things happen to rich and important people.

The Marx Brothers' first two movies were "The Cocoanuts" and "Animal Crackers." These were based on earlier shows that they starred in on Broadway in New York City. Some of their most famous movies are "Horse Feathers," "Duck Soup," and "A Night at the Opera."

In "Horse Feathers," the Marx Brothers make fun of colleges. Groucho is a professor and the president of Huxley College. He wants to improve the college by having a successful football team. Here, he talks to other college officials.

GROUCHO: "Now I say to you gentlemen that this college is a failure. The trouble is, we're neglecting football for education."

COLLEGE OFFICIALS: "Exactly, the professor is right."

GROUCHO: "Oh, I'm right, am I? Well, I'm not right. I'm wrong. I just said that to test you. Now I know where I'm at. I'm dealing with a couple of snakes. What I meant to say was that there is too much football and not enough education."

COLLEGE OFFICIALS: "That's what I think."

GROUCHO: "Oh you do, do you? Well, you're wrong again. If there was a snake here, I'd apologize. Where would this college be without football? Have we got a stadium?"

COLLEGE OFFICIALS: "Yes."

GROUCHO: "Have we got a college?"

COLLEGE OFFICIALS: "Yes."

GROUCHO: "Well, we can't support both. Tomorrow we start tearing down the college."

COLLEGE OFFICIALS: "But, professor, where will the students sleep?"

GROUCHO: "Where they always sleep – in the classroom!"

Some critics say "Duck Soup," is one of the greatest comedies ever made. Groucho is the leader of a country called Freedonia. He declares war on a nearby country. The movie makes fun of war, diplomats and dictators.

Other critics say "A Night at the Opera," is their finest film. Groucho tries to get a rich woman to invest in an opera company. The movie has many funny parts. One of the most famous is when fifteen people are crowded into a very small room on a passenger ship.

Experts say the Marx Brothers movies were extremely popular for several reasons. The brothers had been performing together since they were children. They shared a sense of what was funny.

In addition, they all loved music. Most of their movies include music. When a song begins in their movies, everything else stops. When Harpo plays his harp, his face shows how much he loves what he is playing. Then, when the music is over, the Marx Brothers immediately start being funny again.

The Marx Brothers' movies were like vaudeville shows. They contained something for everyone. There was comedy, speeches, music and songs.  Often Groucho sang a funny song. Here is an example, called "Hello, I Must be Going."

The Marx Brothers performed together and then separately for more than seventy years until the last one died in the late nineteen seventies. Their comedy influenced many other present day comedians including Woody Allen and Robin Williams. Critics have called the Marx Brothers the most influential comedy team of the twentieth century.

This Special English program was written by Shelley Gollust. It was produced by Caty Weaver. I'm Steve Ember. And I'm Mary Tillotson. Join us again next week for another PEOPLE IN AMERICA program on the Voice of America.

Great Thinkers: Charles Darwin and Evolution

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A marine iguana sunbathes on rocks of San Cristobal Island in the Galapagos Archipelago. The strange animals of the Galapagos made Darwin wonder about how species develop and change..

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STEVE EMBER: Welcome to Explorations, in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember.  This week, Barbara Klein and I tell about one of the most influential thinkers in science history.

Charles Darwin developed the theory of how living things develop from simpler organisms over long periods of time.  That theory is known as evolution through natural selection.

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How do new kinds of life come into existence?  For much of recorded history, people have believed that organisms were created.  Few people believed that living things changed.  What process could make such change possible?

These were some of the questions Charles Darwin asked himself over years of research in botany, zoology and geology.  He was not the first person to ask them.  His own grandfather, Erasmus Darwin, believed that species evolved.  And others, like the French naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamark, had proposed ways this could happen.  But it was Darwin who identified and explained the process, natural selection, that causes life to evolve.

BARBARA KLEIN:  Charles Darwin was born in Shrewsbury, England on February twelfth, eighteen-oh-nine. His father Robert Darwin was a doctor.  Charles' mother Susannah Darwin was the daughter of the famous potter, Josiah Wedgwood.  She died when Charles was only eight years old.

Young Charles was intensely interested in the natural world from an early age.  But his father wanted him to be a doctor.

At age sixteen, Charles was sent to study medicine at the University of Edinburgh.  But he did not like it.  He found medical operations especially horrible.  He later went to Cambridge University.  His father now hoped that Darwin would become a clergyman. But at Cambridge, Charles continued to follow his own interests.  There, he met John Henslow, a plant scientist and clergyman.  The two became friends.

A painting of young Charles Darwin

STEVE EMBER:  John Henslow suggested that Charles Darwin take the unpaid position of naturalist for a trip on the British ship H.M.S. Beagle. It sailed around the world from eighteen thirty-one to eighteen thirty-six. The main goal was to make maps of the coastline of South America.  The British government paid for the voyage.  But another purpose of the trip was to collect scientific objects from around the world.

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BARBARA KLEIN:  The Beagle’s first stop was one of the Cape Verde Islands near the coast of Africa.  There, Darwin noted that levels of rock extending high above the sea contained the fossil remains of shells.  He thought that this was evidence that the bottom of the ocean had been lifted up by powerful geological forces over long periods of time.

The Beagle continued to the coast of South America.  In Valdivia, Chile, Darwin experienced an earthquake.  He collected examples of plants and animals.  He also collected the fossil remains of animals that had disappeared from the Earth.

But it was on the Galapagos Islands off the coast of Ecuador that Darwin found creatures that made him wonder about how species develop and change.  There, he saw giant tortoises and noted that the reptiles were different on each island.

He collected birds, each with different beaks.  Later, after he had returned to England, he would be shocked to find that these very different birds were all finches. Darwin found lizards called iguanas that lived on land and ones that fed in the sea.

Darwin noted that all these species were similar to those found in South America.  But, they all had differences, or adaptations, that helped them survive in the environment of the Galapagos Islands.

STEVE EMBER:  Darwin sent much of what he collected back to England on other ships the Beagle met along the way.  By the time he returned to England in October of eighteen thirty-six, he was already a well known geologist and naturalist.  Within a few years, he would be accepted into scientific organizations like the Geological Society and the Royal Society.

Darwin moved to London to be near other scientists.   He wrote a new version of the book about his travels.  He also edited works of others about the things he had collected on his trip.  Darwin also agreed to write several books including the "Zoology of the Voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle."  But in eighteen thirty-seven, the pressure of the work caused his health to suffer.  He developed problems with his heart.

BARBARA KLEIN:  Charles Darwin had poor health much of his life.  He suffered headaches and problems with his skin and stomach.  No one was able to find out what disease he may have had during his lifetime.  Recently, some experts have suggested that he might have become infected with a tropical disease.  Others suggest Darwin’s health problems were caused by conflict in his mind over his theory.  Poor health would later force him to leave London and settled at Down House near Kent, England.

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A copy of Charles Darwin's notebook containing his idea of an evolutionary tree. The notebook is in the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.

Darwin began work on a series of secret notebooks containing his thoughts about the evolutionary process.  He began to think that animals developed from earlier, simpler organisms.  As early as eighteen thirty-seven, he imagined this process as a tree with branches representing new species.  Unsuccessful branches ended.  But successful evolutionary changes continued to form new branches.

STEVE EMBER:  Charles Darwin’s personal life was also expanding.  In eighteen thirty-nine, he married Emma Wedgwood, his cousin.  He told her his ideas about how species evolve over time -- what he called the transmutation of species.

Emma did not agree with her husband.  But the two had a strong and happy marriage.  They had ten children together. Seven of them survived.

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BARBARA KLEIN:  Charles Darwin read widely and sought ideas from other fields of study.  He was influenced by Thomas Malthus’ work, "An Essay on the Principle of Population" written in seventeen ninety-eight. Malthus argued that populations are always limited by the food supply.

Darwin would later say that this work caused him to realize the struggle for limited resources was a fact of life.  He said small changes took place in individual animals.  Changes that helped them survive would continue.  But those that did not would be destroyed. The result of this would be the formation of new species.

The British philosopher Herbert Spencer described this struggle as "survival of the fittest."  But biologists use the term “natural selection” to describe the evolutionary process.

STEVE EMBER:  Charles Darwin developed his idea slowly over more than twenty years.  He was concerned that he would lose the support of the scientific community if he revealed it.  He wrote to his friend, botanist Joseph Hooker, that speaking about evolution “was like confessing a murder.”

It was not until eighteen fifty-eight that Darwin was forced to release his theory to the public.  Another naturalist, Alfred Russel Wallace, had independently written a paper that contained ideas similar to Darwin's concerning evolution.  Wallace had reached these ideas from his studies on islands in the western Pacific Ocean.

With help from Darwin's friends, the two naturalists presented a joint scientific paper to the Linnean Society of London in July of eighteen fifty-eight.  At first there was little reaction.

Then, in November, eighteen fifty-nine, Darwin released the results of all his work on evolution.  The book was called "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life."  It was an immediate success.

BARBARA KLEIN:  The "Origin of Species" was praised by many scientists.  But religious leaders denounced it.  For them, evolution opposed the explanation of creation found in the book of Genesis in the Bible.  Today, almost all scientists accept the theory of evolution.  But many non-scientists are unsure about whether humans evolved over millions of years. In the United States, public opinion studies have shown that less than half the population believes in evolution.

STEVE EMBER:  Natural selection does not explain everything about why species evolve.  Darwin did not know about Gregor Mendel’s work on heredity.  And the discovery of genetics and D.N.A. molecules took place long after his death.  Yet, Darwin theorized in a world much different from the one we know.  That is why scientists today wonder at the depth of his knowledge and the strength of his arguments.

Charles Darwin died on April nineteenth, eighteen eighty-two.  He was buried at Westminster Abbey, in London, among other heroes of Britain.

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BARBARA KLEIN:  This program was written and produced by Mario Ritter. I’m Barbara Klein.

STEVE EMBER:  And I’m Steve Ember.  You can find a link to Charles Darwin's writings and research at our Web site, voaspecialenglish.com.  Join us again next week for Explorations in VOA Special English.

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Words and Their Stories: From Couch Potato to Cabin Fever

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Couch potatoes enjoy watching television

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Now, the VOA Special English program WORDS AND THEIR STORIES.

Some unusual words describe how a person spends his or her time.  For example, someone who likes to spend a lot of time sitting or lying down while watching television is sometimes called a couch potato. A couch is a piece of furniture that people sit on while watching television.

Robert Armstrong, an artist from California, developed the term couch potato in nineteen seventy-six.  Several years later, he listed the term as a trademark with the United States government.  Mister Armstrong also helped write a funny book about life as a full-time television watcher.  It is called the “Official Couch Potato Handbook.”

Couch potatoes enjoy watching television just as mouse potatoes enjoy working on computers.  A computer mouse is the device that moves the pointer, or cursor, on a computer screen.  The description of mouse potato became popular in nineteen ninety-three. American writer Alice Kahn is said to have invented the term to describe young people who spend a lot of time using computers.

Too much time inside the house using a computer or watching television can cause someone to get cabin fever. A cabin is a simple house usually built far away from the city.  People go to a cabin to relax and enjoy quiet time.

Cabin fever is not really a disease.  However, people can experience boredom and restlessness if they spend too much time inside their homes.  This is especially true during the winter when it is too cold or snowy to do things outside. Often children get cabin fever if they cannot go outside to play. So do their parents. This happens when there is so much snow that schools and even offices and stores are closed.

Some people enjoy spending a lot of time in their homes to make them nice places to live.  This is called nesting or cocooning. Birds build nests out of sticks to hold their eggs and baby birds. Some insects build cocoons around themselves for protection while they grow and change.  Nests and cocoons provide security for wildlife.  So people like the idea of nests and cocoons, too.

The terms cocooning and nesting became popular more than twenty years ago.  They describe people buying their first homes and filling them with many things.  These people then had children.

Now these children are grown and have left the nest. They are in college. Or they are married and starting families of their own far away.  Now these parents are living alone without children in their empty nest. They have become empty nesters.

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This VOA Special English program WORDS AND THEIR STORIES was written by Jill Moss.  I’m Faith Lapidus

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Rebecca and Gareth look at ways that crime can be reduced or prevented.

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Gareth: What do you think?

Rebecca: I don't know. A lot of times, I think people who commit crime might commit crime because they want attention, or they don't get the amount of attention that they feel that they need. They want to be loved, or they want people to pay attention

 to them to know that they existed. You know, - I'm here, hear me roar type thing.

And maybe I've heard things that sometimes, abortion might actually potentially

 be related to a decrease in crime rate, because instead of having this child that maybe you don't want, you won't care for, who will grow up feeling unloved and potentially commit crime, you don't have the child. So then, it becomes not an option.

Gareth: Oh, yeah, definitely. Psychologically, when you're not cared for, and you're not loved, and no one's ever said that they love you, that can have a huge impact

 - yeah, definitely. So to go from one foster home

 to another foster home to another foster home, and to have foster parents that don't really care for you; they just put food on the table, and they clothe you, and they send you off to school, and they never hug you, they never kiss you, that I'm sure will have an effect on people, and kind of maybe lead to more crime.

Rebecca: But I think another thing that could also be helping is we keep ourselves busy a lot more in the home now because of all the new technology. And you know, you can be online chatting for hours on end, or you could be playing video games. Again, a lot of the media tries to say that, you know, the video games is the cause, but sometimes I wonder if maybe because we're all at home playing video games, well, if you're at home doing something else, you can't be out there causing crimes, right?

Gareth: Yeah.

Rebecca: So sometimes I wonder if maybe that's related.

Gareth: Sometimes we don't even know our own neighbors.

Rebecca: Yeah.

Gareth: I once heard this story, I don't know if this one is true, but if a woman's - and this might be inappropriate

 - but if a woman is being raped, or someone is going to try and rape her, she should say - Fire!

Rebecca: Fire - yeah. I've heard it.

Gareth: Instead of saying 'Rape!'

Rebecca: Or - Help!

Gareth: Because with fire, it will spread, and it will affect others around that place where the fire started. So if someone owns a shop nearby, and they hear someone say - Fire! then they'd be more worried about helping.

Rebecca: Yeah, I've heard a similar thing. If you actually get in a situation where you need help, scream - Fire! because people come running because that might be immediately a danger to themselves.

Gareth: Hm.

AN OLD GOAT!

AN OLD GOAT!

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Killorglin is a small market town in Country Kerry in the south-west of Ireland. And yet every August 100.000 visitors go there for its remarkable festival: the Puck Fair. Puck is the name of a mischievous fairy in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer’s Night Dream and the Puck Fair seems to date back to Shakespeare’s day, even though its origins aren’t entirely clear. There is certainly a Pagan element and the highlight of the Fair is when Queen Puck, a young schoolgirl, crowns King Puck, a goat. As the Fair’s organizer, Declan Mangan, explains, this involves a lot of planning:

Declan Mangan

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The goats, they live in herds on the mountain, and I have a goatcatcher named Frank Joy, and he’s been doing this now for 20 years or more. And maybe a month before the Fair he’ll go on the mountains and spot a good looking goat, and the goat, it depends on the size of the horns of the goat as well, and when he has identified the goat the wants to get, he goes up with a few men, and they chase the herd down into a kind of a gully, and they capture the goat, with some difficulty, and then Frank brings the goat to his own farm, so that he becomes domesticated very quickly; three or four days, and he becomes quite time. And then Frank brings him into the fair and he’s carried out on parade through the town, on the evening of the first day, the Gathering Day of Puck, and he is lifted up onto a platform, which is about maybe 40 feet high in the air, and he presides over his subjects for three days. He’s Ireland’s only king!

BRAVE GOAT!

But the goat’s reign doesn’t last for ever:

Declan Mangan

And then, during the three days that he’s there, Frank Joy goes up and feeds him with greenery and ivy and drinks of water and all that, and then, on the last day, he’s taken down from the stand and brought on parade again through the town, and then within two or three hours of the festival is back in the mountains again. But, before the goat is accepted, he’s checked by the local vet as well, before and after the festival, just to make sure we’re not doing and damage to his Lordship!

BRAVE GOAT!

Puck Fair also attracts celebrity guests. One year Mel Gibson appeared. Gibson often seems to be in trouble these days. Perhaps it isn’t hard to understand stand why:

Declan Mangan

Mel Gibson, the actor, was here when he was filming Braveheart, they did some of the scenes of that in Ireland. And Mel came to Puck Fair away, and he was feeling thirsty. And at some times the pubs get so full inside that there’s a bouncer standing at the door, and he won’t allow anybody into the pub, unless somebody from inside comes out. And Mel was waiting to get into a pub, and he went up to the bouncer, and he said, “Look, can I get in there for a drink?” and your man says, “No, we’re full!” And it was going on for a while, and eventually Mel says, “Do you not know me?” He said, “I’m Mel Gibson, the actor! And the reply he got was: “I’m John Nagle, the bouncer. No!”

Neymar - rising star

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Neymar - rising star

 No começo de novembro a Fifa anunciou a lista dos 23 jogadores que concorrerão ao prêmio de melhor jogador do mundo. A seguir você confere um trecho da matéria sobre o maior ídolo do país, publicada na edição impressa de Maganews.

     Barcelona and Real Madrid offered €60 million for the Santos striker [1], but he has announced that he will stay at Santos until at least [2] July 2012. While on the soccer field [3] Neymar is a king, off the field he is a media phenomenon…. 

   Hundreds of girls packed [4] Uberlandia airport on September 20. They were not waiting forsome international pop mega-star or a Hollywood hunk [5], but a young soccer player. When Neymar landed [6] at the airport, along with the Santos team, the girls screamed [7] hysterically.Scenes like this have been common in the life of Brazil’s biggest sports star. The most charismatic andever-smiling [8]  Brazilian 

soccer player has become a major media phenomenon.  Neymar's face adorns the covers [9] of newspapers and magazines in Brazil and abroad. In June he was on the cover of Veja,Brazil’s leading weekly news magazine. Other magazines, like IstoÉ andCapricho, have also put Neymar’s face on their covers. Neymar was recently on "Programa da Xuxa" and even appeared on Malhação. He has more than 2.3 million followers on Twitter. 

Marketing phenomenon

Companies have also discovered that Santos star’s charisma helps sell just about anything and he hasbeen hired [10]  by large companies as a poster boy [11].  In June, his monthly income had exceeded R$ 1 million, including his salary from Santos.  Neymar's earnings could double in the coming months, as other large companies have expressed an interest in employing his services.

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Primeira parte da matéria sobre Neymar, publicada na edição de número 64 da Revista Maganews, com áudio de Thiago Ribeiro.

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1 striker – atacante

2 at least – pelo menos

3 soccer field – gramado

4 packed – aqui = lotaram

5 hunk – aqui = grande astro

6 to land - desembarcar

7 to scream – gritar

8 ever-smiling – sempre sorridente

9 to adorn the covers – estampar as capas

10  to hire – contratar

11 poster boy – garoto propaganda