1.   The tension between expectation of victory and intolerance of defeat is as indelibly part of this team as the samba rhythm to which it plays.

2.   Think of a musical tiki bar, complete with cha-cha-cha choruses, Boingy Baxter steel guitars and loony samba rhythms.

3.   This genre-hopping quartet looks to Brazil on its newest album, singing in English, Japanese and Portuguese with smooth, soulful arrangements and vicious samba rhythms.

4.   In the northeastern city of Salvador da Bahia, tens of thousands clogged the colonial center where the band Olodum played the national anthem in a samba rhythm.

5.   Norwegians took the streets singing and playing catching Brazilian samba rhythms.

6.   The samba rhythm is already sounding in the economy.