1.   American politics needs samba bands.

2.   As the game went on Wednesday, even the samba band in the stands began to sound less Dizzy Gillespie joyful and more Miles Davis mournful.

3.   At the height of the Brazilian campaign, samba bands dressed in the colors of the major parties parked their floats by the main beachfront highway.

4.   In one section, a Brazilian samba band keeps beat to the game.

5.   It is hard to put down a man who will pay for a samba band.

6.   Make them airlift samba bands!

7.   Tennis would surely be different with the ubiquitous do-it-yourself samba band that follows the Brazilian soccer team all over the world.

8.   They brought us their Viking horns, their flowing caftans, their wooden shoes, their samba bands, and their Irish lagers.

9.   A samba band played, people danced, and onlookers drank colored cocktails in test tubes.

10.   And the samba bands are there too.