Briefly popular in the ’40s, the ’60s, and the ’80s, Brazilian music is now making one of its periodic ________ into the American ________.
- forays . . . consciousness
- escapes . . . miasma
- appearances . . . discourse
- eclipses . . . scene
- invasions . . . liturgy
(A. forays . . . consciousness) Forays (a brief venture), appearances, and maybe even invasions would seem to fit the first blank, but discourse and liturgy make no sense in this context, so the second noun must be consciousness.