Word: amazonian
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...Amazons during their manhunting raids on nearby villages. To produce a suitable hypnotic effect during mating rites, the Amazons apparently played flutes, which are also carved on the cave walls. To this day, Sales reports, local Indian men forbid their women to play flutes, lest they take to reviving Amazonian ways...
Shades of La Dolce Vita−4 a.m. in Rome and Amazonian Anita Ekberg in full cry. Six carabinieri were needed at the Cavalieri Residence to quell the disturbance. It seems that Anita, after waltzing home all aglow with vita and vino, had yanked the covers off her sleeping spouse, Sometime Actor Rile.von Nutter. "I didn't want to hit her in the face," Rik explained. "I just turned her over my knee and gave her the reddest butt you ever saw. And that's not a tiny bottom...
...them." Nor were casual visitors to blame. Most menhirs were buried deep in the maquis (brush), some of them face-down or savagely hacked into two or three pieces. Describing his most important find, a 160-ft. hillock with 17 sculptured menhirs at Filitosa, he says: "It was an amazonian jungle. We crawled up it like foxes. Suddenly, I found myself nose to nose with a prehistoric statue. Imagine the suspense...
...highway from Brasilia to the Amazonian city of Belem that was completed in 1960 has opened up hundreds of square miles of virgin land. This fact, coupled with visions of towering skyscrapers rising from the freshly turned red earth, has brought speculators and just plain land seekers flocking from West Germany, Japan, the U.S. and other countries. They have bought up land for as little as 70 an acre from private owners, sometimes reselling it for as much as $2 an acre. Around the Hotel Nacional bar in Brasilia, some speculators regale foreigners with Bunyanesque tales of undiscovered mineral riches...
...Raymonda was a pretty, sugar-spun spectacle and, along with Nureyev's offstage antics, the roaring sensation of last year's Spoleto Festival of Two Worlds in Italy. Last October he rechoreographed the Petipa-Ivanov version of Swan Lake in Vienna. In his strong belief that "the Amazonian takeover" of the ballet has resulted in an appalling denigration of the male, Nureyev scissored Tchaikovsky's music, jiggered dances, and virtually reworked every number until the dreamy fairytale prince emerged as a rip-snorting hero who dominated both the dance and drama...