Word: carioca
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Brazil's cities are as varied as its people. The Brazilians of Rio-better known as Cariocas-are a lively, loving lot who live for the beach, the fast and easy deal, the artful fix (jeito) and fun and sloppy sports clothes. Nothing seems to bother the Cariocas. Because of power shortages, the lights in various parts of Rio are turned off at various times each evening. Instead of worrying about it, the carioca has invented a game called carioca roulette, in which he climbs into an elevator around shut-off time and takes his chances on making...
...whole backfield." How hard the money was to come by he began to realize as, groggy and red-eyed from an all-night flight, he stepped off the plane at Rio to meet the press and the heat. Both proved overpowering. Expected to exclaim about the charms of the carioca moças, Mike could only grunt about the weather. Next morning the papers smirkingly conjectured, "Maybe Mike Henry doesn't like women." Then, even faithful chimpanzee Cheetah turned on him. Filming a scene where they were supposed to kiss, the chimp suddenly sank his teeth into Mike...
...features the young Brazilian composer who wrote most of Getz's best numbers. Backed by Nelson Riddle's band, Jobim picks up the mike himself to sing, in a husky, rueful, rather monotonous voice, some of his subtle and insinuating songs (Useless Landscape, She's a Carioca, A Felicidade...
...Communist Architect Niemeyer. Rationed to two beers and a teaspoon of whisky a day, Guignard finished the brightly colored childlike paintings in 17 days while a record player blared Bach's St. Matthew Passion and Debussy's The Martyrdom of St. Sebastian. The critics were ecstatic. Diario Carioca called the paintings too good for the chapel...
...Cariocas. Stepping nimbly ashore, Ike joined President Kubitschek in an open White House Lincoln (flown from Washington for the occasion). Together the two Presidents rode through a wild, carnival-mood welcome by 750,000 happy cariocas. "Benvindo, Eekee! [Welcome, Ike!]" was heard everywhere. The warm summer air was filled with flower petals and ticker tape (a trick the Brazilians learned from watching U.S. newsreels), and the Ficus trees along Rio Branco Avenue looked like maypoles under their drapery of serpentine and confetti. Music-from God Bless America to Handel's "Hallelujah" chorus, with a strong obbligato of carnival songs...