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...coast, Salvador, Brazil's oldest and fifth largest city (850,000 people) is the quintessence of African Brazil, a mellow, languorous city of rich, luminous colors that smells of dende oil, coconut milk and malagueta pepper and resounds to the throaty, metal-stringed strum of the African berimbau. To the north, once-sleepy Belem has turned into a throbbing mainstream of the Amazon's economic life, thanks to the highway linking it to Brasilia. In the remote Amazon city of Manaus, Brazil's fabled old turn-of-the-century rubber capital, life moves almost as languidly...
...corner newsstand is doing a nice business with its tropical fruit lifesavers. Banana lifesavers, mango lifesavers, coconut, pineapple, tangerine and orange. An ecstasy of esters. Looking into the newsstand through the large window heaped with apples and oranges, the old man with the dirty magazine is the center of a depraved still life...
...Square is to their taste, the flood of objects, people, shoes in store windows, neon signs half put out and grimy behind the light, candy boxes wrapped in shiny green and sculptured, candied loaves piled on display. Through all and over all the too sweet smell of oil of coconut...
...entirely to themselves. Opposing the merger were the leaders of Goa's 250,000 Roman Catholics, a powerful force in themselves. "Think Goan," pleaded priests from their pulpits, while Catholic politicians of the United Goan Party handed out surplus American wheat to Goans who would swear on a coconut (the local equivalent of the Bible) to vote against merger...
Local color-real and synthetic-is everywhere on Kauai. At the Coco Palms, surrounded by Hawaii's largest coconut orchard, conch shells are sounded each evening, while runners race through the darkened groves, whirling their flaming torches and lighting up flares, just as they did in the courts of the alii (chieftains). The Hanalei Plantation (opposite), which includes a 20th Century Fox set designer's re-creation of a Hawaiian monarch's palace, overlooks the beach where Mitzi Gaynor washed that man right outa her hair in South Pacific. Owner Lyle Guslander, who has built hotels...