Word: copacabana
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Reds planned to make further trouble before the October congressional elections, the new President settled down to run the government with a new, informal touch. The hard-faced bodyguards of Vargas days vanished. Spurning the luxurious palace quarters, Café Filho continued to live in his three-bedroom Copacabana apartment. When the usual motorcycle fleet arrived to escort him on his first morning's drive to the palace, he ordered the escort abolished. At least once in the first week he dashed home, stripped off coat and tie, and lunched in comfort with his wife and son Eduardo...
...With things in this country going so badly," growled the conservative newspaper Correio da Manhā, "a campaign to repress excesses in courtship should be put in the one-thousandth priority." Cried Lady Novelist (0 Quinze, As Tres Marias) Rachel de Queiroz: "God protect lovers!" Even the cops prowled Copacabana beach with noisy prudence; they made no arrests the first three nights...
...gauge the reactions of the hotel's Broadway-wise customers, how to flash his bright smile at the right moment, how to pitch his voice for the best effect. Eddie landed wintertime jobs after that, e.g., singing during the chorus-girl numbers at Manhattan's Copacabana. But his real break came when Eddie Cantor spotted him three summers later at Grossinger's and took him on a vaudeville tour. Since then, Fisher's easygoing voice has made 14 hit records in a row-his I'm Walking Behind You is this week...
...looks startlingly different. Her poodle-cut hair is dazzling silver, her inch-long fingernails are stained to match. Her dress is a backless, spangled sheath, and as she sings every inch of her lean body writhes feverishly. Last week, at 25, she was the headliner at Manhattan's Copacabana, and reaching for a spot among the top two or three Negro nightclub singers...
Manhattan's Copacabana is a Scotch and watering place for Broadway's well-heeled show folk, who come regularly to pay homage to such distinguished comics as Jimmy Durante and Joe E. Lewis. Last week many of the regulars appeared as usual, but among them were scattered plenty of newcomers: moviegoers of the '30s who had turned up because the name in the newspaper ads read ''Nelson Eddy." He had been away a long time; they wanted to make sure he was the same old Nelson...