Word: copacabana
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...JANEIRO, BRAZIL Copacabana Beach Partygoers dressed in white will boogie to pagode and axe music --Free --2 million expected...
...December 1999, many Rio hotels are offering relatively affordable rates, but prices at some are steep. A five-night stay for two ranges anywhere from $2,750 to $11,000. While the pricey oceanfront hotels on Copacabana Beach offer the best views of the festivities and dazzling fireworks, any place in the city provides respite from the wintry blasts of North America...
...where homeless children are hunted by death squads? White skins still lord it over black skins, but, unlike North Americans, Brazilians have a working concept of interracial society. "All colors merge into one joyous, sun- stunned flesh-color, coating the sand with a second living skin," writes Updike of Copacabana, the beach where Tristao meets Isabel. In a gesture of courtly love, he presents her with a ring stripped from the finger of a matronly tourist. The initials on the crest are DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution?). Tristao reads that as "to give...
...urban environmental disaster in progress. Rio de Janeiro has it all: air and water pollution on a grand scale, crumbling infrastructure, raging crime and sprawling slums. Rio even has its own troubled tropical forest, the remnants of which sweep up the hillsides behind the beaches of Copacabana and Ipanema. Those beaches have lost much of their appeal to tourists, because the ocean waters are polluted and because beachgoers are vulnerable to the crime wave that has overtaken Rio in recent years. The pollution problem is grave: some 400 tons of untreated sewage are dumped in Guanabara Bay every day. Indoor...
They began doing their Blue Man act on the sidewalks of New York City, once setting up shop opposite the Copacabana nightclub and enticing the overflow crowd to their own alternative "Club Nowhere." Later they moved indoors to various performance spaces in Manhattan. They created Tubes (named for the industrial tubing that snakes along the theater walls, hangs from the ceiling and laps up onstage) in early 1991 for the La MaMa experimental theater, then restaged it at the Astor Place Theater in November...