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Many museums dot Cambridge and Harvard, if you're on an intellectual diet...
Summertime in the United States is wintertime in Brazil, but that doesn't stop scantilly-clad women from lying on the sands or men from exercising at one of the gyms that dot the beach. Snow is almost unknown except in the southern-most reaches of the country. In Rio the August heat and humidity can wear you out after one errand downtown...
...OVERWRITES frequently: one-sentence paragraphs dot the book. By the seventh or eighth time, they don't seem dramatic, just disconcerting. And she's far too fond of inserting quotations. Not quotations from contemporary sources--no one can object to those-but quotations drawn from the great literature of Western Europe. To cite Alexander Pope's description of the court of Charles II, written 50 years after Charles's death, is barely acceptable; quoting Dante on poverty to describe what Charles went through in years of exile is not. She has at least the grace to translate the Italian, which...
...admit that no names of Bradshaw's or Greene's caliber dot the L.A. roster, but the Ram secondary of Rod Perry, Pat Thomas, Nolan Cromwell and Dave Elmendorf is the best anywhere. The front four sacked opposing quarterbacks 52 times--second in the league this year. Wendall Tyler gained only 50 yards less than Franco Harris, and averaged almost a yard more per carry...
Today Contadora is Panama's star resort, with a government-owned casino and 210-room hotel (average room price: $70 a day). About 80 weekend homes owned mostly by wealthy Panamanians dot the beaches and hills. Palm, papaya and banana trees shade the island, and peacocks and deer roam freely. Temperatures climb to a torrid 95° during the day, but drop to a breezy 70° in the evening. The resort is just now entering its busy season, with the hotel booked solid through April. And, understandably, the tourists worry about the island's most famous guest...