Word: ipanema
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...between skewers, you can sit back, try to digest, and enjoy the live Brazilian music. A small band cranks out such quintessential Brazilian songs as "The Girl from Ipanema." Apparently this is the restaurant's stock song--when the band takes a break they pipe in a recorded version of "Girl" through the speakers. Nonetheless, it adds a pleasant touch to the dining experience...
...production also benefits from excellent costumes, designed by Betty McNally and a fair sized orchestra (which for some unknown reason interspersed the Guys and Dolls instrumental score with numerous renditions of the jazz standard, "Making Whoopee" and an ebullient "The Girl from Ipanema...
...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...
...only is there temptation to break the law; there is no incentive to enforce it. Policemen know killers may do little prison time. "When you arrest a person, they know who stuck them in jail," says a 29-year-old officer in Ipanema, "and when they get out, they'll come to get you. I have a wife and daughter, and I'm not going to let that happen to me or them...