Word: ipanema
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...first places we pass by is the site of the old Garota de Ipanema, the Brazilian bar that was named in honor of the famous song "The Girl from Ipanema," which Antonio Carlos Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes wrote in 1962. From my seat on the bus, I can't actually see the sign for the bar, but I recognize the outside from pictures. It turns out there actually was a "girl from Ipanema," Heloisa Eneida Pinto, and she used to stroll "like a samba" past the bar every so often on her way to Ipanema Beach, and her "tall...
...Back - Lennon/McCartney 2. The Chain - Lindsey Buckingham/Mick Fleetwood 3. Aja - Donald Fagen/Walter Becker 4. Sleepwalk - Santo Farina/John Farina/Ann Farina 5. The Girl from Ipanema (The Lounge Lizard Song) - Jobim 6. You Belong to Me - Michael McDonald 7. Don't You (Forget About Me) - Forsey/Shiff (Simple Minds) 8. Superstitious - Stevie Wonder 9. Honky Tonk Women - Jagger/Richard 10. Free Falling - Tom Petty...
Many Brazilians were outraged. Why were lawmen wasting their time harassing topless women in a city with one of the highest murder rates in the world? Protesters stormed Rio's legendary beaches of Copacabana and Ipanema. Women covered their breasts with placards that read DOWN WITH SEXISM, UP WITH PLEASURE, while men strutted along the shore wearing women's bikini tops. After three days of ridicule, Rio's Mayor Luiz Paulo Conde relented and declared that the immorality law would no longer be enforced. "This is going to be the summer of the topless bather," Conde promised, despite grumbles from...
...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...