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DIED. Marcus Vinicius Cruz de Mello Moraes, 66, Brazilian poet, dramatist and lyricist who collaborated with Composer Antonio Carlos Jobim on the international hit The Girl from Ipanema and on the musical drama Orfeu da Conceição, which became the basis for the film Black Orpheus; of a lung ailment; in Rio de Janeiro. Moraes served in Brazil's diplomatic corps until the country's puritanical military bosses fired him for his "vagabond" ways, which included nine marriages. In his later years he was a fixture at Rio's all-night...
...second thing you learn about Brazil is that Brazilians love their beach. The shores of Ipanema and Leblon, sparsely populated during the week, are jammed each weekend with government workers who jet in from Brasilia--the nation's capital--to escape the boredom of a city built from scratch in the isolated interior. Four-story apartment buildings and kids playing futebol line the quiet streets of these neighborhoods although the construction of a high-rise hotel occasionally pierces the calm. These districts have their weekly fruit-and-vegetable market on a sidestreet like the famous "Copacabana." But Copacabana has been...
...office. Some 120,000 Brazilians bought tickets to hear Frank Sinatra sing in Rio de Janeiro's Maracanã stadium. On four nights before his stadium appearance, capacity crowds paid $450 a head to hear Ol' Blue Eyes warble The Coffee Song and The Girl from Ipanema along with his golden oldies while they dined on lobster salad, beef heart and French champagne at the opulent new Rio Palace Hotel. But as usual the boy from Hoboken did the gig his way. Flying down to Rio with a surprise fellow traveler, Spiro Agnew-"I'm here...
...Brazil is not just thythm and poetry and exquisite color prints. You will walk through Rio de Janeiro, city beneath Sugarloaf Mountain, between Copacabana and Ipanema beaches, but also a city where, two blocks behind a luxury hotel begins a shanty town of 'favelas'" crowded on sewerless hillsides where plague lingers in the streets. Favelas that disgorge beggars who make rich tourists shiver and toss coins. Magic? Hardly...
...noticeably callipygian, sports one but has yet to be photographed from astern. In the U.S., the cheeky look has already begun to surface at pools and beaches from California to New York. By midsummer, any comely norte-americana miss can be the Girl from Ipanema...