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...little over the summer. (I bought a used book or two that looked like it might be relevant, and told my parents to pay for it "for the thesis.") Some people do oodles of research and come back at the early December stage, but my hunch is they loaf the semester away and reach December 1 no further ahead than the rest. So, figure out if an internship or time in an archive will best serve your thesis--and your mental well-being--and act accordingly...
...fortunate few who will be attending the inaugural gala will be entertained by celebrities like Drew Carey, Marie Osmond, Rick Schroeder and Meat Loaf, who will act as celebrity emcees at some of the eight official balls. Visiting students will have to scramble for tickets, since Republican dignitaries and contributors will get top priority--tickets sold for $125, though scalping will drive prices much higher...
...Next, the bus heads off to a mountain area called Sugar Loaf (the tour guide helpfully informs us that it's so named because early explorers thought it "looked like a loaf of sugar"). I gradually tune her out and I try to use what I've seen to come up with a deep think. When Jobim helped launch the bossa nova boom in 1956, it was considered a radical new style, upsetting to the samba-ruled old order. The "new way" (one translation of "bossa nova") was smooth, stripped-down music, but full of strange harmonies and unusual syncopation...
...reach Sugar Loaf and take a car suspended by cables to a lower peak, called Morro da Urca. It's a pretty exotic name, I decide, for a place that has the cheesy Kathleen Turner/Michael Douglas adventure comedy "Romancing the Stone" playing on the television in the bar next to the gift shop. We take another car to a second, higher peak. I find out that Portuguese explorers thought the peaks looked like the clay molds used to press sugar into conical lumps, so they called the place Sugar Loaf; plus they mispronounced the original Indian name. Whatever the Indian...
...From the peak of Sugar Loaf (which is 1,299 feet high) you can see all of Rio, as well as the neighboring peak of Corcovado, the famous mountain with the huge statue at its peak of Christ the Redeemer (Cristo Redentor) with his arms stretched out like he's welcoming you home after a lifetime of really screwing up big time. The statue is visible from pretty much everywhere in Rio. Corcovado inspired Jobim to write the song of the same name (called "Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars" in English), which even today endures as one of the finest...