Word: mardi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what happens in Henry & June? The main characters make urgent love, man to woman, woman to woman. They visit a whorehouse and watch prostitutes mime sex. They attend a dada Mardi Gras where nude women wear blue paint. But Henry & June is not a blue movie. Kaufman is a fastidious director; he bathes every love bout in soft focus, or covers it in lace, or reflects it in a goldfish bowl. It's not just that his intent is artistic, it's that his content is mild. Lesbian love, for example, was shown more graphically in Personal Best, Desert Hearts...
These are busy times for Rio's thieves, at whose hands the lusty Brazilian city is suffering a public relations disaster. As the tourism season reaches its peak with the pre-Lenten Mardi Gras festival, the number of crimes committed against foreigners has risen so high that officials have predicted the most lawless Carnival in 25 years. Many tour operators are dropping Rio from their itineraries, and group sales from the U.S. could be down as much as 60% compared with 1988. Hotels that used to be 90% occupied at Carnival time are now only half full...
...Mardi Gras...
...observer learns all this by interviewing a plate of superior grilled snapper at an amiable neighborhood restaurant called La Riviera, out in the 'burbs of Jefferson Parish. The snapper is the liveliest football interview in a town that has other important matters, such as the onrush of Mardi Gras, on its mind. "Joe Billy," the observer asked, "how will Elway do against the nickel, three pennies, car keys and a couple pieces of pocket-lint defense...