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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...
February 10 is here, and tonight in the Mardi Gras confines of Lynah Rink, these two reporters--witnesses of Harvard's 9-1 blowout of Cornell earlier in the season--and every other Ithacan will see whether the Big Red turns into the Little Red against the Crimson. Again...
...supposed to invite more than a superficial parallel with the Reagan administration, any more than Parador is supposed to resemble a real Latin American country. Parador is an American tourist's fantasyland, where everyone speaks English, where drinks are large, cheap and potent and where the annual Mardi Gras-like carnival is headlined by Sammy Davis...