Word: money
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brazilians, it is an expensive affair. The poor spend a good deal of money on their fantasias and work diligently on them all year long, looking forward to the great day when they come down from their hills to take over the city's avenues. Says one favelado: "Those who never work begin to work for their costumes. Washerwomen take on twice their normal work load, and even thieves steal more. In the end, everybody works double." The rich too pay for their fun. Brazilian Couturier Evandro Castro Lima is working on ten dazzling fantasias for society women...
...everyone can afford to live it up more than once a year. But the poor Brazilian is kept away from places of entertainment by his color and his clothes; he wouldn't know how to act, and he doesn't have the money anyway. Carnaval is the only time of the year when the doorman or the janitor who has worked for the rich man all year long can dress up in the rich man's clothing and feel that the two of them have something in common...
...another Odd Couple, Mickey Rooney and Rex Reed. "Let's hurry this show up," cracked the much-married Rooney. "I gotta be in court. I'm gettin' another divorce, ya know." The most memorable set of seatmates, though, was Novelist Mickey Spillane ("I only write for money") and venerable Poet Marianne Moore. "This is gonna ruin my reputation," quipped Spillane, sipping a glass of milk while Miss Moore sampled the champagne. "Don't worry," the director assured the poet when she began tugging on her calf-length skirt. "You could have worn your miniskirt for these...
...home long. Having raised money and the support of Fordham University, he set off to Cuernavaca to establish a training center for a new kind of missionary for priest-poor Latin America. The Illich missionaries-priests, nuns, laymen-were to become a sort of Catholic peace corps, awake to the ideas, the language, the culture and the cruel economic and social realities of the area. The center was to become, as one admiring Latin American archbishop would put it later, a place of "incarnation," where Yankees would be born again with Latin American hearts. Gradually, though, its focus became wider...
...season's opening tournament on the first hole of a sudden-death play-off against, ironically, South Africa's Harold Henning. Thus Sifford, long the victim of the apartheid in pro golf, picked up $20,000 and became, however briefly, the first Negro to lead the money winners on the pro tour...