Word: rio
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sing. Balding. Can dance a little." But oh, how he danced! That was evident from Ms second film, Flying Down to Rio (1933), when he was paired with a perky chorine named Ginger Rogers. Between then and 1939 Astaire and Rogers made eight films-and movie history...
...Charles A. Lindbergh made the first solo flight; in Pompano Beach, Fla. Hinton was a Navy lieutenant on the NC4 (Navy-Curtiss) flying boat that crossed the Atlantic from Rockaway, N. Y., to Plymouth, England. As a civilian, Hinton later made the first flight between New York City and Rio de Janeiro...
...press, and were drifting toward totalitarianism. But with the Nicaraguan economy in a tailspin and public restiveness on the rise, the government seems increasingly unwilling to give free rein to so outspoken a critic. If La Prensa is crushed, said Vice President George Bush last week in Rio de Janeiro, the Sandinistas will "make it strikingly clear in the eyes of the world that they fear the truth." Perhaps the most poignant statement on the fate of the troubled newspaper came from a youth in the barrios of Managua who fought against Somoza...
Americans feel a little sheepish about complaining, or they should. The cheap-jack bungalow on the wrong side of the beltway is still no Mongolian yurt, no tar-paper shack in one of Rio's mountainside favelas. It is not Soviet housing, with the five-year waiting list for a room of one's own, and couples sometimes stolidly enduring their marriages because there is no other apartment (no other bed, even) to escape to. It is not like the arrangements in dense Hong Kong, as busily transient as an ant colony, or Tokyo, where much middle-class...
...might enjoy this Spanish Rioja, Principe Rio '75. The 1980 Vouvray has good nose and body and a fair price, $4.75, and the Duvino '79 from Northern Italy is a modest red, well worth $2.95 . . . At last, wine tasting with a difference. These oenological odysseys are conducted not in a living room but in well-stocked liquor stores in Cambridge and Newton, Mass. Like many other wine and spirits stores catering to upper-income Bay Staters, they are taking advantage of a new Massachusetts law that permits retailers to let prospective customers sample their wines. The law, introduced...