Word: rios
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Their father, Wilhelm Marx, a distant relative of Karl, emigrated in 1895 from Germany and established a large tannery in Brazil. Mother Cecilia Burle Marx was a cultivated Brazilian who made the family home in Rio de Janeiro a citadel of culture where Enrico Caruso came to call. It was an ideal climate for budding genius, and three sons emerged as the most amazing and talented brother act in Brazil...
...wealthy manufacturer of Brazil's most exquisite jewelry. And Roberto Burle Marx, 57, is a Renaissance virtuoso: tapestry designer, tile glazer, chef, noted amateur baritone-and Latin America's most eminent landscape designer. For good measure, Roberto was displaying his recent paintings at a Rio gallery...
...nation's power production in twelve years to 12 million kw. This is hardly startling by the standards of developed nations, but much of Brazil's huge area (3,290,000 square miles) will be affected. Most directly helped will be Säo Paulo, Brasilia and Rio, which now share power from the Cubatāo and Furnas dams. When Urubupungá turns on, a grid will assure an even flow of electricity from the three complexes...
...Urubupungá project, besides providing rural electricity, will include ship and barge locks, making the Paraná navigable and giving the interior an outlet to the sea at Rio de la Plata. Moreover, the northernmost tributaries of theParaná nearly touch the southern tributaries of the Amazon. Engineers suggest that a canal might eventually join the rivers so that a vessel could enter South America at the mouth of the Amazon, do business along the interior route, and exit at Buenos Aires...
Apart from the wardrobe, nothing about this comedy wears well. Though Director Philippe de Broca (That Man from Rio) obviously hoped to make King of Hearts a memorable antiwar statement, his pacific gravity slows the film to a standstill. His lunatics are self consciously carefree, crowning the bewildered soldier their king of hearts, capering about the streets in a parade of spats and parasols. The warring troops are composed entirely of vaudeville krauts and British louts whose follies have been chronicled in a thousand previous service comedies. In a conclusion telegraphed from the beginning, Bates, who has miraculously saved...