Word: rios
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...review a film which every one already knows is funny? You might be perverse and say it isn't. But then even Harvey Harper, who lives in my entry and, well, hardly ever goes to the movies, said, "Oh, That Man From Rio is funny. And the film causes me to recall all the adventure films I have seen, as it were...
THAT MAN FROM RIO. Jean-Paul Belmondo dodges poisoned darts and mad scientists in a wildly hilarious parody of Hollywood's next-earthquake-please epics...
COCA-COLA lets the fairgoer wander at will, sampling the sights and smells of a Hong Kong street, the Taj Mahal, an Alpine resort, a Cambodian rain forest, and a cruise ship off Rio...
...would reside during six of his 25 days abroad, had been refitted with special communications equipment, furniture from the French National Museums, and paintings by Rouault and Utrillo. In Buenos Aires a French-born cabinetmaker put the finishing touches on a 7-ft. 2-in. bed, while in Rio de Janeiro carpenters readied a pair of chairs that would hopefully diminish the undiplomatic disparity in height between Brazilian President Humberto Castello Branco (5 ft. 5 in.) and his 6-ft. 4-in. visitor...
...Rio de Janeiro's favelas are the dregs of a city, teeming slums where the crime rate makes Harlem tame by comparison. The pastel-painted shantytowns with their deceptive names-"Pleasure Hill," "Peacock," "Heaven"-breed hoods with monikers like "Tidal Wave," "Uncle Horrible" and "Dried Meat...