Word: rios
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THAT MAN FROM RIO. Jean-Paul Belmondo dodges poisoned darts and mad scientists in Philippe de Broca's (The Five-Day Lover) wildly hilarious parody of Hollywood's next-earthquake-please epic...
...Castro, as his Finance Minister in 1963 worked the other side of the street by promising economic reforms in return for a U.S. loan, in 1964 was about to be blacklisted by the anti-Communist purgers when they relented because he was so gravely ill; of cancer; in Rio de Janeiro...
...courtroom: Chu Cheng-tung, Ho Fa-tsung, Wang Wei-cheng, Su Tse-ping. The charge against them was "conspiracy against the regime, envisaging the implantation of Chinese Communism in Brazil," and it was well documented. The Red Chinese "journalists" and "trade promoters"-nine in all-had been arrested in Rio during last April's anti-Communist revolution. In their apartment and hidden in a Jeep, the cops found $100,000 in cash, plus enough letters and papers to prove that the Chinese and their Brazilian leftist friends were deep in a campaign of subversion. On trial in Rio last...
Died. Perpétuo de Freitas da Silva, 51, better known as Bulletproof Perpétuo, Rio de Janeiro's greatest detective, who for 30 charmed years outdrew, outpunched and outtalked the most fearsome bandidos in Rio's slums; of a bullet wound inflicted by a jealous fellow officer who shot first, at point-blank range; in a dingy Rio...
Dragon Sky. Lady Luck, like most females, needs to feel needed. When Marcel Camus, a middle-aged Frenchman whose first movie had flopped, laid his last sou and two years of his life on the line for a far-out film about the slums of Rio de Janeiro, the lady smiled on every scene he shot-Black Orpheus is a cinemusical masterpiece. But when he lazily decided to remake the same movie in the slums and ruins of Cambodia, the lady gave him a sharp slap in the face-Dragon Sky is just an interesting failure...