Word: rios
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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bank of the Rio Grande 27 years ago, his prospects looked dim indeed. He was a 14-year-old wetback from Guadalajara who had crossed the border illegally to earn money to help support his large and fatherless family in Mexico...
...Smiles of a Summer Night. The Truffaut is wonderful but confusing entertainment and the second film is Bergman at his lovliest and most comprehensible. On Thursday you can check out Marcel Camus's Black Orpheus, a visually stunning but cineamagraphically blurred document on life in the slums of Rio de Janero...
...moral questions it poses, so completely lacks a human, social context that its political presentation collapses in a lifeless vacuum. At the other extreme, a director like Marcel Ophuls is Black Orpheus is so adept at capturing the vibrant rhythm and undulating color of life in the slums of Rio de Janeiro that his audiences are numbed to the excruciating reality of Brazil's urban poverty...
...actively played by 16 million people on 600,000 teams in 141 countries-six more than belong to the U.N.-that is no minor claim. Indeed, a large part of the world takes time out for the Cup. Since the final rounds began in West Germany three weeks ago, Rio de Janeiro factories have shut down, and criminal activities in the city have hit an alltime low. In Rome, efforts to restore a moribund government were disrupted when three Socialist leaders walked out of negotiations to watch a match. In Australia, people stayed up all night to see broadcasts from...
...producing several variations on the minibikini. Alexander's department store in New York has a version with a peek-through top. Cole of California Executive Jack Healy claims that his firm has "engineered the String differently so it will be wearable." The rear half of the unrefined Rio version, Healy says, "keeps creeping toward the center, and the wearer has to tug at it all the time...