Word: rios
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...world's population rises, so does the number of deaths. As a result, the urban overcrowding that increasingly afflicts the living is having a similar effect upon the dead. Cemeteries are running out of room, and in no city is the problem more acute than in bustling Rio de Janeiro. Rio's 4.5 million are jammed into a narrow strip that runs between mountains and the sea, and the southern half of the city has already run out of space for the dead...
Each carneiro (tomb) in Rio's edifice will sell for $1,800, but tenancy is guaranteed in perpetuity. To comply with Rio law, 10% of the tombs will be rented at $80 for five years to those who can't afford to buy. Another 5%-all on the top floor amid the ventilating machinery-will go free to the poor. Silva e Souza himself hasn't yet purchased his own carneiro. "I'm kind of hoping," he says wistfully, "that they'll give me one free...
...displeased with long hair, miniskirts, rock music and the decrease in churchgoing among Altinho's youth. But Dona Nina Lemos, another of the town's schoolteachers, questioned that notion. She wondered: "If God were going to punish clothing styles, wouldn't he send a plague on Rio or New York or Paris? Why Altinho...
...Hunts and the Murchison brothers and Neiman-Marcus, and multimillion-dollar transactions conducted in private jets that whisper swiftly through the silvery prairie night. Then there is the hardscrabble Texas, dusty and dun, which fans out westward from Fort Worth to towns like Dilley and Draw and Del Rio, where the good ole boys gather round gas-station coolers to drink RC Colas and tell lazy lies. It is a sullen land, worked by silent, leathery men and their resilient women...
There is nothing new, or even particularly secret, about the hundreds of thousands of Mexican "wetbacks" (mojados, as they are known to their Chicano cousins), who have swum the Rio Grande or simply walked into the U.S. at some point along the hundreds of miles of largely unpatrolled border. Nor is there much that the badly undermanned U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service can do about keeping the immigrants out. The "illegals" who are caught-some 320,000 during the last fiscal year-are simply sent back across the border. The people who employ, encourage and often exploit them...