Word: rios
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rio de Janeiro's broad sidewalks, with their wavy black and white lines, are famous for the visual life and zest they add to the city. Many European streets have the texture of roughhewn stone and are decorated as well. By contrast, sidewalks in the U.S. are merely straight and narrow paths of relative safety. Yet they can be more, as New Yorkers learned last week when "the Calder Sidewalk" suddenly appeared...
...replaced. Since all three buildings housed art galleries, one owner suggested that the new sidewalk "ought to be interesting." His neighbor, Art Dealer Klaus Perls, replied: "Maybe I can persuade Alexander Calder to design it for us." The celebrated sculptor was delighted. "We will do Rio one better," he said, and charged no fee for his services. By May, Calder's sketch of a series of vivid geometrical shapes (including his initials) was translated into engineering drawings. Then one night recently, workmen set the design in black and white terrazzo...
...rack of sleigh bells out of tempo, ruining the first movement of Mahler's Fourth Symphony. More recently he rode the high trapeze for the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus and, as a one-line badman in a yet-to-be-released western (Rio Lobo), he was shot and killed by John Wayne, who never could decide whether the tall (6 ft. 4 in.) bit player's name was Plimpleton, Pembleton, Parfilton or Plankton...
JUNE 1970: Ehren von Holleben, West German Ambassador to Brazil, was kidnaped in Rio by terrorists who killed one of his bodyguards. Von Holleben was exchanged for 40 prisoners who were flown to Algiers...
SEPTEMBER 1969: U.S. Ambassador C. Burke Elbrick was kidnaped in Rio de Janeiro and exchanged for 15 political prisoners who were flown to Mexico...