Word: rios
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...Bangkok Airways, organizers of the inaugural Koh Samui Carnival, flooded newsdesks this summer with breathless prose and photos of brown bodies draped in fruit and feathers. Koh Samui was billed as the "Rio de Janeiro of the East." The press release added: "To say that there has never been anything quite like it in Asia is an understatement...
...promised highlight of the three-day bash was a Friday afternoon parade. But the closest thing to Rio's sumptuous Samba schools was a float from a local Brazilian restaurant, with two dusky dancers and a band. The rest of the dozen or so floats looked hastily cobbled together from tinfoil, and the bulk of the parade comprised local schoolchildren...
DIED. ROBERTO MARINHO, 98, media magnate and one of Brazil's richest and most powerful men; in Rio de Janeiro. Inheriting a small newspaper from his father when he was 20, he built O Globo into an empire whose television stations reached 99.9% of the country's homes and broadcast Brazilian soap operas around the world...
...film was released, buyers began asking for the red stapler. But Swingline didn't make it. "We concluded we really needed to put a red stapler on the market," says Bruce Neapole, Swingline's president. He says Swingline continues to sell thousands each month of what it calls the Rio Red Stapler...
...trouble. In May, one of Krens' most cherished projects - the Rem Koolhaas-designed Guggenheim Museum Las Vegas - closed due to plummeting attendance a mere two years after its much-hyped opening. And last month, a Brazilian judge dramatically halted Krens' plans to build a dazzling new Guggenheim Museum in Rio de Janeiro; opponents are questioning the mayor's power to authorize the project. The world just isn't smiling on expansionist Americans these days, and Krens has become known as one of the most complex personalities in the arts, a man reviled and revered in equal measure. "I have...