Word: rios
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...young think about here is their namorado, their boyfriend or girlfriend, and nobody does any schoolwork," a middle-aged parent lamented to me. "Sao Paulo is bad," he added, referring to the South American financial and industrial capital further to the south of the country, "but Rio is the worst place to go to school. Everybody goes to the beach after classes...
...uniquely Brazilian scene. The government minister who had resigned from his post on Friday morning was sitting on the beach in Rio do Janeiro on Saturday afternoon, while a national television network interviewed him in his swimming trunks...
...these neighborhoods although the construction of a high-rise hotel occasionally pierces the calm. These districts have their weekly fruit-and-vegetable market on a sidestreet like the famous "Copacabana." But Copacabana has been honky-tonk and out-of-style ever since Fred and Ginger flew down to Rio 50 years...
Summertime in the United States is wintertime in Brazil, but that doesn't stop scantilly-clad women from lying on the sands or men from exercising at one of the gyms that dot the beach. Snow is almost unknown except in the southern-most reaches of the country. In Rio the August heat and humidity can wear you out after one errand downtown...
Even for "The Voice," as local newspapers dubbed him, it was big box office. Some 120,000 Brazilians bought tickets to hear Frank Sinatra sing in Rio de Janeiro's Maracanã stadium. On four nights before his stadium appearance, capacity crowds paid $450 a head to hear Ol' Blue Eyes warble The Coffee Song and The Girl from Ipanema along with his golden oldies while they dined on lobster salad, beef heart and French champagne at the opulent new Rio Palace Hotel. But as usual the boy from Hoboken did the gig his way. Flying down...