Word: paulo
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...Paulo, Brazil...
...letter words and the nude scene solidly intact. The show is currently playing in Las Vegas (where the cast was threatned with arrest for, of all things, indecent exposure; but when the guffaws echoed from both coasts, the proposed arrest was canceled). Toronto, Boston, Helsinki and São Paulo will get their Hair next year, and rights have been sold in Israel, Italy and Belgium...
Urban guerrillas are blamed for a long list of other incidents. Since January, 74 Brazilian banks have been robbed, and the government suspects that at least half of the holdups were carried out to refill guerrilla war chests. Almost daily, bombs explode in São Paulo, the nation's commercial and industrial center. Last year U.S. Army Captain Charles Rodney Chandler was shot and killed in the city by terrorists who claimed that he was a Viet Nam "war criminal." Dissidents have taken over local radio stations on at least two occasions to broadcast antigovernment propaganda. They also...
...Paulo may be uninhabitable by the year 2000," says Biologist Jacob Zug-man. Along with the city's growing air-and water-pollution problems, he says, "the city noises are assaulting our sanity." Studies show that children (and presumably adults as well) in Sāo Paulo have already lost some acuity of hearing, because as noise increases the ability to hear decreases. Experienced travelers to Rio book rooms in the back of the great hotels that line Copacabana Beach, forsaking the glorious views over the harbor in order to be as far as possible from the amplified autos...
Both Rio and Sāo Paulo have laws that define "excessive noise" and provide fines for offenders, but practically nobody pays any attention-not even the police. Somehow, Camardella feels, the exuberant Brazilians will have to realize that machinery does not have to sound powerful to satisfy its users. A little travel might help accomplish this goal. Says Photographer Valentin: "I'll never forget the first time I went to Miami. All those cars! The hustle! And almost no noise! For a while there, I really thought there was something wrong with my ears...