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Article: Going for Baroque.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- January 2, 2001
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OURO PRETO, Brazil _ I have seen the skateboarder's version of hell, towns with flagstone and rubble streets so old and intact, not even bicyclists want to attempt them. For most of the rest of us, it is a bit heavenly, with angels and saints in generous attendance.
Pack your best walking shoes, and step into the enchanting anachronism of cidades historicas _ the colonial mining towns of Brazil. The boom ended two centuries ago, but instead of the ramshackle vestiges one finds in, say, Leadville, Colo., there remains a necklace of villages and mini-cities, decorated with gilt churches and other gems of baroque architecture sparkling in a climate that suggests ...
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Article: Ouro Preto, Bishop-Neruda.(Poem)
The Southern Review;
March 22, 2001 ;
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... ... on a teeming jungle-summer noon: when Pablo Neruda comes to call on "That fine North American poet" and finds her gone to Rio de Janeiro, Massachusetts, Nova Scotia. So instead of captivating crabcakes, rum, and poetry, he attempts to learn his ...
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