00:00 Strangely enough, while the world celebrated both the Lunar or Chinese New Year's Day over the weekend,
00:05 in Brazil's Rio de Janeiro and in New Orleans, Louisiana, it was the last few days of partying
00:11 parades, pigging out and pleasuring the senses that end on Fat Tuesday, literally Mardi Gras,
00:17 before the start of a 40-day Lenten season of fasting, penance and introspection.
00:22 In Rio de Janeiro, party people with painted faces and bodies and in garish themes of golden
00:28 glitter atop gilded and decor-laden floats filled the streets as they swayed to the cool and
00:34 infectious beat of Brazil's musical gift to the world, samba and bossa nova. The revelry and party
00:41 fever climaxes on the last weekend and the final days of the carnival, which is today and tomorrow,
00:47 Fat Tuesday.
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