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Portugal has innumerable festivals, fairs, and markets, though the folk festivals are modest compared with such international spectacles as the Carnival in Rio or the running of bulls in Pamplona.
As a footnote, and in illustration of the sense of Aboriginal humor which might have misled Cook, consider the Victorian Aboriginal word moomba , used since 1955 as the name of a Melbourne carnival and freely translated let's get together and have fun.
"It's become a carnival midway of commercial attractions" (Jack Mathews, the Los Angeles Times ). Critics profess surprise that the festival's top honors go to the controversial Greek director Theo Angelopoulos for his Eternity and a Day , the story of a dying poet.
Even when it threatens to disintegrate into nightmare at times of winter floods, Carnival shenanigans, or summer hordes, visitors can take refuge in a café once frequented by Casanova or in a quiet back alleyway away from the congestion, and continue their dream uninterrupted.
Carnival Cruise Lines disclosed rape charges against its staff.