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Well, they don't call it the Ex for nothing. Questionable meanings and meaningful questions form the heart of the singularly brave and bizarre "The Hyacinth Macaw," a challenging play filled with vibrant language, energetic acting and the disconcerting sense that often there are times when neither audience nor actors know exactly what is happening. Ultimately, "Macaw" affirms that we are challenged most when the familiar is made strange, but at the same time illustrates some dangers in doing...
...exuberantly colored and gregarious macaws, however, are the celebrity fauna of the region. During a three-hour motorized canoe ride up the Manu River, we saw 327 of the loquacious birds in a scintillating array of colors: red and green, blue and yellow, scarlet. Munn estimates that each macaw in the $ region could generate between $750 and $4,700 a year in tourist revenue -- far more over the bird's lifetime than if the animals were caught and sold...
...Latin American countries. In a two-year undercover probe, the agency seized dozens of exotic parrots worth some $468,000. Such birds, which can be picked up for as little as $100 apiece along the Mexican border, fetch dear prices in U.S. pet stores: $4,500 for a scarlet macaw, $25,000 for a pair of black palm cockatoos. The crackdown began after smugglers offered their booty to Ohio pet-shop owners Frank and Carol Reuve, who notified U.S. agents and served as a front for the operation...
...Patsy's mother, Ann Wedgeworth gives a strong and lovely reactive performance, and Harris, with his Tom Sawyer grin, convinces the viewer that this goof-off has residues of charm Patsy can find intermittently irresistible. Lange keeps on astonishing. Hefty and bawdy, with a macaw's cackle in good times and a face like a fist in bad, Lange plays Patsy as a cracker Wife of Bath, sated with sexual love and hungry for more. Her Patsy would be a subtle stunner in any season. Right now she is enough to make moviegoers forget the boys and toys of summer...
...accepted the coupons instead of cash when it came to settle the room bill. In an investigation in Las Vegas headed by Lamond Mills, U.S. Attorney for Nevada, federal agents used the stamps this year to purchase, among other items, four guns, two diamond rings, a handsaw, cocaine, a macaw from Mexico, the proffered services (not accepted, of course) of two prostitutes, even a three-room house on Tamalpias Avenue (price tag: $35,520 in coupons...