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HANGED. MARIETTE BOSCH, 50, for murdering her best friend in 1996 so she could marry her widowed husband; in Gaborone, Botswana. The tabloids dubbed the case "White Mischief," and Bosch, a South African, hired a lawyer nicknamed "Scarlet Pimpernel" for his reputation for saving expats from the death penalty. She lost an appeal in February and became the first white person executed in Botswana. SENTENCED. PERRY WACKER, 32, to 14 years in prison for the manslaughter of 58 Chinese illegal immigrants who suffocated in the back of his truck while being smuggled into Britain from Belgium; in Maidstone, England...
Across from the Seven Arches, five or six colored hens pick for corn, and a herd of sheep grazes among scarlet anemones. Hiba Gaith, an 11-year-old Palestinian girl who lives nearby, is singing a song she and her friends learned at school. She wears jeans, and her long ponytail is done up with a brown butterfly clip. "The sound of the stone/ The blood of usurpers/ The hearts are bleeding in fury/ They carry stones in their small hands/ And challenge the aggressors," she sings. "The martyr Mohammed/ Seen by millions/ Taking refuge in the bosom...
...Lulu is supposed to be a force of nature, seduction incarnate, but Friel just doesn't have the charisma. What she does have, from her first entrance in a figure-hugging scarlet dress, is great physical presence. Happiest lolling on her back on one of a succession of increasingly extravagant chaise-longues, she swivels her long legs like antennae. But when she speaks, her flat, ordinary delivery comes as a shock. Only in the grim final scene, when Lulu is reduced to working as a prostitute in a London cellar, does Friel let her natural Northern accent come through...
...more pigs than people, and he says he has always felt a pull to the "agrarian tradition" in Flemish art. His studio walls bear ironic witness to that: photographs that seem to depict delicate inlaid marble floors are actually intarsia of processed meat, pork parquettes fashioned from deep scarlet salamis and delicate pink bolognas and hams. One previous succés de scandale was to tattoo live pigs with the kind of icons that normally grace the biceps of a Hell's Angel. Thus converted to art, the pigs avoided the slaughterhouse; animal rights activists were nevertheless not amused...
...Scarlet Pimpernel," which we watched over the weekend. Leslie Howard is wonderful, especially in the fop scenes when he says things like "Damn me!" and "Odds fish!" as he advises the Prince of Wales about the ruffles on his sleeve...