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...Bethlehem by Herod. Yet at his execution Gilles de Rais exhibited so much remorse that the crowd gathered to witness the death of a monster was completely confused. How could God not forgive such devout penitence? It is the Bible, after all, that promises, "Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow...
Roxana Robinson is a fly on the wall in the world of the Wasp. The people in her stories are inheritors of urbanity and indulgences. They belong to garden and bridge clubs; they have exceptional houses, servants, luxuries -- and woes. A Glimpse of Scarlet (HarperCollins; 200 pages; $18.95) watches a divorced mother betrayed by her son's prep school roommate; a man's failing eyesight turn into a "treason of the body"; wavering between wife and mistress, a publishing executive experiences moral vertigo in his ordered world; a wife holds her husband up to public ridicule, only to have things...
These performers are British; they were steeped from birth in high style and the seductive melody of theatrical rhetoric. But the leads -- Costner, Mastrantonio, Christian Slater as Will Scarlet, Micheal McShane as Friar Tuck, Morgan Freeman as a Moor displaced in Nottingham -- are all American, intoning flat varieties of American English. They sound like tourists stranded in Sherwood Forest. And they inadvertently give a new meaning to the story: now Robin and his band are vagrant colonials who save England from those who can actually speak the language...
...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...
Those "things" were namely Scarlet Knight defenders, who spent much of the afternoon at the mercy of the Crimson's revamped transition game and offense. Sophomore attacker Liz Berkery continued her scoring spree with three goals and the rest of the Crimson did its share of damage, battering the Rutgers goal until the final buzzer...