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Here Atwood is concerned with rapid and telling characterization, especially of men. In Scarlet Ibis, Don and Christine have gone on vacation to Trinidad, where the decomposition of their marriage picks up speed. Don is the kind of fellow on whom a sunburn, "instead of giving him a glow of health, made him seem angry." He began "drumming his fingers on tabletops again." < When he made love to his wife, it was "as if he were listening for something else, a phone call, a footfall. He was like a man scratching himself. She was like his hand...
Garbed in flowing white and scarlet robes, the spiritual leader of the Anglican Church criticized religious and political challenges to intellectual thought in a sermon yesterday at Memorial Church...
Lucas learned most of what he knows about merchandising from the example of Walt Disney, and Epcot's emporiums are already filled with replicas of such cuddly EO creatures as Hooter (an oboe-nosed elephant), Fuzzball (a scarlet monkey butterfly) and the Geex, Idy and Ody (sort of Siamese-twin Wookies). Nor is the film a reckless investment for Kodak. The previous attraction in the company's Magic Eye Theater, a 3-D film called Magic Journeys, was seen by 19 million people in less than four years. Asked how long EO will run, a Disney spokesman replies, "EOns." Walt...
...Siegel, he does so in the highest style. Siegel, 42, a management consultant from Needham, Mass., wears high silk stockings, brown-top riding boots, leather-lined, white wool breeches closed with gold buttons, a white waistcoat with a gold pocket watch, a crimson sash, a general's coat in scarlet wool with blue lapels and velvet cuffs studded with 20 14-karat buttons, a white wig and cocked bicorne hat, and a $15,000 18th century sword, inlaid with gold. "I come off as a totally arrogant, pompous ass," he says with pride...
...calorific titles come into earshot: Totally Lewd Limericks, How to Make Love to a Man (prefaced by the warning "This tape contains explicit and graphic language which may be considered offensive"). The voices on the talking books may be stars, such as Michael York (Anna Karenina), Michael Learned (The Scarlet Letter) and Jason Robards (Anatomy of an Illness), or such authors as Ann Beattie, John Updike and Eudora Welty, reading from their own works. Even Lee Iacocca, Rosalynn Carter and Mike Wallace have recently gone from the word processor to the microphone. It is as ^ if, after decades of attention...