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...Ken Russell updates Stravinsky in a splashy opera debut...
...Ken Russell has never been one to do anything halfway. Propelled by a flamboyant visual imagination, the British director, 54, has shocked audiences with his horrific The Devils, astounded them with his psychedelic imagery for the rock opera Tommy and scandalized them with his racy, irreverent looks at mighty composers, such as Lisztomania...
Mainly this was a Ken Russell show-and probably the curtain raiser on a new career. "It wouldn't break my heart if I never looked through a lens again, so long as I could go on with the opera," he says. "I'm interested in communication, and communication has a long, long way to go in opera. I would like to do something to improve that situation.'' -By Michael Walsh
Reported by Ken Banta/Chicago and Frederick Ungeheuer/ New York...
...m.p.h. is not like any other kind of flying that has been available for six decades. Says Mike Circuit, 37, an ultralight instructor in Salt Lake City: "It's wind in the face, flying by the feel of it, like the old barnstorming days." Agrees fellow Utahan Ken Hurd, 42: "I've never had such excitement. In a small plane, you're enclosed. Here, you're like a bird. Everything constantly changes below you. I can't believe how things look. It's surreal...