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...Domingo is the world's oldest corporal, and although he sings passionately, he wears the look of a man who has swallowed a very hot chili. Migenes-Johnson, of Puerto Rican and Greek descent, is an exotic beauty, but her voice is inappropriately bland, and for all her enthusiastic writhing, she emerges as less the femmefatale than a one-night stand gone wrong. Bizet's potent mixture of blood, sand and song needs fire in the belly, as well as in the loins. -By Michael Walsh...
...miles, the highest parachute jump and the longest free fall ever. For his transatlantic antic, Kittinger took off from Caribou, Me., in a ten-story-tall helium-filled balloon named Rosie O'Grady's. He made landfall three nights later at Capbreton, France, but decided against a descent in the dark. The following afternoon, with ballast low and a storm approaching, he and Rosie were finally ready to settle down near Savona, Italy. "I knew it was going to be an interesting landing," recalls Kittinger, who was thrown from the basket as Rosie hit some trees. Jubilant despite...
Lessing, 64, author of such works as The Golden Notebook and Briefing for a Descent into Hell, is one of the most serious and protean writers in the world. Why did she stop at the height of her career to play the prankster? Her intent, as she explains in the preface to an upcoming one-volume paperback edition of the Somers novels, was partly to show how difficult it is for the work of unknown authors to attract wide attention. On a more personal level, she wanted to twit the critics who have insisted on pigeonholing her: first...
...France Flight 747 from Frankfurt had just begun its descent toward Paris in the late-afternoon sun last Tuesday when three men, brandishing knives and Molotov cocktails, burst into the cockpit and demanded to be taken to Iran. Thus began for their 61 hostages a harrowing 46-hour journey of nearly 3,000 miles, with stops in Geneva, Beirut, Cyprus and, finally, Tehran. There the hijackers, by now mysteriously armed with revolvers and automatic pistols, declared that starting Thursday morning they would kill one French passenger every hour until the French government agreed to release five Islamic fanatics in prison...
...miles of slum hovels, the first thing he sees is an almost perpetual blanket of smog that shrouds the entire city. It is an ugly grayish brown. There is something strangely sinister about it-a cloud of poison. The pilot orders the seat belts tightened and announces an imminent descent into the murk and filth...