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1 Mothers of inventions prove to be Don't give live animal at Eastcr3C Young people design ads 2c Theatre Three's latest is humorous4C Flxit3C Comics6, 7C Crossword puzzl9C Television Nick Coleman News ratings rebound at KSTP-TV liiMtSliiiliillilSlil 1 iSii! mmmm Wmmm It Staff Photo by Regene Radniecki Hiroshi Teshigahara: Ho wants people to come to "experience something different than they have ever seen before." Spring lower show is Japanese garden Spring is that miraculous time of -year when life returns to trees and lawns and othef things that have appeared to be dead for months. Even dead TV stations can come back to life, which must explain why KSTP-TV (Ch. 5), the fallen giant that has not had a pulse in a long time, is stirring again. The local news ratings for the important February "sweeps" period came in Monday and, to and behold, Channel 5's vital signs have Teap- peared. After a year of ratings woes, declining audiences and staff turnover, Channel 5 not only is still breathing but also looks like it's headed for the comeback trail.

KSTP was the only Twin Cities station to register strong gains for all three of its daily newscasts in ruary. More important, Channel 5 gained significant numbers of viewers for its 10 p.m. newscast, which is the most lucrative news program in terms of advertising sales. According to the Arbitron ratings service, Channel 5's "Eyewitness Update," with news anchors Ruth Spencer and Bob Vernon, attracted 29 percent of the 10 p.m. viewing -audience last month, up 2 percentage points from January and up 4 points from last November, when Channel 5 bottomed out.

KSTP's ratings, apparently boosted by the popularity of Spencer, who replaced former co-anchor Cyndy Brucato in January, reached their highest level since the station's news ratings first began to tumble in February 1985. The station's performance was strong enough to suggest that it has ended, at least temporarily, the threat that WUSA- By Martha Sawyer Allen Staff Writer atiently, Hiroshi Teshigahara studies the bamboo stalks and birch branches. He sits in front of them and simply watches them for a while. IP in and mums are used as color. They shimmer in group- ings under trees and next to water.

Lights from behind one gossamer wall also create colors and a white fish net hangs from the ceiling in careful yet random' patterns. The bamboo is used as form, shape, color, texture. It is tied together; it swirls and curves; it stands over water ponds; it forms fences. It is the dominant element in the design and it moves and ripples. It creates greens and browns and beiges.

It is transformed into things that look like nothing else. One is tempted to walk through it, smile at it, touch it, dodge it to avoid its energy. It ranges in size from one inch in diameter and seven feet long to eight inches in diameter and 22 feet long. This is Japanese ikebana (flower design) created by a master, the leader of the Sogetsu School. It is based opening Saturday in Dayton's eighth-floor auditorium.

It runs through April 6. A word of warning to those who mark the flower show on their calendars: This is the not like anything you've ever seen. It's not an English country garden with a cute little garden house and lots of flowering trees and 1 bushes. This is not a Greek country scene with golden flowers everywhere. This is a garden that is at once wildly creative and serene, ft is bamboo and fish net, a tea house, rice paper, birch, flowering cherry, magnolia and pine.

It is a constant surprise there are blueprints for the workers to follow, but they change and flow with the daily selection of materials. The 8,000 plants, tulips, daffodils, crocuses, iris, lilies His assistants move the materials around as he speaks. They cut them just so, move them, bend them, tie them together. Inexorably the, plant materials become more than them-selves. They become the artistic creation of a man, the headmaster of one of Japan's three largest schools of flower design.

i- Teshigahara is creating the largest installation of its kind that he's ever done, a unique display for any master of Japanese floral design. It's called "Form and Flower: The Garden of Hiroshi Teshigahara," and it's the Dayton's-Bachman's annual spring flower show, in nl)liiilM Quinn likes but won't be limited by him i. Spouses who suppress anger likely to die prematurely By Gordon SlovutStaff Writer Passive spouses who suppress their anger are more than twice as likely to die prematurely than those who express anger or speak up for themselves, University of Michigan researchers have found. The finding is based on a study of 696 men and women, almost all of them married, in Tecumseh, Mich. The lesson would appear to be that it's best to vent your anger, but the researchers say that's only partially right.

The healthiest people, they say, are those who neither stifle not explode. you jump up and down hys- terically you aren't solving any thing," said Mara Julius, a social psychologist who headed the study. "It appears to be healthiest if you take time to cool off and then try to resolve the conflict." In 1971-72 the researchers tested -the people about anger to find how they reacted to what they perceived as unjust attacks. They returned in 1983 to check the same people and found that those who suppressed anger were 2. 1 times as likely to have died as those who weren't afraid to express anger and didn't 1 feel guilty when they did.

Forty men and 13 women died during the 12 years. Julius said they also found that high blood pressure was far more common in those who suppressed anger than in those who expressed 'fii By Karin WlnegarStaff Writer Dt's about his voice. Anthony Quinn has such a sexy, gravelly, man-of-the-workJ speaking voice. It is masculine and wise. It is a voice that has seen a lot of time and sun: a perfect voice for his signature role, Zorba the Greek.

But Quinn is peeved at critics who expect him to be Pavarotti when he sings as he does in "Zorba," the music-theater version of the Nikos Kazantzakis novel, which arrives at the Orpheum Theatre today for a six-day run. And then there's the dancing. At 70, nobody is going to go nimble-footing around a Greek taverna or bouncing down a Cretan hillside yelling, "Opal" (let's dance) much less capering across the boards of a Broadway musical in Gene Kelly style. The critics have not been kind about Quinn's dancing, either. No matter.

What Quinn irrefutably does better than anyone else is enact the role with which he has been identified since it earned him an Academy Award nomination in 1964: the philosopher-rogue of "Zorba the Greek." Quinn is touring the show along with his movie co-star, Lila Kedrova (who won an Oscar as best supporting actress for the film ver- sion), in a production directed by the film's director, Michael Cacoyannis. "People keep coming to Zorba for his innate sense of truth and values," says Quinn. "He's not after what the world is after, monetary success and all the dressings of it. A man like Zorba will be envied because he has nothing and wants nothing he just loves to live." That's the enduring attraction, he explains, to "the poor American who is saddled with problems of taxes and what is left afterward, who is a slave." Broadway musicals tend to capture certain stars and encase them forever in theatrical amber. Witness Richard Harris as King Arthur in "Came- lot" and the late Yul Brynner in.

"The King and But Quinn, who won supporting-actor Oscars for "Viva Zapata!" in 1952 and "Lust for Life" in 1956, insists he has and 1 always wiU have more dimensions than Zorba. "People tell me their favorite (of his movie roles) was 'Shoes of the 'Requiem for a 'Guns of Navarone' or 'La Yul Brynner only did two or three pictures and enjoyed doing King and I' and settled for it. I don't. The text play, I will be somebody else. I am happy to give up Zorba; I like him so much, but I hope the world is not thinking of me as Zorba." Zorba is not the whole Quinn.

They differ, for example, on the issue of women and marriage. "Marriage is a tough thing; I have to admit you do have to regulate your life for it, and that gets in Zorba's way, but it isn't my philosophy," says the actor, who has been accused of a charming sort of macho chauvinism. "I think women are derfuil I wouldn't know what to do without them. They are lovely, decorative, amusing, useful, wonderful doctors, very understanding. I do agree there is a fight for better wages, but I think, my God! They've gotten everything in the world." What Is a man Quinn's age doing on a road tour? He has been married twice (first to the daughter of epic 'What I really want is to leave a mark of permanence In Anthony Quinn: Something.".