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Local 10pm news ratings Minneapolis Star and Tribune Tuesday March 18 1986. 5C ANGER: Suppressing it or exploding. erratically are equally bad for health'-4 charo In percent: "These findinas could indicate that ArbitrcnAudicnco 35 36 33 30 27 fied situation or attack. And there is nothing wrong with that." 1 1 Julius said she is starting a study of how the elderly people who live kr Southfield, a suburb of De- troit, cope with anger. She said she expects the results' 152 differ from those of the group, who ranged in age from 334o 69.

In her new study she also will IogST at the immune system, to see whether there is a connection Be- tween how people cope with stress and the ability of their bodies to fight disease. 29 23 15 Feb. Jan. Feb. Feb.

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1986 1986 1985 1986 1986 1985 1986 1986 1985 Nielsen Audience share in percent: Coleman Continued from page 1C TV (Ch. 1 1) would pass it up in the ratings and leave KSTP in last place for the first time. The numbers also are good enough to suggest that Channel 5 is ready to make another run at first-place WCCO-TV (Ch. 4). which has been the dominant news station in the market since KSTP self-destructed a year ago.

Through most of 1984, Channel 5 was in a dogfight with WCCO for the honor of being the most-watched news station in the Twin Cities. By last fall, though, the station had fallen into a distant second place behind Channel 4 and was holding on by Stanley Hubbard's fingernails to stay ahead of WUSA. In January, KSTP was just one percentage point ahead of WUSA in the Nielsen ratings survey, prompting speculation that "News 11" would pass Channel 5 in February or in May, the next ratings period. By winning 29 percent of the viewing audience last month, though, KSTP has opened a 6-point gap over Channel 1 1 and closed to within 4 percentage points of WCCO-TV's "10 P.M. Report." The station is now back at its level of a year ago when its ratings slump began.

Having replaced its news director, its leading news anchors, its program director, its general manager and two promotion managers, KSTP may be on the rebound. "We've been through some changes in the last year but we're clearly headed in the right direction now," said Channel 5 news director Scott Goodfellow. "Ruth Spencer is very strong at 10 o'clock and the type of news stories we're doing, such as Jason Davis's reports on the Steger expedition to the North Pole, are more interesting. We've said all along we want to do things that people will talk about the next day, and we're succeeding." Spencer, hired from a station in Little Rock, last summer, was working as KSTP's 5 p.m. and 6 p.m.

co-anchor (with Stan Turner) OPENS TONIGHT 8 PM 30 25 26 3 33 34 Jan. Feb. the women who have been married longer have accumulated more dissatisfaction, resulting in a state of chronic resentment," she said. In an article scheduled to appear in a psychological journal in August, Julius said there are some studies indicating that people who suppress anger and those who "explode er- ratically" seem to have an increased risk of breast and lung cancers. "I am pointing out that the apparently healthiest coping style with anger or other emotions is the reflective type," Julius said.

"You say, 'Hold on, I am angry. Let me see the situation and how I can rationally cope with it to eliminate it with problem She said she is happy about the passing of the primal scream movement," a fad of the 1 960s in which people were encouraged to screech at the top of their lungs about their frustrations. "It was crazy," Julius said. "You lose track of why you are screaming. It might make you feel good for a short period of time, but after that the problem is 8 till there." She said successful politicians learn how to-cope with anger on public occasions.

There are slip-ups, such as when the normally affable President Reagan referred to television reporters as "sons of bitches." Julius said politicians can maintain a level-headed public image by doing problem solving or by letting off steam on family, friends or subordinates." She said everyone has reason to be angry at times. "Life is not fair," she said. "We are attacked by people for no good reason. We find ourselves in situations which do not seem very just, so it (anger) is a normal reaction to what we perceive as a threat and unjusti- When you come to 17 Jan. Feb.

198519861986 198519861986 198519861986 SourceArbitron and Nielsen Star and Tribune graphic "It Vfc -MAT until Jan. 10. On that day, KSTP bounced 10 p.m. co-anchor Brucato and added Spencer to the late-night newscast. The move seems to be paying off with improved ratings.

I "Ruth is delightful to watch," Good-fellow said. "She's a very genuine person, both in person and on the air. She cares a great deal about what's on the air and how she's reporting it, she's journalistically sound and I think she's terrific." Goodfellow said the February rat- ings will allow KSTP to breathe a bit easier now that it's opened a wider lead over third-place WUSA. Chan- nel 5, he said, is no longer in imme- diate danger of winding up in last place. "I think we'll continue to do i better in the May ratings," he said.

"The trend is there and we're put- ting greater distance between us and Channel 1 1 They have a very good news product but we continue to beat them, and we have our i sights on 'CCO right now." Continued from page 1C "It's the combination of marital stress, suppressed anger and high blood pressure that appear to place people at highest risk," she said. In a telephone interview, Julius said the researchers used statistical techniques to account for the influence of risk factors such as smoking, obesity and heart disease. In the original study, the researchers didn't test directly for a preference for resolving disputes by problem-solving, a technique that Ernest Har-burg, a psychological researcher on the project, calls "reflective coping" or "waiting until tempers have cooled to rationally discuss the situation." Harburg said hat exploding or stifling can lead to increased stress because the basic problem continues. He said reflective coping is the best choice because it helps solve the problem. "In our culture, insufficient attention has been paid to understanding anger and developing constructive ways to deal with it," Harburg said.

"Suppressed anger is a complex emotion that involves feelings of displeasure, resentment, guilt and fear about the potential consequences of venting anger." Julius said that even though the study wasn't designed to compare the three ways of handling disputes, "I am convinced that blowing up or not blowing off steam supressing anger and exploding erratically are equally bad for your health." The Tecumseh study also showed that women over 45 with stressful marriages who suppressed anger had higher blood pressure than did younger women in the same situation. Disney Channel to feature Keillor The Disney Channel announced over the weekend that Garrison Keillor, host of -American Public Radio's "A Prairie Home Companion," will take his show to the premium cable TV channel over the Fourth of July weekend. The 90-minute program will be called "Lake Wobegon Comes to the Disney Channel." apparently will consist of highlights of next month's grand opening of the refurbished World Theater in St. Paul, the home of "Prairie Home." That grand-opening concert also will be taped for broadcast by PBS. "A Prairie Home Companion" is produced by Minnesota Public Radio.

for Saturday's flower show. forced and not pleasing to his eye, or if he realizes that he has seen that particular shape before. He doesn't have a traditional studio in the sense that artists know it. He works often where the plant material is. He said he'd probably never make a.

garden just like this one again. Each work is Teshigahara brought some of his natural materials with him, particularly the bamboo. The 25 larger bamboo stalks, the ones that are being used to hold flowers, were dried before arriving hereAmong other things, he brought the rice paper that will adorn the tea house, and a black rope that is being used to tie the bamboo together. The installation is taking three weeks, of constant work. "I want people to think they can make shapes they have never made before," he said with a quiet smile.

"Plants can be used differently." The flower show will be open during regular store hours. Admission is free. A series of Japanese arts presentations will be made in the auditorium, in conjunction with the show. Times for the displays vary and most things are repeated several times during the week. They include Japanese paper folding, ribbon craft, paper making and calligraphy.

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Among the eight age groups of men and women considered of most interest to advertisers, WUSA was No. 1 in seven categories, according to the Nielsen survey. And Elliot Bass, Channel 1 1's sales manager, said the station -hasn't given up on its hope of passing KSTP. "It still could happen in May," he said. "To put the book in perspective, 'CCO had an exceptional book and we had a good book.

KSTP is doing better in terms of its house- hold share of viewers but they're still losing demographics." KMSP-TV's 9:30 newscast, "The Prime Time News," won 7 percent of the viewing audience in both the Arbitron and Nielsen surveys in February. left, worked with aides on a display he wants emerging. "Then you can bring out the beauty of what the arranger sees," he said. The creative tension comes because he knows that once he makes a trim cuts a leaf or a branch he can't put it back. That "gives me excitement." He stops a creation if the material he is working with becomes toq Teshigahara will attend screening Hiroshi Teshigahara won't be concerned only with flowers during his visit to Minneapolis.

The multitalented film director also will attend a screening of his latest movie, "Antonio Gaudi," at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the Walker Art Center auditorium. The documentary, made in 1984, offers insight into the Spanish architect by showing examples of his work. Teshigahara, who came out of cinematic retirement to make the film, will answer questions from the audience after the screening. Tickets are $4 general, $2.50 for members and seniors.

1 Channel 4 isn't worried though, WCCO's sales manager Bob McGann said yesterday. "KSTP has improved its ratings since November but I don't see any massive growth," McGann said. "They're basically where they were a year ago." With 33 percent of the 10 p.m. audience in February, WCCO's ratings were down 3 percentage points from January. McGann said the decline was negligible, though, and may be due to the fact that the station's 10 p.m.

newscasts ran past 10:37 on 9 occasions, causing the station's news ratings to be diluted by ratings for reruns of "The Jeffersons," which follow Channel 4's news. McGann said Channel 4 will have 34 or 35 percent of the viewing audience from 10 to 10:30 when the numbers are broken down further. "We're still in the same position of dominance we were in a year ago," he said. "I expect that we'll be back at a 35 share in May, and we're not Staff Photo by Regene Radniecki Hlroshl Teshigahara, second from tween time and space that intrigues him, Teshigahara said. He said, "All natural material dies.

Because of that time makes it interesting. There's a tension between nature and myself which brings out the creativity." When the flower show is over, the auditorium will be returned to its bare walls. That also intrigues him, he said. He is taking natural forms, creating something with them, and then they'll bloom, inspire others and vanish. "They will be involved with people and then disappear.

-That is the nature of plant material," he said. If he wanted something to last longer he could use something such as stone, he said. However, he chooses to work most often now in plant materials because of the "beauty in plants," he said. He is a master at pottery, and he has won major international awards for his cinematography. (His movie" on Spanish architect Antonio Gaudi will be shown Thursday at the Walker.

Teshigahara will answer questions afterward.) When he takes a branch, for exam- pie, from a flowering tree or bush he looks at it carefully, trying to discern its natural lines. He cuts the branch bit by bit and slowly he sees the line -i Now thru March US-JOB Flowers Continued from page 1C on the 600-year-old Japanese cultur-i al and religious tradition of creating i designs with natural materials. It is the starkly simple, yet complex use of plant material to create a design of any size. It can be a single branch in a small vase or fill an entire room. -t In Western cultural terms, looking at ikebana is like viewing an abstract painting or nonrepresentational sculpture.

The Sogetsu school teaches, essentially, that anything goes. Any kind of materials can be used and designs can be installed anywhere, including in the traditional tokonoma, the shrine in a Japanese i home. Teshigahara says, through his inter- prefer, that he wants people to come to "experience something dif-! ferent than they have ever seen I before." He was eager to do this installation, i his assistants said. It was inspired by a Walker Art Center exhibit which opens April 20 and features I Japanese designs from traditional to I modern. He could be called the Picasso of flower arranging, in artistic domh nance of his craft, the numbers of followers and his personal creative genius.

The soft-spoken, white-haired artist, who was working on the installation in the auditorium last week, smiled and said, "Picasso is my teacher." Picasso and Teshiga-' hara's father, Sofu Teshigahara, who founded the Sogetsu School, i were friends. There are more than 20,000 people who can teach the Sogetsu style of arranging, meaning they have taken at least three years of instruction in the art. Close to 2 million more study the art for a few months or weeks in Japan and worldwide. Teshigahara says that his art is made from nature, but once he-bends and shapes the branch or flower, it becomes something of his. It is still of nature, and it doesn't lose its essential elements, but it is transformed into a work of art by the human mind and hand.

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