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Those aged 25 to 40 said thsy became more Irritable and fidgety. Men in their 40s said they had trouble falling asleep or sleeping through the night. Men In their 60s said their sexual performance suffered. 'The fact is that there are a lot more eerty warning signs of stress in men," the New York clinical peychok gist who has dons extensive research on stress in adults said in an Interview. fThey either don't reeog-, 1 nize the signs or deny that they are under stress.

The women In their Ives are far wiser about recognizing stress, said Wttkin-Lanol, who wi appear in Mhneapo-ta Frktay at a forum on women'a health. The man who fidgets, Incressss his smoking or drinking, stares at the television tube night after night or shouts at hie wife and chldren ia reacting to stress and may be heading toward a stress-related heart attack, ulcer or other complication, she ssid. Wrienshs ssked women hundreds of wives, moth- sre, sisters, friends how men reset to stress, they boutsof Sos'sddnK? anuaTpfotjSms were just a few of the signs of trouble. Women said the first signs of stress in their men were oral abuse or criticism of wives or children or complete withdrawal. "Men seem to become mors sullen, sulky or stent; perhaps preoccupied," Witkin-Lanoil said the women told her.

Although most of the men she Interviewed denied that they ate more, smoked or drank more or fstt tired or agitated when under stress, the women said that many of the men gained weight, drank more alcohol, seemed to be tired much of the time or were hyperkinetic, and thai snwkere doubled the cigerette or pipe use. Many of the men, according to the women, develop "psychomotor habits" such as foot-swinging, finger-tapping and knss-jkjging, and frequently the men grind their teeth at night. Wftkln-Lanel said. Soma of the other observstJons by women of stress In FaSng ssteep when factsd with stresses such as marital arguments, income tax preparation or drmcutt I a CO unt's quite clear that I'm a religious freak. What else do you do when you get old and stop and think about what this life is all about?" Robert CoIm Author Robert Coles shifting his focus from the disadvantaged to religion not unaware Of ths Irony presented by ths BMW.

Nor are his Harvard students, who go by ths hundreds to hear Coles' preachy, passionals, often mesmerizing lectures on "The literature of Social Reflection." That he should come from comfortable Concord in a BMW to wring hie hands about the wretched of the earth has helped earn the course Its nickname, "Guilt 105." Arid, as may befit an author of 36 books and 860 articles, hs ia sometimes referred to on campus sa Robert (Never an Unpublished Thought) Cotes. "If you've read al those by now," he said in a phone conversation, his voice developing its characteristic high By Phil McCombsWashlngton Post Concord, Mass. Up the gnwst drive snd under ths trees. Robert Cotes' big yeeow house sits on a hill, a half hour from Cambridge. Beyond a stone fence and a bam sre woods.

Coles' BMW sedan and Wagoneer are parked near the door, which he answers while restraining a dog. "Aaron, that is absohrtery rodsbshaviorl'' Coles, ths child psychiatrist and Harvard professor, celebrat-ed documentarlan of the disadvantaged, proffic author whose books Include ths prize-winning "ChBdrsn of Crisis" series, serf -described Christian "searcher" who has been cased "ths greatest social conscience of his generation," Is Becoming selectively dsaf not astsning. Driving recklessly. "One symptom that is oonsistentty reported by women as sign of mala stress is tsisvisicA tune-in," she said. "Thsy donl ahvsys watch ths program thsy tuns Jn.but they tum on the set, watch it and insist that they not be dteturbed.

It's wSy of eontroing manageable part of She said the women said that many men develop fin, 'Critters' is a sequel we've already seen By Jeff Strtcklef Staff Writer teven Spiefeerg doesn't have to bother making a sequel of his 1984 hit because everybody etee is making se- quela for him. Last year it was the foolah "GhouSea." This year It's ths sly The theme has become boring: Cuts tttJs creatures that look sxe cuddy pets tum out to be rampaging savages intent on terrorizing an innocent fsmty. There are only so many ways to play out thia scenario, and we've seen them before. A rovbw f. si 1 4 SI WlllardStsger, who has never been to the North Pole, snjoyed the spring sunshlneln his Plymouth back ysrd.

There's another Will Steger, but the two are poles apart Ths crtttsrs of ths trite sre escapees from a prison in outer space. They've corns to Earth because there's plenty here to eat. Not that they're partkxawty fussy eaters; they wl devour anything they can sink their tiny Ittte teeth Into, be it car, a sofa or a human being. Thsy resembte hairy bowing bats that carom along a say sight that turns stupid when one of them orders, "Let's rol." They wheel into a farm populated by a typical American famly: herd-working dad (Cay Green Buah), loving mom (Dee Watacs Stone), psrpetusty Into teervsgs daughter (Nadne Van Der Veide) and impish young son (Scott Grimes). The critters take a bite out of Dad's teg and eat the daughter's current flame (she seems relatively calm about the loss, but then they'd been going together lees than a day) before the farriy managee to barricade Itself In the houss.

By Psf MstsrStsff Writer Pote and hero now. Another ia Wlard James Steger (Stay-ger) from Plymouth, 37, ths mechanical designer, the one with no dogs but four birds, ths one who taught English and did modeling in Brad, the master carpenter who restores old houses and owns half a dozen for rental property, the one who leads his church group on winter wilderness retreats, the one who likes cold "but onry a certain amount of it." Not a pansy and far from boring, this Wl Steger, but the people who have gotten hold of him are noticeably disappointed he isn't Wlfl Steger. The cop, for example. Willard Steger no one caHa him that, not even his mother when she's angry at him, but ws'l use Wlard here to make things easy anyway, Wlard missed a tum the other night and tried to tum around in a spot that dkin't go through to the street. A Another wrong number.

"I think you want the WiH Steger with ths dog sled," said ths WM Steger with the'79Cadlao. Yes, there's mors than one Will Steger. The famous one is William Raymond. Steger Jr. (Stee-ger) from Ely, 41 years old, the explorer with the dogs, ths guy who thrives on cold and pubKcity, the one who was thought a fool before he tramped to ths North I.