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1 1 Color us helpf ul3E Treat your trees before it gets too Satanism special is a ratings hit8E Holy culottes the 'skirtpant' is Ann, Abby10E TV, Radlo8E Crossword9E TDKltl TOKLUq) mY PD8 MY 4 Contributions are sought from 'everyone on the planet' By Mary Abbe MartinStaff Writer if eet Stanley J. Shetka: carpenter, inventor, holography whiz, college professor, tornado enthusiast and founder of the World Art Project. Noel Holston Television plans to incorporate this stuff into the "the largest and most extensive public artwork ever created." The artwork will be installed in a house and buildings he intends to erect on four acres of land he owns near Webster, Minn. It's easy enough to imagine a sculptor's use for a bowling ball. But wisdom teeth? "In fact I'm working on some figurative sculptures that need teeth, so they came along at the right time," said Shetka.

"I'm building these mechanical human-looking figures that are as tall as I am 5-feet-8) and made from junk I've collected cans, motor parts and rubber. Holograms will be embedded into the pieces, and the hands will be holding SHETKA Continued on page 9E To quote the brown paper grocery bags he mailed world-. wide to launch WAP last month, "When completed, World Art Project will be a permanent multiple-acre work of art created from materials received from every living person." You also can mail contributions to Shetka in the brown bags. Since the project began he's gotten heaps of stuff that's now strewn across the floor of one gallery. Included are a pink-and-black marbleized bowling ball, a Chinese umbrella, a 1957 automobile bumper, some fluorescent light tubes, a pair of red tennis shoes, a clerical collar, a doll, a bottle of beer and boxes of radio tapes, tongue depressors, telephone cords and wisdom teeth.

Shetka, associate professor and head of the sculpture department at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, You can find him at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, where the first phase of the World Art Project (WAP) occupies the Minnesota Artist Exhibition Program galleries. He's personally present during museum hours through Dec. 4. Or you can call 612-870-3035 and talk to him or to his Macintosh II computer, thereby contributing to WAP an enterprise which Shetka hopes will eventually connect everyone on the planet.

Surprise! Channel 4 finds life after Miles nmJi it i I 1 tJ 1 I 1 "1 A jd'mA 4 "1 Aw 'A, i 'jT 't I nr 'T Hill WCCO sits on trendy Nicollet Mall, but its future looked so bleak a month ago, it might as well have been on Block E. Pat Miles, the Twin Cities' most popular anchorwoman according to every research study and poll available, had just quit Channel 4 abruptly and announced that her ultimate destination would be KARE-Ch. 1 1 Looming straight ahead was October, during which KARE would have the enviable promotional platform of the Summer Olympics and the World Series. And there was no doubt what KARE would be promoting most -heavily: reruns of the No. 1 prime-' time series, "The Cosby Show," strategically positioned as the 4:30 p.m.

lead-in to the 5 p.m. KARE newscast. Every indicator suggested that KARE was about to demolish 'CCO. It didn't happen that way. WCCO emerged from October not just unbowed, but unbloodied.

According to the A.C. Nielsen Co. audimeters that in late September began ticking out overnight ratings information for the Twin Cities, WCCO has not only survived the "Cosby" assault but also has re- versed its fortunes at 1 0 p.m., where KARE had been dominant for the past year. Oprah Winfrey's syndicated talk show on KSTP-Ch. 5 by a wide margin remains the top-ranked weekday show at 4:30 p.m.

"Cosby," meanwhile, has been something less than the Godzilla its syndicators said it would be. The costly comedy is fighting it out for a distant second-place at 4:30 p.m. with "The New Family Feud" (WCCO) and "The Jetsons" The 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. newscasts competitions have changed only minimally.

KSTP still wins at 5 p.m., WCCO at 6 p.m. And KARE's early newscasts trail those newscasts and the reruns of "Family Ties" and "Webster" on KMSP. More startling, the Nielsen meters, also calculated that WCCO's 10 p.m. news averaged a 29 percent audience share in October to KARE's 25 percent. KSTP's average share was 20 percent, which may be an all-time low for its 1 0 p.m.

newscast. What's going on? Reid Johnson, WCCO's news director, speculates that among other things, his station's newscasts got a lot of sampling after Miles' departure made front-page news and fed the radio-talk mills for days. "Some people may have wanted to see if there was 'life after Johnson said. "They tuned in, and they presumably liked what they saw." Or whom. Colleen Needles, who was paired with Don Shelby at 5 p.m.

and 1 0 p.m. after Miles walked, has changed the dynamics' of those newscasts. On a purely cosmetic level, Needles' dark hair and eyes contrast Shelby more distinctively than the similarly blonde Miles did. On a theatrical level, Needles does something that WCCO staffers say Miles seldom' did she looks at Shelby when he takes his turn reading, giving the impression of keen interest. And perhaps most important, though it's difficult to figure out just why, Needles seemed to blossom after only a few days, like a Broadway understudy getting her big break.

Suddenly, she had more presence and authority than she had previously exhibited. A star is born? Well, maybe. WCCO also may be the the chief beneficiary of KSTP's anchor change, w.iich occurred just a few weeks before HOLSTON Continued on page 9E Staff Photo Jeff Wheeler Art instructor Sandy Maliga, right center, and students Tom Greenwood and Cyndi Crow visited Stanley Shetka at his workspace at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Zsa Zsa: Love goddess in lives of rich, famous By Henry AllenWashington Post Washington, D.C. fairyland, with a princess and silk ruffles and dia monds and a little dog Cold season means it is time to turn other cheek By Sarah Booth Conroy Washington Post As the flu season gets underway in earnest, it's time to take up a serious issue of the late '80s: Turning the Other Cheek.

You see mutually consenting adults kissing and being kissed on the lips, cheeks, ear, hair, air. You also see people hurriedly putting out a hand to avoid kisses, putting their hand on another's shbulder in a strong-arm effort to keep kisses at bay, knocking heads together in various degrees of avoidance or passion and even occasionally trying the Vulcan Death Grip. And then there are those who simply turn and run, saving themselves (as their mothers taught them) for better things, especially when threatened with a kiss from someone obviously suffering from hay fever, cold, flu or some other plague of our time. Casual kissing in the old days (i.e., before you were born) was a matter of simple logic and immutable KISSING Continued on page 10E smiles that are startled and sly at the same time, smiles in which possibility breeds. Tito, not Hitler.

Somehow, a Yugoslavian Communist dictator and a Nazi tyrant occupy the same mental pigeonhole. Think of all the powerful men she could have named. "Nixon!" became his friend after he lost Or "Kissinger!" (Her publicity handout quotes Kissinger as telling her mother, "She's one of the brightest women I ever Or "Rafael Trujillo!" He was the son of the Dominican strongman, and the lad who gave her a Mercedes and a chinchilla coat, leading former congressman Wayne Hays of Ohio to attack her for wasting the foreign aid we were sending to the Dominican Republic. "That sonuvabitch congressman, I was working my head off in a nightclub here, and he calls me 'the highest-paid courtesan since Madame de But look what happened to him, I laughed and laughed." And she laughed again to think of the lovely scandal that ensued when it turned out that Hays had a bosomy blond typist ZSA ZSA Continued on page 2E named Macho running around. But no Hitler.

"Tito!" said Zsa Zsa Gabor, reclining on a couch in the gauzy light of the morning sun through hotel curtains. "I danced with Tito, but I never danced with Hitler." She was wearing a white morning gown with ruffles and a huge pear-shaped piece of chest showing, which picked up the pear-shaped diamond on her left hand, "24 carats I got a bigger one once, but I gave it back." She was wearing silver satin slippers with three-inch heels and little mirrors glued to them. And perfectly painted red toenails. She looked good. She fulfilled every expectation, which is to say she looked just like Zsa Zsa Gabor an institution, somehow, a symbol not entirely unlike her sister Eva (the one who was on "Green or Magda, or Mama Jolie, all of them with those Hungarian cheekbones and those 4 Va Zsa Zsa Gabon A smile in which possibility breeds..