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Variety TODAY'S QUOTE INDEX Dear Abby, Ann Landers Pages E6-7 Movie listings Page E4 Comics Pages E8-9 Isaac Asimov's Super Quiz PageE9 Fixit Page Ell Television Page E10 Wednesday JUNE 25, 1997 SECTION "Whatever its function, like's not a conjunction." Margaret Fishback SterTrlbuna 345 7 Inside -w; 'in i i .1 i i. in i i. i. j. Underneath its homely exterior It's the strangest-looking computer you're likely to see anytime soon.

No bigger than a letter-sized notebook, Apple Computer's eMate 300 is dark blue and shaped like a clamshell. But it does a lot. Turn to Tech Today on page Ell. Suddenly Kathy An interview with Kathy Griffin, who plays the wisecracking Vicki Groener, coworker with Brooke Shields in "Suddenly Susan," which scored an impressive No. 4 in the 1996-97 ratings race.

Turn to page E10. Walk right in, sit right down, baby, let your mind roll on This person's acquaintances just walk in without knocking. It's startling. Asking them to ring and wait hasn't worked. "What else can we do besides keeping the doors locked all the time?" Turn to Miss Manners on page Ell.

5 A Ml 1 1 ii 1 i' Today The action was fast and furious at a recent East Tonka Little League T-baB game. At left, Jamie Burnett fielded the baO while Nathan Hawk fell and Sam Levy looked on. Levy, below, had the look of a blg-leaguer as he blew a bubble while waiting on second base. The war is over Remember the great Britpop war of the mid-'90s Oasis vs. Blur? It was over before you could say "Wonderwall." Oasis triumphed like well, supernova.

Blur didn't exactly do a quick fade, though. Damon Albam and the boys are back with "Song 2," which has been creating a bit of noise in the modem-rock world this summer. Touring with Blur is That Dog, an appealing twisted pop band from Los Angeles featuring two daughters (Petra and Rachel Haden) of renowned jazz bassist Charlie Haden and the daughter (Anna Waronker) of longtime Warner Bros. Records executive Lenny Waronker. When: 7 p.m.

today. Where: First Avenue, 701 1st Av. Minneapolis. Tickets: $17 (all-ages concert) Call: 338-8388 Jon Bream Learning the 0m Heads up Between promiscuity and prudishness on first? Better yet: Where is first? In T-ball, most kids and coaches step up to the plate for the fun of it. i By Paul Levy Star Tribune Staff Writer HTjhe right-fielder, a 5-year- old, placed his glove on the grass, lay down on his back and tossed flower petals into the air, oblivi Special to the Star Tribune by Allen Smith Alexander Anderson was comforted by Pam Bradford after getting hit in the face by the ball.

ous to the rolling baseball hit in 'his direction. The left-fielder stood 20 yards from the playing field, by the bleachers, petting a golden retriever. The first baseman danced with his shadow. The second baseman my son, Sam ignored the batter while struggling to keep his oversized cap from completely covering his eyes. The third baseman dug for worms.

And then there was the shortstop, who grabbed a fistful of dirt, shoved it into his mouth, swished it around, winced and spit. "1 just wanted to see if it tasted the same as mud," he explained. No, this isn't the current NSP commercial. Last year, when we signed up to play T-ball through a Little League program in the western suburbs, I told Sam it would be a wonderful learning experience. I meant for him.

But this year, as his team's head coach, I'm loved watching since he was 2. 1 told him then that he would have the time of his life. "How do you know, Dad?" he asked. "Did you play T-ball when you were 5 years old?" Turn to T-BALL on E2 Also on E2 Little Leaguers' lives have seen some drama. the one getting the real education.

For Sam, last year's introduction to T-ball offered the opportunity to meet new kids, to learn about teamwork, to get away from the television and to get some fresh air in a structured environment. His self-esteem, which has never been lacking, got an added boost. And for the first time, he played the game he has Photo by Kate CornellRandom House Naomi Wolf Here's a flash: There's a double standard in America, and girls get mixed messages about their sexuality. That and the oft-quoted tidbit that Naomi Wolfs mother let young Naomi's boyfriend stay all night only if she'd cleaned her room are probably all you need to know about the author's new book, "Promiscuities." Praised in advance by such literary luminaries as Playboy and MTVs Tabitha Soren, the book purports to be a groundbreaking step in allowing women their "erotic coming-of-age stories." Being young and all, Wolf credits herself with getting teenage girls to open up in ways they never would to older women like, say, Mary Pipher. And behold the insightful musing Wolf is able to elicit from one girl: "You're promiscuous if you do anything, but you're a prude if you do nothing." I mean, who'd a thunk it? But here's the height of absurdity: This manifesto for female sexuality, this call for women to reclaim openly their erotic selves, demurely withholds its subjects' names to protect their privacy.

Hardly a blow against the old order. What: Naomi Wolf, author of "The Beauty Myth," will discuss her new book, "Promiscuities: The Secret Struggle for Womanhood." When: 8 p.m. Thursday. Where: Macalester Plymouth United Church, 1658 Lincoln St. Paul.

Tickets: Pick up free tickets at the Hungry Mind Bookstore, 1648 Grand St. Paul. H.J. Cummins Sam Aeshliman gave ft his all as he scrambled down the third-base line toward home plate. Book is guide to mergin American, Asian cultures Comments Inside Asian America decided to do a little research.

What they found was that Eastern culture reaches as far into the American landscape as denim jeans and bandannas. So they decided to write "Eastern Standard Time: A Guide to Asian Influence on American Culture From Astro Boy to Zen Buddhism" ($15, Houghton Mifflin). An essential reference book or trivia collection, "Eastern Standard Time" is a bible for late '90s hipsters, a thorough history lesson for anyone Easterly intrigued. Turn to BOOK on Ell By Stephanie McKlnnon McDade Sacramento Bee SACRAMENTO, CALIF. We're rocking out to Shonen Knife.

We're cheering agile action man Jackie Chan. We're cooing over our Tamagotchi key-chain pets. Our health plans are covering acupuncture. Our interior decorators are talking feng shui. Our stressed bodies are turning to yoga.

That's just the latest wave. For years, we've slept on futons, lighted apartments with paper lamps, cranked up our Sonys and driven our Toyotas. American culture is merging with Asian. To make sense of it all, the people at A. Magazine: If you have comments about this section, please leave them for section coordinators Susie Eaton Hopper and Randy Miranda at the voice-mail line, 673-9087, or by e-mail at varietygw.startrlbune.com.

For inquiries or complaints about individual stories, call Lou Gelfand, reader's representative, at 673-4450 or e-mail readerrepgw.startribune.com. Photo by Stephen VaughanParamount Pictures Two cultures merging: Hong Kong director John Woo discusses a scene with John Travolta on the set of "FaceOff," Woo's third Hollywood film..

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