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BOTH SIDES VfS III JIL'LJ A2 THE HARTFORD COURANT: Sunday, Jum 30, 1991 a fl Have patience, eat cheeseburgers and all the fads will fade that today's change Is ordered by the same who created yesterday's. Better to gnore it all. I am a man. That is a politics-free statement of gender. It is enough of a challenge to get through the day.

But if I had followed all the advice of recent years, sequentially, at six-month intervals, I would have to have been: Mr. Macho, rudely flexing non-existent muscles at women I barely know and greasing down my wispy hair, Mr. Sensitivity, given to vast tendernesses and getting weepy at sunsets and sappy poetry; Mr. Woodsman, rushing out into the mosquitoes of the forest all brawny and full of fresh air, Mr. Introspective, quick to bare my soul to strangers and overflowing with mawkish self-analysis; Mr.

Caring; Mr. Worldliness; Mr. Slick; Mr. Correct. Now, it turns out that if I take my man's role seriously, what I am encouraged to do is climb naked into a sweat lodge with a bunch of other lunatics and bang on drums and cry like a baby and pour out my every secret Pl- indicated again! If you wait these things out, they will go away.

That's my steady philosophy, and I've done well by it Another craze vanquished. With all the opportunities to make a fool of myself in my day-to-day existence, I have no interest whatever in the exhausting pursuit of new ones. Besides, things never last It is like mowing the lawn. Why bother? Accordingly, I have never -once wiggled all over anyone else in committing an act of lambada, never ever slam-danced worn an earring, gotten a donjaed' leisure suit, burdened my children by naming them after mythological creatures or Scandinavian automobiles. My particular triumph is the recent study that suggests that for the difference it actually makes, you can eat all the cheeseburgers in creation.

And they say we never print the good news. This report flies in the face of the anti-cholesterol people, or the anti-fat lobby, or ArtsEntertainment Real-life courtroom drama is about to go On trial. Paged. Goodspeed's "Happy Fella" is headed for the big time. Paged.

Books Amy Tan is not a one-book writer. Page G3. More about Provence from Peter Mayle. Page G3. The classics are making a comeback in bookstores.

Book report. Page G3. Business Marketing guru gives state advice on ways to improve its image. Page D1. Persistence gets results for AIDS vaccine pioneer.

Page D1. Firms find need for training in hard times. Page D1. Family leave law: Phase 2 to take effect. Page D1.

Commentary Group of 7 becomes more liberal. Page E1 Thurgood Marshall: a legacy of concern for ordinary people. Page E1. Editorial: Going after Iraq, again. Page E2.

Government can't restore the family. Charles Krauthammer. Page E4. Interviews on TV CPTV hopes purple dinosaur flies Connecticut Public Television is hoping a purple dinosaur named Barney will be the next Big Bird. And apparently, PBS and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting think CPTV may have found the next "Sesame Street" as well, recently awarding the station and Lyons Group of Allen, Texas creators of the critically acclaimed videos "Barney the Backyard a $2.25 million grant to produce a new 30-part series of half-hour episodes based on the videos.

Plans for the show, which will debut nationwide on PBS in April 1992, were unveiled Friday at the CPTV's Hartford headquarters. CPTV brought the videos, favorites with preschoolers, to the attention of PBS after 4-year-old Leora Rif kin, daughter to CPTV Vice President for Programming Larry Rif kin, brought home a "Barney" tape from the local video store. Impressed with the character, a life-size toy that co-stars with a multiethnic cast of six children, as well as the educational nature of the videos, Rifkin got in touch with Sheryl Leach and Kathy Parker, the two women who created the character and series to entertain their children and then took the project to PBS. Contractual details haven't been worked out, but CPTV will benefit from merchandising and other projects connected with the show. Rifkin said some changes would be made before Barney hits the air, such as dropping the word "gang" which has negative social connotations from the title.

I' Horgan aside these treasures are few indeed, four months they say. I don't know how I will feel four-months-and-one-day from Fetching Time, but to save four months of my life at the cost of decades without cheeseburgers is no wise investment at all, I think. Now it seems that it was only another fad, anyway. I don't have the time or energy for fads. As it is, by the time we hear about them in Connecticut, they are all over everywhere else and we merely look foolish.

But even here, we are always being advised to surrender things or improve upon ourselves and make changes and adjustments so as to meet the standards of the day. And never mind Monday Connecticut Living: Readers offer suggestions to "Fill the Hole" in downtown Hartford. Business Weekly: Foreclosures are turning bankers into developers and shopkeepers. Tuesday Connecticut Living: The art of the anti-nuclear movement across north-central Connecticut. Wednesday Connecticut Living: Talking with 'The Terminator' Schwarzenegger on the sequel.

Food: A butcher's guide to marinating meat. Thursday Page One: War Stories What it was really like in the gulf conflict. Calendar: The compleat guide to Riverfest 1991. Saturday Home Consumer: Nintendo's battle to keep the kids interested. Sunday Northeast magazine: Personal recollections of the Hartford circus fire.

Lottery numbers Saturday, June 29, drawing Connecticut Daily: 227 Play Four: 7243 Tuesday's Lotto jackpot: $1.75 million. New York Daily: 466 WinFoun S637 Pick 10: IS, 16, 21, 23, 24, 27, 29, 31, 32, 40, 45, 48, 49, 52, 53, 55, 67, 71, 72, 75 Lotto: 5, 17, 19, 31, 33, 43 supplemental number, 32 Massachusetts Daily: 7411 Megabucks: 2, 6, 26, 29, 31, 36 Maine-Vermont-New Hampshire 565 and 3665 Megabucka: 3, 19, 26, 29, 33, 36 Rhode Island Daily: 4902 Lot-O-Bucka: 7, 10, 33, 36, 38 all those others totally predisposed to take away anything we enjoy in the frivolous name of good health, longevity and other trendy considerations. Those mirthless souls promise a fight but I don't care what they do, because I never paid any attention to them in the first place when they gleefully lectured me on how I was wrecking my life with burgers. This will go away, I thought Having listened to a million gloomy predictions over the years, few of which ever came true, I will have none of that I set my compass on consistency and sail by it, never caring how the winds of the moment may buffet the course. Things will take care of themselves, is my holistic view one I apply to car problems, dental work and a thousand other irritations.

Cheeseburgers are one of my few pleasures, and I continued to eat them even as the hands were wringing and the alarms were tolling around me. Sure enough, it is now revealed that the gains from putting Connecticut Conservationists say radioactive-waste dump might harm turtle habitat. Page B1. Whistleblower leaves bitterly. Page B1.

National News All-night gambling sure bet in Atlantic City. Page A4. Hussein vow to cooperate questioned. Page A5. Federal judge convicted.

Page A1 1. Review Concert Ray Charles brash, inventive. Page A12. Sports Infighting Red Sox lose. Page C1.

Travel Readers tell about their wonderful, affordable vacations. Page F1. Washington Notebook Two House members make progress in getting money for state. Page A11. World News Kurds reject autonomy plan.

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Paul Simon, and Arlen Specter, Harvard law professor Derrick Bell; and Norman Ornstein of the American Enterprise Institute, on the resignation of Thurgood Marshall. NBC, "Meet the Press" 10:30 a.m.: Attorney General Richard L. Thornburgh and Sen. John C. Danforth, on congressional battles over civil rights and crime and Supreme Court developments.

ABC, "This Week With David Brinkley" 0 11:30 a.m.: Attorney General Richard L. Thornburgh; Sens. Patrick J. Leahy, and Orrin G. Hatch, R-Utah; and law professors Stephen Carter of Yale and Charles Ogletree of Harvard, on the Supreme Court.

CPTV, "On the Record" ffl 12:30 p.m.: Host Bob Douglas and Christopher Blake of The Bridgeport Post will interview state Treasurer Francisco L. Borges and James Berman, a lawyer with Zeisler and Zeisler, bankruptcy counsel for the city of Bridgeport. longing to some sweaty, naked guy I don't even know all this to demonstrate how much I miss working in the fields with my Dear Old Dad. This is apparently all the rage, and people are actually paying for the experience. Well, I am here to tell you it will be a cold day on the reservation before nude-me, climbs into some tepee and beats on a torn-1 torn no matter how many very foolish men think this is the very thing to do.

My Dear Old Dad and I never worked in the fields; in fact, we have dedicated our lives to not having to work in fields. This is called progress. Acting like an idiot in a wigwam is called silliness. I don't think it's a good idea, thank you very much. I think I'll skip this one too, just as I have declined to graze on salads covered with skeleton hair called alfalfa sprouts.

These things will go away. Instead, I will simply eat my cheeseburgers, no matter which week's finding is in force. And, as much as it is possible, I will do so sitting at a table, fully clothed. movie, "A League of Their Own." "We looked at every tavern, every saloon, and every bar within 100 miles of here," said locations scout Dennis Benatar, the former husband of rock singer Pat Benatar. Eventually, an Evansville, building was chosen to serve as the exterior and a Chicago location for the interior of the "Suds Bucket" tavern for the movie being shot mainly in southern Indiana in late July.

Benatar is responsible for securing up to 175 separate agreements with people whose property might appear in the movie. Body Julio Iglesias knows music is the universal language, so he opened his performance in Chattanooga, with 15 minutes of his greatest hits in Spanish. "How are we supposed to know what he's saying?" asked a woman in line Friday night for a soft drink at the city's Riverbend Festival. The drink vendor a woman swaying in time to the music replied, "It ain't the words, girl." Good, but not vocal: Country singer Larry Gatlin was reported in good condition following surgery to remove cysts on his vocal cords. Gatlin was alert Friday and already writing notes" in the recovery room at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Dr.

Robert Os-soff said. The Grammy-winning singer won't be able to speak for two weeks and won't be singing for at least three months. Gatlin Ossoff said. Gatlin, 43, will work with a voice scientist and a voice pathologist to retrain his voice, which should be back to normal in 18 months, Ossoff said. From wire and staff reports 1aa1( at pmwnr I Near the folks: Johnny Carson's wife is buying a condominium in Pittsburgh where she can stay when she visits her parents, a bank official said.

Alexis Mass Carson has agreed to buy the last condominium available at a 115-unit complex in the Mount Washington district overlooking downtown, said John Kozeka, assistant vice president of Mellon Bank. A two-level condominium of the kind she is buying sells for more than $200,000. Alexis Carson's parents live in suburban North Hills. Carson met Alexis, his fourth wife, on Carbon Beach near his Malibu home. They were married in 1987.

Carson is retiring next year as host of "The Tonight Show." Classical Beatle: Paul McCartney has gone classical. Soprano Dame Kiri Te-Kanawa was among hundreds of singers Friday who performed McCartney's "Liverpool Oratorio," a classical ode to the former Beatle hometown. More than 2,000 people in Liverpool's Anglican Cathedral witnessed McCartney's debut as a classical composer. The partly autobiographical, eight-movement ode to growing up in the northern British port McCartney city was sung by Te-Kanawa, Willard White, Sally Burgess and Jerry Hadley. They were accompanied by a 100-voice chorus, a boys' choir and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Carl Davis.

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