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2: SUSAN DOUGLAS is a professor of media and American studies at Hampshire College. She has just written a book "Where the Girls Are (Random House)," that looks at women in baby-boomer pop culture. She explains how the media's alternating images of stereotypical femininity and feminism created a kind of "schizophrenia" in American women. She talks about how this confusion has caused ambivalence in American women about what feminism means. In her book, she deconstructs such TV shows as "Bewitched," whose female heroines have magical powers, and "Mary Tyler Moore," whose heroine remains permanently poised between and assertiveness and submissiveness.

Reporter for The Washington Post NATHAN MCCALL. He's written a new autobiography, "Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America." (Random House). When MCCALL was twenty years old he was sent to prison for armed robbery. In his new book, MCCALL writes about growing up in a suburban neighborhood, and the anger he felt toward white's that made him and his friends go after and beat up white guys because it made them "feel good inside." After MCCALL was released from jail, he studied journalism and reported for the Virginian Pilot-Ledger Star and the Atlanta Journal Constitution. His book has been compared to Richard Wright's "Black Boy," and been described as "more than a coming of age story: it's a story of an America that should never have come to be.

Professor of Political Economy and Health Policy MARC ROBERTS. He's written a new book about the health care crisis: "Your Money or Your Life: The Health Care Crisis Explained." (Doubleday). ROBERTS will talk with Terry about Clinton's health care plan, which the president presented to Congress yesterday. ROBERTS is on the faculty at the Harvard School of Public Health and the John F. Kennedy School of Government

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-V critic DAVID BIANCULLI reviews "Wild Palms," the new series coming up on ABC.

Filmmaker KEN BURNS is the director of "The Civil War" and "Baseball," the hit documentaries on PBS. The former was the network's highest rated series. BURNS' other documentaries include "The Brooklyn Bridge," "The Statue of Liberty," and "Empire of the Air," about the early history of radio. (This interview was recorded in front of an audience at the Flynn Theater on October 27, in a benefit for Vermont Public R

KEN TUCKER reviews "Hungry for Stink" (Slash Records) by L7, an all-woman quartet who is appearing in the Lollapalooza tour.

2: Professor of History at Princeton, SEAN WILENTZ. His new article in the August 9th, 1993 issue of The New Republic compares the Ross Perot phenomenon to past populist movements in American History. He argues that Perot represents populism as "a surly mood of defeat and powerlessness;" that he perhaps signals a realignment to come of the two major parties.

Jazz critic Kevin Whitehead reviews the work of soprano saxophonist Lol Coxhill. ("Lohl") (The Dunois Solos, Nato re

Commentator MAUREEN CORRIGAN reviews "The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes" by Janet Malcolm (Knopf). The book is a reflection on the various attempts by biographers to chronicle the life of the late poet Sylvia Plath

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