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E2 THE HARTFORD COURANT: Wednesday, September 28, 1994 TELEVISION WEDNESDAY Burns' 'Baseball' ends tonight; saving children in Sarajevo T) r. P.M. 6:00 6:30 7:00 7:30 8:00 8:30 9:00 9:30 10:00 10:30 11:00 11:30 WC8S (CBS) News CBS News Hard Copy Entertain. The Boys Pad's Girls Touched by an Angel 48 Hours News Late Show' WGBH (PBS) MacNeil Lehrer News Group Served? Baseball: Home (Part 9 of 9) Belsbot Served? C.Rose WfSB (CSS) News CBS News Inside Edit. Journal The Boys Dad's Girls Touched by an Angel 48 Hours News Late Show, GDWNBCQBC) News NBC News EXTRA Inside Edit.

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Fans who have stuck it TV tonight out through the 16 hours before tonight's conclu- sion will find it wholly sat isfying. Burns interviews sportcasters Red Barber, Vin Scully and Bob Costas; writers Roger Angell, Studs Terkel, George Will and George Plimpton; historian Doris Kearns Goodwin; and players Curt Flood and Bill Lee. Special attention is paid to the 1975 World Series between Cincinnati and Boston; to the battle over the reserve clause and free agency; and, finally, to the enduring appeal of America's national pastime. "Turning Point" (ABC at 10) visits the for-mer Yugoslavia for a story about private American efforts to evacuate sick and wounded children from war-torn Sarajevo. Reporter Tom Jarriel contrasts the humanitarian efforts of Chicago pediatrician Dr.

Miro Kovacevic with those of California resident Lynne Robustelli, whose "Resolve Foundation" turns out according to this report to be non-existent except for a mailbox. hour chronicles Kovacevic's several frustrating months attempting to help, and eventually to fly out, several youngsters (notably a 5-year-old girl who lost a leg in a mortar-shell explosion). Hidden cameras catch Robustelli taking thousands of dollars from some of whom are bused to Croatia and then left stranded. Other highlights Cable's Learning Channel launches "Pa-leo World" (at 8), a new 13-part series about the creatures and beasts of the prehistoric pasf. Opening the series is "Rise of the Predator!" a look at the more vicious dinosaurs of the Cretaceous and Jurassic periods, including, the raptors that dominated "Jurassic Park." Puccini's "Tosca" is the first of six Metropolitan Opera stagings to be broadcast this season on Bravo (8 p.m.).

Hildegard Behrens, Placido Domingo and Cornell MacNeil perform; Giuseppe Sinopoli conducts. Famed film and opera director Franco Zeffirelli designed the sets. "Dateline NBC" (at 9) Teports on the O.J. -Simpson trial; the conclusion of Stone report on possible unsafe drinking water Sin cities around the country. "48 Hours" (CBS at 10) takes a took at the sjurpr selection process in criminal trials, spe-Jcifically issues, of race in the O.J.

Simpson 5 trial. On "The Larry Sanders Show" (HBO at JV3j30), Hank recovers from his divorce by klhjoling up in a hotel with a succession of SpVdstitutes. Guests include actresses Sarah jj Jessica Parker and Mary Gross, and pop psy- chologist Dr. David Viscott. Local channels i "The Making of Baseball," (CPTV, Channel 24 the Hartford area, at 10:30) takes a rbehind-the-scenes look at the intricacies of making a major television series.

This pro- gram includes clips from the series and inter-ryiews with the producers, Dinamation International Corp. "Paleoworld" re-creates the age of the dinosaurs by combining three-dimensional graphics, life-like Dinamation robotics and the latest scientific findings. The 13-part series makes its premiere tonight at 8 on the Learning Channel. Cult choice Warren Beatty's 1981 film "Reds" (TNT at 8) isn't often shown due to its length (four hours, 15 minutes, with commercials). Beatty (who won an Oscar for his direction) stars, with Diane Keaton, Jack Nicholson and Maureen Stapleton, in this epic story of two Americans involved in the Russian Revolution.

Series notes Guy reopens a 20-year-old murder case on "The Cosby Mysteries" (NBC at 8). Brandon has trouble dealing with Josh's death on "Beverly Hills, 90210" (Fox at 8). takes the kids to the racetrack on "Thunder Alley" (ABC at 8). Fred and Jackie ask Rick to baby-sit on "The Boys Are Back" (CBS at 8). Margaret becomes manager of the perfume department on "All-American Girl" (ABC at Dudley has trouble saying "no" to his daughters on "Daddy's Girls" (CBS at Roseanne's pregnancy causes problems for Dan on "Roseanne" (ABC at 9).

A mystery man enters Sarah's life on "Models Inc." (Fox at 9) Monica helps a bitter high-school coach face death on "Touched by an Angel" (CBS at 9). Ellen volunteers for too many causes on "Ellen" (ABC at 9:30) An abusive husband is suspected of the attempted murder of his wife on "Law Order" (NBC at 10). Late night Singer Faith, Hill and author Alan Zweibel are on "Late Show With David Letterman" (CBS at 11:35) Actress Markie Post and singer Boz Scaggs are on "The Tonight Show" (NBC at I 1 Musician Pops Staples is on "Late Night With Conan O'Brien" (NBC at 12:35 a.m.) Greg Kinnear interviews actress Courteney Cox on "Later" (NBC at 1 :35 a.m., Channel 30 at 2:05 a.m.). Music group Helmet is on "The Jon Stewart Show" (WTIC, Channel 61 at 1:30 a.m.). itwM i i 0 For VCR Plus codes, detailed listings and complete cable programs, see TV Week in the Sunday Courant.

For special sports programming and highlights, see today's Sports section. llhat evil, what power can lurk in simple words Word meanings have changed in most amusing, naughty ways 3F UW Veil 9 By ROB KYFF Five hundred years ago, if you called your neighbor a "cunning villain," he might thank you for the compliment. But describe him with the same words today and he'll never lend you his hedge clippers again. automatic anti-PC one either." The history of the words "queer" and "gay," he says, illustrate his contention that PC mandates, no matter how noble, fail as language evolves in daily life. Up until about 10 years mJ iv 'A ir i 7 v-v 7 PnK "157 LI JJ ti l-J'r I For, in medieval times, "cunning" meant "knowledgeable," not "sly," and Word watch i Naylor Rich Page rjutntinued from Page El and Stanley Fish, processor of English at Duke University rnd author of "There's No Such 'Thing as Free Speech: and It's a jfeood Thing, Too." The daylong symposium will focus on African-American identity as expressed through the arts and the of political correctness on English language.

tl'J central fact of life about politi-correctness, or how minorities rei treated in both language and Gregory says, "is that power dictates." tf the Japanese started get-', jifig political and economic power, we started saying, 'Well, may-lbo iwe shouldn't have put them in the; concentration camps in World iWar II. So we paid 'em. And the only "season we did that was because of 'power. The Gay Liberation move-Iment never got power until they on Washington two years go, 1 million strong, and filled up hotel and spent big money. now all at onceyou see gays in Iji-As a corollary to his view that f)ower opens doors, minds and lan guage, Gregory says, the information superhighway will have great impact on political correctness.

It will raise society's social consciousness by spreading knowledge more widely and more quickly than ever before in the global village. Technology has already had enormous impact on race and racism, he says, as attested to by the powerful boost television gave the civil rights movement by bringing the struggle for justice into the living rooms of millions of Americans. "Without TV, we'd still be struggling for 100 years to get to where we are now. And more recently, there was the Rodney King beating. No gift from God can make a group of people understand what happened to King any better than TV.

"Once they said the pen was mightier than the sword. That's obsolete today. Now the might of electronics is mightier than the pen," Gregory says. Hitchens takes a dim view of ideologues at both extremes of the pro and anti-PC debate. "No one with a sense of humor," he says, "fully subscribes to the PC conception of the world or to the Likewise, "amusing" meant "artificial" meant "full of "scavenger" meant "tax "obsequious" meanj "puny" meant "naughty" meant "worthy olf and "silly" meant "deserving sympathy." The reasons for other shifts iji meaning are more mysterious.

For instance, how did "egregious' which once meant come to mean How di jl "garble," which once meant "sort out," come to mean "mix Howl, in African-American English, did "bad" come to mean While English words do seem tb have a penchant for assuming derogatory and "lower" meanings, almost as many words have climbed the social ladder, a process linguiste call "melioration." "Nice" once meant "pioneer" meant "common foot "yen" meant "craving for meant "cowardly;" and' "guy" meant a "person of grotesqufe appearance or dress." So, if you time-travel to the 15th century, no matter how affable youi-neighbor is, never tell him he's "nice guy." "villain" meant "vil lager," not "scoundrel." These words, like many others that originally bore positive denotations in English, have acquired negative or disparaging meanings over the centuries. Like patricians turned paupers, they're now slumming it through the back alleys of English. Linguists, who seem to have a word for everything, call this riches-to-rags depreciation of meaning "pejoration," from the Latin root "peior" But how does this happen? Usually, a word's meaning changes subtly and gradually over many decades or centuries, and often the shift is logical and fairly obvious. "Boor" and "clown," for instance, both originally meant "farmer," and it's easy to see how snobbish city-dwellers might associate these words with uncouth or gay. But after awhile gay becomes a word that people, who don't like homosexuals, use as well.

They'd say, 'I'd stay away from him if I were you, he's gay. It began to have a different tone, and so homosexuals demand to be called queer again. "What this shows, in my opinion, is the impossibility of legislating how people should talk," Hitchens says. "Each new good word, or positive word you invent will soon become the bad word again, or the word used in the wrong tone of voice." The symposium will be held Saturday from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

at the Aetna Life Casualty Home Office Auditorium, 151 Farming-ton Hartford. General admission, $40; Twain House members, $30; students with I.D., $15. Buffet luncheon is included. Pre-registra-tion is required by 5 p.m. Friday.

Call: 247-0998. ago, Hitchens says, the commonplace word in English for a homosexual was queer. Homosexuals didn't like this, thought it was unfair since it suggested they were twisted, odd and out of place in society, so they insisted on gay, he says. "At which point, an interesting thing happened. Namely, a lot of conservative writers set off a big racket, saying, 'Gay is a fine old word which has been robbed from the language because now it doesn't mean what it used to mean.

We've had a word taken away from "But they never said that about which is also a fine, old English word with a wonderful history to it. When that was the common word for homosexuality, they didn't say, 'You can't use queer without ambiguity So, there was. indeed, a prejudice being concealed here," Hitchens says. "But now what happens? It's mandated that everyone has to say llow can we help you? re Invite readers to Rob Kyff is a teacher and writer in West Hartford. Write to him in care of The Courant, Features Department 9DC Cl TT if comedic behavior, respectively.

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25, ABC had a 12.6 rating and 21 share. NBC had a 12.4 rating and 20 share and CBS had an 11.6 rating and 19 share. Programming 15 of the 22 prime-time hours, Fox had a 7.5 rating and 12 share. ABC tied NBC for Monday and won Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday. NBC won Thursday and CBS won Saturday and Sunday.

Among the news shows, ABC's "World News Tonight" notched its 106th first-place finish in the past 107 weeks, with a 9.5 rating and 20 share. "The NBC Nightly News" was second with an 8.3 rating and 18 share. "The CBS Evening News," Kyria O'Connor Frank RiZZO is arts cnvnranA pnnrrtinatnr HomeConsumer, which Deputy utes," CBS, 17.5; "Ellen," AB He can be reached at 241-3742, or toll-free 1 1-800-524-4242, Ext. 3742. appears Saturday; Features editor 17.3; "Murder, She Wrote," CB.

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