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Commentator Geoffrey Nunberg has a revised look at springtime in Paris.

2: SELIG HARRISON ("SEE-lig") spent four years as Washington Post Bureau chief in Japan, and is now Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He argues that the nuclear threat posed by North Korea is overstated -- that they are using the "nuclear card to get diplomatic recognition and economic help." Negotiations offer a chance for nuclear disarmament and dismantling throught the area. He writes, "The only way to stop nuclear proliferation without paying off would-be nuclear powers in one form or another is to move purposefully toward a nuclear free world." (Wash Post, 1

2: Writer E. ANNIE PROULX (pronounced "Prew"). She just won the National Book Award for Fiction, for her second novel, "The Shipping News," (Scribner's). PROULX describes herself as "incautious, heedless, reckless, stupid." Her characters are often compared with Dickens', and her books are rooted in a particular landscape: "The Shipping News" takes place in a barren Newfoundland. It's been called, "a strange book, a stunning book, full of magic and portent." (Boston Globe).

LLOYD SCHWARTZ reviews a world premier of composer John Harbison''s "Cello Concerto", performed by Yo-Yo Ma and The Boston Symphony Orhcestra.

MARY PREVITE (pronounced prev-eh-tee). She's the administrator of the Camden County Youth Center. Over the 19 years she's been at the CCYC, PREVITE has witnessed the increase of violence in our society, and the effects on among America's young. PREVITE says that most of the kids she sees live in terror, knowing violence as the only way to express their emotions. Fourteen years ago PREVITE started a student newspaper called "What's Happening", establishing a dialogue between herself, the kids, and the community.

Rock critic Ed Ward on the troubles of shopping in Berlin.

DR. DEAN ORNISH. He, along with other researchers, has developed a "lifestyle" program for reversing heart disease. Working with a group of heart patients, ORNISH, has reversed the disease, thru diet, moderate exercise, and stress reduction. He recommends the program for everyone, not just those at risk for heart disease. ORNISH relies on data from seven years of study on this group of patients. Recently the "lifestyle" program qualified for reimbursement by a major insurance company. It's the first time such a program has qualified. ORNISH also has a new book, "Eat More, Weigh Less: Dr. Dean Ornish's Life Choice Program for Losing Weight Safely While Eating Abundantly." (HarperCo

Jazz critic KEVIN WHITEHEAD pays tribute to Ella Fitzgerald who turns 75 this Sunday. He uses music from: "The Harold Arlen Songbook," (Verve), "75th Birthday Celebration," (Decca/GRP), "First Lady of Song," (Verve). The Decca and Verve recordings are both new.

JAMES FALLOWS is the Washington editor of "The Atlantic Monthly." He has a new book, "Looking at the Sun," (Pantheon) to be published in February about the Asian economy. He's written a three part series of articles drawn from the book in the Atlantic (the last one appears in the Jan 94 issue).

TV critic DAVID BIANCULLI reviews the premiere of TNT''s screen adaptation of Joseph Conrad''s "Heart of Darkness."REV. 2: Rock critic KEN TUCKER reviews the new release by singer/songwriter Sam Phillips, "Martinis & Bikinis." (Virgin Records).