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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.

A performance by Vernel Bagneris.

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

2: Stu Sutcliffe

2: History professor and author R. LAURENCE MOORE. His new book is "Selling God: American Religion in the Marketplace of Culture." (Oxford) MOORE explores the relationship between spiritualism and consumerism in this country over a two-century span. He develops his theses with examples from the lives as such American personalities as P. T. Barnum, Cecil B. DeMille and Sylvester Graham, inventor of the Graham cracker.

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

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

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.