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CINEMA The Firm starts smart and ends up infirm. Boy and girl take too long to meet in Sleepless in Seattle. MUSIC Streisand makes a dazzling return to Broadway -- on CD. THEATER Robert Goulet's touring Camelot is a waxworks. BOOKS Game Over tells how Nintendo wove its international spell. A seductive look at new theories of the universe...
...attends the elementary school where young Danny Quayle learned to spell, was not the first person outside the museum when it opened last week in Huntington, a tidy, cheerful town of 18,000 located on a bend of the Wabash River. That honor went to the NBC satellite truck that came here before 6 a.m. for an interview with Marj Hiner, the local lady who was the leading force behind the museum...
...righteous populist, Bonner offers up a capsule sketch of awf founder Russell Train's distinguished lineage that seems to suggest racism as an explanation for Train's fears that the Africanization of wildlife staffs would spell disaster for the game. Bonner recounts a litany of condescending comments made about the Third World by upper-class Brits, including slighting remarks made by Prince Philip, an early supporter of wwf. In his centrifugal anger, however, Bonner never connects these fusillades into a coherent argument...
...goal is not always to create a wildlife refuge. Many gardeners just want a landscape that is easy and inexpensive to maintain and not particularly vulnerable to the vagaries of the weather. Barbara Humberger of Austin began going native in 1989 after an unusual cold spell killed many of the nonnative shrubs that surrounded her lakeside home. Her property shimmers with blackfoot daisies that bloom from early spring until the first fall frost. UCLA neurologist Andrew Charles wanted an attractive but drought-resistant cover for the steep hillside behind his house. His solution was to plant deep-rooted California lilacs...
...advocated more federal intervention. "There will always be a riot around the corner until the system is changed," Sharpton said. "We need to spell out what is excessive force...