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...BIRD Charlie Parker, genius of modern jazz and modern self-destruction, is played with easy-gliding perfection by Forest Whitaker, and director Clint Eastwood re-creates his world in dark, romantic hues. No false notes, no easy sentiment...
...springtime one could travel for hundreds of miles on a bed of flowers. Sometimes they came up to my stirrups." Thus a Texas Ranger in 1875 described riding through West Texas. To preserve this natural bounty, in 1982 Lady Bird Johnson gave 60 Texas acres and $125,000 to found the National Wildflower Research Center. Now, with horticulturist Carlton B. Lees, the former First Lady has produced Wildflowers Across America (Abbeville; 309 ! pages; $39.95) and will donate her royalties to help support the center. The botanical handbook is illuminated with photographs of extraordinary clarity and includes instructions...
...search for a monument to rival New York's Statue of Liberty and St. Louis' Gateway Arch, the city of Los Angeles last week came up with something so bizarre that visitors may never forget it. After surveying about 150 entries, including a giant bird, a gargantuan baseball glove and a towering fountain of water, the selection committee settled on Steel Cloud, designed by New York architects Hani Rashid and Lise Anne Couture. When the first stage is completed in 1992, the $33 million glass-and-steel structure will rise up to twelve stories above the Hollywood Freeway in downtown...
Toys that catch fire are another worry. Americans for Democratic Action, a Washington watchdog group, tested 18 stuffed animals and found that 13 of them, including Mattel's Baby Mickey Snuggle Pal, Paddington's 30th Anniversary bear from Eden Toys and Playskool's Big Bird, are flammable, even though they meet existing federal and industry standards. Manufacturers say they have had few complaints and would have to use toxic chemicals to make the toys fully flame-retardant...
Recalling my words from a year ago, I smiled knowingly and said to him and all those of you who have yet to see the Bird fly, "Just you watch...