CITY EDITION
 
A CONSENSUS APPROACH ON LAND USE by John H. Cushman Jr.
"PHOENIX, Feb. 15 -- Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt has been
barnstorming the West, campaigning for a proposal that would
give local interests, including ranchers and environmentalists,
far more influence over grazing on public land than the
Clinton Administration had previously planned." (p. 8)
 
REVIEW/POP: PSYCHEDELIA COLORED BY EMOTION by Jon Pareles
"Country music and psychedelia aren't exactly twins. One
revels in formal restrictions and control; one seeks
freedom in every sphere. But since the late 1960's, when
mind expansion became a new American frontier, psychedelia
picked up all it could from country...Blind Melon and the
Meat Puppets, two neo-psychedelic bands who shared a sold-out
bill at Roseland on Thursday night, ground free-form musings
with a rural touch. But by reveling in adolescent self-pity,
Blind Melon has managed to twist received psychedelia into
1990's hits." (p. 12)
 
REVIEW/MUSIC: JESSYE NORMAN AND RARITIES by Bernard Holland
"Queenly suicide was a topic taken up by the Boston Symphony this
week. Indeed, had Jessye Norman not withdrawn from her scheduled
performance on Wednesday, Carnegie Hall audiences could have
witnessed the American soprano taking her own life four times
within 24 hours." (p. 12)
 
CHRONICLE by Enid Nemy
THE CASE OF THE DISAPPEARING EISENSTAEDT
"There's an empty space in the ALFRED EISENSTAEDT retrospective
exhibition on the walls near the cafeteria at Time Inc...a Time
spokesman said that after the work of the legendary Life magazine
photographer was mounted in December, a few staff members found
a 1956 photograph of a Ku Klux Klan meeting offensive and asked
that it be removed...the company decided that the photograph was
a historical document, not an affirmation of the Klan's views, and
that it would not be removed. Still, it soon disappeared." (p. 20)
 
AN INSIDE LOOK AT PLANTS
"The Brooklyn Botanic Garden is to reopen its Chase Manhattan
Discovery Center on Tuesday with a new interactive exhibit, 'Plants
and You,' specially designed to foster the interest of children."
(p. 22 [photo])
 
NEW MEDIA FACE A CLASH OF TASTES by Steve Lohr
"One sure bet about the coming new-media industry -- with its murky
furture and its profusion of nicknames from the information highway
to 500-channel television -- is that it will be littered with
corporate casualties...The survey of more than 4,000 consumers
nationwide by Odyssey, a market research firm, found diverse views
among Americans toward today's technologies and the promised new
ones. And the differences seem to have less to do with
conventional consumer demographics like household income, age
and education than with one factor: their attitudes toward
technology." (p. 37,41)
 
That's it.
 
Robbin Murphy
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