TIME CAPSULE/SEPT. 12, 1992

AT THE MOVIES, Sneakers -- a high-tech thriller starring Robert Redford, Sidney Poitier, Dan Aykroyd, and River Phoenix (right) -- is America's No. 1 film. Phoenix's promising career will end one year later with his accidental death from a drug overdose at age 23. IN MUSIC, the Philly-bred foursome Boyz II Men tops the singles chart with ''End of the Road,'' which rolls on to become a senior-prom favorite. IN BOOKSTORES, Terry McMillan's buppie romance Waiting to Exhale breathes easy atop the fiction best-seller list. Whitney Houston, Angela Bassett, and Gregory Hines will star in the 1995 film version. AND IN THE NEWS, Arkansas governor Bill Clinton delivers one of the most expansive ''family values'' speeches of his first presidential campaign, in South Bend, Ind.