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...rightfully criticized for their commercialism, but from the time the American delegation proceeded down the ramp, NBC went an hour without a commercial. Indeed, the ceremonies went by in a flash: the remarks by Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games president Billy Payne and International Olympic Committee president Juan Antonio Samaranch ("Atlanta, here we are!"), the proclamation ("I declare open the Games of Atlanta!") by President Clinton, the entrance of the Olympic flag, a tribute to Atlanta's Rev. Martin Luther King, the introduction of past Olympians...
Except in her music. Her first album, Toni Braxton, produced by R.-and-B. hitmakers Antonio ("L.A.") Reid and Kenny ("Babyface") Edmonds, swam against the tide. While other R.-and-B. singers were getting louder, brasher, naughtier, Braxton's songs were slower, heavier, laden with emotion. And they had an attitude. Her first hit, Love Shoulda Brought You Home, admonished a man who had been staying out too late; the song Best Friend (which Braxton co-wrote) is a barbed note to a boyfriend who had an affair with his lover's best friend...
...nonpareil heavyweight Felix Savon, will probably be the big winners, but they'll have to contend with the former Eastern Bloc teams (Romania, Bulgaria and Russia) that took half the gold medals at the last world championships. Americans can look for big things from stylish light heavyweight Antonio Tarver...
Houston 117 Santa Ana, Calif. 101 San Jose, Calif. 75 Chicago 75 San Antonio, Texas...
Klein's appeal owes much to his genius for marketing. His clothes may be subtle, but he realized early that advertising never should be. His ubiquitous and controversial campaigns featuring near-naked models--Kate Moss, Marky Mark, Antonio Sabato Jr.--have blatantly used sex to move product. His most successful adventure in boundary pushing came last summer with a series of jeans ads that featured models who looked like teenagers in sexually evocative poses. Even President Clinton protested. Klein pulled the ads, but only after he'd reaped as much press from them as possible. A master at elevating...