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DIED. ROBERT SARNOFF, 78, second-generation chief of RCA; in New York City. In the 1950s and '60s, Sarnoff preened the company's NBC subsidiary into the peacock network, introducing color and expanding news. When the conglomerate he built suffered from sprawl, G.E. snatched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Mar. 10, 1997 | 3/10/1997 | See Source »

...Your child is like a little peacock taking you around and showing you everything he learned for the past week," Jackman says. "You see those kids shine from the work that they've done...

Author: By Georgia N. Alexakis, | Title: Innovative Banneker School Serves City's Minority Students | 2/19/1997 | See Source »

Perhaps it isn't the act of hollow sex which itself is so base. Perhaps it is the notion of it, even at Harvard, as an act that calls forth pride enough to don a pin and strut like a peacock. The celebratory reception of sexual conquest in the drinking culture is quite barbaric. Can men's sexual indulgence represent anything more than a pillage of females given their propensity to speak of in it terms of booty? Obviously, sex has no meaning to them beside its pleasurable...

Author: By Joshua A. Kaufman, | Title: The Grille Gratifies | 2/6/1996 | See Source »

...PEACOCK STRUTS ITS STUFF...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WEEK: DECEMBER 10-16 | 12/25/1995 | See Source »

Shoot it as you would a noisy peacock...

Author: By Patrick S. Chung, | Title: MASQUERADE | 11/4/1995 | See Source »

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