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DIED. BRANDON TARTIKOFF, 48, NBC's programming wunderkind who gave the peacock network reason to strut; of Hodgkin's disease; in Los Angeles. Only 31 when he became NBC's entertainment president in 1980, Tartikoff turned the struggling network into The Place To Be with such hits as The Cosby Show and Hill Street Blues. (See Eulogy below...
DIED. FELA ANIKUPALO-KUTI, 58, confrontational father of Afro-Beat; after suffering from AIDS; in Lagos. Flamboyant and unapologetic--he married 27 women in one mass ceremony--Fela liked to strut about the stage clad only in briefs. He wielded his saxophone like a weapon, directing it against the Nigerian government in songs like V.I.P. (Vagabonds in Power). His commitment involved more than just attitude: he was frequently arrested and in 1984 was imprisoned...
...truck rumbles into the pasture, a bovine maternity ward. Here a gawky newborn nuzzles its mother; there a fetal head and two hooves peek from the hindquarters of a cow that's ambling, wholly unconcerned, through the field. Sage grouse--a preposterously showy endangered species--strut and preen on the hillside. While Duane tours the scene in his pickup, his son Brad works from the saddle of a quarter horse. They stop to watch as a cow lies down, her calf beginning to emerge. Finally, with perfect timing and great effort, the cow clambers to her feet and lets gravity...
...ATHLETIC! PERSONAL! SPORT SEDAN PERFORMANCE WITH INTERIOR VERSATILITY TO HAUL THEIR "STUFF" TO COMPLEMENT THEIR ACTIVE LIFE-STYLES. Yet GM's new dots, arrows and product teams have also begun to eliminate the rule of its autocrats, who could famously terrify designers and redesign a car by one simple strut around a new product. Says vice president Phil Guarascio, director of GM's advertising: "We're no longer relying on anyone's golden...
...evening wear. At this week's fashion shows in New York, the relatively unknown Bouwer has scored a coup by persuading the singer, whom he has been dressing ever since he saw her on TV wearing a frock of his that she bought in a store (horrors!), to strut the catwalk for him. "My clothes are not for wallflowers," Bouwer says. "They're for confident, athletic women who enjoy being seen." In return for being all that, Braxton will get to keep her dress...