Editor's Note
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A Maverick's Moment of Glory
Brash He May Be, but for Gold Medalist Bill Johnson, It's All Downhill from Here
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Look Ma, No Guitar! Rock's Latest Oddity, Air Guitarists, Swing Without Axes
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Liza and Chita Come to Musical Terms of Endearment in a Broadway Whirl Called the Rink
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1974: Richard Nixon
Why Did He Bungle a Presidency That Held So Much Promise? Why Has He Never Said He Is Sorry?
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1975: Patty Hearst
How the Unwitting Symbol of a Terrorist Cause Became a Conservative—and a Contented Mom
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1976: Farrah Fawcett
An All-American Angel Soared as a New Kind of TV Sex Symbol, but She Soon Found Her Wings Clipped
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1977: John Travolta
To a Disco-Beat Drumroll, Saturday Night Fever Launched a Star with a Talent for Staying Alive in Hollywood
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1978: Louise Brown
The World's First 'test-Tube Baby" Ushered in a Revolution in Fertility
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1979: Khomeini
He Brought Terror and Fear to His Land and Ours—all in the Name of Allah
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1980: John Lennon
Like His Vibrant Life and Art, His Tragic Death Shook a Generation and Marked the Tumult of the Times
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1981: Diana
Her Wedding Was a Global Village Feast—then Came the Hard Part
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1982: Jane Fonda
Exercising Her Options, a Changeable Actress Shook Up and Shaped Up the Country
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The Way It Was
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Windows on a Decade
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Heroes & Villains: a Postscript
At Least Once During the Past Decade, the Men and Women on the Next 10 Pages Stirred Your Interest. They Chilled You, Thrilled You, Grabbed Your Attention, Warmed Your Hearts, Made Your Wallets Throb. Here's What They're Up to These Days.
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Mother Hale of Harlem Has Saved 487 Drug-Addicted Babies with An Old Miracle Cure: Love
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The New Burton on Broadway Is Richard's Daughter Kate
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For the Mondales, a Woman's Place Is on the Campaign Trail, Rustling Up Votes on Her Own
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Frustrated as a Filmmaker, Nathan Cohen Winds Up with the Novelty Store of His Dreams
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Writer Jim Dodge Finds a Golden Egg Under a Hard-Drinking Nonflying Duck Named Fup
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Theodore Sizer Wants to Stamp Out Cookie-Cutter Education by Making High School Voluntary
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Roman Polanski
Talented, Reckless, Haunted and Hunted, the Gnome of Krakow Wears the Scars of a Life Lived at High Amplitude
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No Soft Rocker, Billy Idol Might Become the First Pinup of Punk
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House Arrest Wasn't for Her, So Police Chief's Wife Erica Bouza Tried Political Protest—and Jail
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Broadcaster John Schad Tests Emmetsburg, Iowa's Political Waters with His Novel Cess Poll
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The Decade's Dating Game
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