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Life Magazine January
1980 : Cover - Ayatullah Khomeini, Iran. Cambodia,
the desperate fight to survive. Full page color Olympus
OM 10 camera ad with Cheryl Tiegs. Photocopy art. Khomeini's
fierce outcry against America, photos include a big
group of muslim beating themselves (!) - flagellation
and another of women protesting, but using a photo from
campus riots 20 years earlier. A US hostage is paraded
in Tehran. Portrait - Mikhail Baryshnikov, Misha, dancer,
younger readers will recognize him from "Sex in
the City." . Art historian Anthony Blunt was a
spy for the Soviets. Looking into the 1980's - future
portrait of America. The space shuttle. Passive solar
heating for homes, includes J. Douglas Balcomb's home
in Santa Fe, Dr. David Gunderson's home, others. Houston
is America's city of the future. Cutting the Amazon
rain forest. Bill Rush, student at the University of
Nebraska, cerebral palsy. Found painting by Frederick
Church, very pretty painting of ice burgs. Full page
color RCA television ad with lady surfing. Some of the
horrors of Cambodia, starvation and death.
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Life Magazine February
1980 : Cover - Vintage photo of Mary Astor. Whatever
became of Mary Astor, Pola Negri, Billie Dove, and other
lost stars? The tangled politics of 1980. Two page color
Clairesse hair color ad with Cheryl Tiegs. Hunting Nazi
henchmen in the US, includes Frida Michelson, Karlis
Detlavs, Frank Walus, David Gelbhauer, Serge Kowalchuk,
others. Portrait : Dr. John Stehlin. The Lake Placid
Club in 1904 as photographed by Irving Stedman, includes
skijoring (behind a horse), a skier, sulky racing on
Mirror Lake, tobagganing, more. Upcoming Olympics and
slalom skier to beat, Ingemar Stenmark, Steve and Phil
Mahre, others. Full page color Subaru ad with US Ski
Team theme. Cubans in Angola, Castro's auxiliary army
in Africa. Gibbon, tree walker of Asia. New museum for
New Harmony, INdiana. The making of a President. Time-lapse
photography of one solar year. Muammar Gaddafi of Libya.
Cheryl Tiegs models swimsuits in Cabo San Lucas.
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Magazine March 1980 : Cover - Mickey Rooney lights
up Broadway - great article and photos. Tension rises
in the Persian gulf, includes photos of the Soviet ship
Marshal Voroshilov. Full page Lincoln National Life
insurance ad with vintage photo of Abraham Lincoln.
Two page color Congoleum flooring ad with little ballerina
and ballet troup. Photographer Sir Cecil Beaton and
the royals of England, Queen Elizabeth II, Princess
Caroline of Monaco, more. A number of letters to the
editors pertaining to the Cerebral Palsy article in
LIFE January 1980. The art Picasso kept for himself.
Two page color Volkswagon Vanagon ad, in red and white.
Two page color Honda ad with CB125S, CM400E, and 194
cc TwinStar motorcycles and the exhortation to always
wear a helmet and eye protection. Olympic duels that
may not make it to Moscow - if Moscow is boycotted.
Portrait - Marsha Mason, movie star, actress. Unspeakable
atrocity in Cambodia, Pol Pot regime, includes Jim Clark,
Chris DeLance. Full page color Canadian Club whiskey
ad with cross country skiers. Haroun Tazieff, Volcano
man, Inferno detective, includes a neat photo of him
cross country skiing in Erebus in Antarctica. An inquiry
into the violent death of an old friend, an elephant,
by Shana Alexander. Bo Derek causes new hairdo fad.
Burn center nurse's unceasing fight, Charlotte Sheehan
with Jim Lazardi, Gary Hawkins, Aleyda Monell, Judy
Flagg, Dorothy Walsh. Rosalynn Carter, a big feature.
Afghanistan, the land the Russians grabbed. A horrible
photo of the scene after an execution during a prison
riot, New York State's Attica prison. A humorous photo
of Prince Charles skiing in disguise.
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Life Magazine April
1980 : Cover - Children of a Hare Krishna commune
in West Virginia. Feature on the Hare Krishnas, New
Vrindawan, former Keith Ham, more. Two page color Lane
Pearson Furniture ad with three piece stuffed sofa set
that doesn't really look like it goes with anything
else in the room, the two page bedroom furniture ad
is much better. Great photo of police chasing a knife-wielding
man across a roof, by Norman Sylvia. Another great photo
- this one of a beached whale, by Charlie Nye. Full
page photo of Japanese umpires learning how to call
a strike. Rhinos are endangered by poachers. Two page
color Suzuki motorcycle ad with the GS450. New weapons
in America's arsenal, reevaluation following Societ
invasion of Afghanistan, includes two page photo of
Cobra helicopters. Two page Independent Insurance Agents
of America ad with full page of comic art by Jack Davis.
Glories on film - the first color. Today's Jack the
Ripper, the Yorkshire Ripper. Portrait : Earl Weaver.
The grim world of the Soviet Dissident, Lev Kopelev.
Two page color Clairesse hair color ad with Cheryl Tiegs.
Speed skater Eric Heiden glides ahead. De-architecture
- the New York City firm named SITE. Sissy Spacek as
Loretta Lynn. U.S. Hockey team, great color photos.
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Life Magazine May 1980
: Cover - Man-made gene enters a cell, weaving new life
in the lab. Smuggled pictures - the Russia they won't
let us see. Full page color McDonald's ad with French
fries. Two page color Salem cigarettes ad with sailboat
in neon. Quite nice full page color Honda Express ad
with part art, part photo - 100 mpg, air conditioning,
home economics, choice seating. Have women made the
grade at West Point?- includes photo of Andrea Hollen,
more. Smuggled photos of Antonina Agapova in Red Square,
Soviet Union, other candid photos of real life, photographer
Sichov. Portrait : Joan Kennedy. Claude Monet's Normandy
gardens bloom again in a restoration of his estate.
Italy's Fendi, first family of fur. Chicanos make their
old cars glitter and prance with Latin style, low riders
of the Urban range. How to save the manatee. Greg Louganis
and Jenni Chandler, US star divers. Nice photo of Mount
St. Helens with a big cloud of steam, smoke and ash.
The biggest American flag ever - 86,310 square feet,
Evansville, Indiana. Oil rig sinks off Norway, the Alexander
Kielland. The greatest runner, Jesse Owens, dies - full
page photo of him in his prime. Wonderful funny photo
of Courtney Brown pulling a "full sized ocean liner"
with a rope.
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Life Magazine June
1980 : Cover - Sunday Cat (art) by Mattie Lou
O'Kelley. The flowering of US folk Art, includes Howard
Finster, Elijah Pierce, Mattie Lou O'Kelley, Miles Carpenter,
Ralph Fasanella. Full page color BVD men's underwear
ad with a man so manly that he is shaving with a straight
razor. Full page color Kodak Tele-Ektralite 20 camera
ad with Michael Landon. Some great letters to the editor
about the Hare Krishna cult (LIFE April 1980). Two page
color Sears ad with a full page photo of Leon Reed Jr.,
runner, track star. Full page ad showing man gold panning
from the Gold Information center. The saga of Little
Gloria, love and hate among the Vanderbilts. The terrible
price of the Atomic bomb tests, 25 years later. Portrait
- Lanford Wilson, playwright, Pulitzer prize winner.
A Bahamas rookery protects flamingos. People living
downwind in atomic fallout, nuclear radiation, Nevada
nuclear tests, includes St. George, Utah - a chilling
story. Liberia's brutal coup d'etat. Two page color
Audi 5000 Turbo ad with Franz Hauk. Full page color
Suzuki ad with the cutest little motorcycle and a huge
St. Bernard dog, JR-50. The pollution in Rome is destroying
its stone monuments. Bjorn Borg may be tennis's best
ever. Evangelist Jerry Falwell. Two page color Clairesse
hair color ad with great photos of Cheryl Tiegs. New
Wave - Son of punk is alive and loud, Bookie's in Detroit.
The DeSisto treatment for troubled teenagers, DeSisto
School in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, Colleen Skully,
Irving Landau, Greg Rutkowsky, Roger Kahn, Robyn Weinstein,
Kay Rothenberg, others.
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Life Magazine July
1980 : Cover - The Cape Hatteras Light house,
this is a striking and unusual photo. A neat photo of
a climber on another mountain watching Mount St. Helens
erupt. Coolest, really, really close up photos of a
mosquito biting and more. Full page color Yardley deodorant
ad - they are famous for their fragrances, lots of nice
ads in earlier LIFEs. America's beleaguered coastal
and barrier islands. Where John Travolta hides out -
the house that Grease bought. Will the real John Anderson
please stand up? Article and Portrait : the Reverend
Peter J. Gomes. Ed Muskie, the new secretary of state.
The Cuban tide, new immigrants - Cuban refugees, including
lots of named photos such as Luisa Alegrai, Orlando
Castro, Carlos Cuza, Norman Aguillon, Jorge Murray,
Magalys Masquera, Sylvester Quinlan, Horacio Padron,
Teresa Ochoa, Ramon Moro, Enrique Ros, many, many others,
nice photos.. Boston's 350th birthday. An exhibit from
Greece celebrates an archaeological discovery. Mother
Teresa of India. P.T. Barnum, subject of a Broadway
it. Lowell, Massachusetts - Industrial National Park.
Previously unpublished photos of Mount St. Helens as
it exploded. Super full page color photo of motorcyclist
Bob Pounds riding with his dog in California, blue Honda,
black and white dog.
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Life Magazine August
1980 : Cover - Miss Piggy. Secrets of Miss Piggy's
backstage life, the Muppets. Quite a lovely full page
color Johnson's Baby Powder ad with three naked people.
What set off our nuclear alarm? - It was a faulty computer
chip in Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado. A short piece on
that famous photo of the sailor kissing the girl (see
LIFE 1945) on Victory in Japan day, the nurse was Edith
Shain, piece includes other photos taken at the same
place, same day. Chop shops - murderous racket in stolen
cars. Bright full page color Dickies ad - they look
like colorful painter's pants. Portrait : Sam Fuller.
Anderson, Indiana. Amphibious contraptions. Woods Hole
oceanographers dive to new worlds deeper below, includes
Alvin the mini-submarine.. 42nd street, New York. Native
American Indian looks in fashion. Ming Gardens in Manhattan.
Cool Le Car ad, full page in color, with it cutting
in front of semi truck - wise? Michael Todd White, 11,
makes commercials.
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Life Magazine September
1980 : Cover - The setting sun. The broiling
summer of 1980, includes a graphic looking photo of
watermelons rotting in the fields in Frio County, Texas,
also the story (no photo) of Willie Jones whose body
temperature reached 115.7 degrees and survived. The
Olympics America missed. The sad fate of our stray dogs,
Doug Ditrich, Eddie Fermaint, New York ASPCA, Animal
Rescue Squad, Carin Sacks, a very sad story. Glamorous
scrapbook of Hollywood stars, vintage candid photos.
Portrait - Jay Hammond, governor of Alaska. The privileged
few in Beirut, with water skiing photo, Lebanon. Peter
the Great, Tsar of Russia, St. Petersburg. The fierce
young warriors of the Maasai, rite of passage, Africa.
Fire under the Cascades, volatile Pacific northwest,
this is an article about volcanos, great photos. Baltimore,
Maryland may be the most livable city in the US. Another
full page color Kodak camera ad with Michael Landon.
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Life Magazine October
1980 : Cover : Chinese child. Faces of an unexpected
China. Showdown for the Presidency : Reagan vs. Carter.
Mork is the movie Popeye, Robin Williams. World's best
medical shock team, care of accident victims at the
University of Maryland hospital, Baltimore, Shocktrauma
team, includes truly gruesome page and a half color
photo of medical team standing in blood, patient Warren
Howard. Portrait - Roger Tory Peterson, birder, bird
watcher, ornithologist. Baltimore trauma center, race
against shock. Political showdown between Ronald Reagan
and Jimmy Carter. Full page color Renault Le Car ad
with surfboard. Watts, fifteen years after the riots,
Los Angeles, includes Tommy Johnson, Sharon Watts Fisher,
Robert Lee Stoneham, Hobart Smith III, Shirley Henderson,
Clayburn Peters, Callie Gales Brown, Ronnie Smith. Opera
singer Pavarotti at home. The continuing saga of the
Kissing Sailor photograph, V-J day, LIFE magazine August
27, 1945. Art - American realism, Alfred Leslie, Ralph
Gooings, Robert Bechtle, John Kacere, more. Nightmare
in Bolivia, American journalist held prisoner, Mary
Helen Spooner. The latest telescopes. China, a portrait
of change, great photos of lots of aspects of life.
Save the Grand Canyon donkeys campaign gets off the
ground, with photo of burro being airlifted by a helicopter
# N99MC. Great photo of football player Terry Bradshaw
on his head. Sculptor Norma "Duffy" Lyon of
Toledo, Iowa makes a cow of butter.
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Life Magazine November
1980 : Cover - Walter Cronkite. The private life
of Walter Cronkite. Terrifying tales of 9 haunted houses.
A special report on Cancer, how thousands are surviving,
including Ruth Cullen, Thelma Palmerio, Brandt Gilbert,
Nick Tanis. Portrait - Pinchas Zukerman, fiddler, conductor,
violinist. Full page color recruiting ad for the Marines
"Maybe you can be one of us." Full page color
US Postal Service ad for stamp collection with Richard
Stewart, professional scuba diver. Heroin, bigger and
deadlier traffic from Asia's Golden Crescent, a big
article, includes Elise Christensen. Ohio's Moeller
High School has football's toughest team, Rusty Stoy,
guest Tommy Hergott. Fort Chaffee, Arkansas camp houses
10,000 Cuban refugees without sponsors, Antonio Enrique
Aday, Jacinto Sisto, Rene Rodriguez, Barbaro Hernandez
Rodriguez, others. West Germans clean up after strip-ming
for coal, mine reclamation, Koenigshoven is relocated.
Killer bees. Actor Robert DeNiro in "Raging Bull",
a movie about boxing. Gjon Mili, photographer. Natalia
Makarova, dancer. Humorous full page color photo of
the dog named Daisy, wearing running shoes.
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Life Magazine December
1980 : Cover - Cancer patient Damand Herseth
on road to recovery. Saving the Children, Part 3 of
a report on turning the tide against cancer in the Young,
includes John Filbeck and Damand Herseth, Jeanna Kelly,
and Richie. Copious letters to the editors about the
kissing sailor (LIFE October 1980). Sheila Metzner photographs
children in loving hues. Peter O'Toole, actor - feature
article. Homecoming album for Iranian hostage Jimmy
Lopez, Globe, Arizona. Treasure of Serra Pelada, Brazil,
open pit gold mine that is hand mined, great photos.
Colorado River is contested resource in sunbelt, starts
with Granby Lake in Colorado, continues to the Gulf
of Mexico - a photo essay. Rare purebred cats. The architect
Palladio. Young people paint 1,700 feet of California
history on a wall, mural. A trip through Mongolia by
Yevgeny Yevtushenko. The creches of Naples, Christmas.
Michael Cimino directs "Heaven's Gate", a
epic western movie. Ronald Reagan's small town roots,
Illinois. 100 year anniversary of George Eastman. Two
page color Suzuki motorcycle ad for little motorcycles.
United mothers in Atlanta with missing or dead children,
serial killer. Photograph of Muslim fanatics terrorist
holding a passenger at gunpoint, hijacking of Turkish
Airlines plane. Cool two page photo of the Russian Bear-D
airplane. Great photo of man setting back the time on
the City Hall clock in Omro, Wisconsin. Very FAT issue.
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Life Magazine January
1981 : Cover - The Year in Pictures. Special
Issue 1980. Events from the year include : Afghanistan
invasion provokes grain embargo. "Freedom Flotilla"
sets sail from Cuba. Full page color Stouffer's frozen
dinners ad with cars keys that have had the auto manufacturer
name removed. Hurricane Allen. Photo of man walking
through the rubble in Balvano, Italy after an earthquake
on November 23, 1980. Two page color travel ad for the
Bahamas. USA wins hockey game at Winter Olympics in
Lake Placid. Colorful two page ad for Dickies clothing.
U.S. rescue mission is aborted in the Iranian desert,
52 American hostages, plus a photo gallery of the 52
hostages. China's Gang of Four trial begins in Peking.
Humorous page and a half color photo of Ronald Reagan
wearing a horseshoe of roses around his neck like a
race horse, in Louisville, home of the Kentucky Derby.
Thirteen smuggled aliens die in Arizona desert. 36 hour
riot at New Mexico state Prison. Mount St. Helens erupts
May 18th - wonderful series of two page color photos
showing the blast results at various distances. U.S.
ambassador and 79 others held hostage in Colombia. President's
brother Billy files as Libyan agent. Titan missile silo
explodes in rural Arkansas. Included in this issue are
photos of the 52 American Hostages.
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Life Magazine February
1981 : Cover - Woman windsurfing, in a red swimsuit.
Champion wind surfers show off the new swimming suits,
includes Marina Polgar, Rhonda Smith, Kelby Anno, Lisa
Neuburger. Exclusive - John Lennon at home. 2 pound
babies - saving them smaller and smaller. Portrait -
Dr. George D. Snell, nobel prize in medicine. The ghost
burglar and the good doctor - the murder of Michael
Halberstam (cardiologist) by Bernard Welch (multimillionaire
burgler). Earthquake in Italy's Mezzogiorno, astonishing
aerial photos of complete devastation. Premature babies,
includes Frances Fountain, Harmony Chacon, Daniel Burgess,
Gary Long Jr., Paul Pranks, Frankie Knipp. Lucious two
page color Philadelphia Cream Cheese ad with ten different
Cheese Cake recipes. Nancy Reagan in Washington DC.
The mob in Atlantic City, John McCullough, Angelo Bruno,
Nicodemo Scarfo. Photos of John Lennon and Yoko Ono's
private life. Painter James Rosenquist and the evolution
of a painting.
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Life Magazine March
1981 : Cover - Former hostage Jimmy Lopez. The
hostages, a homecoming album - a big feature. Two page
color vertical Black Velvet whisky ad with striking
photo of J.R., Larry Hagman. Neat double half page color
ad for California Avocados with Angie Dickinson. A whole
bunch of letters to the editors pertaining to the "1980
year in pictures" issue, LIFE January 1981. American
renewal, a special project. Photographs by P. H. Polk,
graceful images of Tuskegee, Alabama in the 1930s and
1940s. The space shuttle Columbia heads for orbit, great
photos. Use of exterior color by architects, especially
pink. High Life of Peru's Vicuna (an animal), harem-style
families thrive in the Andes. Two page color Suzuki
motorcycle ad with the GS-450L and the GS-450E. Inner
City education, John Marshall High School in Chicago,
includes George Crockett, John McLendon, Ernest White,
Levy Nutall, Qundle Booker, Renee Allen, O.J. Simmons,
Monica Johnson, Lula Cody, Debra and Gerald Cody, Lille
Forbes. Mountain Vew High School in Mesa, Arizona, tutors,
includes Lani Webb, others. Grey integration - elders
attending high school in Harbor Springs, Michigan, includes
Ronald Brown, Pattie Gregory, Mabel Karelse, Marietta
Peterson, Clara Schmidt, Floyd Pontius, Linda Topolsky,
Kevin Gilhuly, Jerry Jessick, Florence Stewart, others.
Great two page photo of Lyle Carlson and grain in Alaska.
Two page photo of Ron Stecker climbing a giant sequoia
tree, Norman Moore and wind power, other photos in same
vein.
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Life Magazine April
1981 : Cover - Meryl Streep, America's best actress,
great feature inside including the lovliest photo of
her up in a green tree. Full page color Suzuki motorcycle
ad with GS-250T and mother taking her son on a ride.
Two page Bell Telephone system ad with large full page
photo of Mark Michalik. Prince Charlie's angel - what's
in store for the next queen? Photography in the courts.
Portrait - Dr. Jeane Kirkpatrick, United States ambassador
to the United Nations. Refugees from Somalia, a big
feature article with lots of wrenching photos, Dr. Eric
Avery. Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer announce
their engagement. Soccer player Giorgio Chinaglia. Murdered
children in Atlanta, includes Patrick Baltazar, Yusuf
Bell, Angel Lanier, Earl Terrell, LaTonya Wison, Aaron
Wyche, Terry Pue, Lubie Geter, many others, as yet unsolved
though most appear to be the work of the same serial
killer. Great photos of Meryl in some of her roles.
Convent of San Marco paintings get restored. Eleven
American poets, with photos and poems- Cynthia MacDonald,
Michael Harper, Philip Levine, William Logan, Richard
Hugo, Victor Hernandez Cruz, Tess Gallagher, James Merrill,
May Swenson, Galway Kinnell, Robert Penn Warren. Circus
kids, all named. Bahubali in Sravanabelagola in India,
Bhuddist ceremony.
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Magazine May 1981 : Cover - Ronald Reagan at
his ranch, exclusive photo album of Reagan's mountain
ranch. The shooting of the President, John Hinckley,
James Brady, Thomas Delahanty. Treatment for mental
patients, the cruel choices, includes Alice Totten,
William Hopkins, Rich Berard, Neal and Rita DeLuck,
Anita Miller. Two page color Virginia Slims Lights cigarettes
ad with blond woman in wild red and purple tie-dyed
outfit. Exclusive photos of a 1970 Polish workers' revolt.
Full page color White Label Dewar's Scotch Whisky ad
featuring the Ornsay Light, lighthouse at sunset. Portrait
: Mark Helprin. Two page color Andron fragrance ad by
Jovan, with pheromones! A number of thoughtful letters
to the editor pertaining to the hostage coverage and
the education coverage, both in March, 1981. Full page
color ad for travel to the Bahamas showing two different
kinds of vacations. Rare chickens at a poultry show,
lots of fancy feathers. 90th birthday of New York's
Carnegie Hall, includes many named photos of musicians.
Full page on Yehudi Menuhin, violinist. Gregory Hines,
tap dancer, includes GREAT two page strobe photo. Arab
and Israeli confrontations on the West Bank. Faces from
German film. The American presence in El Salvador, military
advisors. Absolutely horrible photo of man crushed when
Florida building project collapsed, Cocoa Beach. Photo
of Garry Meddock and Tamara Ketham of Dayton, Ohio getting
married ON TOP of his hot air balloon.
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Life Magazine June
1981 : Cover - the planets. Remapping the heavens
with our space probes. Exclusive - Beatle reunion, Ringo
Starr gets married to Barbara Bach. Sensual photos of
chorus girl Evelyn Nesbit as evidence in a 1907 murder
trial. A number of letters to the editor about the Somalia
piece in LIFE April 1981. Portrait - Herbert L. MacDonell,
criminalist. A virulent Ku Klux Klan re-arms, shrimp
boat off the coast of Texas - hatred against Vietnamese
refugees, racism, more mis-deeds elsewhere, Imperial
Wizard Bill Wilkinson of Denham Springs, Louisiana,
Gary Piscottano is Connecticut's first Grand Dragon,
Phebe Wair, George F. Henry Jr, Arnold Butts, others.
Auschwitz doctor Nazi Josef Mengele. Full page Ross
Signature Bicycle ad. Full page color Canadian Club
whiskey ad with really nice river rafting photo, raft
has "Western" printed on it. Love among the
Pandas, trying to get Pandas in captivity to mate. US
embassy under fire in El Salvador. The dynasty built
by Edward Weston, photographer. Wonderful new photographs
of the solar system, Voyager I's images. Little people
in Hollywood, dwarfs, for "Under the Rainbow",
includes Pat Bilon, Chris Romano, Michael Gilden, Phil
Fondacaro and others.. Willie Morris returns to Mississippi
after 20 years in the north
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Life Magazine July
1981 : Cover - Mono Lake dries up, California,
great double page photo inside of the Tufa towers. Are
we running out of water?, article includes varied water
topics, includes flooded house in Baytown, Texas in
saltwater, Sinkhole in Winter Park, Florida. Loudon
Wainwright writes a comment piece about Billy Martin,
baseball, and good sportmanship. Nice two page color
Vantage cigarettes ad featuring night shore scene of
New York City with the twin towers, the World Trade
Center towers. Special section : the Royal wedding,
a preview of the big day, Prince Charles, Lady Diana
- this is a very large article. Actress Faye Dunaway
recreates Joan Crawford in photos by George Hurrell.
Portrait - Henry Cisneros, San Antonio, Texas mayor.
US jobs lure illegal aliens - this is a big feature
article with lots of photos, no names. Full page color
Bank America Travelers Cheques with the Grand Canal
in Venice. Multiple sclerosis, an extremely touching
story. Airport of Araby, gateway to Mecca, the King
Abdulaziz International Airport at Jidda, Saudi Arabia.
Protecting the Pope. Fireworks for celebrations. Neat
full page color photo of woman water skiing by standing
on the backs of two men on body boards. Two page color
photo of airplane wreckage on the aircraft carrier the
Nimitz, $150 million in damage.
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Life Magazine August
1981 : Cover - Woman standing in waterfall, in
red swimming suit. America's best swimming holes, The
Pot Hole (North Sandwich, New Hampshire), St. Croix
river (Taylors Falls, Minnesota), Little Beaver Creek
(New Galilee, Pennsylvania), Havasu Falls (Havasu Canyon,
Arizona), Krause Springs (Marble Falls, Texas), Black
River (Lesterville, Missouri), Slide Rock (Oak Creek
Canyon, Arizona), Kaolin Mines (Gordon, Georgia), Lon
Hole (Bloomington, Indiana), Calf Creek Falls (Escalante,
Utah), Seven Falls (Tucson, Arizona). Howard Grey recreates
some old scenes, photos taken in 1974, as from the 1840's
in Victorian England, Graham Ovenden presents them as
authentic. Francis Ford Coppola, the movie man who plays
God. The Iron curtain, stunning views of the forbidden
frontier - a big feature. Portrait - Philip Glass, composer.
Montreal Expo Tim Raines's record-breaking streak is
checked for this year. Jerry Falwell and Jess Helms,
radical Ultrarightist conservative politicians. Janet
Tanner, woman executive. Advances in eye surgery, radial
Keratotomy, torn retina repair, corneal implants.
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Life Magazine September
1981 : Cover - artificial heart. Can women cut
it in the military?, and article excerpted from the
book "Mixed Company : Women in the modern Army"
by Helen Rogan. Stereography, three-dimensional photography,
sample pairs given with article. A large number of letters
to the editor about the Multiple Sclerosis MS article
in LIFE July 1981. Exclusive pictures of Dr. Cooley's
historic heart surgery, Willebrordus Meuffels. Portrait
- Emanuel Steward, trainer of boxers, prize fighters.
Dr Denton Cooley puts in an artificial heart - amazing
photos. Argentina's Disappeared, people killed during
and after a military junta, includes Nobel Peace Prize
winner Adolfo Perez Esquivel. Arizona Wilderness camp
for troubled teens, VisionQuest, shows covered wagon
train, much more, Tracy MacLean, Mike Powell, Beth Clements,
Rick Zasa, Bernie Cleveland, John Gardner, Alyson Peel,
Bob Burton, Sue Eyler, and others. Movie review - American
Werewolf in London, the scariest make-up in Hollywood.
Women at Arms by Helen Rogan. Disney World has a 10
year birthday, shows behind the scenes plans for the
future. North Dakota oil boom, includes Ed Storm, Perry
Metcalf, Mary Lou Mowrey, Carmen Tweeten. American Fashion
- Shamask (with model Iman) , Amringe, Halston, Beene.
Royal wedding photos, Princess Dianaby Patrick Lichfield.
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Life Magazine October
1981 : Cover - Marilyn Monroe. Mania for Marilyn,
and Joan, and Lana, and Shirley. Report from Ireland
- the hunger strikers. Portrait - Mark J. Millard, Wall
Street Investment firm director, Shearson Loeb Rhoades.
. IRA hunger strikers - Micky Devine, and others - they
wanted to die for their cause, some did. Home computers
- photos by Enrico Ferorelli, can any home in America
afford to be without a computer? - for us this is an
interesting step back in computer history, with a view
to the future as they saw it then. The ice frontier
- explorers entering the Arctic, ice bergs, ice breakers,
moving ice bergs, barge convoy, Pingo, more. Chariots
of Fire, movie review and photos. Mabel Rubshaw at 100.
An American family retraces Mao's steps through China,
Zbigniew Brzezinski family. Jamaica - island paradise
for dope runners, marijuana. Latest models - Margaux
Hemingway, Cheryl Tiegs, Karen Graham, Christina Ferrare,
Iman, Lauren Hitton, Shelley Hack, Carol Alt. Friends
of old films (FOOFS)- restoring old film relics. Colors
photos of Saturn's rings. Puffin decoys successful lure
a puffin back to Eastern Egg Rock Island off the coast
of Maine, 2Neat was there the summer this happened!
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Life Magazine November
1981 : Cover - human fetus early in development.
A special poll - how women feel about abortion. When
does life really begin? Full page color U.S. Postal
Service ad with Bobby Jones golf stamp and golfing theme.
The Smith Award for photos. Women speak out about abortion.
Mick Jagger comes back - at 40, the Rolling Stones,
Philadelphia's JFK stadium - great photos, super piece,
includes full page photo of Mick jogging in pink sweat
pants. The Bhagwan in America, Indian Guru, Bhagwan
Sri Rajneesh, hinduism, he has just left Poona for the
US, Oregon. Romance writers - Rosemary Rogers, Janet
Dailey, Valerie Sherwood, Beatrice Small, Kathleen Woodiwiss,
Dianie Steele, Jennifer Wilde (who is Tom Elmer Huff),
and Shirlee Busbee. A day in the life of Australia.
John-John turns 21. The brief and violent freedom of
Jack Henry Abbott, Jack Abbott. American wine production
get serious, includes Ken de Horton. Master builders
of the new Chicago, architects. The Dinosaurs, book
illustrated by William Stout. Katherine Hepburn at home
in Connecticut. The assassination of Anwar Sadat.
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Life Magazine December
1981 : Cover - Brooke Shields. Brooke, the most
beautiful conglomerate in the world. Four page plymouth
car ad with a full page color photo of John Houseman.
Full page color Chaz cologne ad with great photo of
Tom Selleck. A nice follow-up to the Mabel Rubshaw at
100 article (LIFE October 1981) - here are a number
of other photos and comments from other centenarians.
The battle over the origins of man, evolution. Survivors
who can't forget Pearl Harbor, 40 yers after, includes
Jinichi Goto, Zenji Abe, Iyozoh Fujita, Saburo Shindo
and many others. Herbert Migdoll's photographs of the
Joffrey Ballet. Portrait : John LeBoutillier, freshman
congressman. Princess Diana goes on tour and has an
heir in the offing, a lovely piece with charming photos.
Tracking Agent Orange, Vietnam veterans battle an insidious
foe, includes Dan Jordan, John Woods, Daniel Loney,
Jim Roxby, Douglas Rudolph, Mike Milne, Al Marcotte,
Daniel Salmon. Agriculture in America faces a multitude
of serious problems, erosion, conversion of land to
other uses, more. The vanishing Jews in Russia continue
their rites in secrecy. Ice skater Elaine Zayak. The
House of Saud. $80 million treasure recovered by divers,
deep sea treasure hunting, Keith Jessop, The Edinburgh,
the recovery ship Stephaniturm. Canterbury Cathedral.
Venezuela, kingdom of the river rats (capybaras), real
rats, not kayakers and rafters.
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Life magazine January
1982 : Cover - Princess Diana's wedding.
Special issue 1981 - the Year in Pictures. Assassination
attempts on President Reagan (John W. Hinckley Jr.),
the Pope, and the murder of Anwar Sadat - film footage
from all three. Reaganomics. 52 American hostages released,
includes Jim Lopez and marcie, C. Cortland Barnes, Willim
Daugherty, Bill Gallegos, Bruce German, Jerry Plotkin,
Michael Metrinko, Michael Howland, Leland Holland. Full
page color Martini & Ross vermouth ad with what
looks like Pierce Brosnan, but surely cannot be - it
is too many years ago. Wayne B. Williams, charged with
serial murders in Atlanta, Georgia. Nice four page color
Honda motorcycle ad, including two page fold-out color
of the Honda CX500 Turbo in white, grey, red, and black.
Rather nice full page color Ontario, Canada travel ad
with sailboat in front of resort, white with red roof.
Skywalks in Kansas City Hyatt Regency Hotel fall during
fox trot dance. Sandra Day O'Connor appointed to supreme
court. Harrison Ford in Raider's of the Lost Ark. Brooke
Shields. Interesting two page color Sears ad showing
construction of high tech running shoes. Poland on the
brink. Ronald and Nancy Reagan, a year in the White
House.
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Magazine February 1982 : Cover - Christie Brinkley
in a swim suit, LIFE editors must have been into red
suits because there are quite a number of them on the
covers during this period. A new series on psychotherapy
- treating the emotions, Anorexia Nervosa, includes
Jane Daly - great coverage and photos. Are we arming
for a nuclear showdown? On his 100th birthday, FDR is
remembered in candid photos. Portrait - David Attenborough,
author of "Life on Earth." The $200 billion
military arsenal, the US Nuclear weapons, many pages
of photos including TR-1 spy plane, B-1 bomber, Cruise
missile, MX missile, Trident submarine. Life visits
Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn, in exile in America. "Dreamgirls"
- Michael Bennett's Broadway musical, this has now (2006-7)
been made into a movie. Excellent two page color Honda
ad with the Nighthawk 750 motorcycle in a night scene
in front of Rosie's cafe. Full page color NRA National
Rifle Association ad with little Bryan Hardin, already
holding a gun at age eight. Avant-glass, new techniques
in an old art. Fernando Valenzuela, Dodger rookie, winters
in Mexico. Colin Carr, cellist, plus other cellists
at the Naumburg International Cello Competition, Cheryl
House, Eugene Moye, Roger Low, Pierre Djokic, others.
Feature on Christie Brinkley, lots of excellent photos.
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Life Magazine March
1982 : Cover - Liz Taylor at 50 - looking great
and on the loose, includes repeat (small) of the 11
covers on LIFE prior to this one on which she appeared.
Artist Stuart Williams does some art similar to Christo,
with huge orange balloons or balls, I think the best
one is on Cannon Beach in Oregon. Gorgeous full page
color travel ad for the US Virgin Islands, woman in
fushia on yellow air mattress in teal water. Psychotherapy
- Part 2, a family in trouble, Bill and Jean Wright.
Portrait - Gary Huckabay, Dungeons and Dragons, Dungeon
Master. Two page color Dexatrim weight lost ad with
12 different pairs of before and after photos. The defiant
German generation. California's Silicon Valley making
millionaires and computer chips, includes Don Tonn,
Jim Nakasuji, Harry Garland, Gary Oates, Bruce MacKay,
Chuck Grant, Paul Terrell, Philip Hwang, GREAT aray
of desk top computer terminals, Sandy Kurtzig, Nolan
Bushnell, James TreybigDan Fyistra, Stevens
Jobs of Apple, Jerry Sanders. A review of the
Lindbergh kidnapping from 50 years ago. Aerobic dancing
gets popular with Tracy and Tara Fitzpatrick, looks
like it used to be more men than women. ROTC cadets
come back strong, includes Mary Sears and Steve Moss.
The bronze horses of China's Qin. The girl rockers -
B52s, Pat Benatar, Martha Davis, Cyndi Lauper, The Pretenders,
The Go Gos, Rock and Roll music. Photo of debris from
crash of Air Florida flight out of Washington, D.C.,
hit the 14th street bridge and sank, Priscilla Tirado
survived saved by Lenny Skutnik. Full page color photo
of very young hockey player Wayne Gretzky. Full page
photo of the George and Lillian Egan family, who, after
13 boys have just had their first girl child.
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Life Magazine April
1982 : Cover - pointed gun. Guns are out of control,
Morton Grove, East St. Louis, includes Geoffrey La Gioia,
Steve Lapin, Marvel Bell, Bruce Moore, others. Two page
color Kent III cigarettes ad featuring the New York
City water line cityscape and the Twin Towers, World
Trade Center Towers in golden sunlight. Two page color
Honda ad with 250 Custom motorcycle in black and red.
America's favorite TV soap studs, Bob Woods (One Life
to Live), Anthony Geary (General Hospital), Mark Arnold
(Edge of Night), Gerald Anthony (One Life to Live),
Darnell Williams (All My Children), Laurence Lau (All
My children), Tristan Rogers (General Hospital), Christopher
Rich (Another World). Was Darwin wrong about evolution?,
illustrations by George Schwenk. Portrait - Dr. C. Everett
Koop, surgeon general. Radio City Music Hall gala. An
entire fleet of Japanese ships lies deep in a Pacific
grave. Regional cooking - Provence, France. 84 die when
offshore oil rig platform is lost in storm, the Ocean
Ranger, includes George Augot, Gordon Windsor. Treating
the emotions, part 3 - depression, Betsy Gittins. Caltojar,
Spain and the copies of Picasso art on the walls. Life
visits the world of the Earl of Lichfield. Photo of
US mail carrier Tom Miller taking a cigarette break
in a mail box.
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Life Magazine May 1982
: Cover - Doctor with Laser. Laser medicine, healing
with light. A number of letters to the editors pertaining
to the Dungeons and Dragons piece in LIFE March 1982.
Princess Diana's royal pregnancy. Diet authors - fat
profits from thinking thin, Judy Mazel, Nathan Pritikin,
Robert Atkins, Bess Myerson, Bill Adler, Richard Simmons,
Samm Sinclair Baker. Portrait - Garrison Keillor, radio
show host, Prairie Home Companion, Lake Wobegone. The
nuclear industry begins to die, shut down before they
could start up, Hanford, Satsop, Diablo Canyon, Hartsville,
Three Mile Island. Saturday night in El Barrio, gang
violence in Los Angeles. Full page color Martini &
Rossi vermouth ad with man who looks like Pierce Brosnan.
Final days of senator Harrison Williams, Abscam's biggest
catch. Crewing - campus sport, rowing - great photos.
Mary Boone, New York's hottest art dealer. Mini skirts
try again, set against a baseball background with the
St. Louis Cardinals. New soap opera "Capitol".
Six great photographers born in the 1800's and still
going strong, Lartigue, Brassai, Van Der Zee, Kertesz,
Eisenstaedt, Abbott. Humorous piece about three folks
who crashed the Radio City Music Hall gala, and did
a good job of it, too - Terry Weldon, Frank Fusaro,
Steve Goldstein.
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Life Magazine June
1982 : Cover - Polar bear with cub. Rare zoo
babies, breeding endangered animals in captivity. Grease
2 - a sassy sequel to the biggest movie musical ever.
Photographer Rocky Gunn shoots love stories, not just
weddings. Portrait - Dr. Helen Caldicott, anti-nuclear
crusader. Israel clamps down with a harsh drive against
Palestinian resistance on the West Bank, includes Ramallah
girl's school, Ribhiya, more. Sebastian Coe, the world's
best miler, runner. A cocaine tragedy in Lima, rancher
John Berkson from Bend, Oregon, Kenny Waters, , David
Treacy, others. Regional cooking - Sichuan. Getting
off Welfare, family of Walter and Elaine Cleveland.
Women who make the network news, chipping away at TV's
sex barriers, such as Diane Sawyer, Jane Pauley, othters.
Falkland Islands are graveyard of ships. Mexican volcano
spawns a deadly blizzard of ash, this is the Chichon
volcano. Neat photo of Tippi Hedren and a tiger named
Greg.
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Life Magazine July
1982 : Cover - Raquel Welch in a swimming suit,
fit, firm and 41 - she is Broadway's newest bombshell
(nice feature inside). Birth - should kids watch their
siblings being born? Full page color Dexatrim weight
loss ad with before and after photos of Kathryn Fikes,
Sandie Woller, Mark Scoles, Patty Cunningham, Christina
Sparacino, and Jill Jackson - congratulations folks!
Commentary on the trial of John W. Hinckley, by Loudon
Wainwright. An interesting series of photos by Joel
Meyerowitz, all of (very) red heads, including an absolutely
sexy shot of Bob taking his shirt off. . Anti-nuke -
a catholic bishop riles his Texas neighbors. Portrait
- Composer Vangelis. Meghan O'Rourke and her nightmare
in Burlington, Vermont, she was shot, knifed and raped,
but has survived with her adolescence intact - I think
this case was the start of tough rules for sexual offenders.
Pyongyang celebrates Kim Il Sung's 70th birthday. Aquatic
Aerobics with Tracie Ruiz and Candy Costie, duet competition
will be in the 1984 Olympics - these are GREAT photos.
Tommy Tunes “nine” is a molto sexy musical
hit on Broadway, some awesome photos of Kathi Moss,
Shelly Burch, Camille Saviola, Karen Akers, Liliane
Montevecchi, Laura Kenyon, Stephanie Cotsirilos, Anita
Morris, more. Bishop Matthiesen of Amarillo wants to
ban the bomb. World War II blimp is the Ghost Blimp,
by Larry Engelmann. El Greco - exhibit in Toledo Ohio.
Yehudi Menuhin does a headstand while conducting. Nice
full page color Honda Passport scooter ad.
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Life Magazine August
1982 : Cover - Marilyn Monroe. The unseen Marilyn
- never published photographs, 20 years after her death.
Britain's little prince and other heirs to European
thrones. Beirut, death of an elegant city. Dazzling
special effects of the movie Tron. Bryant Gumbel profile.
Search for Lake Champlain monster Champ. Auto workers
play softball while unemployed. Red Grooms artist for
Philadelphia birthday. Amazing nude photos of Marilyn
Monroe. Doctor cures himself of cancer - Dr. Anthony
Sattilaro and Tom Monte. Samsonite ad with desert adventure
art by George L Parrish Jr. Royal heirs of Europe -
Prince Albert, Princess Victoria, Prince Henrik, Prince
Harald, Princess Maria Teresa, Prince Hans Adam, Prince
Philippe, William-Alexander. Regional cooking from New
England, with recipes. Sun Myung Moon marries 2074 couples.
Black tennis players - Arthur Ashe, Leslie Allen, Lawrence
Hooper III, Renee Blount, Lloyd Bourne. Frank Valverde
dies in car stunt in France.
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Life Magazine September
1982 : Cover - Surgical team with liver. Liver
transplants, a breakthrough in lifesaving surgery, Dr.
Starzl. Dustin Hoffman in Tootsie, he dons a dress for
his most surprising role. Baseball wives, the fascinating
women behind the boys at bat. Christie Hefner profile,
the new president of Playboy. Waiting for liver transplants
- Rosemarie Heinrich, Loren Bohuslavsky, Susan Petersen,
Michael Bird. Ariel Sharon blitzes Beirut. Carl Lewis,
long jumper and sprinter, runner. The John Smith fammily
during the Falklands War. Young deaf couple - Mike Rose
and Monika Valgemae, American Sign Lanuage. Female comic
stars - Cathy Guisewite (Cathy), Lynn Johnston (Family
Circle), Claire Bretecher (Les Frustres), Nicole Hollander
(Sylvia). Defenders of the Costa Rica rain forest, jungle,
scientists. Princess Diana and the birth of Prince William.
Awesome photo of a sky diver, parachutist, standing
on the midair wing of an upsidedown plane, South Carolina.
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Life Magazine October
1982 : Cover - Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sandahl
Bergman lifting weights - more great photos inside.
Women muscle in, joining men in body-building, the sport
of the 1980s, includes Lorraine Snyder, Spunky Chrzanowski,
Michelle Adler, Teresa Gerrish, Janette Fuchs, Priscilla
Phillips, Cathie Lee Astuto, Nancy Maychuk. Ann-Margaret,
on the road with the sizzling star. The troubled Yankees,
a year of turmoil for baseball's most talented team.
Congressman Robert Michel in Peoria, Illinois. SCTV
Network. Ann-Margret, her first US road show. The longest
season of Bucky Dent, Yankees' shortstop. In New York
City, some 800 stores sell marijuana over the counter.
Artworks by Dennis Oppenheim. The anguish of herpes.
Portrait - Tom Bradley, mayor of Los Angeles. Life visits
financier Armand Hammer. Texas prison reform after killing
of Billy Moore and Wallace Pack, Eroy Brown. Taking
Baby to work, Chris Quackenbush. Photos of America by
William Garnett. Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the second
woman in space.
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Life Magazine November
1982 : Cover - Elizabeth Carr. Test-tube baby
boom, America's first in vitro baby, article includes
photos of 23 other in vitro babies around the world.
Seven color pages of Marlboro cigarettes ad featuring
the Marlboro Country Store. "Cats" leaps onto
Broadway, hottest theater ticket. Kevin Clarke and Horst
Wackerbarth photograph a red velvet sofa in lots of
unusual places, including with the firemen of Great
Jones Street, New York. Saving Africa's big animals,
a radical plan to butcher some of them and sell their
meat. Debate between congress and Navy over super carriers
like the Nimitz. Joseph White defects to North Korea.
Six Americans go halfway around the world in search
of white water, kayaking, Wong Chu River in Himalayas,
Bhutan- Edward Hixson, James and Thomas McEwan, Eickliffe
Walker, Eric Evans, Leslie Bechdel. Young women wildland
firefighters in California, including Juliana Furnish.
Portrait - Alan Dershowitz, lawyer. Santa Fe museum
gets Alexander Girard's collection of handmade artifacts,
Folk Art. A look inside the Harvard Lampoon. Lawyer
Sarah Vogel fights to save family farms in the Midwest.
Steubenville, Ohio cleans up its air. Ken Kesey writes
about Alaska, great photos too. A new designer, Anne
Klein is now done by Donna Karan and Louis dell'Olio.
The rock band Van Halen on tour. Great two page color
photo of the rough landing / crash of Spantax DC-10
airplane.
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Life Magazine December
1982 : Cover - Princess Diana. A sleek, stylish
Princess Di is back and stealing the scene, many great
photos. Robert Azzi takes portraits inside Saudi courts,
neat photos. Goldie Hawn, the third most powerful woman
in Hollywood - great article with photos. California's
failing fight against marijuana, sinsemilla. A Vietnam
veteran welcomes the family he left in Saigon, Gary
Lee Price and Le Thi Hoang Lang, Jourdanton, Texas,
story also includes Jay Myhre. Vatican's traveling art
treasures. Trainer Doug Seus and his menagerie in Utah,
wild animal trainer for movies that need fierce bears,
wolves and such. Special advertising section (large)
for the Epcot center at Walt Disney World. The Rockettes,
stil kicking at 50, at Radio City Music Hall. Alexander
Haig joins Herman Kohn's heavy thinkers at the Hudson
Institute. Laurence Olivier at 75, actor. Portrait -
Conquistador Cielo, race horse. Life visits a primitive
people in Sudan, the Dinka, doomed by a water project,
also the Surma. De Lorean - the high road to ruin. The
cooking of Vienna. Recreating weather in the lab. Amazing
photo of a train crash, Illinois Central Gulf Train,
43 cars of dozens of toxic chemicals, near Livingston,
Louisiana.
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Life Magazine January
1983 : Special Issue
: The 1982 Year in pictures, ET features large.
War - Falkland islands, Lebanon, Southwest Asia, Guatemala,
El Salvador - lots of photos of dead guys. The PLO.
Moonies wedding. Final days of the fight for ERA, Equal
Rights Amendment. The search for a job, any job - includes
nice photo of William Britton family. Vietnam Veterans
monument. Pretty two page fold-out color Volvo 760 car
ad, plus third page of text. Nancy Reagan in Europe.
TVs and video games, includes photo and scores of high
scorers, Ben Gold (Stargate), Bill Mitchell (Centipede),
Eric Ginner (Moon Patrol), Jeff Brandt (Donkey Kong
Jrs), Todd Walker (Joust), Steven Sanders (Donkey Kong
tails), Ned Troide (Defender), Mark Robichek (Tutankham),
Leo Daniels (Tempest), Mike Lepkosky (Ms. Pac-Man, Ottumwas
High School cheerleaders, more. The crash of Air Florida's
Flight 90 into the icy Potomac River, Don Usher, Kelly
Duncan, Lenny Skutnik, Priscilla Tirado, Joseph Stiley,
Nikki Felch, Bert Hamilton, Roger Olian. Queen Elizabeth
travels. Full page color Datril 500 pain reliever ad.
James Watt, Frank Zappa, Eddie Murphy, Matt Dillon,
Mary Decker Tabb, Pia Zadora, Shelly Long, Sting, Lana
Turner. Obituaries, Leroy Satche Paige, John Belushi,
Anna Freud, King Khalid, Ayn Rand, Thelonious Monk,
Henry Fonda. Ingrid Bergman profile. Break dancing scene
in Harlem. Larry Walters floats in lawn chair and weather
balloons. Full page color NRA ad with Keith Ferguson,
policeman, nice photo.
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Life Magazine February
1983 : Cover - Brooke Shields in a bikini, an
unusual pose. Brooke brings back the bikini swimming
suit. The drama behind the first artificial heart, Barney
Clark. A fun series of photos by William Wegman of his
Weimaraner dog named Man Ray, dressed up and in funny
poses, once the dog got to be part of photos he was
happy and stoic. Two page color Mercedes-Benz ad with
black 240 D sedan, one page photo, one page text. Young
Norman Mailer, why he's the way he is. Sly Stallone
buys a prizefighter, boxer Lee John Canalito. Two page
color Amtrak train ad. American Ballet Theatre is back
with two new stars, Mikhail Baryshnikov with Robert
LaFosse and Susan Jaffee. Feuding over fish in the Northwest,
white man versus Indian, includes Willie Frank Sr.,
Benita Warner, Quileute Indians, Urban Riepe, others,
Washington. A neat piece on High-Tech farming, with
Sue and Phil Wesa, this is animal farming, cows, pigs,
chickens, veal. Two and a half page color fold-out ad
for Dickies clothing. Holy war on Sicily's mafia. Portrait
- Martina Navratilova, tennis player. Life visits Brooke
Shields in Cabo San Lucas, Baja California, includes
surfer Laird Hamilton. Amazing two page color photo
of the spread out crash of an airplane, B-52 bomber,
Ather Air Force Base near Sacramento, California. Neat
full page color photo of Ellen Greene in Audrey II,
Little Shop of Horrors.
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Life Magazine March
1983 : Cover - Prince Rainier of Monaco with
his family, Albert, Caroline and Stephanie. After Grace,
Monaco's royal family recovers : an exclusive visit
plus a talk with Prince Rainier, includes nice large
photo of Prince Albert on a Garelli Rexoro motorcycle.
Full page color ad with hot air balloon over contour
plowed fields, featuring the new postal stamps with
hot air ballooning. Full page color travel ad for the
Virgin Islands, picnicing couple on beach. Some neat
close-up photos of parts of the Statue of Liberty. Full
page color Camel cigarettes ad with the manly man holding
a plane propeller, his tent, the airplane under repair.
Full page color travel ad for Bermuda with Brad and
Daphne Barton and their family. Elite G.I.s give El
Salvador recruits a crash course in US combat skills,
includes Bill "Top" White, Henry McDonnell,
Paul W. Thunberg, Ronald Hall, Jerry Bell, Roger Quesenberrry
and others. . TV's favorite sitcom M*A*S*H shoots the
final episode, Alan Alda, Jamie Farr, Mike Farrell,
Loretta Swit, Harry Morgan and others. Jean Harris and
her bungled defense. Neat two page color Amtrak train
ad with lots of different luggage tags. Portrait - Larry
King. Regional cooking - Tex-Mex. Life visits Palm Beach,
Florida. Carl McCunn and his suicide in Alaska wilderness,
photos include Klaus and Suse West, Shelly Mittleman,
Rory Cruikshank. Nice full page color Yamaha Riva scooters
ad. From frog to movie princess, Jessica Lange.
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Life Magazine April
1983 : Cover - Human embryo hand. Treating the
unborn, surgical miracles inside the womb, story includes
Paul Bennett. Johannes Lange takes photos of prisoners
re-enacting their escape attempts from Colditz in Germany.
Full page Dexatrim ad with Kathy Bakner, Suzanne Saltzman,
Phyllis McKenna, Michele O'Brien, Margaret Robinson,
and Teressa Benedict. "Thorn Birds" sultry
star Rachel Ward. How the Russians steal our high tech
secrets, with John Shea, Rudolf Chernyayev, Valdik Enger,
Arthur Lindberg, Marc DeGeyter, Walter Spawr, more.
US boxers are training for the 1984 Olympics. Rabbits
for pets, for show, for food. Mysteriously, the right
hands of virtuoso pianists Leon Fleisher and Gary Graffman
stopped working - this story follows what they tried
to fix the problem, includes myotherapist Nancy Shaw.
Portrait - Dr. Wayne Dyer, author, Your Erroneous Zones
and others. Very elegant full page color Demi-Tasse
coffee cream liqueur ad. Life visits the booming singles
scene in Minneapolis, includes the dating service named
"Seeing is Believing", Joanne Prebarisch,
Mike Cummings, Julie Bavis, Diana Garrielson, David
Goldman, Schussin Ski Club (shown cross country skiing
with camels), Barbara Olson, others. Japanese fashion
designers : Rei Kawakubo, Mitsuhiro Matsuda, Yohji Yamamoto.
Very pretty full page color travel ad for Ireland, castle
ruins, couple with a horse.Nice color photos of lots
of different bunnies, rabbits. Full page color ad for
the Fuego Turbo from Renault, in silver.
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Life Magazine May 1983
: Cover - Debra Winger in the bath, a zany photo with
her in fancy evening dress. Why the star of "An
Officer and a Gentleman" is such an outrageous
free spirit. A nice two page color Marlboro cigarettes
ad with wagon holding snow fence being pulled by mules,
snowy mountain scene in the back. Tableau photography
by Nic Nicosia. Curious full page color Jaymar-Ruby
slacks ad. Sex and violence in Samoa - was Margaret
Mead right?, Derek Freeman. Rabies - a scary new epidemic,
includes Kevin Wessell. A murder charge catches up with
California feminist Ginny Foat. Times Beach, Missouri,
has become a victim of deadly dioxin, EPA comes in,
Meremac River, Ben Essen family, Russell Bliss, Patrick
Crawford, Loretta George, Penny Capstick, Lawrence Atchison,
Wayne and Barbara Boldt, Juanita Bennett, others. Paint
ball wars, includes David Seybold, Nadine Pollet, and
others. How two gay fathers deal with their children
and ex-wives, Michael Dorman and Robert Knight. Brooklyn
bridge turns 100. Portrait - Billy Martin and George
Steinbrenner, baseball, New York Yankees manager and
owner. Life visits Henry Moore, sculptor. Humorous two
page color photo of Russians catching the mid-winter
sun along a wall of the Peter and Paul Fortress. Two
page color photo of a big Motown photo with everyone
named.
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Magazine June 1983 : Cover - Scenes from Star
Wars, including a heroic view of Luke rescuing Princess
Leia. Father of the Jedi George Lucas - genius strikes
again. Nice full page Honda ad with various motorcycles,
mopeds, and scooters, all with prices. Interesting editor's
note about deadlines and photos in this issues, includes
candid shots of Christo and former editor Kessel. Great
underwater shots of sea life by Jeff Rotman. The unrest
in Beruit, Lebanon, includes US Marines. Full page color
movie poster ad for Psycho II. Olympic preview - America's
best swimmers and divers, Wendy Wyland, Greg Louganis,
Steve Lundquist, Mary T. Meagher, Ambrose Gaines, Tiffany
Cohen, Matt Gribble. Falcons and Condors, the captive
breeding of rare birds. Troops patrol Beirut. Artist
Christo turns the islands of Key Biscayne into water
lilies, he borders them with pink. Story about the town
of Cicero, Illinois and how it tried to keep blacks
out - shame on it, photos include Erwin Keith, Otto
Svehla, Ronnie Stackhouse and family, Hugh and Alice
Glover. Two page color Camel cigarettes ad with neat
old motorcycle. Route 66, legendary highway. Private
life of George Lucas, with one of the most horrific
car crash photos I've ever seen. Fashion - strapless.
Reconstruction of King Tut's features. How the Hitler
diary forgeries might have been done and why. Life visits
carnival town, Gibsonton, Florida. Regional Cooking
- Normandy, with recipes.
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Life Magazine July
1983 : Cover - Lake scene from Glacier National
Park. Montana's Glacier wilderness and others are facing
ruin from overuse. Runaway kids - why they flee and
how they survive, a great article, first names only.
Full page color Campari spirit ad featuring an interview
with Jill St. John. Ellis Island, controversy clouds
plans on eve of restoration, photos include Douglas
Fraser, James Reston, Isaac Asimov, Elia Kazan, Louis
Nizer, Esterina Mazzuca with 81 of her descendants (two
page photo). Pershing II missiles, with photos of Anthony
McAllister, Robert Hancock, Dennis Boyce, Samuel Robinson,
others. Collectors vie for relics from the days of Hitler.
Christopher Boyce, spy, and his 19 months as a fugitive.
Loving our National Parks to death. Eunice Shriver gets
the retarded on the right track in the Special Olympics.
Commentary on the mysterious sickness of AIDS. Previously
unpublished photographs of Marilyn Monroe by artist
Earl Moran - great photos, includes some of the art
his created from these photos. Portrait - Elizabeth
Dole. Life visits comedian Eddie Murphy - a great piece.
Super two page color photo of river of lava at Mount
Etna, Italy. Phew - two page color photo of Ayatullah
Khomeini's goose-stepping troops marching across an
American flag with "Death to the US" written
on it, Iran. Cute photo of Patty Monahan washing an
elephant. (This issue cannot be shipped to Germany).
VG - $30
G - $20
F (All G, nice, but has address label scar) -
$10
Life Magazine August
1983 : Cover - Willie Nelson and his family.
Full page color Smirnoff vodka ad with Diahann Carroll
in lovely dress. Very nice full page color Samsonite
luggage ad with parachuting art by George I Parrish
Jr. 3-D photography by David McGlynn. Full page color
dexatrim weight loss ad with Lynn Borges, Barbara Ritz,
Mary Tyre, Phyllis McKenna, Linda Garver, Suzanne Saltzman.
Brain doctor, a neurologist's account of three life-or-death
cases, Bruce H. Dobkin. Full page color Winston cigarettes
ad with rescue crew running from helicopter N47804.
Dressing Diana : that $150,000 wardrobe, plus the racy
clothes the Princess cannot wear. An underworld informant
gets a new identity. A unique joint fishing venture
between Russians and Americans, includes Loralee Clark,
Anatoli Pavlushin, Paul Natkin and others. Southern
craftspeople and musicians preserve their culture, Ernest
Mason, Betty Rogers,Ben Jones, Will Henley, many others.
Coyote. Jenna and wind surfing. Full page color Puerto
Rico rum ad with Ricardo and Ingrid Jimenez. Portrait
- Blake Edwards, director. Life visits Willie Nelson.
Cute full page photo of little Solomon Goodman playing
the violin.
VG - $21
F (All G, but spine
is faintly water marked) - $5
Life Magazine September
1983 : Cover - Classic cars. The
10 best and 10 worst American CARS ever! The
nervous rich of Nicaragua. Very pretty full page Midori
melon liqueur ad. Pro Football's beautiful bodies, Joe
Theismann, Everson Walls, James Lofton, Dave Butz, Greg
Buttle, William Andrews, Guy Morriss. Our sunny, funny
number 1, debutante Cornelia Guest. How Liz Taylor got
to be a legend on Madison Avenue. Portrait - Elvis Costello,
songwriter. Arson Sleuth, includes Lalo Torres, Houston
Fire department, Gloria Davis, Butch Emmons, Joseph
Jachimczyk, Don McKinney, others. Corporate boot camp
in Japan - thank goodness I am not a businessman in
Japan, this all looks horrible! Life visits Grant Wood
country, includes Nan Wood Graham, and the most parodied
image in American Art, American Gothic. La Cage aux
Folles, George Hearn, Gene Barry, great two page color
photo of the Cagelles. Neat full page color Kodak ad
with climber crossing a huge crevasse or ice fall zone
on a kind of tyrolean traverse, roped aerial crossing.
VG - $30
G - $20
Life Magazine October
1983 : Cover - Nancy Reagan on a rocking horse,
first ranch lady. Four page color fold-out Chrysler
Laser car ad. Unicorns ad photographed by Robert Vavra.
Rescuing whales off Newfoundland, includes great two
page photo of a Humpback whale in a net. A large advertising
section on cosmetic dentistry. Lincoln's great day at
Gettysburg. Criminal justice in crisis, part 1 - plea
bargaining, includes Robert "Tinker" Parker,
Tommy Groover, Ralph Greene, Nancy Lee Sheppard, Jody
Dalton, Richard Padgett and others. An exclusive visit
at Rancho del Cielo, a very nice feature. Photographer
Robert Vavra captures the unicorn on film. Portrait
- Judith Rossner, author. Life visits the Santa Anita
race track in Arcadia, California in the jockeys' private
domain, Fernando Toro, Willie Shoemaker, Joe Steiner,
David Lidberg, others - a great piece about horse racing.
Neon signs are back in vogue. Annie Leibovitz takes
portraits. New York's Metropolitan Opera is 100. Great
photo of Jacek E. Palkiewicz conducting an interview
with Lech Walesa, in his skivvies.
VG - $21
G - $13
Life Magazine November
1983 : Cover - JFK. The Kennedy assassination
- Four days that stopped America. Favorite photos of
JFK - a great collection. The Kennedy Assassination
20 years later. Extravagant eight page fold-out AT&T
ad, four pages are silver. Arabs and Jews collide in
the middle east, many pages of candid photos of many
people and aspects of life. Wind power in Altamont Pass,
California, includes gorgeous two page color photo of
windmills, plus others elsewhere. The music group The
Police with Andy Summers, Sting (Gordon Sumner) and
Stewart Copeland. Norma Kamali, clothing designer. Peter
Ueberroth and the LA Olympics. Lost Springs, Wyoming
- town profile, includes Leda Price, the Lost Bar, Bob
Stringham, Edith Droster, Vince Price, Clara Sringham,
Art Stringham. Mariel Hemingway profile and photos.
Full page color True cigarettes ad with a bicycle built
for five. Twangs and Tweedles - new unique musical instruments,
Stephen Scott, Bob Wilhite, Richard Dunlap, Cris Forster,
Ivor Darreg. Boston teacher - Sister Carol. A new Tarzan
- Christopher Lambert in Greystoke, wow. Chhilling two
page color photo of Steve Edeiken carried aloft by a
twisted line on the world's largest kite, he fell to
his death.
VG - $21
G - $13 |
