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A note about
the "Orange subscription sticker" on
the front covers of a few
issues in the late 1980's :
I have downgraded the condition rating of these issues
only because the sticker is bright,
not because it is large or worse than an address label.
It can be removed with a hair dryer.
It works best if one person holds hair dryer and the
other person eases the hot sticker off slowly.
Life Magazine
January 1985 : Special
Issue - The 1984 year in pictures. Orwell was
all wet. Reagan White House photo gallery - Michael
Jackson, Yuri Andropov, Andrei Gromyko, Richard Nixon,
Lt. Robert Goodman, Patti Davis. Famous babies of 1984,
Princess Caroline, Elizabeth Scarlett Jagger, Prince
Henry Charles Albert David, Aljosha Moussa, Baby Fae,
Zoe Loretto Leyland. Geraldine Ferraro. Ninety minutes
at McDonald's - the lingering anguish of the San Ysidro
Massacre, shooter James Huberty. Two page color photo
of Astronaut Dale A. Gardner in space. Two page photo
of heart transplant recipient William Schroeder kissing
his wife. The year of living Androgynously - Boy George,
Grace Jones, Annie Lennox, Michael Jackson and Nick
Rhodes, Prince. Favorite brands and labels of 1984.
1984 Olympics photo review, includes runners Mary Decker,
Joan Benoit, Gabriela Andersen-Schiess, Zola Budd, Evelyn
Ashford, more. Awesome photo of Greg Louganis (diver)
doing a dance move. 1984 obituaries. Richard Burton
and his library. Clara Peller and “Where's the
beeF?” Greg Louganis. Carl Lewis. Ghostbusters.
Tina Turner. John Malkovich. Dwight Gooden, Rookie of
the Year, baseball. William Kennedy and how the Pulitzer
changed his life. Amritsar and the Golden Temple.
G - $25 
F (All G, nice, but cover is taped neatly on)
- $15
 Life
Magazine February 1985 : Cover - Brooke Shields
bares the new swimsuit, in a barely there "one
piece" suit. Introducing NEWSBEAT :a 24 page supplement
of dramatic photographs from around the world, includes
paramedic Steve Baumgart trying to save a two-year old
girl, Linda Powell with the rubble of her home after
a tornado. Full page color Winston cigarettes ad with
rugged looking guy and red helicopter in Southwest Canyon
country. Full page color Camel cigarettes ad with rugged
guy climbing a rope ladder out of a canyon - it seems
certain that you have to be rugged to smoke, or perhaps
- smoking makes you manly? Former senator Howard Baker
goes to Alaska to photograph the bald eagle. Portrait
- Dick Darman, Reagan's aide. CIA man living in Costa
Rica, Bruce Jones, helps Contras against the Sandinistas.
Full page color Oldsmobile ad with pair of figure skaters.
Life visits Wright Valley, Antarctica, the world's coldest
desert, a dry valley, story includes the Vanda Swim
Club which involves nakedness and mostly frozen water.
Story how infamous Gestapo officer Klaus Barbie was
finally brought to justice. New Americans - Marta Gabre-Tsadick
and Demeke Tekle-Wold from Ethiopia, now in Indiana.Cabbage
patch dolls with the Zipadelli quadruplets. Gorgeous
full page color Catalina swimming suit ad. Very nice
photo of Princess Diana with baby Prince Henry, full
page color.
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Life Magazine March
1985 : Cover - the Mafia. How the Mafia began
and the current battle to destroy it. Three page color
fold-out Miller beer ad with a number of historic Miller
beer bottles, neat! Letter from editor pertaining to
his trip to Finnish Lapland, Finland, includes photo
of him driving a reindeer sleigh. Cool two page color
spaceage Canon typewriter ad, Captain's log. Really
odd two page photo taken by Roberto Marchiori of Mario
Mariotti. Including NEWSBEAT - 24 page news picture
supplement. Portrait : Arthur V. Deutsche, new police
chief of Birmingham, Alabama. Full page Metropolitan
Life Insurance ad with a bunch of Snoopy's drawn by
Charles Schulz. Tony Robbins, the Charismatic kid and
fire walking. Peace Corps revisited - Michael Parrish
returns to Niger and finds his idealistic youth was
not misspent. Funny full page Salem cigarettes ad that
implies skiing, but the background is all green. Two
page photo of Bobby Smith, reunited with his family.
Four Star American chefs. Jessye Norman, Diva. Rediscovered
photo of Elvis Presley looking in a mirror, taken by
Ben Mancuso in 1957. Two page photo of Dick Clark and
his wife Betty, Rochester, New York, neighborhood defense.
Great two page photo and short story of escaped inmate
Thomas Peitsmeyer from Coos County jail, Oregon. Life
visits the Coors brothers in Colorado, Coors beer. Is
this the bullet that killed Custer?
G - $20
Life Magazine April
1985 : Cover - top rock and roll stars. A fantasy
fit for a President by Loudon Wainwright. Christopher
Newbert underwater photo gallery. Including NEWSBEAT.
Two page color Chevrolet Blazer ad with group of seven
road bicyclists passing the blazer - they look pretty
serious, but their clothing is rather laughable by today's
standards, for example they are riding in running shorts.
Two page Mercury outboards ad, boat motors, with scuba
diver Al Giddings. Louise Erdrich - Chippewa Indian
writes a great novel. Americas greatest pop stars in
a concert for Africa's starving, includes two page color
photo of all the stars, named earlier in the magazine,
such as Cyndi Lauper, Michael Jackson, Bob Dylan, Bruce
Springsteen, Bette Midler, Ray Charles, many others.
Civil War descendants. Vietnam's tunnel rats. Full page
color travel ad for Bermuda. The men who tried to burn
down Boston, Ray Norton jr., Gregg Bemis, others, investigators
Wayne Miller, Mark Robinson, Terry Barry, William Weld,
others, firemen. Relief for back pain sufferers. Jacqueline
Bisset has a new role. Hawaiian sportswear fashions.
SS Norway cruise ship. Russia's war photographers, Dmitri
Baltermants, Olga Lander, Vsevolod Tarasevich Boris
Yaroslavtsev, Anatoli Garanin, Mark Redkin, Yevgeni
Khaldei.
VG - $21
F (All G, but cover
is rubbed) - $5
Life Magazine May 1985
: Cover - Bill Schroeder (artificial heart recipient)
and his surgeon William DeVries. Neat two page color
Vantage cigarettes ad with woman wind-surfing. Neat
two page 1948 Photo of officials in India with Lord
Mountbatten. Full page Mercury outboard motors ad with
exhibition waterskier Scott Pellaton. Including NEWSBEAT,
with photo of Rolling Stone Keith Richards with his
new baby, Stunt pilot Earl Cherry above El Paso, Texas,
Freak boat accident with Annette Cosh, more. Curious
foxhunting group with everyone on motorized Honda three-wheelers.
Portrait : Bobby Ray Inman, former top spook now running
a Texas think tank. The art scene, New York's East Village,
includes full page color photo of Poppo painted all
gold in dance pose on roof. Ed Harris and Amy Madigan,
Hollywood's new hot duo. Musk Ox, survivors from the
Ice Age. Full page photo of 100 days old baby Marissa
Emple who has just received a liver transplant. Pete
Rose, player-manger of the Cincinnati Reds. Ethiopia
uses famine as a cruel weapon.
G - $18
Life Magazine Spring/Summer
1985 : World War II
Special Issue - 40 years later. This is a nice
review issue for the WWII buff, includes modern follow-ups
on many people and things. The heroes, The battles,
The home front. Fighting words - a guide to American
wartime lingo, includes "Loose Lips might sink
ships." . Heros all - friend and foe are all courageous.,
General Joe Foss, General Jimmy Doolittle, Pappy Boyington.
Hana Reitsch female Nazi test pilot. Pilot Richard Ira
Bong. Frogman Luigi Durand de la Penne, Hannie Schaft,
Andreee de Jongh, Lucie Aubrac, Hedgehog Marie-Madeleine
Fourcade. The Big E - USS Enterprise aircraft carrier.
The Russian Front, Among the Souvenirs - intimate histories,
Robert Bowen, Carlyle Johnson Kelly, Sergeant Fred Sharp,
Nurse Edith Jackson Mize. Wake of war - civilians caught
in the cross fire. Island by Island - Japan and the
Marianas, Saipan, Guam, Tinian. Peace at last - victory
for the Allies. Downfall - the secret invasion that
the A-bomb canceled. Full page reprint of the famous
"sailor kissing a nurse" photo.
G (2 pages have bumped
corner tip) - $54
F (Generally G, but
a bit rumpled, with cover taped neatly on) - $25
Life Magazine June
1985 : Cover - Bill Cosby. Cosby! - America's
funniest father. Including NEWSBEAT with Alexandria
Pembleton protesting aparheid, Princess Stephanie greeting
boyfriend Didier Phitousi exuberantly, more. Neat two
page color Dewar's scotch whiskey ad with Henry Gray
doing one of the events that he won 25 years ago in
the Highland Games of Scotland. Photographer Lena Bertucci
and swimming babies. National PTA - special advertising
section, history, overview. 35,000 young hopefuls compete
for a big-time modeling career, Komeh Hosord, Marcie
Gleeson, Tiffany Burns, Audi England, Tonya Alvord,
Lorenzo Lamas, Marianne Sjolander and many others..
Loveliest public gardens in the US. Space Camp in Alabama,
includes Tony Ruehl, Erik Christensen, Kelly Harrington,
Jay Pate, John Lunde, Gaby Glatzer, Steve Poth. Conflicts
in South Africa are personified by Sam Mali. New Americans
- Hao and LIng Chang from Taiwan, now in Richwood, West
Virginia. Gruesome series of photographs of an execution
in Nicaragua, taken by Frank Wohl. Two page photo of
former President Jimmy Carter being exhibited at show
and tell in his grand-daughters class, he said "These
are the best questions I've had on the whole tour."
Franklin Bradshaw is killed by Frances Schreuder, his
daughter and March Schreuder, his son, Salt Lake City,
a weird and long story
G - $13
Life Magazine July
1985 : Cover - AIDS. Now no one is safe from
AIDS, Patrick Burk, Sonya Sherman, and others. Dr. Caroline
MacLeod investigating the theory that mosquitoes can
spread AIDS, including Belle Gade, Florida. Two page
color Sterling cigarettes ad with mid-air dirt bike
in silhouette. A race to save America's great movies
- fading vintage movies. Koko (the Gorilla) is captivated
by kittens. Teen proms 1985, John Strader, Stephen Schrank,
Christy Tyler, Karen and Lisa Evenson, Ellen Martin,
Kelli Sanderlin, Clay Hensley, Mark Reoch, William Anderson
(limo driver), Susan Richardson, Jean Dion, Lisa Kuhn,
David Bowman, Gina Millim, Shawn Cleary, and many others.
Including NEWSBEAT, with, among other things, a creepy
two page photo of blind-folded Lebanese men being returned
home on a bus from Israel as part of a prisoner exchange,
Swat team member Alan Rice rescueing Shannon Jones,
Dion Gilmore with the huge shark he caught on a 50 pound
fishing line. Fashion - white is in. Full page photo
of parents and babies conceived in vitro at the Eastern
virginia Medical School.
VG - $21
G - $13
Life Magazine August
1985 : Cover - Janet Jones swinging hula hoop
and wearing a poodle skirt. The Fifties, re-living it
up, food, fashion, fun. An exclusive visit at home with
Tina Turner. Loudon Wainwright reviews Rambo, First
Blood, Part II. The new drug craze : Ecstasy. Portrait
- Penn and Teller, magicians. Amusement Park safety
with carousels and lots of other rides. Including NEWSBEAT,
with TWA flight 847 hijacking, bombing at Frankfurt
airport, Explosion of Air India flight 182, Cool two
page photo of 80 people waterskiing behind the same
boat in Australia. A page of photo from Wimbledon, tennis,
including Boris Becker. Full page color Honda scooter
ad with Grace Slick. Awesome series of photos of Peter
Ruhf slicing an apple in two on his own head with a
boomerang. A photographer seeks out children of Americans
in Vietnam, includes Tuyet Mai, Phan Thi Thu Huong,
Buong Thien Tu Thanh, Le Thi Lien, Le Thi Ut, Nguyen
Thi Xuan and others (see related story in LIFE December
1987). Photographer Joel Meyerowitz at work. Funny bunch
photos with a Ronald Reagan cutout. Two page photo of
the horrible scene where Jean-Kiston Jeremie struck
a mother and her children in Dorchester, Massachusetts.
Full page wedding photo of the sister of the Aga Khan,
Yasmin Aga Khan to Basil Embiricos.
G - $13
Life Magazine September
1985 : Cover Tina Turner and Mick Jagger. LIVE
AID : Superstar spectacular, Paul McCartney,
Madonna, more. Mount St. Helens, rumblings and renewal,
5 years after the blast. Some 1,800 kids, ages 8 to
18 get a strong weekly dose of military life. Spectacle
: mighty wrestlers and madding crowds. Including NEWSBEAT.
Liang Heng and Judith Shapiro journey to a land still
recovering from the Maoist years. Qum, the heart of
Shiite Iran, inspires a wave of holy terror. The best
nannies come from Denver's National Academy of Nannies:
Stacey Kerr, parents Julie Blackman and Clark Senior.
Funny photo of Hulk Hogan lifting ballet dancer, other
wrestlers interacting with public.
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Life Magazine October
1985 : Cover - Joan Collins, Dynasty's bad girl
as you've never seen her before, Exclusive photo session.
The History and Hoopla of Halley's Comet. Two evangelists
set up a revival tent in Asheboro, North Carolina, Kenneth
Thomas and Gary Burchette, Highway 64. Portrait - James
Taylor, pop singer. Inside the IRA, Irish Republican
Army, lots of photos of masked men, guns, bombs. A very
pretty full page color Kohler ad with a raspberry pink
sink in the Chardonnay line. Chez Renoir, the country
life of Renoir. Includes NEWBEAT with photos of Bruce
Springsteen on break, The wedding of football player
Doug Flutie and Laurie Fortier, the crash of Japan Air
Lines flight 123, Alan Keith with his police horse Tivoli
who has just been struck by a car, Samantha Smith age
13 dies in a plane crash, more. The many faces of Joan
Collins, including a great two page spread of her as
Belle Star with other cast members all in western costume,
plus many other great photos such as Joan as Marilyn
Monroe. The two worlds of Edmund Perry, crime. Fashion
- strapless gowns. JoAnn Zimmerman dresses as a giant
panda to cheer dying children including Tara Johnson
Sabrina Lieser, Michael Lieser, Edy Lieser, Charlie
Stringham. Three photojournalists look back - Carl Mydans,
Dmitri Kessel and John Phillips. Photo of the Hantscho
crew of Mount Vernon, New York who won the lottery together
and split it evenly 21 ways.
G - $18
Life Magazine November
1985 : Cover - Princess Diana. Prince Charles
and Diana in America. The fashions and styles of DianoSailing
the Pacific by William F. Buckley. The family farm -
going, going, gone, includes Farm of Roger and Carolyn
Vech of Verdigre, Nebraska. A Fair to remember in Allentown,
Pennsylvania. Portrait - Lily Tomlin, actress and comedian.
Strawberry Fields - a garden dedicated to the late Beatle
John Lennon flourishes in New York. Butler John Lightfoot
at the British ambassador's residence in Washington
D.C. to host the Prince and Princess. NEWSBEAT. Farm
Aid concert. Life visits Bishop Besmond Tutu. Ingrid
Bergman's daughter, Isabella, has a new movie. Happy
Birthday Mark Twain. The horrible thing that happened
to Alex and Jeanette Watters just after they bought
their dream 16th century thatched Tudor cottage in rural
Hampshire, Green Defense radar dome. Two page photo
of Christo and the Covered Bridge Pont Neuf bridge in
Paris. Two opposite photos of Oliver Reed. Neat photos
of 23 parachutists stacked on top of each other, over
Dunkeswell in Devon, England, AirAid. Two page photo
of a plane crash on the busy Interstate 95 in Warwick,
Rhode Island. Guys on the girls' field hockey team of
Northampton High in Massachuesetts, Richard Pushkin,
Victoria Stone in the photo. Neat full page white water
rafting photo from Italy's Dora Baltea River. Sailing
across the Pacific on Sealestial. Flying frisbees on
the Great Wall of China.
VG - $21
Life Magazine December
1985 : Cover - Astronaut and starscape. Seeing
beyond the stars, a preview of America's biggest year
in space (Hubble telescope and teacher going into space
on the shuttle). Full page color Jeep ad with red jeep,
man shaving, license plate PDQ-036. The real cops of
Miami Vice, includes Dennis Reddington, Walt Murphee,
Eliado Paez, Art Serig, Tommy O'Keefe, Tom Williams,
Clarence Dickson, George Lopez, more. How your Social
Security works, with Erma Kruger. Full page color Scrabble
game ad with cartoon art of the scrooge by Michaud.
Countering terrorism abroad, includes Anthony Quainton
in Kuwait and more. Two page photo of Leon and Marilyn
Klinghoffer, shortly before he was killed by terrorists
on the cruise ship Achille Lauro. Two page photo of
a line of Pakistani porters marching up the snowy Baltoro
glacier toward Gasherbrum 1 and 2, Italian team Quota
8000, Agostino Da Polenza, they reached both summits.
Graduation Day at Santa University, training for Santa
Claus, includes Rachael Laurence, Stanley Seidman, Ricardo
Vazquez, Albin Sadar, Jenny Zink, Dave Rimelis, Matthew
Carlton, and more. Full page color AT&T ad with
Joseph G. Curreri. Another two page color delicious
Kahlua ad with recipes. Shuttle teacher McAuliffe and
her back-up teacher Barbara Morgan. Life visits the
King of Spain, Juan Carlos. NEWSBEAT. Sparkly holiday
clothes. The Getty family legacy. Two page photo of
Boston Ambulance Squad member Jim MacDonald trying to
save 10-month-old Jamal Morrison. Two page photo of
Joe Rossi of the bike team 2-rad jumping his freestyle
BMX bicycle over a row of kids. Cute photo of the Walton
sextuplets of Britain.
VG - $21
Life Magazine January
1986 : Cover - The year
in pictures - 1985, Special Issue. Ceremonies
marking the ends of two wars, World War II and Vietnam.
Nice two page color photo of Victor Amburgy being welcomed
home by his niece Danelle Kruse, he had been held captive
17 days by the Palestinians who hijaccked TWA Flight
847. Two page color photo of Mikhail Gorbachev and his
wife Raisa with a group of Young Pioneers at a Crimean
resort. Two pages of photos that were directions to
the spy drop in Poolesville, Maryland for spy John Walker.
Titanic. Baseball Records. Full page color NRA, National
Rifle Association ad featuring Charles E. "Chuck"
Yeager. Very nice full page color photo of Uli Derickson,
heroic flight attendant from TWA Flight 847. Full page
color photo of William Perry, the Refrigerator, football
player - "the best use of fat since the invention
of bacon." Worn in the U.S.A. Lake Wobegon and
other landscapes. West German Boris Becker wins Wimbledon,
tennis. Anthony Salerno and other Mafia bosses indicted.
71,000 anti-abortion demonstrators rally in Washington.
Hijackers divert Egyptair jet to Malta. KGB agent Vitaly
Yurchenko goes home. Confused whale Humphrey finally
finds his way back to Pacific Ocean. Weird full page
color photo of a Cabbage Patch clone doll with braces.
A very classy photo of Ronald Astaire and Nancy Rogers,
the Reagans in dance pose. Full page color photo of
Yuba, California citizens protesting being named LAST
in Rand McNally's list of metropolitan areas. And much,
much, much more.
G - $25
F (All VG, but spine
is taped) - $15
F (Inside is G/VG, but
cover is loose from staples with small tears at the
staples) - $15
Life Magazine
February 1986 : Cover - Paulina Porizkova in
a swimming suit (Many more full page color photos of
her inside). Bathing beauties from the first 50 years
of LIFE - special anniversary feature. Full page color
Metropolitan Life insurance ad with Snoopy art by Charles
Schulz. Two page color - the most delicious looking
Kahlua ad ever! Disney releases more than a million
balloons for Disneyland's 30th Anniversary, Skyfest.
Robert Roethlisberger and Kenneth Wincorn sell off the
85 Rolls-Royces left behind by guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh.
Alzheimer's - how three families cope with the tragic
disease, including Ethel Lansbery, Sara Bridges, and
Cliff. Spy clan - why John Walker did it - and how he
got caught. Adventure dreamer John Goddard works his
way down his Life List of want-to adventures. Full page
Sports Illustrated ad with very nice photo of female
ski racer # 3 in psychedelic ski suit. The Judds - country's
adorable duo, Wynonna Judd and Naomi Judd. Town meeting
in Highland County, Virginia where the agenda is AIDS.
In the Philippines - Marcos vs. Aquino. Adventurer John
Goddard's life list.
VG - $21
F (Inside G, but cover has a taped tear and is
taped on inside) - $5
Life Magazine
March 1986 : Cover - Molly Ringwald. Teenage
America, special issue. The Saturday night scene. The
busy life of a high school senior. The anguish of an
eighth grader's abortion. Clothes, Diets, rock music.
Remembering the crew of the space shuttle and Christa
McAuliffe. Full page color ad for the Princess Diana
Bride Doll. Father Clifford Stevens is a medieval monk
in rural Nebraska. Teenage articles include Mark Young
of Long Beach, Mississippi, Michelle Widdicombe of Billings,
Montana, Sean Gray patrolling in Berlin, Stacey Wiggins
of Orlando, Florida, Karen Walters and James Ritenour
with their near baby, Mike Murphy, Simon Effer and James
Johnson of Chicago, others. Lisa Lee Bagby, a senior
at Memorial high school in Houston. Lamont Williams
of the inner city of Detroit and his family. The four
Derita brothers in a band named Trak. How to talk with
teenagers. Full page color NRA, National Rifle Association
ad featuring Polic chief David Howells of Allentown,
Pennsylvania. A color photo showing the food consumed
by two different teens in a week - a hideous amount
of junk food, no wonder so many teens grew up to be
fat, Krissy Harris, Paul Clancy. A look back at America's
love of cars 50 years ago.
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Life Magazine
April 1986 : Cover - Caroline, Princess of Monaco.
Campaigning with a new Kennedy, Joe. The TWA hostage
who fought back, Peter Hill. Lovely two page color night
photo of the castle built for the St. Paul Winter Carnival.
Two charming full page photos, each of a bare chested
football player holding his new baby, O.J. Simpson with
Sydney Brooke Simpson and Joe Namath with Jessica Grace
Namath. Neat two page photo of ice fishing Soviets trapped
by a crack in the ice floes. American dreamer, Ursula
K. Le Guin. Dogging the Wild Boar, wild pig hunting
on Kauai with Albert Makuaole. America's cup yacht race.
Big business is now watching corporate kids, day care
for employees, includes Alvin Stern, Dani Stern, Tristan
Ursell, Joann Dockery, Mary Ellen Ferrentino, Timmy
Gerber, Dianne Keel Atkins, Gregory Lee, Kristine Stremlo,
Carol DeVito. 50 years of Queen Elizabeth. Full page
color Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps ROTC featuring
Carl Gebo. Actress Helena Bonham Carter. Humorous running
races, including the 1040K race in Charlotte, North
Carolina with CPAs running in suit coats, ties, and
running shorts.
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Magazine May 1986 : Cover - 5 actresses, Jessica
Lange, Sally Field, Barbra Streisand, Goldie Hawn, Jane
Fonda. Special Issue : Celebrating
the Movies. American dreamer, Rick Baker, Monstermaker.
Humorous two page color photo of Warren Beatty and Dustin
Hoffman on a camel for the movie Ishtar. A number of
letters to the editor pertaining to the Teen feature
in March of 1986, including the Lambert-Romaine family,
Lynn Hinck, Amy Putney, others. Several full pages of
Fancy Feast cat food ads starring that aristocratic
long-haired white cat. Ron and Nancy Reagan, their Hollywood
years. The eyes of Mary Lambert, aspiring director.
A happy full page color movie poster ad for "Sweet
Liberty" with Alan Alda and a motorcycle. Full
page color Maxell cassette tapes ad with Aretha Franklin
and a pink cadillac. Independent producer Brian Grazer.
Movers and Shapers - working out the stars. Talent.
Old posters are hot tickets. Full page color Metropolitan
Life insurance ad with cartoon art by Charles Schulz.
Ye Olde Glamour shop - where secondhand is a virtue.
Steven Spielberg. Director Mary Lambert. Full page color
Esprit Kids ad with Tabitha Johnson in pink and white.
Celebrity houses with a history. Marilyn Monroe, something
extra for paper doll collectors. Notable talents in
1986 - Ron Howard, Tom Cruise, Whoopi Goldberg, Sigourney
Weaver, Mel Gibson, Aidan Quinn, Chuck Norris, Michelle
Pfeiffer, Anjelica Huston, Rebecca de Mornay, Judge
Reinhold and Julie Hagerty, Kim Basinger, others. Stars
in the tub, including a really nice two and a half page
photo of Arnold Schwarzenegger. More on the movies.
G - $13
F (Generally G, but
cover nearly loose) - $5
Life Magazine
June 1986 : Cover - Lee Iacocca. At home and
on the road with Iacocca. Full page color Avon ad featuring
Marie Lindfors in a swimming suit, other pages of Julie
Wolfe in black, more. Two page color photo taken inside
a TWA jet soon after a bomb tore a hole in it, George
Kastritis. Life looks back at famous brides, Maria Shriver
(Arnold Schwarzeneger), Elizabeth Taylor and Conrad
Hilton Jr., Shirley Temple and John Agar, Marilyn Monroe
and Arthur Miller, Joe DiMaggio and Dorothy Arnold,
DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe, Jacqueline Bouvier and
John F. Kennedy, others. Harry Platt and the Moana baseball
stadium in Reno, Nevada, Jack Maloof. A book too hot
for the 1950s, an excerpt from Hemingway's surprising
novel of sexual games, The Garden of Eden. American
dreamer - Randolph Johnston. Big American military bases
in the Philippines. Cartoonists
unite for a worthy cause (a really cool spread of cartoons
all holding hands - would be great framed). Tennis
player Chris Evert-Lloyd, a big feature with lots of
candid shots, includes Martina Navratilova. Roy Lichtenstein's
monumental mural. Three classic photographs of the Duke
and Duchess of Windsor.
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Life Magazine
July 1986 : Cover - The Statue of Liberty, America
the Wondrous. Table of Contents page for this issue
features artwork by Craig Pacelli, 14, of Our Lady of
Mount Carmel School in Berlin, New Jersey. Jets over
Mont-Saint-Michel, great two page color photo of new
and old. Two page color photo of the men who bombed
Libya, includes Sam Westbrook and Robert Venkus. A plywood
mock-up of the Saturn 5 rocket in Netherlands, two page
color photo. American Dreamer - George Archibald, International
Crane Foundation, Baraboo, Wisconsin. The view from
here by Mario Cuomo. Well done full page color Honda
ad with Elite scooter and Jim McMahon, Chicago Transit
Authority. America the most - superlatively speaking,
some special people and surprising places, includes
a two page color photo of a line of pregnant women from
Geary county, Kansas with the highest birthrate in the
nation. The sweetest girl in America, Marie Busbee.
Large photo of some miners in the Homestake Mine in
Lead, South Dakota, the deepest mine, gold mine. America
abroad - searching for the US war dead in Vietnam. Statue
of Liberty at 100. Portrait of a lady - Statue of Liberty.
Down the Rio-Not-So-Grande, an Outward Bound story by
Campbell Geeslin. In quaint Carmel - Clint Eastwood
is Mayor. Portraits of six first ladies. Fifty years
of good old flag waving. Mitch Gaylord - young gymnast.
A team of French artisans repairs the Statue of Liberty.
Nice full page color photo of two Harlem Globetrotters
basketball players with the statue of Liberty.
G - $13
F (All G, nice, but cover has mild cup rings)
- $5
Life magazine
August 1986 : Cover - Victim of Chernobyl. A
personal account from Chernobyl, atomic power plant
disaster in Russia, by one of the American doctors who
went to help, Dr. Robert Gale, bone marrow transplants.
Winnie Mandela in South Africa. Willi Nelson in "Red
Headed Stranger." Very colorful full page Esprit
ad with the Richard Steinberg family, including the
dog Chelsea. John Samaniego, undercover policeman. Laurie
Shepherd builds her own log cabin, a la Walden Pond.
The Rio Grande, border between Texas and Mexico, includes
rafters in the Santa Elena Canyon in Big Bend National
Park, midwife Mrgarita Garcia, more. Campaign fund-raising.
Fads from 50 years ago and more recent. Full page color
Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps ROTC ad with Robert
Bright. Actress Anouk Aimee. A nice full page color
photo of Amnesty International members and some former
political prisoners, including people such as Sting.
VG - $30
Life Magazine
Fall 1986 - 50
years of Life - special anniversary issue.
400 pages HUGE! Hundreds of the most famous LIFE photos.
G - $30
Life Magazine
September 1986 : Cover - Caroline Kennedy. The
Weddings, Caroline Kennedy and Edwin Schlossberg, Prince
Andrew and Sarah Ferguson. The place called Africatown
on the edge of Mobile, Alabama with Eva Allen Jones
mentioned and others. American Dreamer - Joe Newman,
Lucedale, Mississippi, and his Energy Machine. Harvard
University celebrates 350 years - a really nice article.
Full page color Esprit Kids ad with colorful Tami Silber
and Jordana Silber. Spies, Double Agents, Vitaly Sergeyevich
Yurchenko, Yevgeny Barmyantsev, and related bits about
spy Edward Lee Howard, the Walkers, Ronald Pelton and
others, agent John Stine. A fashion piece on Denim,
including a nice photo on a cantering Appaloosa horse
with Angie O'Steen. Selected fashions from the last
50 years. Another nice full page color Fancy Feast cat
food ad with the lovely white cat. Wow - two color pages
of older Levi's posters. One of those great closing
photos - a real elephant spraying three members of the
Victorian State Opera who are in elephant costume.
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October 1986 : Cover - A person smoking cocaine.
"I am a coke addict" - What happens when nice
guys get hooked - this is a great article about drug
use and how seductive it can be. Touring with Stevie
Wonder. Fall colors - gorgeous and varied photos. James
Onan builds a pyramid-like house in Wadsworth, Illinois,
complete with palm trees, sphinxes, more. Oh my gosh
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pilot whales in the Faeroe Islands. Full page color
photo of 187 foot long Harly Davidson motorcycle hot
air balloon, made for Malcolm Forbes. Full page color
Esprit clothing ad with the Martha and Chuck Baker family
and children. Saul Bellow writes a long comment piece
on Chicago. Benazir Bhutto, the first modern woman to
lead an Islamic country, Pakistan. Robert Goodman, political
Image maker. Stevie Wonder, Musician. Revisitng the
scandals of 1958, Lana Turner's daughter Cheryl Crane,
Ann Woodward, quiz show scan Charles Van Doren. Lucille
Ball in back in "Life with Lucy." A funny
photo of costumed cast members of "Spitting Image."
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Life Magazine
November 1986 : Cover - Paul Newman and Tom Cruise,
a private visit with the new hustler and the old pro.
American Dreamer, Stephen LaBerge, the doctor of dreams.
Full page color Nordica ski boots ad. Two page color
photo of orange sky and smoke over the Riviera due to
forest fires. Cool two page re-wedding photo of Paula
Yates and Sir bob Geldof, in red, and the male portion
of the wedding party. The Aryan Mountain Kingdom, Aryan
Nations, Christian Identity - the group of separatist
radicals and anarchists in Idaho, including Pastor R.
G. Butler, Rev. Bob Miles and oppositionist Bill Wassmuth.
Princess Marie-Christine von Reibnitz, wife of Prince
Michael of Kent, gives a look at royal life in Britain.
The War room, the first close look inside the US secret
nuclear command post, National Military Command Center.
The dark romance of Dian Fossey, gorillas. Home - what
kind of real estate can you buy for $100,000. A disabled
boy and his dog, David Pearson and Cameo, guide dogs,
Canine Companions, Companion animals - great article!
Neat two page color snowy Green Bay Packers football
scene that is an ad for Sports Illustrated. The Joyce
quintuplets of Sea Girt, New Jersey - two cute photos.
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Life Magazine
December 1986 : Cover - Madonna, great feature
inside. How to cope with a nuclear missile in your backyard,
MX Missile, Ed Weppner, Dave Troastle, Cheyenne, Wyoming,
Pete McNiff family. A wish to die, suicide of the elderly,
Lois Martin and aul Martin - a very sad but poignantly
understandable story. A neat two page photo of Queen
Elizabeth II visiting the terra-cotta warriors of Emperor
Qin Shi Huang in China. Owens Valley, California is
a mecca for Hang gliding. A neat page and a half color
photo of some of the New York Mets celebrating 25 years
in the game. A humorous color photo of the cast of the
soap opera "Henderson" all in bed together.
Color photo of Cathy Lee Crosby bathing in Coca-Cola.
Full page color Esprit clothing ad with Ruth Lagier
and children. A rather interesting full page color Kent
cigarettes ad with silhouette of man and woman and snowmobile.
Russian Photo Fakery. Fashion - Crocodile and Alligator
goods. Full page color travel ad for Puerto Rico with
Champion swimmer Jesse Vassallo. A photographic homage
to Van Gogh, David Douglas Duncan. A short repeat of
the Turkey Feather Wedding story of 1948, Barbara Orr
Ehrhart. Charming photo of 7-year-old Rose hugging the
elephant Maureen.
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January 1987 : Special
Issue : 1986 - The year in pictures - Including
Industrialist Armand Hammer. 100th birthday for Statue
of Liberty. Challenger space shuttle tragedy including
Christa McAuliffe. Weddings (incl. Fergie's). Halley's
Comet. Really cute full page Esprit Kids ad with Clarisse
Ng living in Hong Kong, all in pink. Two page photo
of Soviet technician measuring radiation level outside
the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Two page color photo
of yet another terrorist bombing in Paris. Two page
color of part of Imelda Marcos' collection of 3,000
pairs of shoes. Cheerful two page color photo of New
York Mets baseball players running out of the dugout
to congratulate players on the field. Two page color
photo of Father Lawrence Martin Jenco, recently released
from captivity as a hostage in Beirut. Very pretty full
page photo of Whitney Houston in luminous green. David
Letterman with his three dogs. Gary Kasparov, chess
champion, full page photo. Helga Testorf, photo - 15
year nude model for Andrew Wyeth. Happy color photo
of Greg LeMond and wife, he was the first American bicyclist
to win the Tour de France. Wedding photo of Tennis player
John McEnroe and Tatum O'Neal. Drug induced deaths of
Len Bias (basketball) and Don Rogers (football) - both
cocaine. 400 people walk across the US to protest nuclear
arms, incudes Cottonwood Pass in Colorado (in the 2Neat
neighborhood), Ethel Watson, Lana Vining, Elizabeth
Vaneck, Hinton Harrison, , others. .
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Life Magazine
February 1987 : Cover - Christie Brinkley and
daughter Alexa Ray Joel - feature inside. Special report
: the American way of Fitness. The care and feeding
of your heart, with the Merloni family, the Galvani
family, more. Full page Health & Tennis Corporation
ad with Cher, encourageing people to exercise. Help
for heavy teens, overweight children. Full page color
Vantage cigarettes ad with downhill ski racer. The rigors
of triathlon training, Bob Whitman. Mall walks, mud
baths, exercising babies, and more. Fighting bulimia,
includes Christine Bergel. Swimsuits 1987. Dick Rutan
and Jeana Yeager fly around the world in Voyager without
stopping, really neat looking airplane with three fusalages.
Willie Kasayulie, Eskimo, Akiachak, Alaska. Fun two
page color photo of folks sitting in the Glen Ivy Hot
Springs mud pool. Fitness report - movie muscle from
the old days - Marilyn Monroe, Alan Ladd, Lana Turner,
Jane Fonda, Clint Eastwood, Burt Lancaster.
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Life Magazine March
1987 : Cover - Part of Mel Fisher's hoard of
Spanish gold and silver, the richest find so far. The
search for lost treasures, 8 great mysteries of the
Americas. Two page color photo of some of the jewels
owned by the Duchess of Windsor to be sold. Dolly Parton,
singing a new tune. Mike Tyson (boxer) , is he the new
Ali? Two page color photo of Amtrak train wreck near
Baltimore. Treasure hunters - Mel Fisher, Lee Spence,
Gonzalo Jimenez de Quesada, Earl Fitzwilliam, Oak Island
Money Pit, Lost Dutchman Mine, Colombia's Muisca Indians.
American family defects to Russia - Lockshins. Full
page color Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps ROTC
ad with Robert Bright. Charles Manson 20 years later.
Full page color Visa ad with Bret Willat and his sailplane
(glider). Dolly Parton profile and photos, with the
MOST amazing two page color portrait photo. Mike Tyson
profile (boxer). Bloomsbury intellectuals - descendanta
and friends Quentin Bell, Julian Bell, George Rylands,
Frances Partridge, Anthony Fry, more.
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Life Magazine April
1987 : Cover - Movie Stars including Tom Cruise,
Molly Ringwald, Faye Dunaway, Robert De Niro, Harrison
Ford, Debra Winger, Timothy Hutton.
Special Issue : the Movies. The stars celebrate
Hollywood at paramount's 75th, includes a nice two page
color spread of a bunch of the big stars together (and
named) - gosh, they look young. Rather nice two page
fold-out color Chevrolet ad with black Beretta car driving
in water. James Bond at 25. Snow White at 50. Hollywood
at 100. Neat two page vintage photo from 1923 showing
a variety of men in front of the Hollywoodland sign.
Tv's old Dragnet is updated. Westerners shoot on location
in Beijing.Movie making in China, great photos! Lots
of great clips and photos on pairs and groups of related
actors, such as Jason and Sam Robards, Kirk, Eric, Peter
and Micharl Douglas, great photo of Melvin and Mario
Van Peebles, and others. Zack Norman and Neil Cohen
make a cut-rate movie in New York. First families of
film, 18 multigenerational reunions. Dressing for Oscar,
with a great photo of Cher in THAT outfit. Offscreen
supporting players. Short piece and photo of Evelyn
Moriarty who doubled for Marilyn Monroe. A day in the
life of Bette Midler
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Life Magazine May 1987
: Cover - Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman team up for
Ishtar - feture inside. Full page color Winston cigarettes
ad with a great photo taken up on one of the towers
of the Golden Gate bridge. Several striking photos from
the "Herald of Free Enterprise" ferry boat
disaster near Belgium. Colorful two page photo showing
some of the costumes donated to the New York City Opera
after 12,000 costumes were lost in a 1985 fire. Choreographer
Barry Martin, in a wheelchair. The Oliver North photo
album. Bloom County - Opus goes in search of his roots.
Breast reconstruction, a cancer patient's moving story.
Tracking Oliver North to the White House. Opus, the
cartoon character drawn by Berke Breathed, Bloom County,
takes a trip to Antarctica, many pages of cartoons overlaid
on great photos. Bohdan Koziy is accused of killing
Jews in WWII. Photo retrospective by John Loengard.
Peggy McCann gets a mastectomy. Million mile travelers
- Don Buckley, John Clouse and Parke Thompson. Full
page color MasterCard ad featuring Lynette Woodard,
femal Harlem Globetrotter basketball player. Charming
full page color photo of Pete Reynolds in an unusual
skydiving pose over Brazil, parachuting.
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Life Magazine June
1987 : Cover - Baby Shira, the world's first
"Host Womb" baby, related story inside. Craving
a baby and not able to have one : Surrogate mothers,
Infertility treatments, Adoptions, a great report by
Anna Qundlen. A visit to the ocean floor with Sylvia
Earle, marine scientist, scuba diving. . Helga Testorf,
model, and the art of Andrew Wyeth. Home styles of TV
evangelists, Jimmy Swaggart, Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson,
Robert Schuller, Oral Roberts, Jim and Tammy Bakker.
Two page color photo of guerrilla fighter in Afghanistan
aiming at a road in a canyon far below. The most amazing
two page photo of a huge flock of pink flamingos in
Kenya. Mark Plotkin, ethnobotanist, seeks new plants
and new drugs. Neat vintage photos (previously unpublished)
from John F. Kennedy, JFK's 45 birthday, includes Marilyn
Monroe, Diahann Carroll, Shirley MacLaine, Jack Benny,
others. High Fashion dseigners create some smashing
wedding gowns. Look-alikes for Margaret Thatcher and
Mikhail Gorbachev show a different kind of east-west
meeting.
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Life Magazine July
1987 : Cover - Outdoor scene with trembling aspen
from the Wet Mountain valley in Colorado, fold-out photo.
The great outdoors : stunning secret places, top spots
for bird-watching. Three page color fold-out Marlboro
cigarettes ad with four cowboys, each in white hat,
leather chaps and vest, carrying a saddle. A vacation
guide to on-the-road home cooking. Exclusive interview
with Gary Hart's temptation - Donna Rice, lots of photos.
Abraham Lincoln's family photo album. Neat two page
color photo of conductor Zubin Mehta in tuxedo with
penguins on South Georgia island. Cowboy poet - Waddie
Mitchell. Two page photo of police officer Melissa Piscitelli
with the casket of a fellow officer. Jessie Jackson
runs for president. Writers favorite places - Galen
Rowell, Edward Abbey, Barry Lopez, James Dickey, Tom
Robbins, Edward Hoagland, Peter Matthiessen. Bird Sanctuaries
- Tucson Arizona, Aransas Texas, Platte River Nebraska,
Everglades Florida. Kim Basinger and Jeff Bridges. Cafes
across the US, Miss Newport Diner, Doe's Eat Place,
Burton's Grill, Eisenberg's, Riverbend Inn, Bud's Café.
One of those charming LIFE photos, this one of little
Cory of Reading, Pennsylvania, howling as his puppy
Beauty gets a shot.
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Life Magazine August
1987 : Cover Oliver North and his wife Betsy.
Exclusive interview with Betsy North. Startling poll
on sex and the presidency. Short piece and photo on
George and Helen Campbell who purchased the air-conditioned
dog house previously owned by Tammy BAkker. Nice full
page color movie poster ad for "Maid to Order"
with Ally Sheedy and others. Abandoned lighthouses you
can adopt, Southeast Light on Block Island off Rhode
Island, Rockland Breakwater Light in Maine, others.
Haiti - a land overwhelmed by AIDS. Brooke Shields'
report card at Princeton and a cute photo of her in
a graduation robe. General John Kirk Singlaub grudgingly
testifies at the Iranscam hearings. Phoenix acting family,
John and Arlyn Phoenix, River Phoenix, Rainbow Phoenix,
and more. Center fielder Eric Davis, Cincinnati Kid.
Bakkers theme park - God's country. Teenage pilot Mathias
Rust flies into Red Square, Moscow, a visit to the Kremlin.
Prince Charles, Arthur G. Carrick, and his watercolor
paintings.
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Life Magazine
Fall 1987 : Cover - The Remarkable American Constitution.
An enduring passion - a constitution that meets and
masters challenges. Rather nice two page color fold-out
Chevrolet ad with a Corsica car appearing to be in a
Utah slot canyon. Peace as a prologue - American faces
the problem of government. Flaws in the first chapter
- a confederation divided against itself. Empty pockets
by Richard B. Morris. Who were we then by Pauline Maier.
Two page color Xerox ad featuring the Constitution.
1787 the year in pictures. Passionate Discourse from
the convention floor. A visible legacy the original
constitution finds a home. The battle to ratify by Robert
Allen Rutland. Founding fathers - paintings and bios
of the signers of the Constitution. Quirks and Quacks
- in pursuit of constitutional oddities. Ronald Regan
cabinet members. Full page color Christian Brothers
Brandy ad with guitarist all in orange, probably the
man who did "Johnny be good." Step by Step
through the Supreme Court ruling process. Bill and Donna
Todd take on the IRS. A call form reform by James MacGregor
Burns. Very nice large photo of Genevieve and Vernon
Evans in De Soto.
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Life Magazine September
1987 : Cover - Prince Charles - good guy or wimp?
Tribute to Elvis by Billy Joel, Joan Jett, Robert Plant,
Brenda Lee, Carl Perkins, The Beastie Boys, Roy Orbison,
Ron Wood. Humorous color photo of desert native from
Abu Dhabi meeting a sand skier wearing full aerodynamic
speedsuit. New therapy for the autistic child, includes
Katy Haigh. Making the memory fit the man by Loudon
Wainwright. The world according to Orville - Orville
Simpson designs the city of the future. A good-natured
photo of Dr. Ruth (the famous sex doctor) in bed ...
on safari in Africa. The quirks of Korea photos by Rene
Burri. Silent Witness - William Casey, Iranscams mystery
man will tell no tales. Amazing Graceland, Elvis Presley,
by Harry Benson and Victoria Balfour. The British royal
family tree 1819 - 1987. Founders Ben & Jerry and
the ice cream market. Profile of Bob Dole by Geroge
Gilder. Father Serra becomes a saint. Gulag Eyewitness
photos by a Soviet Prisoner. Loony Luna Luna amusement
park. After Yale - Jodie Foster have fine new movies.
A very cute two page color Hush Puppies shoes ad.
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Life Magazine October
1987 : Cover - Mikhail Gorbachev. Margaret Thatcher
on dealing with Gorbechev. Four Presidents on the future
of America, Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford,
Richard Nixon. Interview - Phil Donahue on the church.
Queen Elizabeth's jewels, includes the Cullinan diamonds.
Colorado sleuths trace AIDS virus, Nancy Spencer, Bob
Kellner. Billy Joel in the Soviet Union, includes a
nice two page photo of him in concert there. Two page
photo of the corpse of infamous Nazi Rudolf Hess and
his son. David Memet directs his wife Lindsay Crouse
in a new movie. Miss America Jr., Vanessa Williams's
baby, she was the first black woman to win the Miss
America pageant. Paris couture houses pamper the oh-so-chic.
Joe Biden, Delaware senator. John Cougar Mellencamp,
hero of the heartland. A 3,000 year old mummy gets a
cat scan. Moments from the Iran-contra hearings. Photos
by Sandy Skoglund. Vincent Edward (Bo) Jackson baseball
and football player. The three Ray brothers, all hemophiliacs
with the AIDS virus, the family home was burned down
by an arsonist. Charming dog and owner photo on an escalator,
Great Dane dog.
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Magazine November 1987 : Cover - MIA, are any
still alive? 25 compelling M.I.A. cases from Vietnam,
Missing in action, includes photos and names. Special
report - getting rid of a nuclear missile, arms treaty
with Russia. Finally, black quarterbacks are joining
the college football huddle. An interview with the lovely
Farrah Fawcett. 3/4 page color Metropolitan Life insurance
ad with cartoon art by Charles Schulz. Great two page
Purina One dog food ad with photo of man and his golden
lab dog. Winners, eight young photographers exhibit
their prize work. Two page color photo of a weary George
Bush senior, Barbara and all the grand children on their
bed in Kennebunkport, Maine. Neat two page aerial photo
of the dust cloud raised along the Whittier fault line
after an earthquake in Irwindale, California - photographer
George Rose. The essence of Grasse, where perfumes are
born. Excerpt from book "Timebends" by Arthur
Miller, on Marilyn Monroe, Marxism and me. Taxpayers
finance the destruction of a rare rain forest. Karole
Armitage and David Salle, Manhattan couple. Profile
of Dr. Ruth. Black football quarterbacks, including
Rodney Peete, Steve Taylor, Jamele Holieway. Sisters
of the Mists, inside an Estonian convent. Actress Kelly
McGillis tries on four new characters. Without water
in El Paso suburbs, Las Pampas is one of the suburbs
called colonias, mostly hispanic - a shameful story.
Tongass National Forest in Alaska. A fun peice on Bruce
Willis.
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Life Magazine December
1987 : Cover - Meryl Streep, on top and tough
enough to stay there - feature inside. Neat photo of
Kris Feddersen doing an aerial flip on his skis. A short
piece on using llamas in medical therapy, visiting sick
people, Cathy Crisman. Another short piece on Tuyet
Mai, one of the Vietnamese children of a serviceman,
found by here father Barry Huntoon. Interview with Bill
Bradley, why won't he run for President? A week in the
life of a homeless family, the Damm family (see sequel
in May 1995). Two page color photo of Jessica McClure
who was trapped in an 8 inch wide well in Midland, Texas.
Neat two page color photo of a big group of clowns for
a circus clown college reunion. Full page color Jockey
underwear ad featuring the very handsome Bart Conner,
Olympic gymnast. A US veteran takes his camera back
to Vietnam, Geoffrey Clifford. Times Square is being
demolished for office buildings. US skiers take flight
for the Olympics, includes freestyler Kris Feddersen,
Hayley Wolff and others. The presidential candidates
as children. Quitting the Mafia, tales of a Yuppie mobster,
Michael Franzese. Henri Cartier-Bresson, painter and
photojournalist. City on a volcano, Managua Nicaragua.
Full page color photo of the boat named "Lifesabitch"
on fire, Stanley Levin owner.
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Life Magazine January
1988 : Special issue
- The 1987 year in pictures. Reagan and Gorbachev.
Nice four page color Chevrolet ad featuring bride and
groom and white convertible car on two of the pages.
LIFE's readers answer questions pertaining to recent
news items. Striking two page color photo of a casket
being carried, Benjamin Linder, killed in Nicaragua
while helping on a hydroelectric project. Jessie Jackson
milks cow - two page color photo, Greenfield, Iowa.
Photo of a failed voting day in Haiti. Two page photo
of the rescue of Jessica McClure from a well in Midland,
Texas. Wow - great two page color Kodak ad with ski
jumper. Jessica McClure. Robert Bork. Oliver North.
AIDS victims, includes Ian Beck, Ken Meeks, Ryan Thomas,
Howard Bagby, David and Maria Hefner, Jose Afandon,
Thomas Ramos and others. Hunks - Kevin Costner, Harry
Hamlin, Dennis Quaid, Brigitte Nielson (holy cow!),
Jon Bon Jovi, Patrick Swayze, Mark Harmon, Charlie Sheen.
Honeys - Bette Midler, Cher. Soviet Union 70th anniversary.
Short piece - Lynne Cox becomes the first to swim the
Bering Strait. Obituaries - Mary Astor, Andy Warhol,
Jackie Gleason, Clara Peller, John Huston, Michael Bennett,
Willi Smith, Henry Ford, Danny Kaye, Roy Bolger. Good
guys - Beulah Mae Donald (beat the Ku Klux Klan), Gregory
Robertson (saved a fellow sky diver), Cleveland Stroud
and the Rockdale Bulldogs, more. America enters the
Persian Gulf. Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker and the PTL.
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Life Magazine February
1988 : Cover - Speed skater Bonnie Blair, best
bet for a U.S. gold. Here they come, the Olympians.
Ross Perot on fixing America. The Aussies. Michael Douglas
at home. Very nice two page color Mercury ad with burnt
orange Cougar. Cher interview. Tip O'Neill on the democrats
running for president, includes Gary Hart, Jesse Jackson,
Paul Simon and Albert Gore, Jr., others. Australians
- Meryvn Mason, Thomas Keneally, Graeme Murphy, Galarrwuy
Yunupingu, Mandy Martin, Pam Burridge, Sigrid Thornton,
Rupert Murdoch. Painter David Hickeney in LA. Benazir
Bhutto gets an arranged marriage in Pakistan. Ross Perot
on what is wrong with America. Calgary winter Olympics
special - Nick Thometz, Matt Roy, Josh Thompson, Brian
Boitano, Debi Thomas. Wild two page photo of Bonny Warner
in the Luge. Broadway - Andrew Lloyd Weber, Cats, Phantom
of the Opera, Starlight Express. Betty Friedan profile.
Soviet troops in Afghanistan by Artyom Borovik.
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Life Magazine March
1988 : Cover - Gilda Radner. Gilda Radner's answer
to cancer, healing the body with mind and heart. America's
No. 1 drug dealer, Mexico, includes photos of Raphael
Caro Quintero, Jaime Herrera Nevarez, Ernesto Fonseca,
Miguel Felix Gallardo. Full page Smith Corona PWP 6
Personal Word Processor ad for curious electric typewriter
with fold-up screen, looks a bit like a computer. Sarah
Ferguson, the flying Duchess, Fergie, Dutchess of York
profile, includes photo of her getting out of a plane
she just piloted. Two page color Canada travel ad with
gorgeous photo of boating in Newfoundland. Cool photo
of a skydiving dog, Pete Reynolds, Amanda Kenny and
Katie, parachuting. NASA engineer Roger Boisjoly predicts
Challenger space shuttle disaster. Israel - Palestine
bloodshed, written by Raja Shehadeh. Photos of swans
in snow. Roy M Cohn, obituary and profile, AIDS. Lioness
in Winter - Katharine Hepburn. James Harriot and Herriot
Country, veterinarian. Marc Riboud photo retrospective.
Belinda Carlisle from the Go Gos goes solo. India builds
a road across Bhutan, using Indian and Nepalese workers.
Neat photo of large Black Death historic burial ground
discovered in London.
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Life Magazine Spring
1988 : Special issue
- Civil Rights, the dream then and now. Horrible
two page vintage photo of lynching (hanging) of two
black men in Marion, INdiana and lots of white folks
looking on self-righteously. Two page photo of 15 year-old
Elizabeth Eckford walking to school in Little Rock,
Arkansas - her class "mates" were calling
out "Lynch her!" Two page photo of Sarah Jean
Collins who lost a sister and an eye in the Birmingham
Sunday school bombing. Martin Luther King. Malcolm X.
Jesse Jackson political leader. Middle Class - keeping
faith in America. Black women leaders - Rosa Parks,
Septima Poinsette Clark, Eva Jessye, Myrlie Evers, Willie
Mae Ford Smith, Ruby Forsythe, Wilma Rudolph, Barbara
Jordan. Black artists - Sam Gilliam, Leona Mitchell,
James DePreist, Max Bond, Clair Bourne, Max Roach, Virginia
Johnson (the most beautiful ballerina photo ever), Lloyd
Richard. Story about welfare featuring Carol Kennedy
and Anita Elem. Doctor Fred Thomas in Lafayette, Tennessee.
Top athletes and too much success on the playground.
Black on death row - Willie Darden. The Divisible Man
by John Edgar Wideman.
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Life Magazine April
1988 : Cover - Why little Cecelia survived and
154 die on Flight 255. Front office fan - Yale President
A. Bartlett Giamatti. Not a dry eye by Loudon Wainwright.
Striking two page color photo of workers in a flower
field. Small piece on tiny new Toyko "office-compartements"
which are apartments with bed, bathroom, fridge and
desk space all in 27 square feet. Passage to India with
Edmund G. Brown Jr, includes Mother Teresa. Two page
color Grand Gourmet dog food ad with Great Dane dog.
Vincenza Italy and the 325th Infantry Regiment Airborne
Combat Team. The end of America's military era, includes
quickest to action, most dreaded duty, largest exercise,
loneliest outpost (Cape Romanzof in Alaska) and more.
Italy's San Patrignano helps drug addicts start over.
Patricia Wettig and Ken Olin are married and have a
hit show - thirty something. Anatomy of a Plane Crash
Northwest Flight 255 with Jack Drake, George Howe Colt
and Jane Briggs-Bunting. Speed skaters - Dan Jansen,
Bonnie Blair, Christina Rothenburger and skier Michaela
Gerg (the worst fall photo I've ever seen!) and Skaters
Tiny Gordeeva and Grinkov. The House of Fahd - private
glimpse at the Saudi King. A. Bartlett Giamatti, executive
of the National Baseball League. Short piece on baseball
player Jim Abbott. A startling two page color photo
inside the Boniato prison in Cuba. Donald Kern's deadly
hay bale.
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Life Magazine May 1988
: Cover - Gone with the wind sequel.
This is Life magazine's 200th issue - ALL Life covers
shown inside! Beastly Behavior by Loudon Wainwright.
Two page color Honda ad with Gold Wing motorcycle, Dean
and Diane Thompson. Two page Honda ad with XR motorcycles,
Don and Sean Phillipson. Two page color Honda ad with
NX motorcycles, Mark Drake and girlfriend Pamela. Interview
with Geoffrey Beene fashion design. Gone with the wind
II with Scarlett & Rhett. Israel's Ironman - Yitzhak
Shamir and Ben-Tal in Gaza. Strong arm of the law -
Hollywood goes bang, Steven Seagal, Bruce Willis and
Robert de Niro. Into the air, little baldies - endangered
eagles get human help. 2000 life covers. A tribute to
work - pictures of a vanishing way of life- photo gallery
of Soviet factories. Tiffany Darwish - that little girl
on all the radios. Captain Enigma - 10 things about
George Bush that reveal the man. So you want to be an
Angel - Charlie's Angel sequel. Ulster's Pain, terrorism
in Northern Ireland. Sotheby's and John Marion sells
of Warhol's collection. A trial without end for Ray
Buckey. Jimmy Carter recalls his father and some boyhood
pleasures. Two page color photo of dead man and child,
5,000 Kurds killed by mustard gas in Iraq. Follow-up
photo of Jessica McClure, the girl caught in a Texas
well.
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Life Magazine June
1988 : Cover - R.F.K. The family remembers RFK,
Robert Kennedy, his legacy, public and private. Three
page color fold-out ad for Ford Probe car. Neat two
page color photo of the Daedalus, a human powered airplane,
silhouetted against the colors of dawn, peddled by Kanellos
Kanellopoulos. Dissecting Michael Dukakis. Sistine's
new glory, a new look at Michelangelo's creation after
eight years of cleaning. The unknown Stalin. Interview
: the Dalai Lama. Julianne Phillips, Bruce Springsteen's
wife, has two new movies.. Book Excerpt - Portrait of
Power (about Stalin). Picture essay : City of Lost Boys,
ten thousand children without hope in Khartoum, Sudan.
Son of Darth, the movie Willow recycles old images.
Honors in humanity for nine seniors, Julianne Barry,
Andrew Frishkoff, Leah Melnick, Kim-Huong Tran, Barbara
Blumberg-Schleuter, Joe O'Brien, Ineda Player, Scott
Houser, Patricia Carroll. Making a master piece : Steinway
celebrates its 500,000th piano. Latin dance floors.
Closeup : Dudley Moore. Eyewitness in Gaza, a doctor's
hospital diary of Palestinian casualties, Pauline Cutting.
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Life Magazine July
1988 : Cover - Robin Givens and Mike Tyson, the
lady and the champ (boxer) - feature inside. Ex-bxong
champs analyze Tyson's style - Leon Spinks, Muhammad
Ali, George Foreman, Joe Walcott, Larry Holmes, Ingemar
Johansson, Floyd Patterson, Michael Spinks, Joe Frazier,
Max Schmeling, Jack Sharkey. The great American wedding
cake. Astounding night time photo of a fire in a sky
scraper in Los Angeles, First Interstate Bank. When
crack hits the neighborhood, Red Hook housing project
in Brooklyn. Interview with Paul Hogan, Crocodile Dundee.
Full page color Camel cigarettes ad with lots of cartoon
camels at a party, Camel's 75th birthday - 75 years
and still smokin'. Gauguin paints Tahiti - how it has
changed. Two page color photo of left-behind children
of American GI's in Vietnam. Reform in Czechoslovakia.
Andrew Potok and Dash, his seeing eye dog. Juvenile
boot camp prison in Georgia - Al Burruss, includes Tim
Duncan, officer Harry Clark, Darrell Miller, Ozzie Negron,
Rick White. Ian Campbell wins paper airplane contest.
Sylvester Stallone at home. Russia celebrates 1000 years
of Christianity. 19 full color pages of Chrysler ad,
featuring Lee Iacocca and Dodge Caravan, Chrysler LeBaron,
Eagle Premier ES, Jeep Cherokee, Plymouth Sundance,
Dodge Dakota, Chrysler New Yorker, more. Paper airplane
conttest at Georgia Tech, manta ray by Ian Campbell.
Sylvester Stallone at home.
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Magazine August 1988 : Cover - Pee Wee Herman.
Pee-Wee : how to throw the coolest party ever. Elle
Macpherson and bandannas. Short piece on training for
(being in a) hijacking - for State Department VIPs.
The President's Moscow album. Bess Myerson's arrest.
Merv Griffin, Hollywood power broker. Closing nuclear
power plants. Bess Myerson arrested for shoplifting,
crime in department stores. A comment piece by Loudon
Wainwright about Billy Martin, baseball player. Harvesting
sugar cane in Cuba - amazing photos. Maurice Sendak
and the wild things eat vegetables. Gettysburg Remembered.
Tracy Chapman, musician. Anatomy of Autism. Little Big
Horn College in Crow Agency, Montana - Crow Indians,
Janine Windy Boy, Bob Madsen, Dan Old Elk, good article.
Convention of Twins in Twinsburg, Ohio - great photos,
Orman and Norman Smith, Margaret and Margery Maul Wagstaff,
Dean and Donald Rollin, and many others. Frank Zappa
gets out the vote. Lost children of Argentina, from
the wars of 1976 - 1983. Coney Island photo retrospective.
Rather wild photo of George Bush (senior) kissing a
nun at St. Raphael Home in Marble Cliff, Ohio.
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