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COVER: Tom Cruise, the movies' all-American boy, wins acting medals as a disabled, disillusioned Viet Nam vet
He danced like a dynamo in Risky Business, swaggered through the sky in Top Gun and held his own against Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man. Cruise is Hollywood's biggest attraction, and he is about to be acclaimed one of its best actors. In Born on the Fourth of July, he displays rage and range as Viet Nam veteran Ron Kovic. For the engaging, intense young star, life has never been sweeter.
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IMAGES: A revolutionary year produces visions of freedom, defeat and resolve
Though distant and grainy, this photograph of a Chinese man standing down a tyrannical regime is the most extraordinary image of the year. It is flesh against steel, mortality against the onrush of terror, the very stuff of courage. TIME presents 20 pages of other amazing pictures from a most astounding year.
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WORLD: Sakharov is gone, but Gorbachev still faces opposition
As Moscow mourns the death of a leading dissident, the President confronts attacks from both reformers and reactionaries. -- How Nelson Mandela spends his days.
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NATION: So many letters, so little time
Trying to deliver 160 billion pieces of mail may be driving the carrier crazy. Bush's fence-mending mission to China unleashes a storm of criticism. -- AIDS protesters target the Roman Catholic Church.
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BUSINESS: Saatchi & Saatchi struggles to get back on track
After its first annual loss in 19 years, the world's biggest advertising firm hopes for help from new chief executive Robert Louis-Dreyfus. -- The Food and Drug Administration is ailing.
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PROFILE: Literary cowboy Tom McGuane
Still in the saddle after Hollywood, hard drinking and two failed marriages, the rambunctious novelist has just produced what critics call his best book to date.
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SCIENCE: At the top and bottom of the world
Six adventurers reach the South Pole by dogsled, but that is just the halfway mark in a journey across Antarctica. Admiral Peary's claim to have made it to the North Pole gets fresh support.
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IDEAS: Shades of 1848. Is history repeating itself?
Recent events in Eastern Europe recall the failed revolutions of the past century. But there are important differences -- and good reasons to hope for a happier outcome this time.
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ART: A trek through the alien goo of mass media
A show at the Whitney Museum tries to argue that TV and other media images stimulate original art forms, but ends up demonstrating such sources are a dead end.
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Cover: Photograph by Eric Bouvet -- Gamma Liaison