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Dec 28, 1981 Vol. 16 No. 26

Old Violet Eyes Is Back

December 28, 1981

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Old Violet Eyes Is Back

Elizabeth Taylor Has a Spectacular Time Onstage and Off, Making Her One of PEOPLE's Most Intriguing of the Year

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Table of Contents

Articles

The 25 Most Intriguing People of 1981

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Ronald Reagan

The President and His Lady Speak of Fears, Family and the Future of the Nation

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Lech Walesa

Poland's Prayers for Freedom Rest in a Man of Faith—and Bold Deeds

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Bradford Smith

The Man Who Took Us to the Planets Is Saturnine

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Bryant Gumbel

The New Today Show Host Aims to Be King of the Mountain on Morning TV

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Crown Prince Fahd

If Middle East Peace Is Preserved Praise Allah and the Saudi Heir Apparent

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Rabbit Angstrom

John Updike's Fictional Hero Comes Back Fat, Rich and Ready for the '80s

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Ted Turner

In His One-Man Air War, Cable's Captain Courageous Stares Down the Big Guns of Network TV

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Diana, Princess of Wales

A Kindergarten Teacher Becomes a Princess, They Beguile the World and He Begets An Heir

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Gloria Monty

She's Behind the Biggest Bubble in Showbiz: Soap Operas

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David Stockman

He Is Nearly Done in by His Own Hand, the One That Would Tighten the Nation's Belt

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Lena Horne

A Glamorous Grandmother Wants Audiences to Wonder: 'How Does the Old Broad Do It?'

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John Mcenroe

He's Number One in Tennis, but Superbrat's Score with the Public Is Still Love-Hate

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Edgar Bronfman

A Liquor Baron Enlivens a Year of Corporate Merger Mania

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Barbara Mandrell

Without Hemming or Hee-Hawing, a New Country Queen Takes on TV and Wins

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Thomas Sowell

A Maverick Social Thinker Attracts Attention—and Decides He Doesn't Like It

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

After Two Centuries, Austria's Child Prodigy Has Become the World's Favorite Composer

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Tom Selleck

More Modest Than Macho, He's the Hot-as-a-Pistol Heartthrob of Magnum P.I.

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Mick Jagger

Mr. Rolling Stone Finds Sweet Satisfaction with Rock's Richest Tour Ever

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Richard Viguerie

A Direct-Mail Genius Is Funding the Sound Effects for That Thunder on the Right

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Nicholas Nickleby

At $100 a Seat It Could Have Been a Bleak House on Broadway but Dickens Proved a Smash

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Sandra Day O'Connor

Up at 4 A.M. to Read Briefs, She Learns That a Woman Justice's Work Is Never Done

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Harrison Ford

He's the New Breed of Action Star: Little Ego, Medium Fame, Big Bucks

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Fernando Valenzuela

Baseball Almost Struck Out but a Mexican Rookie Conjures Up a Magical Season

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Elizabeth McGovern

A Talented Beauty Soars from High School to Stardom as a Dippy Sex Kitten in Ragtime

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How 1981 Treated Some Personalities Since We Saw Them Last

For Gary Collins and Vernon Jordan: New Jobs. For Muriel Humphrey: a New Husband. For Antler, North Dakota: New Hope

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In the Year of the Medfly, Even Celebs Weren't Immune to the Sting of Bad Luck

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A Pope and Two Presidents Fall Victim to Those Who Would Write History with a Gun

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Driven to the (Great) Wall, TV Bets Millions on Wouk's Winds, Peck and a Parton Sis

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Kosinski Tilts at Pop, Caro Unmasks L.B.J. and No Complaints from Portnoy's Lover

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Whatever the Weather, It's Leather, and An Ex-Leatherneck Leads the Way

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For a Touch of Classic, a Piano Purist and a Child of Opera

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Annie Arrives, Dolly Dazzles, Mork Becomes Garp and Superman and Meryl Play Deadly Games

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Ronstadt Revisited, Another Miles, a High-Tech Fiddler and Spunky Calamity Jane

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Gerry Cooney Tunes Up, a Stubborn Coach Won't Give Up, and Two Teenagers Measure Up

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From Floppy Discs to Space Invaders, a Nation Copes with the Mystique of a New Machine

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Richard Nixon Is Stirring, and Politicians Wonder What's Up Besides His Once Low Profile

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If You Have to Ask How Much It Costs to Succeed in Reagan's Social World, You Can't Afford It

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The One Great Scorer Should Know That These Celebs Really Played, or Cheered, the Game

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