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Nov 24, 1986 Vol. 26 No. 21

Shedding Her Old Skin

November 24, 1986

Cover Story

Shedding Her Old Skin

Buttoned Up No More, Fresno's Carol Burnett Is Now a Successful Author and Happily Unmarried Woman

Pg. 120

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Table of Contents

Articles

Putting America in Focus

A Team of 200 Photographers Shoot a Stunning Scrapbook of the U.s. on a Single Day

Pg. 40

A Computer Glitch Turns Miracle Machine into Monster for Three Cancer Patients

Pg. 48

Boy George Flirts with Tragedy and Faces a Lawsuit

Pg. 59

Prison Samaritan Jim Mccloskey Wins Freedom for An Innocent Man

Pg. 63

Helen Shaver Makes a Winning Bank Shot in the Color of Money

Pg. 68

Cookbook Author Ernest Mickler Shows True Grits in Extolling Hee-Haute Cuisine of the South

Pg. 73

When It Comes to Flighty Trends, Nobody Can Toss Off Ideas Like College Kids

Pg. 81

To Deal with Their Special Needs, Painters and Performers Can Turn to a New Specialty: Arts Medicine

Pg. 101

Designer Mary Emmerling Makes Hay Selling Country Furnishings to City Slickers

Pg. 109

Ex-Receptionist Anita Baker's Lp Gets a Rapture-Ous Reception—at Last

Pg. 115

Getting the Jump on Adults at 13, Wes Pyburn Guns for Racing's Top

Pg. 119

Dorothy Flanagan Has Been Wielding the Musical Saw for 57 Years and Now—timbre!!

Pg. 126

New Jersey's Bon Jovi Runs Rings Around the Rock Competition with Its Slippery When Wet Lp

Pg. 129

Jazz Great Dexter Gordon Blows An Elegant New Note as An Actor—and Oscar Hopeful—in Round Midnight

Pg. 133

Pan's Pipes Have a Modern Master in Zamfir, Who's Got the Perfect Pitch for Classical, Folk or Pop

Pg. 140

The Gospel According to Mazrui—pbs Broadcasts One Scholar's Startling View of African History

Pg. 145

Rebecca Eastman's One-on-One Formula for Physical Fitness Keeps Her Fans Flipping

Pg. 148

A Yale Drug Historian Sniffs Something Familiar in Today's Cocaine Craze

Pg. 155

Splitting from Days of Our Lives, Emmy Winner Leann Hunley Finds a Nighttime Job on Dynasty

Pg. 161

Peter Max, That Supreme Surrealist of the '60s, Embraces the '80s with a Raft of New Work

Pg. 165

Football's Beastly Boz Is the Figment of a Fevered Imagination—his Own

Pg. 171

Peter and Marty Hagerty Mix Russian and American Wool in the Name of Fleeceful Coexistence

Pg. 178

Also In This Issue

Publisher's Letter

Pg. 2

Mailbag

Pg. 4

Take One

Pg. 39

Chatter

Pg. 180

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