December 20, 1993

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'America's Child'

The Kidnap-Murder of 12-Year-Old Polly Klaas Left An Entire Nation Feeling Helpless and Outraged

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Di Drops Out

Under Pressure from the Palace, the Princess Retreats from Public View, but Charles, Too, Is Feeling Some Heat

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George's Angels

For the Bailey Kids in Capra's Classic, It Has Been a Wonderful Life

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The Star-Power Elite

In Washington and L. A., Celebs Galore Turn Out to Honor Johnny Carson and Other Major Talents and to Raise Money for Cancer Research

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A Fiery Test of Faith

An Amish Community Confronts the Grim Possibility That a Barn-Burning Arsonist Was a Native Son

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Addams in-Law

In Family Values, Joan Cusack Is Married to the Monstrous

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Stars Fall on Arizona

A Stellar Cast Performs a Play Banned at a Tucson High School

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Sultan of Suave

A Star 60 Years, Don Ameche Invented Himself, Not the Phone

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Nailing the Part

Home Improvement's Pert Debbe Dunning Has All the Tools

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Carlito's Moll

A Young Cop on All My Children, Big-Screen Rookie Ingrid Rogers Lands in Al Pacino's Way

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Santa's Helper

Buddy Cox Brings Christmas to Needy Carolina Kids

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Back Outta Hell

Diminished in Girth, Not in Voice, Meat Loaf Returns to the Charts

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Buda Pest

Hammered in Court by Elke Sommer, Zsa Zsa Is One Mad Hungarian

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CNN's Woman at the Front

Where There's a War, There's Christiane Amanpour

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Most Unyulesual

Mike Spalla Records a Christmas Cd That's Literally the Cats' Meow

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Return to the Cay

Theodore Taylor Reprises His Controversial Classic

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Man with a Mission

Vietnam Vet and Indian Activist, Actor Wes Studi Pours the Anger of His People into His Roles

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Out in the Cold

Two Airport Workers Who Saved Lives After a 1992 Plane Crash Are Laid Off by USAir

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Vanishing Act

Sandi Gold's Huge Mural Was a Labor of Love; on Jan. 1 She Will Destroy It

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Difficult Patient

Vinny Pazienza Wouldn't Listen When Doctors Told Him a Broken Neck Had Ended His Fighting Career

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Father of Invention

Icon and Iconoclast, Frank Zappa Made Big Noise with His Music

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Uh-Huh, Girls

The Way They Move—and Lip Synch—Have Made These Three the Toast of the Diet Pepsi Generation

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'America's Child'

The Kidnap-Murder of 12-Year-Old Polly Klaas Left An Entire Nation Feeling Helpless and Outraged

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