ON THE COVER 42
Cyndi Lauper, on screen, vinyl and video, has the nation gaga over goonies, but her lonely childhood shows the way wasn't always easy
UP FRONT 28
Toxic Times Beach isn't a place you'd want to visit, but George and Lorene Klein still choose to live there—alone
The Royal Family puts on a solid front for Queen Elizabeth's 59th birthday
Hawaiian-born sumo wrestler Yasokichi Konishiki hits it big in his U.S. debut
IN THE MONEY 41
New York City construction worker George Morrison explains how he earns a whopping $400,000-plus a year
IN HIS OWN WORDS 55
National security expert Gary Sick weighs the case for retaliation in the Flight 847 hostage crisis
SCREEN 59
Cagney & Lacey's Martin Kove, now showing his stuff in Rambo, is a real-life action man
COUPLES 63
Tennis brat John McEnroe courts his own little darling, Tatum O'Neal
SONG 70
Everybody Wants to Rule the World, sings Tears for Fears—except them
TRENDS 72
Robots and a tan-through umbrella head the list of with-it beach gear for the summer of '85
CONTROVERSY 74
Parishioners who claim that she took their worldly possessions sue California cult leader Elizabeth Prophet
INVENTORS 78
California sun worshippers Greg Johanson and Joel Davidson build the world's swiftest solar-only car
ARTS 83
Twelve years after a sex-change operation, composer Wendy Carlos comes out of the closet with a new album
TROUBLE 89
The memoirs of one mouse in a cold, wet place
STAGE 91
Big River brings Roger Miller to Broadway and a Tony victory
STYLE 95
Swimsuit queen Paulina Porizkova shutters at modeling success
MAIL 4
PICKS & PANS 7
TAKE ONE 27
STAR TRACKS 50
CHATTER 98
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