Time Magazine Contents Page January 4, 1988
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Man of the Year: An Intimate Biography Of the Soviet Leader
The little fellow on the left was four years old $when he sat for this photo with his grandparents $in the Russian village of Privolnoye. Today, at $56, he is General Secretary of the Communist $Party of the U. S. S. R. and one of the world' s $most formidable leaders. He has begun to shake $the Soviet economy from decades of lethargy, $open the machinery of government to greater $public scrutiny and inject a new flexibility into $Soviet behavior abroad. Millions of television $viewers around the world have grown $accustomed to his face -- and welcomed the $December agreement he signed with the U. S. $banning intermediate- range nuclear missiles. $The West still distrusts him, and his own $countrymen do not always agree with his $reforms, but Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev so $dominated the world scene in 1987 that he is $TIME's Man of the Year. But who is he? What $forces have shaped his mind, his methods? How $did he rise from Privolnoye to power? TIME $presents a candid biography of the year' s most $remarkable figure. -- For a Soviet wife, she is $uncommonly outspoken, glamorous and $controversial. Raisa is also her husband' s secret $weapon. -- A White House scandal unfolds, a $contrary war continues, a boom goes bust, and a $plague rages on. It was a year that Ronald $Reagan would just as soon forget. $
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Nation
The Gray Lobby packs political punch. -- A New York City jury seeks balance in a race case. -- Bruce Babbitt can' t afford timid ideas.
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World
Israel continues its crackdown on Arab rioters. -- The contras launch an offensive. -- A titanic ferry disaster in the Philippines.
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Economy & Business
America' s top money manager, Peter Lynch, takes a personal look at the missed signals and painful lessons of Wall Street' s Crash of '87.
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Cinema
Director John Huston goes out in style with a simple, masterly adaptation of James Joyce' s The Dead. -- The year' s finest films.
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Show Business
Tall tales and antic anecdotes from Hollywood' s vintage wits and malaprops enliven a new anthology. -- The year' s most.
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Food
Business jitters, shaky trends and silly gambits plagued restaurants and gourmet shops in 1987, the year of dining dangerously.
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Books
Oscar Wilde' s wit, pain and, yes, heroism shine through Richard Ellmann' s fine biography. -- The top fiction and nonfiction of the year.
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Design
In skyscrapers, movie theaters or bed linens, the finest work of 1987 adapts echoes of the past to idiosyncratic, richly imagined visions.
4 Letters
60 Science
60 Milestones
63 Sport
68 Music
71 Theater
76 Video
78 People
Cover: Russian lacquered box by Nikolai Soloninkin -- Fedoskino