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COVER: Flinty dreamer, soulful sportsman, actor Kevin Costner is the man of the movie moment
Men like him; women love him. As the visionary farmer in Field of Dreams, the man strikes sparks with a movie audience keen to believe that a son could have a game of catch with his dead dad. In The Untouchables, No Way Out and Bull Durham, he defined new horizons for the '80s screen hero. Now he is on top of the movie heap, and he knows exactly why. See SHOW BUSINESS.
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NATION: A whiff of fresh air
Breaking with Ronald Reagan's inaction, President Bush proposes an attack on acid rain, smog and toxic chemicals. -- A spreading scandal in federal housing programs shows how the greedy, instead of the needy, profited under former HUD secretary "Silent Sam" Pierce.
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WORLD: China claims the Tiananmen massacre never really happened
With Orwellian thoroughness, the hard-liners revise history to justify a harsh roundup of "counterrevolutionary hooligans" and make heroes of the army. -- Gorbachev receives a tumultuous welcome in West Germany.
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BUSINESS: Time Inc. launches a counterstrike
The company rejects Paramount's hostile takeover bid and refashions its agreement to acquire Warner in a deal that could ultimately cost $14 billion and create a heavy load of debt.
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PROFILE: An imperial mayor clings to his throne
Washington's Marion Barry is besieged by questions about both his personal conduct and the way he runs the city.
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LAW: Chipping away at the civil rights edifice
Led by Reagan appointees, the court hands down two decisions that confirm its rightward shift. In his first full term, Justice Anthony Kennedy is tipping the scales.
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VIDEO: America's favorite talk-show host revealed
An unauthorized biography uncovers some unpleasant facts about the marriages, affairs and professional relationships of Johnny Carson.
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MEDICINE: Finding out which treatments work
Medical groups are gathering data on how patients respond to various procedures. The aim: to ensure that people with identical symptoms but different doctors receive the same care.
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DESIGN: A master craftsman gives old trees new life
For nearly a half-century, distinguished woodworker George Nakashima has produced powerfully understated furniture for a loyal group of clients.
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BOOKS: A Russian historian updates the evils of Stalin
The 100,000 words added by Roy Medvedev to his Let History Judge, first published in the West in 1971, deepen a portrait of a monster.
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SPORT: Youth is served at the French Open
Tennis is tingling with new possibilities -- his and hers. American Michael Chang and Spaniard Arantxa Sanchez turn Paris into a dance for 17-year-olds.
8 Letters
12 American Scene
15 Critics' Choice
51 Education
74 Travel
74 Milestones
86 Music
88 Art
89 Cinema
91 People
92 Essay
Cover: Photograph by Gregory Heisler