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- PEOPLE, Page 88FACES OF THE DECADE
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- Bruce Springsteen. Let others put on the glitz. Bruce
- Springsteen just rolls up his sleeves and keeps making the
- music he knows best and stadium audiences want most:
- angst-driven rock that was born in the U.S.A. Refreshingly, he
- has stayed as he started: strictly blue collar, strictly New
- Jersey and always the Boss.
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- Cher. Sure, there isn't much to her costumes, many of which
- would fit into a good-size envelope. But there's more to the
- former Cherilyn Sarkisian than a wisp of black chiffon and a
- handful of glittering rhinestones. She has that magic quality:
- the knack of reinventing herself. First she was famous, and
- then, in the '80s, she became good.
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- Mother Teresa. She is the celebrity of the poor, the
- antithesis of the decade's dominant values. Who else would
- bypass the merely needy to seek out the "poorest of the poor"?
- Traveling widely for the order of charity she started, she moved
- world leaders and plain people everywhere. A Nobel laureate, she
- delights in replying by hand to her admirers, whether an
- American schoolchild or Queen Elizabeth.
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- Nancy Reagan. No need to ask who ran the Reagan White
- House. The First Lady was a tidy little homemaker who tried to
- dust off Administration members who displeased her, shined up
- to an astrologer about her husband's schedule and "borrowed"
- designer dresses to make a good impression.
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- Madonna. Remembrance of things past can be a smart career
- move for a pop icon. Madonna looked backward to establish her
- financial future. Delving into nightmares and childhood
- fantasies, she shrewdly fashioned them into slick, top-selling
- music videos that stopped just on the near side of shock. Such
- a material girl.
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- Eddie Murphy. Remember that skinny kid who was the class
- clown? Well, he's still pretty fresh-mouthed, even for
- Hollywood. After Beverly Hills Cop made him a superstar, he
- played director, producer, writer. Never mind that Harlem Nights
- has received faint praise; fans are lining up. Eddie's the one
- with the last laugh.
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- Princess of Wales. In this '80s fairy tale, shy Di weds her
- Prince and gets to wear a great number of stylish hats. The
- Princess of Wales, who once said her brain was "the size of a
- pea," then brings some badly needed glamour to Britain's fusty
- royals -- and the world's photographers live happily ever after.
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- Sly Stallone. As military overachiever of the 1980s, Rambo
- was outshone only by Oliver North. For the '90s, let the
- pumped-up ponder this: lately Sly has been spotted wearing a
- business suit and peering through wire-rim spectacles. Call it
- Rambo takes out Wall Street.
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- Michael Jackson. Now you see him, now you don't. One minute
- he's moonwalking to center stage; the next he's a recluse,
- hiding from the public. His is the decade's best-known face --
- or faces, depending on the year -- and if 15 minutes of fame is
- all anybody gets, he's already used up more time than the entire
- population of Wichita.
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- Meryl Streep. Pardon her while she slips into something
- more comfortable -- like a new accent. The woman of many voices
- dominated the screen, making eleven films in the '80s and
- earning six Oscar nominations. She shouldn't get one for the
- hapless She-Devil, but she looked pretty in pink and talked like
- a real lady.
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