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Wednesday, July 23, 1980

From the day

Perspective: The Anxious Local · Sight

The store window is a blur of neon pink and those sharp, inverted silhouettes, but it’s the headline about those cashmere sweaters being snagged on politics that really makes my stomach knot. I’m staring at a $0.50 loaf of bread, wondering if even that’s going to be out of reach by next week with the way things are heading. Everything feels so fast and heavy under these flickering lights, even if that new Billy Joel song keeps trying to convince me otherwise. I saw a girl walk by with a perm so tight and a leather jacket so bad it almost distracted me from the rising costs, but the fear of what’s coming next is always lurking behind the sequins.

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#1 on the Billboard Hot 100

It's Still Rock and Roll to Me

Billy Joel

The must-have

Rubik's Cube

On This Day

  • Phạm Tuân becomes the first Vietnamese citizen and the first Asian in space when he flies aboard the Soyuz 37 mission as an Intercosmos Research Cosmonaut.

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Slang

Slang of the decade

General

awesomebodaciouscheesychill

Valley Girl

as ifbarf me outgag me with a spoongrodytotally

Hip Hop

baddefdopeflyfreshword

Yuppie

greed is goodpower lunchnetworking

Catchphrases of 1980

  • Here's Johnny!
  • Who shot J.R.?

Tech Check

Fax Machine Boom, Pac-Man & Flash Memory.

Style of 1980

Silhouette: Oversized inverted triangle

Material: Lycra and sequins

  • Shoulder pads
  • Perms
  • Neon accessories

Cost of Living (1980)

Loaf of Bread

$0.50

Gallon of Gas

$1.19

Average Home

$47,200

New Car

$7,200

Time Elapsed

16,753 days ago

(45 years, 328 days)