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Friday, September 19, 1980
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The Headlines
$100 MILLION OFFERED FOR PARK AVE. CHURCH; Unidentified Concern Seeks to Buy St. Bartholomew's Property Church Is a City Landmark St. Bartholomew's Gets an Offer Of $100 Million for Park Ave. Site Bishop Moore Is Informed 2,000 in Congregation Proposition is Still Open $2,000 a Square Foot Offered
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Upside Down
Diana Ross
#1 at the box office
The Exterminator
$858,000
The must-have
Rubik's Cube
You Share a Birthday With
- William Golding (1911)
- Jeremy Irons (1948)
- Maroon 5 (1977)
- Henry III of France (1551)
- Masatoshi Koshiba (1926)
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
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
16,695 days ago
(45 years, 270 days)