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Monday, August 24, 1981

From the day

Perspective: The Street Photographer · Sound

The humid August heat clings to the polyester shirts of businessmen rushing past my lens, their heels clicking like metronomes against the pavement. I’m trying to focus the Leica on a kid clutching a new He-Man figure, but a newsstand headline about a **NEW ROLE IN INVESTING FOR QUEBEC** keeps catching the sun and flaring my frame. "Endless Love" blares from a passing transistor radio, nearly drowning out a broker shouting at a cabbie to "take a chill pill" after a near-miss. Between the roar of the city and the smell of cheap exhaust, the world feels loud, expensive, and perpetually in a hurry.

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#1 on the Billboard Hot 100

Endless Love

Diana Ross and Lionel Richie

#1 at the box office

Raiders of the Lost Ark

$3,909,879

The must-have

He-Man and the Masters of the Universe

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 1981

  • Take a chill pill

Tech Check

IBM PC, MS-DOS & Space Shuttle.

Cost of Living (1980)

Loaf of Bread

$0.50

Gallon of Gas

$1.19

Average Home

$47,200

New Car

$7,200

Time Elapsed

16,356 days ago

(44 years, 296 days)