Thursday, January 27, 1983

From the day

Perspective: The Teenager · Tactile

I’m slouching in this stiff denim jacket, picking at the fraying sleeves while my brother brags about that massive Motorola DynaTAC 8000X his boss just got. He says the new TCP/IP standard is going to change the world, but I’m just trying to figure out how to boot up Microsoft Word on the school’s clunky computer without breaking a sweat. It’s totally dope how the heavy nylon of these new Cabbage Patch Kids feels so different from my old plastic dolls. I just kick back, crank "Down Under" on the radio, and let the scratchy wool of my sweater keep the winter chill away.

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The Headlines

Quotation of the Day

#1 on the Billboard Hot 100

Down Under

Men at Work

#1 at the box office

$7,325,537

The must-have

Cabbage Patch Kids

On This Day

• The pilot shaft of the Seikan Tunnel, the world's longest sub-aqueous tunnel (53.85 km) between the Japanese islands of Honshū and Hokkaidō, breaks through.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756)
• Lewis Carroll (1832)
• Wilhelm II (1859)
• Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (1775)
• Abbas the Great (1571)

Slang

Tech Check

Motorola DynaTAC 8000X, Internet (TCP/IP Standard) & Microsoft Word.

Cost of Living (1980)