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Wednesday, May 23, 1984
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The Headlines
PANEL SAID TO FIND CASEY GOT CARTER PAPERS
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Let's Hear It for the Boy
Deniece Williams
#1 at the box office
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
$33,936,113
The must-have
Transformers
You Share a Birthday With
- Carl Linnaeus (1707)
- Pär Lagerkvist (1891)
- John Bardeen (1908)
- Anatoly Karpov (1951)
- Alan García (1949)
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
Apple Macintosh, CD-ROM & Flash Memory.
Style of 1984
Silhouette: Athletic and layered
Material: Spandex and sweat
- Leg warmers
- Headbands
- Oversized sweatshirts
Cost of Living (1980)
Loaf of Bread
$0.50
Gallon of Gas
$1.19
Average Home
$47,200
New Car
$7,200
Time Elapsed
15,353 days ago
(42 years, 23 days)