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Friday, February 3, 1989
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The Headlines
Review/Photography; At Met Museum, Ambitious Images From a Pioneer
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
When I'm with You
Sheriff
#1 at the box office
Three Fugitives
The must-have
Game Boy
On This Day
After a stroke two weeks previously, South African President P. W. Botha resigns as leader of the National Party, but stays on as president for six more months.
Wikipedia →A military coup overthrows Alfredo Stroessner, dictator of Paraguay since 1954.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Felix Mendelssohn (1809)
- Alvar Aalto (1898)
- Simone Weil (1909)
- Gertrude Stein (1874)
- Joachim Löw (1960)
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
World Wide Web (Proposal), Game Boy & GPS (Civilian).
Cost of Living (1985)
Loaf of Bread
$0.55
Gallon of Gas
$1.12
Average Home
$84,300
New Car
$12,650
Time Elapsed
13,636 days ago
(37 years, 131 days)