Sunday, April 9, 1989

From the day

Perspective: The Anxious Local · Sound

The radio is blaring that relentless "She Drives Me Crazy" beat again, competing with the frantic static of my neighbor’s new cordless phone. Everything feels too fast, especially with those rumors of a civilian GPS or whatever tech they’re pushing at the Waterbury Mall. I just need to chill, but staring at the receipt for this single loaf of bread makes my heart race—**$0.55** for flour and water is highway robbery, plain and simple. If prices and these lease-buy schemes keep climbing, I’m going to have to trade in my car for a pair of sneakers.

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The Headlines

POSTINGS: Waterbury Mall; Lease-Buy Option

#1 on the Billboard Hot 100

She Drives Me Crazy

Fine Young Cannibals

#1 at the box office

The must-have

Game Boy

On This Day

• Tbilisi massacre: An anti-Soviet peaceful demonstration and hunger strike in Tbilisi, demanding restoration of Georgian independence, is dispersed by the Soviet Army, resulting in 20 deaths and hundreds of injuries.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Charles Baudelaire (1821)
• Jean-Paul Belmondo (1933)
• Leopold II of Belgium (1835)
• Hugh Hefner (1926)
• Elias Lönnrot (1802)

Slang

Tech Check

World Wide Web (Proposal), Game Boy & GPS (Civilian).

Cost of Living (1985)