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LEAD: The Nets were looking for a little respect tonight, and they got it at the Knicks' expense. After losing their season opener in overtime Friday to the Boston Celtics, the Knicks figured they would vent their anger against New Jersey.
LEAD: John Kean said his work has always gotten a lot of attention. Not from the press, but from Sunday drivers who roll down their car windows to gawk at the $3 million homes he builds around Cold Spring Harbor on Long Island's North Shore. His newest, and largest, project in Huntington - the $12 million Bradford
LEAD: Journals, conferences, galleries and coffeehouses are spilling over with talk about post-modernism. What is this thing, where does it come from, and what is at stake? If it is nothing more than chat to keep the cocktail parties humming, why the volume, why the heat? True, in literature as in art, fashion, architecture, etc., style always attracts interest.
LEAD: The Santander opened as a hotel in 1929 when Asbury Park, N.J., was in its glory. With a name from a Spanish town and an uninhibited Moorish design, the nine-story stucco tower between Deal Lake and the ocean quickly became, according to local lore, the most elegant spot for rich gentlemen to keep their summer mistresses.
LEAD: LONG ISLAND voters will cast ballots Tuesday on a statewide $3 billion transportation bond act that would provide $690 million for local road projects, including a fourth lane along portions of the Long Island Expressway.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 2, 1988, covering November 6, 1988.
Bon Jovi
Guns N' Roses
Soundtrack
Def Leppard
U2
1988John Holland, Puerto Rican-American basketball player[â ]
John Michael Joseph Holland is an American-Puerto Rican professional basketball player for Santeros de Aguada of the Baloncesto Superior Nacional (BSN). A small forward, he played college basketball for the Boston Terriers and represents the Puerto Rican national team.
1988Erik Lund, Swedish footballer[â ]
Erik Lund is a Swedish football manager and former player, who is the current manager of Ljungskile SK. He played as right back and spent most of his career at Ljungskile SK and IFK Göteborg. Lund also spent three years at the Aston Villa Academy and played twice for the Sweden national team in 2010.
1988James Paxton, Canadian baseball player[â ]
James Alston Paxton, nicknamed "Big Maple", is a Canadian former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Seattle Mariners, New York Yankees, Boston Red Sox, and Los Angeles Dodgers.
1988Emma Stone, American actress[â ]
Emily Jean "Emma" Stone is an American actress and film producer. Her accolades include two Academy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, and two Golden Globe Awards. In 2017, she was the world's highest-paid actress and named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world.
1988Conchita Wurst, Austrian singer[â ]
Thomas Neuwirth is an Austrian singer, fashion designer, human rights activist and drag queen who is known for his stage persona Conchita Wurst. He came to international attention after winning the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 as Austria's entrant with the song "Rise Like a Phoenix". Neuwirth has stated that he is not a trans woman. He is gay, and has also described himself as a drag queen.
1988LancangâGengma earthquakes: At least 730 are killed after two powerful earthquakes rock the ChinaâMyanmar border in Yunnan Province.[â ]
On 6 November 1988, two earthquakes struck Lancang and Gengma counties, Yunnan, near the ChinaâMyanmar border. These earthquakes measured moment magnitude (MwâŻ) 7.0 and 6.9, respectively, spaced 12 minutes apart. These earthquakes were assigned a maximum China seismic intensity of IX and X, respectively. Between 748 and 939 people were killed; more than 7,700 were injured. Both earthquakes caused damage and economic losses estimated at CN„ 2.05 billion. Moderately large aftershocks continued to rock the region, causing additional casualties and damage.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[â ]