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LEAD: WHEN Helen Augelli retired as the principal's secretary at Newtown, Conn., High School in 1986, she and her husband, Joseph, moved to Kitty Hawk on the North Carolina Outer Banks. They had summered there for years, bought a building lot a few years ago, and when the time came, moved into their beach house to stay.
LEAD: The site, at Avenue I and East 16th Street in the Midwood section of Brooklyn, is not promising. On one side, the Q and D trains of the IND subway line go rattling by. A hundred feet away, the Long Island Rail Road runs four freight trains a night.
LEAD: I recall a trip uptown to the Hispanic Society prompted by Manet's ''Dead Christ and the Angels'' in the Met. I was a college student who could not believe that an old-fashioned painting could be at the same time so loose and so beautiful. But it was. Passages of Christ's body were painted with angular, creamy brushstrokes that appeared to be lifting off the canvas.
LEAD: If Hollywood were casting it, Jeffrey Sachs might be the Indiana Jones of economics.
LEAD: LESS than a month after engineering the stunning defeat of two Suffolk County officials they regarded as their greatest enemies, an Island-wide coalition of Long Island developers, businessmen and labor leaders has quietly disbanded.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 27, 1989, covering October 1, 1989.
Milli Vanilli
New Kids on the Block
Paula Abdul
The Rolling Stones
Richard Marx
1989Brie Larson, American actress[†]
Brianne Sidonie Desaulniers, known professionally as Brie Larson, is an American actress. She played supporting roles in comedies as a teenager, and has since expanded to leading roles in independent films and blockbusters. Her accolades include an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award. Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2019.
1989Denmark introduces the world's first legal same-sex registered partnerships.[†]
Same-sex marriage has been legal in Denmark since 15 June 2012. A bill for the legalization of same-sex marriages was introduced by the Thorning-Schmidt I Cabinet, and approved 85–24 by the Folketing on 7 June 2012. It received royal assent by Queen Margrethe II on 12 June and took effect three days later. Polling indicates that a significant majority of Danes support the legal recognition of same-sex marriage. Denmark was the fourth Nordic country, after Norway, Sweden and Iceland, the eighth in Europe and the eleventh in the world to legalize same-sex marriage. It was the first country in the world to enact registered partnerships, which provided same-sex couples with almost all of the rights and benefits of marriage, in 1989.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]