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August 25, 1990

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About New York; It's Not Exactly Dial-a-Quote, But It's Close

By James Barron

LEAD: This is about people who take down everything that Phil and Oprah and Geraldo say. And Sam and Diane (the Sam and Diane on ''PrimeTime Live,'' not the Sam and Diane on ''Cheers''). Every ''uh-huh,'' every ''well, now.'' So we will take extra-careful notes here. Wouldn't want to misquote the quoters.

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5 South Carolina Lawmakers Indicted in Corruption Inquiry

By Ronald Smothers, Special To the New York Times

LEAD: A Federal grand jury here indicted five state legislators today on charges of selling their votes to undercover Government operatives who were seeking their support for a bill authorizing parimutuel horse and dog racing in South Carolina.

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Chief of Correction Faults Rikers's Way Of Hiring Officers

By Dean Baquet

LEAD: New York City Correction Commissioner Allyn R. Sielaff yesterday painted a bleak portrait of Rikers Island as a violent institution protected by correction officers who slipped through lax hiring standards and where prisoners are rarely punished for assaulting officers and one another.

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 22, 1990, covering August 25, 1990.

  1. 1
    Album cover for Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em by M.C. Hammer

    Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em

    M.C. Hammer

    Last week
    1
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    25
  2. 2
    Album cover for Wilson Phillips by Wilson Phillips

    Wilson Phillips

    Wilson Phillips

    Last week
    3
    Peak
    2
    Weeks
    20
  3. 3
    Album cover for Flesh And Blood by Poison

    Flesh And Blood

    Poison

    Last week
    2
    Peak
    2
    Weeks
    5
  4. 4
    Album cover for Mariah Carey by Mariah Carey

    Mariah Carey

    Mariah Carey

    Last week
    4
    Peak
    4
    Weeks
    9
  5. 5
    Album cover for Compositions by Anita Baker

    Compositions

    Anita Baker

    Last week
    6
    Peak
    5
    Weeks
    6

Notable Births

Max Muncy

1990Max Muncy, American baseball player[†]

Maxwell Steven Muncy is an American professional baseball infielder for the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball (MLB). He played college baseball for the Baylor Bears. He was selected by the Oakland Athletics in the fifth round of the 2012 Major League Baseball draft. He played in MLB for the Athletics in 2015 and 2016 and later joined the Dodgers in 2018, winning the World Series with the team in 2020 and 2024.

Notable Deaths

1990Morley Callaghan, Canadian author and playwright (born 1903)[†]

Edward Morley Callaghan was a Canadian novelist, short story writer, playwright, and TV and radio personality.

Historical Context for August 25, 1990

In 1990, the world population was approximately 5,327,803,110 people[†]