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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1990
Page
3
The columnist riffs on back pain using country song imagery and jokes about hospital days and medical misinterpretations. Bombeck contrasts blunt metaphors with honest, humorous lines about pain and relief, noting her column appears in the Ai ken Standard on select days.
Bishop Barbara C. Harris quietly becomes suffragan bishop in Massachusetts a year after election. She is the first female bishop in the Anglican world and will lead a new evangelism commission while working with Bishops Johnson and Birney. She aims to be the best bishop she can be and to shape the diocese during the 1990s evangelism decade.
Los Angeles reports Milli Vanilli and Randy Travis led the 17th annual American Music Awards as Cash Box peers named top nominees from year end charts. Winners included Miss Jackson for Miss You Much, New Kids On The Block Hangin Tough, Guns N Roses Appetite for Destruction, and M C Hammer for top rap album.
Nominees were chosen from year-end sales records with ballots sent to 20,000 Americans to vote on favorites in each category. Artists include Milli Vanilli, Anita Baker, The O Jays, Janet Jackson, Bobby Brown, Clint Black, Guns N Roses, M C Hammer, Paula Abdul, Tone Loc and Young MC.
Rock musician Frank Zappa, noted for sharp critiques of American consumerism, visits Prague where he meets Vaclav Havel, the former playwright and new resident. The exchange highlights Zappa’s acid take on Eastern Europe’s dramatic changes.
New York Mayor David Dinkins may appear as a big city mayor in a cameo. He said two new series, NBC Law and Order and ABC H.E.L.P., would be shot in the city with Moriarty and John Mahoney, while he agreed to a cameo in one episode.
Evangelist Timmy Swaggart addressed over 1,000 worshippers in VARIETTA at Gospel Harvester Church urging not to judge AIDS patients. He called all souls spiritually AIDS and referenced a mid February invitation amid his 1988 confession era. His Baton Rouge ministry at the time reached over 2 million households.
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