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...trademark cigars. But the results of the health campaign have been mixed. Officials claim that tobacco consumption dropped 23% in the campaign's first year, but not all Cubans have become converts to clean living. On the compulsory Saturday workday, a foursome of male goldbrickers sharing a bottle of bootleg rum on a Havana side street snorted at the thought of regular workouts. Referring to a well-publicized campaign aimed at older men, one scoffed, "Exercise is for grandfathers...
...denounced it as dangerous propaganda, liberal groups have complained that it will fuel anti-Soviet sentiment, and the United Nations is upset that the movie portrays its troops as ruthless marauders. Critics have raced into print with condemnations of the still unfinished movie, many of them based only on bootleg scripts or a 90-minute presentation tape. Last week the protesters scored a major victory: Chrysler Corp., the show's largest advertiser, announced that it was withdrawing all its commercial spots from the program...
...backlash drove coke and opium underground. Cocaine was the narcotic of choice among some jazz-band musicians and avant-garde actors and artists, but "decent" Americans steered clear. It was Prohibition, after all, and most Americans in the years after World War I were too busy finding bootleg gin to think about more exotic intoxicants. Marijuana began arriving in large quantities in the 1920s and '30s, smoked by Mexican immigrants who came North looking for jobs. Pot, too, was regarded with horror. One 1936 propaganda film called Reefer Madness warned the nation's youth that smoking the "killer weed...
...musician pal of Simon's passed him a bootleg cassette of instrumental music with that intriguing name, subtitled Accordion Jive Hits, Volume II. Simon played it all during the summer of 1984, hearing in its unsprung beat echoes of old rhythm and blues, '50s style. The music on the tape turned out to be mbaqanga, or "township jive," from the streets of Soweto. Simon became obsessed. In January 1985, he took off for South Africa and began to record with Soweto's Boyoyo Boys, Tao Ea Matsekha (a group from Lesotho), and General M.D. Shirinda and the Gaza Sisters...
...album supposedly draws its name from the title of a Sex Pistols bootleg; however, there is little evidence of punk influence on this record. Vocals are strongly imitative of circa-1977 David Bowie, though occasionally a glint of Billy Idol's solo work also comes through. In general, the sound suffers from blatant overuse of drum machines and synthesizers...