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...married his first cousin and his brother Paul married another cousin. There were a number of stories that neither Carlo nor Paul had ever killed anyone-which is ample reason for them to be held in contempt-and both were suspected of sitting out the Castellammarese war, tending their bootleg stills instead of shooting their enemies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blood in the Streets: Subculture of Violence | 4/24/1972 | See Source »

...Vassar girl eloped, Playwright George S. Kaufman announced that she had "put the heart before the course." Dorothy Parker confessed that in her own poetry she was always "chasing Rimbauds." Alexander Woollcott knew of "a cat hospital where they charged $4 a weak purr." Heywood Broun, drinking a bootleg liquor, sighed, "Any port in a storm." "The groans that greet such puns," claims Milton Berle (who once joked that he had cut off his nose to spite his race), "are usually en vious. The other person wishes he had said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Punning: The Candidate at Word and Ploy | 2/28/1972 | See Source »

...Dead have done much better versions of many of the songs on the album, as a single listening to the bootleg album of the Dead at the closing show of the Fillmore West will show...

Author: By Roger L. Smith, | Title: The Grateful Dead | 11/18/1971 | See Source »

...films prove little. Two plays are in question, both in the first quarter of Saturday's game. One is on a faked bootleg, when Pollock is tackled away from the main action by cornerback Steve Golden. On the other play, Spencer Dreischarf obviously steps on Pollock, who is on the ground after pitching out to Rick Klupchak...

Author: By Grady M. Bolding, | Title: Making The Grade | 10/28/1971 | See Source »

Dylan's last single wasn't bad, but it wasn't really that good, either. The best Dylan material I've heard in a long while is on a bootleg record, which is sporadically available around the Square. Entitled Looking Back on the Zerocks label, this two-record set features live recordings of an acoustic Berkeley concert in late 1965 or early 1966 and the electric Royal Albert Hall concert from Dylan's last British tour. The recording quality on both is excellent, particularly on the electric sides, on which the Band plays back-up. The combination of Dylan...

Author: By Andy Klein, | Title: Some of the New Stuff | 10/20/1971 | See Source »

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