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Word: bootlegged (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Michael's moves and even singing some of his songs. Thriller is also South Africa's top seller: "Jackson, you might say, bridges the apartheid gap," muses one record executive. The Soviet press has, of course, denounced Jackson, and his fans cannot buy his records in any stores. But bootleg cassettes are swapped and treasured. Says one Soviet high school senior: "His music is electrifying. His beat is the music of today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why He's a Thriller | 3/19/1984 | See Source »

...city in recent years has been so undogmatic about enforcing the ban that it now has an estimated 3,000 dogs. The atmosphere is scarcely one to make a pup tense. Putting up whippet all, police almost never enforce the law (or collect the $200 fine) for harboring a bootleg mutt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iceland: Dogged Stand | 2/6/1984 | See Source »

After spotting Yale, six points, Harvard took the lead midway through the second quarter after a 15-yard Eric Fee bootleg moved the ball to the Yale one and Jim Lowe took it over from there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scoreboard | 11/19/1983 | See Source »

...separate systems for astronomers, doctors, photographers, gardeners, senior citizens and gays. There are teen-agers everywhere, swapping software and trading tips to the latest high-tech adventure games. Pirate's Cove, Sherwood Forest and Warlock's Castle are hangouts for hackers and phone phreaks who want to bootleg copyrighted programs or get passwords for the computers at banks, schools or government installations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: Plugging into the Networks | 9/19/1983 | See Source »

...example: "There's no point in believing promises any more") hardly seem likely to set off alarm bells in the Kremlin. Still, Time Machine has made no albums and has been banned from playing in Moscow. New regulations have forced discos to cut back on Western rock, and bootleg tapes of Western and local groups sell for $60 and up, even in remote parts of the U.S.S.R...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Pizza and Punk on Gorky Street | 8/9/1982 | See Source »

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