Word: bootlegs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Simple Minds classic "Don't You (Forget About Me)," for example, preserves the source's arrangement down to the deep voices and the "hey hey hey hey" that opens the song, but loses its longing tone. If you ignored the liner notes, you might think you were hearing a bootleg recording of '80s cover bands: few of the bands display any trace of '90s influence, and none dares to be snarky or ironic. Yet in playing it straight, they can't seem to match, let alone outdo, the original levels of emotion...
During a stopover in Paris, Annan refused to fax the final seven-paragraph agreement to Washington, saying he wanted to present it formally to the whole Security Council. U.S. intelligence, however, came up with a bootleg copy of the agreement and delivered it to the White House early Monday. "As soon as we looked at it," says an official, "we knew where the problems were." It was not a vague compromise, as the U.S. had feared, nor had Saddam caved in completely...
...watch whatever you want to watch when you want to watch it? If you're a fan of South Park, the foul-mouthed, flannel-board-style cartoon on Comedy Central, that day is here. Scores of Websites, from Mr. Hat's Hellhole to www.YouKilledKenny.com are giving away bootleg copies of the cable-TV show. I smelled an intellectual-property-rights disaster in the making--how long can this go on?--so I called Joe Hager, the 19-year-old sophomore at Drexel University who was the first to put the cartoon...
...LITTLE KICKS Aired 10/10/96. Typical of this season, a golden moment (Elaine's horrid dancing) is mixed with a thin idea (Jerry as a bootleg video auteur). And before long, the awful Mandelbaums would appear...
...doesn't like to talk about that night. Who would? But he remembers. Here is a man, after all, who casually mentions that the play he called from the press box to beat Xavier in the second game of the '71 season was a "2-13 bootleg screen" from quarterback Reggie Oliver, clear across the field to Terry Gardner...