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Word: snooping (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...numbers. You also can't do anything important over e-mail if it can be intercepted or if you have no guarantee of whom you're talking to. The ability to keep our bank accounts safe from intruders is more important to national security than the ability to snoop into accounts held by criminals...

Author: By Stephen E. Sachs, | Title: Big Brother Wants a Decoder Ring | 4/14/1999 | See Source »

...Harry Houdini be anything more than a nameless bum without his box, chains and death-defying stunts? Would we drop Hugh Grant's name nearly as often without his infamous exploits? Would Linda Tripp be a household name if she wasn’t' a self-professed double talking snoop? Would Annie Taylor be an enduring symbol of American ambition if it wasn't for her unprecedented trip over the Niagara Falls in a barrel of her own making? Hardly...

Author: By Erin E. Billings, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Niagara Falling | 3/19/1999 | See Source »

...NAME IS, EMINEM: Six years ago, hip-hop producer Dr. Dre introduced Snoop Doggy Dogg to the big time with the video Who Am I (What's My Name)?; now he's ushering a new rapper, named Eminem (a.k.a. Marshall Mathers), toward possible stardom. Eminem, who is white, has a video titled My Name Is that's all over MTV (and a new CD, Slim Shady, that's out this week). His video channel-surfs and name-drops, lampooning Bill Clinton and Marilyn Manson. He's not looking for trouble, just laughs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video Monitor | 3/1/1999 | See Source »

...edge." Then there was Run-D.M.C. rocking the house, and the Beastie Boys hollering, "You gotta fight for your right--to party!" and Public Enemy saying, "Don't believe the hype," and Hammer's harem-style balloon pants. Then gangsta rap: N.W.A. rapping "F____ tha police"; Snoop drawling "187 on an undercover cop"; and Tupac crying, "Even as a crack fiend, mama/ You always was a black queen, mama." Then Mary J. Blige singing hip-hop soul; Guru and Digable Planets mixing rap with bebop; the Fugees "Killing me softly with his song"; Puffy mourning Biggie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Hip-Hop Nation | 2/8/1999 | See Source »

...Clyde--and then think of the movie Bonnie and Clyde, as well as Scarface and the Godfather saga. In the movie You've Got Mail, Tom Hanks even refers to the Godfather trilogy as the perfect guide to life, the I-Ching for guys. Rappers seem to agree. Snoop Dogg's sophomore album was titled The Doggfather. Silkk the Shocker's new album is called Made Man. On his song Boomerang, Big Pun echoes James Cagney in White Heat, yelling, "Top of the world, Ma! Top of the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Hip-Hop Nation | 2/8/1999 | See Source »

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