Word: snuffs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first time, more than a decade after the book's publication in 1852. It was not simply a patronizing remark. Harriet Beecher Stowe really was small: "I am a little bit of a woman," she described herself, "about as thin and dry as a pinch of snuff." If Uncle Tom's Cabin did not quite start a war, it ignited the minds of people North and South, both for and against abolition. Tens of thousands of Americans who had not even read the book already knew Simon Legree as the classic slave driver and Uncle...
...young Gilbert Stuart, that precocious son of a Rhode Island snuff grinder, who created a stir in Newport even in his teens, has also departed for London. He is only 20 and his future cannot be predicted, but his talent is evident in his youthful portrait of Mrs. John Bannister and her son. Another unpredictable talent is that of John Trumbull, a year younger than Stuart and born to wealth (as Stuart was not). Trumbull's father. Governor of Connecticut, recognized his son's precocity and enrolled him as a third-year student at Harvard at 15, then...
...work last week, Chancellor Schmidt received TIME Managing Editor Henry Grunwald and Bonn Bureau Chief Bruce Nelan for an evening interview at his Bonn office in the old but elegant Palais Schaumburg on the Rhine. He alternately sniffed snuff and puffed menthol cigarettes as he talked about the political and economic prospects of Western Europe. Excerpts...
More than ever, Walker still refuses to take himself seriously for very long, and his off-beat humor runs through most of the songs. Some of them don't make much sense, at least when you're sober, like "Public Domain": "Yeah, I ran with the snuff queens in Dallas/Like I ran from Snow White in L.A./Now I've broken all my vows to Demolay." Others, like "Pot Can't Call the Kettle Black" and Willie Nelson's "Pick Up the Tempo," rely less on punch lines than on a gentle self-mocking tone. But Walker gives an authentic...
...Author Susan Brownmiller, who considers Snuff and all pornography strongly antifemale: "If the porno houses were devoted to the lynching of blacks or the gassing of Jews, you would not find so many civil libertarians rushing to their defense." To Writer Nat Hentoff, whose Village Voice column keeps a full-time watch on First Amendment violations, Snuff should not be censored, even if a real woman had been murdered in the making of the film. Says he: "I don't believe anything should ever be shut down...