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Word: snuffs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Deep Throat and other hardcore films, draws the line at S-M films like The Story of O. Says he: "It is where this kind of mental and physical violence is being done in the context of sex that I begin to worry." Many are drawing the line at Snuff, a wretched soft-core movie in which a woman is eviscerated and sawed to pieces by a sadistic gang leader apparently modeled on Charles Manson. (Though the advertising implies the woman was actually murdered, it is a hoax.) "If anything should be censored," says Psychologist Wardell Pomeroy, co-author with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PORNO PLAGUE | 4/5/1976 | See Source »

Three members of the Boston Committee Against Racism (CAR) were arrested last Saturday by Boston Police while picketing the movie "Snuff...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CAR Arrests | 3/9/1976 | See Source »

...strip joint on Sunset Boulevard and a debt of dishonor. No sooner has he finished paying off the mortgage on the Crazy Horse West than he runs up an unmanageable IOU at a Santa Monica gambling joint. To pay the debt, the gamblers put this proposition to Cosmo: snuff a Chinatown bookie. Cosmo likes the risk of the proposition. Even more, though, he enjoys the almost certain prospect of disaster. He has been looking for a way over the brink for a long time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: On the Edge | 3/8/1976 | See Source »

...references to laudelets, phaetons, barques of frailty, diamonds of the first water, and vouchers to Almack's. A careful reader is also likely to be familiar with the origin of Lady Sally Jersey's nickname, the Prince Regent's confused marital status, and Lord Petersham's penchant for mixing snuff. Heyer's research into the lifestyle of the peerage may not have produced great sociological tracts, but she certainly knew what the requisite costume for a nuncheon party was, and why Beau Brummel was good ton and Letty Lade...

Author: By Gay Seidman, | Title: Heyer and Heyer | 1/15/1976 | See Source »

...that K-2 skis are probably the best all-around skis available. Unlike some of the others, K-2 has maintained a high reputation for quality over a number of years; they have yet to put out a ski that is prone to breakage or just not up to snuff. In addition, K-2's new lines, the 233, 244 and 255, (in shorts or conventional lengths) stand out as all-round skis in an extremely flooded market. And anyway, if you care about such things, the K-2 is a subsidiary of Cummins Engine Co., by far the most...

Author: By H. JEFFREY Leonard, | Title: Ski Areas in New England | 12/8/1975 | See Source »

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