Word: snuffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ellis conveys the hellishness of aimless lives with economy and skill; his efforts to distance Clay, the narrator, from all the other zombies is unsuccessful. True, he has a few scruples. He does not mainline heroin, he walks out before the end of an apparently genuine snuff film, and he refuses an obliging friend's invitation to rape a drugged and trussed up twelve-year- old girl. He is also sensitive. The crying jag he experiences at his psychiatrist's office may suggest some inner anguish, although it might just as easily occur because he spends so much time drugged...
...feeling of irresolution that gives her professional photos much of their impact. Most models work hard to beguile the camera, and Stephanie is clearly learning to do that. But in some shots, it looks as if she means less to seduce the camera than to snuff...
...submachine guns to antitank weapons. Most of the bikers surrendered quietly, but in Connecticut a state trooper was shot in the hip by a suspect. The eleven-state offensive was the culmination of a three-year undercover operation dubbed Roughrider, part of a larger effort by Washington to snuff out new and unorthodox forms of organized crime. Authorities confiscated $2 million worth of illegal drugs during their investigation, including methamphetamines, cocaine and LSD. A similar multistate raid in February corralled about 90 members of a rival motorcycle gang, the Bandidos, on drug and weapons charges. Declared Attorney General Edwin Meese...
...Francisco, practicing law, he took sum of his assets: a background in communications and language; solid perception that a stuffed-shirt world could stand to lighten up; natural wit; a smile that could sell used snuff. Then he took to the streets...
Melendez's report also tried to draw a line between what constitutes free expression of dissent at public events and what is an "attempt to snuff out the right of the speaker to speak and the right of the audience to be in he said...