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There was more of the same soon after as a pinpoint pass from midfielder Keren Gudeman found Miller racing away from a George Mason defender, but goalkeeper Jamie Pagliarulo came off her line quickly to snuff out the opportunity...

Author: By Dov J. Glickman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Squeaks Out 2-1 Win Over Patriots in 30T | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

...final form of the bill was a melange of tough, new provisions designed to snuff out illegal immigration and strengthen existing border control laws...

Author: By Marc J.ambinder, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: New Laws Complicate Foreign Students' Lives | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

...majors. But most exploiteurs were amateurs--like Doris Wishman, with her mesmerizingly absurd tales of good women gone bad. The husband-and-wife team of Michael and Roberta Findlay, who, Weldon says admiringly, "made the most twisted softcore adult movies of them all," later concocted the fake snuff film, Snuff. They specialized in bizarre ways of killing off sexy women (crossbow, electrified earrings, dildo switchblades). Exploitation? Or prophecy? Michael was decapitated in 1977 by the blade of a helicopter crashing atop Manhattan's Pan Am Building...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: SEX! VIOLENCE! TRASH! | 7/7/1997 | See Source »

...year-old festival: booing at the end of a crummy picture. During his spell in Cannes, Depp toted around the Hollywood Reporter, which roundly panned his work. Marlon Brando co-stars with Depp in the grim tale of a poor Native American who agrees to be in a snuff film to earn $50,000 for his family. The pinch-me part for Depp was climbing the Palais steps with girlfriend KATE MOSS to show the film officially. "To be accepted by those people was one of the best moments of my life," he said. No matter what they thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 26, 1997 | 5/26/1997 | See Source »

...official racism and to help all those decent people of color in the supporting cast. And of course the black actors don't get to play anything so interesting as a villain. Goldberg has to fashion Myrlie into a plaster saint, smothered by reverence, while Woods, snorting some invisible snuff, can have fun and lock up an Oscar nomination. Ghosts of Mississippi argues fervently for racial equality in the New South; yet in its perpetuation of the caste system in Hollywood dramas, the film is anything but an affirmative action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A RICH FILM FEAST | 12/30/1996 | See Source »

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