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Word: peddler (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...anywhere else in the country, can log on to porn web sites from anywhere else in the world, how can local standards exist, let alone be defined, for any medium? This is the argument Flynt wants to press and win at his trial, and thereby "turn himself from smut peddler to First Amendment statesman," says Stein. But Flynt may not get his chance. "The prosecutors in this case were smart," says Stein. "They sent underage kids to buy the porn." And the laws on protecting youngsters are especially stringent -- and difficult to overturn on appeal. Flynt may therefore never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Once Again, It's the People vs. Larry Flynt | 5/10/1999 | See Source »

Enter romantic possibility--or, in a coming-of-middle-age tale like this, inevitability--in the lank person of Walker Jerome (Viggo Mortensen), a peddler they call "the blouse man." While the others watch Neil Armstrong walk on the moon, Pearl is in the back of the blouse man's truck becoming a giddy, blossoming girl again. A few weeks later, she goes with him to Woodstock, gets baptized in Day-Glo body paint and is spotted by a horrified Alison. My mother--the hippie whore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Sex, Drugs and Chicken Soup | 4/12/1999 | See Source »

Each day Xiu Xiu dresses up for the ride back to civilization that never comes. Then a peddler appears. He tells Xiu Xiu that pretty girls like her are using their wiles with party officials to get sent back to the city. Why, he will put in a word to them. Dazzled by the glare of his promise in this long night of isolation, Xiu Xiu surrenders to him. And then to rougher strangers, all in the hope of getting a pass home. Without money or connections, she asks, "What's a girl to do?" The cute girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joan of Art | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

...frame game some Illinois authorities have allegedly been playing hits the headlines at a time of heightened national concern over aggressive law-enforcement practices. In New York City, authorities have been on the defensive since last month, when a West African street peddler named Amadou Diallo was killed by police. He died in a barrage of 41 bullets as he entered his Bronx apartment building. The police say the officers fired on Diallo because they thought he was reaching for a gun. He was unarmed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Frame Game | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

...material." And he says more details could leak out before 2000. "Whoever runs against BOB BARR in Georgia is definitely going to have all our investigative material made available to them, because this guy is a hypocrite," he says. "I've never made any bones about being a smut peddler, but I'm an honest, accurate smut peddler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Publishing: Larry's Watching, but Keeping Quiet--for Now | 2/8/1999 | See Source »

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