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  • It can be anything from a man whispering “Ca va?” as I pass on the street, to a glue-sniffing teenage boy in my old neighborhood shouting broken vulgarities at me, to a man following me and a friend for 15 minutes, asking us all the way if he can practice his English with us.

    Global Voices in English » Morocco: Four Perspectives on Sexual Harassment 2009

  • The glue-sniffing angle has me thinking of the depressing gas-huffing film "Love Liza," starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, but given the previous work of the Duplass bros and Reitman, "Jeff" will a lot more enjoyable.

    Duplass Brothers Working With Jason Reitman For Studio-Produced Stoner Comedy » MTV Movies Blog 2010

  • I reminded myself that my mother was too far gone from her Woodstock days, from her glue-sniffing and drug use with her friends, from her sleeping around.

    Brooklyn Story Suzanne Corso 2011

  • Also Jesus freaks, muscle fags, Mao-shouting nitwits; 12-year-old glue-sniffing mutants from Kansas; toe-sniffers, whip-lickers, junkies with trust funds; lithium babies, panhandling grandmas; all sorts of strays with pins in their clits and no roadmap home.

    Dry Rot 2010

  • There was some mild glue-sniffing in Joan Jett memoir The Runaways that had to go the censors deemed this a pity, "as it provided nice period detail", yet the cartoon violence in Kick-Ass was deemed OK for a 15 certificate, even though it involved a pre-teen girl slicing off legs and using the C-word.

    Trailer trash Jason Solomons 2010

  • In a British court recently, an author said, in effect, that glue-sniffing had made her write a thriller.

    Archive 2008-02-01 2008

  • INCOMING APPROPS CHAIR A BIG FAN OF APPROPS-ING - Unless the nonprofit also weens Cheetahs off of their addiction to glue-sniffing, this couldn't get any better: Rep. Hal Rogers may have sworn off earmarks as he lobbied his way into the powerful House Appropriations Committee chairmanship, but there's a reason he's earned the nickname 'Prince of Pork.'

    HUFFPOST HILL - Senate FAIL The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • I am not surpised that your speak from experience on matters glue-sniffing, as it shows.

    Obama Responds To FISA Group On His Web Site 2009

  • Also yesterday you may remember the Post repurposed Gisele Bundchen's Vanity Fair interview in which she promised to make a glue-sniffing Brazilian street urchin the object of some kind of Victorian rags-to-riches narrative.

    Wood War! Who Wins Today's Grabby Tabloid Battle For Your Eyeballs? 2009

  • Also yesterday you may remember the Post repurposed Gisele Bundchen's Vanity Fair interview in which she promised to make a glue-sniffing Brazilian street urchin the object of some kind of Victorian rags-to-riches narrative.

    Wood War! Who Wins Today's Grabby Tabloid Battle For Your Eyeballs? 2009

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