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While Dr. Hinkle admits he has barely scratched the surface in his article, yet in Street-Language Naming Practices in the Hispanic Drug and Underworld Subcultures, he goes into great detail and tells us quite a bit (e.g., that a snort of cocaine is called a narizón , from the Spanish nariz, nose, which compares to English slang snootful).
The facing page shows a picture of a brick wall scratched full of chalk marks tallying enemy deaths in the Gulf War.
The Legal Aid office on Montague Street in Brooklyn Heights, where 65 displaced workers have cobbled together space amid the faded and scratched walls, looks more like a bargain basement.
On the Via dell’Abbondanza running east from the Forum, those are ancient, not modern graffiti you find scratched and daubed in red on the walls of the houses and shops.
While proclaiming that the United States has finally lost its virgin naiveté about domestic terrorism, pundits scratched their heads over why the trial didn't mesmerize the nation the way the Simpson and Rodney King cases did.