Word: hooch
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...godfathers of this rock scene, still seem more interested in another bottle of Singa Jengke than scoring a major-label deal. That night, as we chill out at their favorite hangout?a sprawling Chinese cemetery on a hill high above the flickering lights of Bandung?and pass around the hooch, it seems like these guys believe being on the fringe is where...
...downfall comes when he meets Lilith, a comely shrink who's too smart for his cons. Taking him as a lover, she makes him paint her toenails and tortures him with psychobabble. Because it's a "goddamn stinking slaughterhouse of a world," Stan eventually finds himself hooked on hooch, hitching boxcars and heading back to the carny...
Dodd’s no stranger to making hooch. Back in his home state of Tennessee, Dodd has experimented with making liquor in homemade stills. Among his potables: a vodka that was “too watery” and a whiskey that “had the consistency of a milkshake...
...concern itself with deeper remarks about the world. “I’ve chosen,” O’Reilly says, “to move beyond the cerebral and look at the beautiful.” He cites as his artistic influences Vermeer, de Hooch, Clasez and Monet. And indeed, his photographs recall both the poignant and dignified simplicity of Flemish still lives and the French Impressionists’ emphasis on the qualitative and sensory experience of objects...
...work of both there is often a half-submerged meeting of the sacred and the profane. A beautiful and touching example is De Hooch's Mother and Child with Its Head in Her Lap, circa 1658-60. The little girl kneeling down in that shadowed interior might be engaged in prayer, but in fact she is submitting to one of the commonest hygienic rituals of 17th century childhood --her attentive mother picking through her hair for lice...