Word: hooch
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...shape-up: smartly dressed girls in spike heels and hopeful smiles. In the fading light, American soldiers cruise by to inspect the merchandise, pinching buttocks and tilting faces toward the light. The girls, who are known scornfully as "mooses," giggle timidly and plead: "Come on to my hooch."* But a hooch, as every G.I. in Korea knows, is not a home. More often than not, it is a roach-ridden room in a crumbling old house...
Wild and Wonderful, which is neither, is a comedy about a poodle so revoltingly cute he makes Tony Curtis seem almost natural. The poodle Cognac, it develops, is a pooch who likes hooch and loves his mistress (Christine Kaufmann) with doglike devotion. Tony is a wolf who hopes to appropriate the mistress. In real life he did: he married Actress Kaufmann while this movie was being made. On screen he has trouble with the watchdog, who 1) spills soup on his lap, 2) contrives to drop a piano on his head, 3) slips him a knockout powder on his wedding...
...Sarit came into prominence as a hard-drinking, hard-wenching army field marshal who once showed up at an embassy dinner party in Bangkok carrying his own liquor, with the complaint that his host's hooch was second rate. Cirrhosis of the liver and the responsibility of power calmed him down. Though he once was involved in various devious deals, he slashed corruption to the minimum. "He wants his name in the history books, not his money in a Swiss bank account," an observer explained...
...with Partner Izzy Einstein, formed the 1920' funniest and most effective team of prohibition agents. Addicted to disguises-they posed variously as vegetable vendors, gravediggers and Democratic National Convention delegates-Izzy and Moe arrested 4,000 suspected bootleggers, confiscated an estimated 5,000,000 bottles of hooch; of a stroke; in Yonkers...
...things is this show, a few engaging works here and there which reveal new or accustomed brilliance in the styles of major moderns. A Mondrian Composition in his familiar pure style looks as neat and as pleasing as the calm pictures of his seventeenth-century fellow country man, De Hooch...