Word: liquored
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...elevated railway station atop East Berlin's Friedrichstrasse, there is even a small duty-free liquor shop where tourists can buy brand-name Scotches ($4.50) and cognacs ($5.90), about half the West Berlin price...
Many Reports. Agnew last week refused comment on a flurry of reports that he has received free food and liquor, a reduction in the rent of his apartment, and even cash from friends. First, CBS-TV reported that the Agnews received a special "celebrity" rate on the apartment they formerly occupied in Washington's Sheraton-Park Hotel, owned by a subsidiary of ITT. (It turned out that they paid between $850 and $900 a month on an apartment that normally rents for $1,900.) Then the New York Times reported that the Agnews regularly got free food from Joseph...
...Allende was a sophisticated but casual dresser who favored turtleneck sweaters even at work. In fact, he was reportedly wearing a white turtleneck when he died. After the fighting died down last week, the military government televised a film showing Allende's imposing wardrobe and shelves of imported liquor and foods. The implication was hard to miss: while his supporters had been queuing up, Allende had engaged in the kind of hoarding he railed against...
WHITE LIGHTNING concerns a good old boy named Gator McKluskey (Burt Reynolds) who is serving time in the Arkansas pen for messing around with illegal liquor. Word reaches him that his younger brother has been murdered by a local sheriff (Ned Beatty), who has been getting a substantial skim off the moonshine profits. McKluskey turns state's evidence in order to get himself out of prison and get the goods on the sheriff. There is grim melodrama and folk comedy here, but Screenwriter William Norton sloughs off the more serious themes of an informer working inside a situation...
...heart, wastes half the evening trying to get rid of a junior high school girl he has picked up by mistake, and spends the other half learning to appreciate her company. The jerk is able to pick up a good looking blonde because she thinks he can buy her liquor, and he occupies himself by trying to win the girl with phony stories of wealth and possession...