Word: rancid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...began working himself into a scene. He uncoiled from his seat, strode onstage and eyed the silent singers. "You've forgotten everything I've told you," he said, with cold distinctness. "Even being opera singers is no excuse for your acting . . . You look like bowls of cold, rancid oatmeal...
...actors in the image of the Cruikshank drawings and handled them with the controlled flamboyance of Novelist Dickens himself. If any one threatens to outshine the others, it is Alec (The Cocktail Party) Guinness in the horrendous make-up of Fagin. To the character's sly, rancid evil, he adds a subtle tinge of homosexuality, an interpretive touch neither confirmed nor contradicted by the Dickens text...
Sometimes the form does "get lost" in Koerner's art. His colors lack decorative appeal, range from sweet to rancid. His compositions are often cluttered, usually static. His drawing is more able than inspired; his characterizations of people are sometimes so obviously strained that they verge on cartoon art. His use of shocking detail is often more calculated than convincing...