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...most critical moment in Promise follows Leslie's discovery that her tyke has secretly made his movie debut opposite a Junoesque redhead in a wild bikini. Such rancid twists of plot could easily sour a comedy, except that the kid is a disarming moppet named Michael Bradley who saves his heartiest responses for a pile of red plastic blocks. Warren saves his for Leslie, and most of the fun is as simple as that...
...rarely paid and miserably fed. In 1796, His Majesty's government owed the crews $14 million in back pay, some of it three years overdue. In home port, after months at sea, only the officers set foot on land. Ship's cheese came adulterated with kitchen scourings, rancid fat and glue. Messes began with a ritual tattoo as men banged their biscuits on the table to shake loose the vermin...
...view the phenomenon with alarm. Studies showing that Elvis fans had a below-C average were circulated. A Senate subcommittee started to investigate the link between rock 'n' roll and juvenile delinquency. Pablo Casals condemned rock 'n' roll as "poison put to sound," Frank Sinatra called it a "rancid-smelling aphrodisiac," and Samuel Cardinal Stritch labeled it "tribal rhythms...
...threat was obvious. The immediate problem is one of cost-both in money and in terms of human endurance. At the present rate of influx, the U.S. and South Viet Nam must spend $12,500 a day merely to keep the newcomers in rice and nuoc nam, the rancid fish sauce that provides the Vietnamese with protein. Housing is so short that many of the refugees can find no quarters at all and must sleep in the open. Many others have been displaced before. Some 6,000 villagers burned out in Phu Yen province last week were victims of another...
...there was Lenin, stiff and still, a symbol and a sign, And rancid races come to thrill and wonder at his Shrine; And hold the thought: if Lenin rot the Soviets will decay. Perhaps this explains why Khrushchev & Con go to the expense that they do to keep the old goat on display...