Word: rancidity
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...reader looking for consistency should open a jar of peanut butter rather than this screed. But as rancid gossip repackaged for national distribution, Queer in America is going to be hard to beat. Signorile learned his trade feeding items to New York City gossip columnists. He was an innuendo specialist who now touts himself as the pioneer of "outing," the distasteful practice of publicizing the private lives of homosexuals who do not feel the need to advertise what goes on in their bedrooms. By outing the famous, Signorile believes he is liberating all homosexuals from shame and guilt...
...neighboring businesses in the same building. A new tactic is to spray the interior of clinics with butyric acid, a chemical that ruins carpets and furnishings and leaves behind a revolting stench. During one night last week, five San Diego clinics were made a stinking mess. "It smells like rancid meat and a sewer together. It's awful," says Ashley Phillips, whose WomanCare Clinic was one of those attacked...
...have been idly considered. The performer is in a season of discontent: stature secure in pop history, but history threatening to leave him behind. All those powerhouse rock bands from the Pacific Northwest pumping out chords that sound so often like unacknowledged devotionals to the Rolling Stones. All those rancid rock memoirs (the most recent by Angela Bowie) detailing decadences of years past -- sometimes decades past -- that grow drearier with each retelling, antique outrages that have lost the power to shock. Longevity in rock is an elusive thing, and predictability is one sure way to short-circuit it; academic respectability...
...Digest, Norman Cousins and Paul Rudnick can tell you. Rudnick has already earned many a healthy laugh with his plays Poor Little Lambs and I Hate Hamlet and his comic essays in Vanity Fair and Spy. Jeffrey, though, is a real tonic. It's a wonderful comedy about a rancid tragedy: the crape of death hanging over any gay guy who is crazy about...
This was not mere celebrity dish; this was rancid food for thought. The clash raised troubling questions for every nouveau Brady Bunch family, every jerry-built alliance of siblings who are more like classmates and parents who may be only lovers. What is incest? How affectionate can a man be to those in his care? What is a father? How much distance must he put between himself and his unofficial children before he is free to date one of them...