Word: rancidity
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...that drama, but they do not give Ann a strong case to argue, so the film's only suspense is in how long it will take Lange (who gives a smart, sturdy performance) to face the truth. Nor do they allow Laszlo a chance to justify, however speciously, his rancid past. They are content to dwell on the sins of the fathers, in which humanism stares at bestiality across the generation gap. Even in a genial mood, Laszlo sounds like a Nazi: "A healthy body makes a healthy spirit," he huffs as he completes a maniacal regimen of push...
...been rampant, bears witness to this carnage. Tiny bloodstained tusks from infant elephants fill an entire shelf. Each is the length of a candle. They come from three-four- and five-year-olds who fell before a rain of automatic gunfire. In a corner of the room, elephant tails, rancid and maggot infested, lie in a heap. Behind the building, skulls bleach in the sun. And just up a slope, an orphaned elephant greedily nurses on a bottle of formula and suckles at the fingers of its human keeper. Unless led away, an orphan will linger by its fallen mother...
...Hollywood the black man's burden is to be all things to all people: stoic Sidney Poitier and sassy Eddie Murphy, angelic sitcom kid and fuming rapmaster. Lee's movie bravely tries both approaches. It gives you sweet, then rancid, but without explaining why it turned. He holds the film like a can of beer in a paper bag -- the cool sip of salvation on a blistering day -- until it is revealed as a Molotov cocktail...
Falwell admits that when he temporarily took over the Praise the Lord organization after Jim Bakker was forced out by a rancid sexual scandal in 1987, donations to his Old Time Gospel Hour fell $5.3 million. By 1987, the Moral Majority had so dwindled that Falwell resigned as president. Atlanta businessman Jerry Nims says he took over the assignment with a mandate to phase out the organization. This year contributions were expected to be no more than $3.5 million...
Come the morning light with victory, the President-elect, whoever he may be, will have to shed his warted and rancid campaign in a hurry if he wants success in the Oval Office. He will have to be human again...