Word: rancidity
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...port. In the Gulf of Mexico last week the real-life vessel Mobro 4,000 seemed as damned as the Dutchman as it searched in vain for a friendly harbor. Southern ports had good reason for turning away the bereft barge: it was loaded with 3,168 tons of rancid, fly-infested trash from New York...
Working from the principle that too much is never enough, Russell unloads his inventory of weird imagery. Candied corpses and puddles of rancid goo. A woman's nipples that open to reveal eyes. Claire, filthy and feral, a dead rat in her mouth. Stuff like that. In such films as The Devils and Altered States, Russell found a conjurer's balance between sense and surrealism. But with this catalog of chic atrocities he cannot shock, he can only embarrass. For an artist as canny as Russell, that's crazy...
...That is the way it is going to be." Fitzwater felt out White House Physician John Hutton, who echoed the restraint: "The President doesn't need the excitement." And even Reagan himself in the past two weeks asked that the world be held back a while longer despite the rancid environment...
...that was the good news. Of this trio of movie plays, Beyond Therapy brings the most severe disappointment because it held the most promise. Christopher Durang's 1981 play was a deft and rancid parody of psychobabble. The comely cast includes Jeff Goldblum, Julie Hagerty, Glenda Jackson, Tom Conti and Christopher Guest. Robert Altman is an estimable director poised for comeback. He even had an idea about opening up the action: by setting this postromantic comedy more or less simultaneously in Manhattan, with its memory of Philip Barry penthouse sophistication, and Paris, locale of many a clockwork farce about...
Ditto for "The Unsupervised Infant." Litt's workshop creation, though full of energy and hysterically hyperexagerrated Jewish angst, has a disturbing stream-of-consciousness aura which smacks of rancid Saturday Night Live. And it's silly to boot...