Word: rancidity
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Later, when the world changed, he permitted his tough guy to give off the rancid odors of psychopathy, notably in White Heat. But his actor's integrity remained unsullied. He would make us understand his characters, but he would never seek pity for them...
...price-support system, the Agriculture Department will still be stuck with the mountains of butter, cheese and dry milk that it already owns. Secretary of Agriculture John Block wants authority to unload some of the Government's butter on world markets at a competitive price before it turns rancid. But Secretary of State Alexander Haig worries lest any additional butter on the world market be bought up by the Soviet Union. Now that the Government has lifted its grain embargo to the U.S.S.R., Haig seems to be saying, "All the bread you want, but no butter...
...Like Carpenter's The Fog and Romero's Dawn of the Dead, Cronenberg's movies are hip parables of contemporary moral malaise, in which ordinary people are infected by a malignancy as invisible and pervasive as the most swinish flu virus. As his vision aged, like rancid fruit, the malignancy crept closer to home. In They Came from Within, it was a small, snouty bug, transmitted from mouth to mouth during sex. In Rabid it was a bloodsucking organ that sprouts from the carrier's armpit. In The Brood and Scanners it is the mind itself...
...inmates and selling them in black markets throughout Arkansas and as far away as Chicago. Those who managed the kitchen took bribes as payment for sand-wiches. Poorer prisoners made do with a spoonful of rice a day, plus soybeans, corn bread and water. The food was rancid and contaminated by weevils...
...like the kind of women," says George Hunt in one skit, "who will just rip off all her clothing and throw herself upon you with rancid sensuality...