Word: rancidity
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...meatiest role, and the meat was deliciously rancid, was opposite Jose Ferrer in The Shrike, where she's the harridan who nearly drives her husband to suicide. Her performance was both stark and nicely judged - "good (and nasty)," Thomson says, approvingly - but it didn't vault Allyson into the realm of Serious Actress. It didn't set her on a new, thornier path, paving the way for her to play roles suitable for the decades to come, when the Wife role would be replaced by the Woman With a Past. Casting directors thought only of Allyson's past...
...doesn't KFC use a healthier oil? Like most fast-food chains, KFC cooks with partially hydrogenated vegetable oil, which doesn't turn rancid as quickly as healthier, nonhydrogenated oils. "Extra crispy" chicken may also taste better when fried in this oil. "The flavor is crunchier, and you don't get that feeling of fat coating your mouth," says Ted Labuza, a food scientist at the University of Minnesota. But the oil does have dangerous trans-fatty acids...
...four years if all I needed to stimulate by brain was some bizarre banana enterprise. But at Harvard, we don’t just play with our food. We do it critically, applying whatever excess brain power our tutorials leave us to determine the best way to smear rancid fruit onto...
While the campus has recently been embroiled by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ distaste for outgoing University President Lawrence H. Summers, Harvard has historically been a difficult campus to please. For example, students risked expulsion in 1766 for criticizing rancid butter served in the Commons, and in 1768, they revolted against raising academic standards by smashing tutors’ windows. In the “Great Rebellion of 1834,” students raised a black flag of rebellion and burned University President Josiah Quincy, Class of 1790, in effigy. And in 1969, University President Nathan...
...conceived the outrage of genocide and executed the plan with technological precision; if the Germans could do it, anyone could. The victims: the Jews, eternal outsiders, were traditionally treated by Christians with an uneasy mixture of respect and enmity. Here was the seed of ordinary anti-Semitism brought to rancid fruition...