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...center stage to his romantic costars, Jacqueline Bisset and George Segal; Chefs suddenly ceases to be a jolly satire on the cooking craze and becomes an exception ally talky whodunit. The movie soon dies as ignominiously as its title characters - drowning in a stew of ketchup-colored blood and rancid red herrings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Slow Boil | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

...last bit of rancid emotion should have been drained away. But this is a Conrad tale, and obsession rules. The rigid set of Feraud's shoulders tells the absurd, almost admirable truth: he is just as mad as ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Dawn Madness | 2/6/1978 | See Source »

...early 20s, however, Colin is becalmed and resentful, a teacher of dull-eyed children in a coal town, a survivor of a glum and perfunctory love affair. His only vivid feeling is rancid hatred for a placid younger brother who accepts a miner's life as normal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: No Exit | 8/15/1977 | See Source »

...cartoon showed a restaurant kitchen, the type of fancy kitchen where they dressed up two rancid cuts of meat so it's almost worth the twelve-fifty the maitre d' with the phoney accent and the once-broken nose asks you to pay. In the middle of kitchen sits a meat grinder, a perfectly normal meat grinder with a lot of perfectly normal ground meat coming out of it. The only abnormal thing is that there's so damn much of it: at least 150 pounds or so, enough meat to build your own cow. Too much meat...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: 'Most determined case of suicide I've ever seen' | 5/27/1977 | See Source »

They had toted along bread and an assortment of glass and plastic bottles for drink. The water on board was rancid, and the bottles needed refilling. As we pulled into a station, the woman urged her husband, "Hail someone outside, they won't refuse." Nervously, he wedged his shoulders over the pane and called "Eh, Compatriot...

Author: By Anemona Hartocollis, | Title: Trapped in Perpetual Transit | 9/27/1976 | See Source »

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