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...successive summer it threatens to displace Arthur Frommer's Europe on Five and Ten Dollars a Day as the bible of the entire under-$1000-a-tour set. Frommer's ideas of nutrition have always been questionable--he recommends subsistence diets of french fries and mayonnaise, one reason why rancid bathroom stalls all over Western Europe bear the graffiti "Arthur Frommer ate here." Worse, the sheer popularity of his book is discouraging: Long lines of students form each morning at quiet "hideaways" Frommer recommends, each tired traveler trying to make his worn yellow paperback edition as inconspicuous as possible...

Author: By Tom Lee, | Title: Get Going | 4/18/1974 | See Source »

...16th-century Vienna where "quite athwart goes all decorum." Michael Kahn has added a brief prologue that introduces us to some of the unsavory people in the city--including a blind beggar, a pickpocket, a legless cripple. There is no point in trying to avoid the play's prevailingly rancid taste. Kahn has abridged the text a little, so that the show has a running-time of two and a half hours...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Philip Kerr Excels in 'Measure for Measure' | 7/2/1973 | See Source »

when my mantle suddenly turns too cold, too rancid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: End Game | 9/4/1972 | See Source »

...apart from the Indian culture. To the colonial English, Kumar's association with Daphne Manners is intolerable; it is especially painful to the district superintendent of police, Ronald Merrick, who has himself proposed marriage to the girl. Merrick conducts his interrogation with a cruelty compounded by racism and rancid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Eve of Empire | 3/27/1972 | See Source »

...delivery was slow and not without complications. It began in 1955 when Hakim along with two other cons organized an art class. "That was the transitional point. That was the point of moving from that rancid cancerous feeling about white folks to the point of starting to see myself, you know, beginning to understand myself, and if you remember, it was about this time that Malcolm began to speak in public. Brothers in the joint began to hear a black man articulating the thing that they couldn't articulate. We began to take a certain pride in being black...

Author: By Tony Hill, | Title: A Condemned King Held in the Tower | 11/2/1971 | See Source »

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