In a moment of despair, he longs to return to the honest purity of his home state, "away from the words and the monuments and the whole rotten show .In the past fortnight, America has replayed this perennial drama: but the roles have been reversed.
If you continue to store food that is rotten, moldy, or past its expiration date, it may not only be contaminated, but may transfer bacteria to nearby items.
It has become tradition for the MediaGuardian 100 to begin Mark Thompson's profile with the words "It's been a rotten year... " The past 12 months, if anything, have been even worse.
Like all gold funds, it has had a rotten record over the past ten years.
That's harder if you can't shop as often as you used to, and you can't sniff out rotten food, read the past-due date, or afford lots of fresh food.
Michael Bay has spent most of the last decade churning out Transformers films that stink out the more fetid reaches of Rotten Tomatoes yet routinely zoom past $1bn at the box office.
Buttinger said that while the monarchy was "another rotten relic of Vietnam's past" and Bảo Đại "its last, unworthy representative", fraud and intimidation were unnecessary as Diệm would have won easily in any event.
