Word: cult
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rocky Horror is much more than just a bizarre movie. Although a flop when it premiered in 1976, Rocky Horror made a late-night comeback as the nation's ranking cult film. The film's followers, not content with memorizing the script, have devised a series of now-traditional audience responses...
Spuds MacKenzie, 3, the (mostly) white ullterrier who has gained a cult following as television spokespooch for Bud Light beer. Spuds' promoters say he is the "Ayatola Partyola, the Guru of Good Times, the Philosopher...
...consuming fury than the English did on their medieval heritage. The destruction began in a small way with the random acts of zealots like the Lollards. They were enraged by the apparent contradiction between the Second Commandment ("Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image") and the "idolatrous" cult of statues of the Holy Family and the saints set up in English churches, jeweled and gilt and encrusted with innumerable votive offerings. The church's answer was that you did not worship the image itself; you worshiped the Virgin through her image -- a nice point apt to be lost...
Fans have tried to find reasons for the turnaround. Gelbart attributes the Masonic cult to nostalgia: "Jackie is one of the few practitioners left of a style that appeals to an older audience. It's like listening to the Glenn Miller Band." Steve Allen compares Mason with Lenny Bruce: "He is more than a joke-joke comic; he is a philosopher." Mason seems to be the only one who admits that he is a "sensation for the same Jewish jokes that made me a failure." Perhaps, he thinks, it is the setting: "In the theater they...
...that restructuring was giving nothing to the people." Gorbachev implied that Yeltsin brought up matters relating to the Politburo's "collective leadership." That may be a reference to a complaint by Yeltsin, according to some unofficial accounts of the session, that some of Gorbachev's subordinates were building a "cult of personality" around the Soviet leader...