Word: cult
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...object is cute and easily seducible, but interested only in an encounter that is brief and zipless. Whereupon the rejected partner falls to obsessive brooding and proceeds down a darkening path from harassment to stalking with a deadly weapon. Uh-huh. At best it sounds like a cult classic in the making...
...Museum of Science hopes to build a cult following for the film by showing it late on weekend nights...
...Douglas Adams may not be the best 35-year-old British science- fiction writer, but he is surely the tallest. So are his tales, from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, his wacko 1979 cult favorite, to this delightfully busy mystery, set in the present but wandering through past and future. Dirk Gently, the holistic detective ("We solve the whole crime; we find the whole person"), is diverted from a career of finding vanished cats by a daunting assignment: assist a former Cambridge classmate who is wanted for murder and -- oh, yes -- save the human race from impending extinction...
...least one cult figure still retains a devoted following in China these days: Mickey Mouse. The perky Disney character pops up on Chinese garment and toy logos, on billboards and in newspaper ads. Mickey's smiling features are, in fact, one of the most ubiquitous Western images in the land...
...were bound and gagged except for one, who turned out to be Park. Police say Park committed suicide, while the others, most of whom had worked for her, were strangled or swallowed lethal pills. Authorities suggest that Park, who was given to apocalyptic rantings, was the leader of a cult; with debts mounting in this world, she simply decided to lead her flock on to the next...