Word: cult
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Salvador rallies, Auxiliary Bishop Gregorio Rosa Chavez warned about the advent of an unnamed "Evangelical preacher given to spectacles." Though most Evangelicals have toned down suggestions of anti-Catholicism, Swaggart's language is more adversarial than that of the bishop. The preacher has insisted that Catholicism is a "false cult" and "not a Christian religion." In Central America, however, he made only soothing references to "our Catholic friends...
Suave sophomore males remarked, "So you're doing mistresses. Well, if you need any help with field research, just give me a call." I became known for my infatuation with 18th century gossip. By October, I had acquired nearly cult figure status. "I've heard of you," my French Revolution section leader exclaimed, "You're the girl doing the mistresses...
...none other than Little Shop of Horrors (Copley Place)--and no wonder, for this is one film that has been through several incarnations. Little Shop began as a ridiculous cult thrill flick, was transformed into the hit stage musical of the same name, and finally came full circle back to the silver screen...
...main draw, Andrew Calhoun, is a Chicago-based musician with three fine albums on the Flying Fish label who has yet to attract a cult following in Cambridge--which probably accounts for the unexpectedly low turnout of about...
Dictators might have envied the cult of personality that centered on Arturo Toscanini in America. For a half-century he reigned supreme in the popular estimation as the world's greatest conductor, and when he died in 1957 at the age of 89, the New York Times spoke for the nation: "Both as an operatic and symphonic conductor, he achieved a stature no other conductor before him had attained...