Word: cult
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...measure the disenchantment we must remember the power of the trance being dissipated. The Republican Convention of 1984, the love-in at Dallas, was a unique event in our politics. The cult of personality was carried embarrassingly far, but the adulation was all spontaneous and unfeigned -- and somehow nonpolitical...
...cult trumpets be raised: Hollywood is stagestruck again. Children of a Lesser God corrals five Oscar nominations; Crimes of the Heart blossoms into a modest, megastar success; Brighton Beach Memoirs and 'night, Mother find their way to film. All of which means . . . very little. Perhaps that there is lower financial risk in stories with few characters and no special effects. Or that the ravenous appetite of the home-video market can be easily stoked with product that has proved its value in another venue. Or that moguls have decided to bankroll a few films with their wives in mind instead...
DiChiaria describes what might be labelled as a cult-like following of the discount chain. "Some people follow our ads from year to year and call to find out if we plan to sell the same day as we did last year," she says. Other loyal followers, "the best bargain hunters in Boston," spend their lunch hours in the store every day of the work week, she adds...
sometimes the symbol of all the other cult groups...
quite the opposite of a faddish cult...