Word: cult
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...demythifying process, argues Nina Tumarkin, professor of history at Wellesley College and author of The Cult of Lenin, is necessary if the Soviet Union is to right itself. "Lenin is being brought down to earth to make way for the new myths of perestroika," she says. If Gorbachev's political reform is more than a myth and the government is able to find its legitimacy in increased democracy, it might not need Lenin anymore...
...acre Montana cattle ranch for $22 million earlier this month, his new neighbors suspected ulterior motives. They imagined that Turner, who earlier had bought 21,000 acres nearby, might carve up the scenic Rocky Mountain property for homesites or even sell part of it to a New Age cult...
...with his more moderate predecessor, Zhao Ziyang, who was formally dismissed on June 24 from most of his major posts but not the party. The country was also subjected to an intense campaign aimed at building the visibility of 84-year-old Deng Xiaoping, who used to eschew the cult of personality but has come out of semiretirement to show that he is still firmly in charge. A speech Deng delivered on June 9 defending his order to the army to remove the demonstrators from Tiananmen Square was broadcast last week and widely praised by officials. Copies were distributed...
...past two years the Philippine government has supported scores of right- wing vigilante groups in their war against the Communist guerrillas of the New People's Army. Among them are Protestants in the tiny village of Rano in the southern Philippines, most of whom belong to a paramilitary cult that refused to pay "revolutionary taxes" to N.P.A. Last week, as Sunday-morning services began, vengeful N.P.A. guerrillas sprayed the chapel with 970 rounds from M-14s. At least 40 people were killed, including eleven children and two pregnant women. The rebels also stole the collection, about...
...that you step on cockroaches. Geraldo is so self-righteous. If he would just say, "You know what? We're going to have a neat show today, and maybe you'll get to see a woman's breasts." But instead, he says, "We're going to talk about this cult that stabbed the kids and cut the kids' noses off, and you'll get to actually see a picture of it. It will be really neat." Geraldo has that certain je ne sais quoi. For want of a better word, I would call him a jerk...