Word: cult
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cult and Culture of Breathless: Dudley Andrew, Museum of Fine Arts...
...heroes are Andy Warhol and Edie Sedgwick, the prince and princess of the avant-garde underworld. Like James Dean and Marilyn Monroe, Jim Morrison and Janis Joplin, Sam Shepard and Patti Smith, Warhol and Sedgwick comprise but one pair of a cult-worshipped court of legendary hearts handed the scepter and deposed just as quietly by generations of kids searching casually for heroes. I ask her why she likes Warhol...
Attorneys run the risk of being snared into what Estrich termed "a cult of complexity," choosing cases on the basis of their difficulty rather than their ethical merit, the four panelists agreed...
...virtuoso perfomances bolstered by Scorcese's typically brilliant direction. As the Black Widow Spider who spins a web of mysterious boyfriends, ex-husbands and bizarre ailments around herself to the befuddlement of the White Boy from Long Island, Rosanna Arquette firmly establishes herself as the reigning queen of the cult classic. Back on the now--familiar streets of Soho after a temporary migration west in Silverado, Arquette puts her character through its requisite paces of schizophrenia with all the felicity of a chameleon. Newcomer Griffin Dunne is the perfect lukewater Romeo to his elusive Juliet, stumbling through the night...
...aging leader, the shrewd and gritty party veteran who refers to the program of economic reform as China's "second revolution." Whether in reaction to the paroxysms of hero worship that accompanied Maoism or perhaps out of a personal sense of propriety, Deng Xiaoping has actively discouraged a personality cult for himself. His portrait does not adorn government offices, and his ancestral home in Sichuan, though well maintained, is virtually unknown to Chinese citizens. Still, the man and the "revolution" are inseparable, and Deng's personal popularity appears to be on the increase. At the time of his 81st birthday...