Word: cult
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first novel, V. (1963), with its fusion of paranoia and surrealism, provided one of the most impressive literary debuts of the decade. The Crying of Lot 49 (1966), shorter and more straightforward than its predecessor, won more converts to the growing Pynchon cult. And the encyclopedic Gravity's Rainbow (1973) stunned both critics and readers as the most ambitious American novel since Moby Dick...
LaRouche is somewhat of a cult political figure who has mounted several minor presidential campaigns in the past...
Rosenberg said that he was to leave the money in a book called The Betravers in Hilles library. "I think the conspirators have a perverse interest in clams as a sort of cult figure," he added...
...blithely toward censorship. There is more virulent misogyny to be found in the books of Charles Bokowski or even Norman Mailer than in anything that ever circulated at the Pi Eta, yet I wouldn't want to see them removed from the stacks of Widener simply because a cult of cocksure feminists was camped on the front steps...
...Where's the beef?" has transformed Clara Peller into a cult star. The diminutive former Chicago beauty-shop owner stands to get an as yet unnegotiated percentage of the profits from licensed items that bear her likeness. She has already completed a West Coast promotional tour and appeared on Today, Good Morning America and Entertainment Tonight. So far Peller has received more than 600 fan letters, and a Clara Peller fan club is being planned...