Word: cult
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There is little fear in China that publication of Deng's thought is a step toward the creation of a Mao-like personality cult. That would be out of character for the diminutive Deng, 79, who prefers wielding power behind the scenes and has already twice rejected the top-ranking official title of Premier...
...salon painting from Ingres to Bouguereau. It was thrust into eclipse by impressionism because it carried an aura of the posed, the stagy, the allegorical, and post-impressionism finished it off. The nude became a casualty of the means painters chose to assert their pictorial honesty: the near religious cult of flatness. The intricate bumps and hollows, bosses and knots and smooth rotundities of the bodily landscape were generalized down to patches. By the start of Pearlstein's career, in the ebb tide of abstract expressionism, the very idea of rendering the posed body in a room seemed absurd...
MARRIED. Margot Kidder, 34, outspoken Canadian actress who soared to fame as Lois Lane in the Superman movie series; and Philippe de Broca, 50, French film director who made the 1966 cult classic King of Hearts; she for the third time, he for the second; in Vert, France...
...their borrowings from the West, the Japanese never acquired the cult of the artist as Agonistic Hero. There...
...remodeled Harvard Square Theater whose new entrance is on Church St. might not be terribly comfortable, but the daily changing double features are worth the hunched over back and smooshed knees. For people who might or might not want to bring a date to. X-rated movies like "Emmanuelle," cult films such as "Eating Raoul," and occasionally concert-films featuring groups like the Who are often shown at the witching hour...