Word: cult
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ramifications of this trend toward agreement, Trow says, reveal Americans to be a pathetic bunch. Perhaps worst of all is the cult of the celebrity which evolved. Those people, the beautiful, delightful folks on Carson and in People, they are special, but they have all sorts of problems just like us. Since we are so like the celebrities, well, we must be a little special too. And, of course, now our problems bind us all together, too. No one knows what to do about the problems, but if the people on the talk shows and in the "teledramas" have them...
...GERMANS: Teutonic angst, presumably, makes the Germans the gloomiest about their health. They worry about job security and promotion and are least proud of their nationality. Additionally, West Germans indicate that they are the most intolerant toward extremists on the right and left, foreign workers, cult religions and even heavy drinkers...
...former mercenary. Adds a Belgian journalist who covers the mercenary beat: "They are often out of work, racist but not politically aware. They think that everything is the fault of the migrant workers. They are not very sharp intellectually, are fascinated by weapons and very much into the cult of strength, virility and male camaraderie." Eventually, the mercenary ethos becomes a way of life. For some, it is also a way of death. -By Jay D. Palmer. Reported by Peter Hawthorne/Johannesburg...
Here is a rarity: a muckraking movie that was not made for TV. The subject of this Canadian melodrama is a religious cult like the Moonies, and Director R.L. Thomas' tone is about as judicious as Friz Freleng's. David (Nick Mancuso), depressed over a short-circuited affair, falls in with some "Heavenly Children" who presoak his brain with homilies and then scrub it clean of all hope, feeling, self. Although it has plenty of impact, Ticket is often too busy being outraged to bother with niceties of characterization and plot. (Just how does David become converted...
...want that sibling to grow up very fast, Shock Value by John Waters will do it. Written by the filmmaker who made "Pink Flamingo" and who once wrote that "If someone vomits watching one of my films, it's like a standing ovation," this work chronicles Waters' cult films. It claims to reveal the line between "good bad taste and bad bad taste...