Word: cult
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...know when to laugh: at the sight of a madcap chase, at a friendly gorilla, at Talk Show Host Mike Douglas. The resulting movie is sometimes very funny. It also represents a waltz step toward popular acceptance by a performer tired of being worshiped by the few. Like former cult favorites Chevy Chase and Steve Martin, Tomlin has made a laff-a-minute movie that will offend nobody - except the comic's most ardent fans, who will buy tickets and then yell, "Sell...
...acted on the right, not on the left. It was futurism, whose ideas and rhetoric (rather than the works of art actually painted by Balla, Severini or Boccioni) bodied forth some of the mythology of Italian Fascism. The futurist ethos expressed by Marinetti before World War I, with its cult of speed, male potency, antifeminism and violent struggle, supplied the oratorical framework for Mussolini's rise to power and set the stage for his appearance. But this may say no more than that the impact of technology on the more febrile nationalist-romantic minds of Italy produced remarkably similar...
...Lennon was, at 60,000 newsstand copies, its all time bestselling issue. Both Newsweek and TIME printed 100,000 more copies than usual for newsstand distribution. TIME sold more than 500,000, making it the third biggest selling issue in decades. Only the Nixon resignation (1974) and the Jonestown cult suicides (1978) have topped it in 30 years. PEOPLE magazine was just going to press when Lennon's death was announced. A cover story on Tanya Roberts, Charlie's newest Angel, was scrapped and replaced with an eleven-page tribute to Lennon. The issue sold more than...
...series begins and ends in Paris. The Eiffel Tower (1889), that "static totem of the cult of dynamism," as Host Robert Hughes calls it, is a symbol of the ebullient optimism that ushered in the new age of machine worship. The Beaubourg Center (1977), which looks like a trite and showy illustration from a science fiction magazine, becomes a symbol of the decline of that exhausted era. In between is a terra incognita that we may think we know-the art of the 20th century...
...high now," the article declared, hardly needing to mention that Hua Guofeng has been the party's leader for nearly five years. Some leaders of the Central Committee made mistakes even after the downfall of the Gang of Four, the article went on, pointing specifically to a "cult of personality." As every Chinese knows, just such a cult swirled around only Hua for several months in 1976 and 1977 when his pictures were displayed side by side with Mao everywhere...