Word: cult
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Order's cult status has roots in the mid-'70s, when three of its members were part of Joy Division, an English quartet whose name belied its obsession with the darker side of reality. When Joy Division's leader, Ian Curtis, committed suicide in 1980, the survivors formed New Order, which quickly established its trademark mix of emotionally opaque lyrics, high-tech smarts and hypnotic dance grooves...
Instead of embracing success, however, New Order hid its face behind abstract or monochromatic album covers and performed entire concerts without ever addressing the audience. The cult grew. After the release of 1989's Technique, the band dispersed into various spin-off acts, most notably Electronic, which was fronted by singer Bernard Sumner and former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr...
...BOTTOM LINE: The cult secret is out: this comic charmer about pen paramours who meet is one of the all-time greats...
CINEMA Arnold battles the rumormongers in Last Action Hero. Un Coeur en Hiver takes a close look at a cold heart. TELEVISION A cartoon dog has its long- promised day. THEATER The cult classic She Loves Me is revealed as a classic, period. BOOKS Arthur Ashe's moving, strangely defensive memoir...
...less competition for positions of rank and power. Occurrences of racism were negligible. "The same changes you notice in the rest of society have affected Harvard students...narcissism and almost neurotic idealism," says Whiteside. "There was far less social concern...political correctness was unthinkable...the politicals were a narrow cult, just as the jocks were...