Word: cult
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tech tools and a disdain for conventional ways of using them. Originally applied to a school of hard-boiled science-fiction writers and then to certain semi-tough computer hackers, the word cyberpunk now covers a broad range of music, art, psychedelics, smart drugs and cutting-edge technology. The cult is new enough that fresh offshoots are sprouting every day, which infuriates the hard-core cyberpunks, who feel they got there first...
...quickly sold out its first hard-cover printing of 30,000.) A piece of cyberpunk performance art, Tubes, starring Blue Man Group, is a hit off-Broadway. And cyberpunk films such as Blade Runner, Videodrome, Robocop, Total Recall, Terminator 2 and The Lawnmower Man have moved out of the cult market and into the mall...
...wait a minute. It's 1962; the New Frontier has been proclaimed. As Woolsey heads to Key West, Florida, to preview his latest epic, Mant (half- man, half-ant and all knockoff of cult classics like The Fly and Them!), he and his works appear to have reached a new frontier of their own -- total cultural irrelevancy. Except for one thing: the Cuban missile crisis is on, and suddenly the brave new world is actually contemplating a disaster beyond Woolsey's most profitable dreams. It's a nicely imagined coincidence, and from it Joe Dante has fashioned a neat little...
Under the direction of Ludlam, the group produced witty spoofs on theater, literature music, and society for almost 20 years at then venue in Greenwich Village. They enjoyed a cult following among members of the New York City theater community. It is difficult to tell whether these plays can hold their own outside the Ridiculous Company and in the absence of the great directorial and performance skills of Landlam, who died of AIDS...
...newspaper falls into this cult of egoism rather easily. In the past, some Crimson editors were cocky and dismissive of community criticism. People who complained that their programs were not covered were pegged publicity hounds. Events that only drew small crowds were considered unfitting for front-page news...