Word: cult
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...changes. In the past few years, Moi has given them more and more reason to chafe at his rule. Claiming to make the political system inherited from British colonizers more "indigenous," Moi has stripped the judiciary of its independence, cowed parliament, banned critical publications and fostered a personality cult. Discontent erupted in riots last February that were among the worst in recent years when the still unsolved murder of Foreign Minister Robert Ouko, whom some Kenyans suspect was killed on government orders, coincided with the decontrol of food prices...
While David Lynch's eerie soap opera has transfixed a cult audience, ratings have dropped. Now TV insiders are assessing the impact of the spring's most talked-about new show...
Once there was a single official pop culture: white, middle class, mid-cult, status quo. Pretty much everybody hummed the same tunes, saw the same movies, laughed at the same genteel jokes. That changed in the '50s with rock 'n' roll. The new music took rhythm, danger and sexuality from the underground black culture, cranked the volume up, electrified it and handed it to a brand new consumer group: white teenagers. The young connoisseurs of metal and raunch are similarly adrift from the entertainment that amuses or moves today's adults...
...years between those two very different projects saw Rossi's transformation from cult hero to blue-chip eminence grise. His floating 250- seat Teatro del Mondo, for the 1980 Venice Biennale, captured the imagination of architects around the world. In 1982 The Architecture of the City finally came out in English, and two years after that, the housewares company Alessi began marketing his gorgeous, Teatro-like silver espresso maker. Suddenly, there was a surge of important building commissions and groundbreakings. In 1988 five Rossi projects were finished in Italy...
DESIGN: A cult hero wins the top architecture award...