Word: cult
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Like Philip Johnson, the first Pritzker winner, Rossi was born into a well- to-do family and spent a decade as an architectural chronicler before beginning to build in earnest. For most of his career, Rossi's international cult status derived mainly from his writing (The Architecture of the City, published in Italy in 1966, is a woolly but right-minded and seminal inquiry into the nature of urban spaces) and from sketchy, evocative drawings. Like Johnson, Rossi has had to live down scandalous enthusiasms. Johnson was a fascist sympathizer in the 1930s, and Rossi, whose work is sometimes reminiscent...
Lynch moved to Los Angeles in 1970 and spent five years making Eraserhead. The film became a cult hit and led to his first mainstream film, The Elephant Man. Lynch's next project, the big-budget sci-fi movie Dune, was a critical and commercial disaster, but Blue Velvet brought him widespread critical / acclaim. A couple of aborted projects later (including a script for Steve Martin called One Saliva Bubble), Lynch is finishing a new film, Wild at Heart, starring Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern...
...great deal, as it turned out. Ripeness was all. Monet produced his best work after he turned 50, and it came to form the essential link between symbolism, with its cult of the nuance and its obsession with "getting behind" ordinary reality, and abstract painting. You can hardly imagine Jackson Pollock's all-over drip paintings, for instance, without the example of late Monet. But the real value of Monet's work lies not in what it predicted or how it was used by later artists but in itself: its intensity and breadth of vision, its lyrical beauty...
...Mick Jagger and Huey Long than a veteran apparatchik. His book, as predictably frank as Gromyko's is dour, bounces from biographical anecdotes to a diary of % his successful 1989 election campaign for the new Soviet legislature. The former volleyball star, who despite touches of buffoonery has become a cult hero among Soviet rebels with a cause, struts his arrogance from the schoolyard to Red Square...
...only does the food come fast, but it's like a cult thing. They talk to you, they're sarcastic," he says of the cooks. Sometimes, he says, the cooks take five-minute smoking breaks and all cooking stops...