Word: cult
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hysterectomy": "My disease will be stripped out/ Like the rotten lining of a leather coat." Plath's angry confessional tone is echoed in "Granny": "You loved me not, just saw/ A copy of the face/ You gave birth to." In "Readers," Hughes rails at those who have made a cult out of her mother: "They turned her over like meat on coals/ To find the secrets of her withered thighs/ And shrunken breasts...
...person, Mark Leyner barely resembles the fictional persona of his novels, the Lamborghini-driving, debauched literary superstar whose books can touch off riots in Third World countries. Leyner, a soft-spoken family man from Hoboken, N.J. has built a cult following from his outrageously funny fiction. The protagonist of Mark Leyner's latest novel, The Tetherballs of Bougainville, is a 13-year-old boy named "Mark Leyner" who has won a $250,000 per-year fellowship for a screenplay he hasn't yet written; his father, convicted of murdering a mall guard with a cuisinart, has been placed on "Discretionary...
Curtain Call: Torres was one of the last contestants on the now cult-classic "Where in The World is Carmen Sandiego...
...alive and well. Microsoft begins an antitrust trial Monday in which it's almost unanimously cast as the heavy, and as if to prove it Bill Gates was hissed by some software customers Wednesday morning in the middle of defending his company's right to play hardball. The Apple cult is as emotional these days as ever, and Jobs -- who with characteristic flourish delivered the happy news to a packed house near Cupertino while the markets were still open -- still has his reputation as a visionary. But even as iMacs fly off the shelves, Windows PCs still outsell them...
Rowlands and Simons weren't always the Chemical Brothers. When they hit the Manchester club scene in the early '90s, the two DJs were the Dust Brothers, attracting a cult following at the clubs Naked Under Leather and Most Excellent. Their mixing philosophy and music choice at the time are best described by Rowlands himself, "Big Bass, Big Drums, Siren, Mad." Brother's Gonna Work It Out includes several songs frequently mixed by the Dust Brothers during their early shows. Samples from DBX, Serotonin Project and Dubtribe Sound System all provide glimpses into the past of the Chemical Brothers...