Word: cult
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...frank with you, Mr. Rice. A lot of bands these days like to try to be cool. What do you feel about the cult of cool and do you feel it limits expression, personal or music-related...
...Hartley. Each of his first six features (two of which are compilations of short films) has earned less than $1 million at the North American box office. His wonderfully intransigent pictures--neither chipper enough to appeal to the indie-film date crowd nor exotic enough to qualify as critical cult objects--survive on funding from Britain, Japan and Germany, where they are art-house staples. If not for this offshore financing, Hartley, 38, might be working as a radio repairman or a garbageman--jobs that keep his heroes occupied when they aren't playing chess with their gnarly demons. That...
Gone are those days when many groups' titles actually reflected the identities of the various lead singers. Groups with names like Gloria Estefan and the Miami Sound Machine, Lisa and Cult Jam and D. J. Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince were all staples of the '80s music arena. And although we never knew who actually made up the Miami Sound Machine, we at least knew a little bit about the band just from the name. In those days, if George Michael was singing, the casual listener generally knew...
...malls, MTV, Big Macs and E.R. However, many of the social and behavioral norms associated with consumerism have not crossed the ocean back to the old world. Perhaps because of the semi-socialist basis of the French government or the eternal quest for liberty, equality and fraternity, the American cult of the consumer as we know it does not exist here. Purchasing power does not seem to wow and dazzle, nor does it engender sympathy or goodwill...
Example: Pfizer, maker of the hottest drug on the market, Viagra. Many recent buyers of Pfizer have created a cult with a sworn faith in the stock's momentum. To me, Pfizer is a fine company, for many years a core holding of mine, but now the stock has too much hype in it. I sell it routinely as it gets to $110. Does that mean I hate Pfizer? Hardly. I buy whenever it trades below $100. Why? Because there you are paying a fair price for the promising drugs that come after Viagra...