Word: cult
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Porsche and then offers to drive you to your hotel. The needle on the gas meter is on the running-on-fumes side of EMPTY, and there's even an exclamation mark shining crimson on the dashboard. But Campbell, preternaturally polite, continues blithe small talk. "Is that band the Cult still together?" she asks. You confess that when it comes to '80s goth-metal bands, you're no trivia master. She continues, "I went for coffee with this guy who was in the Cult, and I was wondering if they were still doing anything." The needle dips further...
...Lewis's claim that Professor Eck's scholarship in comparative religion and Indian studies resonates with Lowell House is clearly fatuous but benign. His characterization of Lowell House, on the other hand, illustrates the malign instinct in the academy to worship at the cult of "diversity...
...most famous in English literary history, perhaps second only to that of Ulysses, and it brought out the leading literary lights of the era on both sides of the Atlantic rallying to its defense. The Well, which was found 'obscene' and remained banned in England until 1949, became a cult novel and remains so to this day. Hall, an openly 'butch' lesbian in an age of heated debate over the status of both inverts and women, is remembered best for her "masculine" public image and for her shocking novel...
Though the participants in these games seem to enjoy themselves, not all students are members of the video game cult...
Though spiffed-up versions of old standbys "Wheel of Fortune" and "Jeopardy" still attract cult followings, weak attempts at new shows abound on arcane cable channels, producing such soon-to-be forgotten titles as "Supermarket Sweep" and "That's My Dog." In its own class is "The Price is Right," enduring as an eternal relic of the past, with sets straight from the days when disco ruled and a box of SuperPolygrip cost...