Word: cult
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Shortly after its opening in January of last year, Loker Commons--the campus' much anticipated new student center--drew a cult of students eager for a place to study, socialize and use their newly-created Crimson Cash...
...None of those rumors were true. So what is the truth? "I can't comment on the motive," says Sussex County prosecutor Dennis O'Leary. "But I can tell you what it's not. There was no intent to rob. It was not an initiation. It was not a cult. None of the classic elements like revenge or greed seemed to be present. I think that's what bothers people. They want a reason." Franklin's peace is no more...
...defunct Sassy magazine racked up awards and hundreds of thousands of subscribers as the first teen magazine to pay homage to girls uninterested in bubble-gum pop and the notion that true love flows only to those who wear tube tops. In 1989 came the cult film Heathers, featuring a 17-year-old Winona Ryder as a teenager who undiplomatically cleanses her social pool of its more loathsomely superficial members. And throughout it all brewed the Riot Grrrl movement, a much hyped and ultimately successful effort by popular female punk bands to make rock less boycentric...
After reading your article on the continuing influence of Heaven's Gate [NATION, April 14], I am appalled that despite the suicide of 39 people in Rancho Santa Fe, California, there are still followers of this cult. One would think that people would realize the dangers of brainwashing cults. KYLE EBERLIN Buffalo, New York...
...your story "The Faithful Among Us," you included a statement by Hank Hanegraaff to the effect that cult leaders Marshall Applewhite and Bonnie Nettles, known as Do and Ti, instituted measures such as lack of sleep, repetitive chanting and duties that contributed to subtle thought control. This statement was followed by a quote from me, a member of the cult until 1994: "Do and Ti had repeated things for so long...There was frustration. We had even waited for a craft to pick us up on several dates, and it didn't happen. Ti and Do both...