Word: cult
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Krowski said he planned to introduce new evidence that the teenager was the victim of cult activity. He promised jurors they would hear from a witness who saw more than 20 people carrying torches into the dark woods around the time Arruda was killed...
...Emir is counting on the popularity of his policies to pull him through. But he's not pushing a personality cult. One morning last summer, he was riding to work when he noticed billboards across Doha praising the first anniversary of his accession. When Hamad got to the Diwan, he issued instructions: Drop plans to celebrate the coup anniversary. "As for myself," the Emir said, "I plan to go fishing...
...just 10 months after opening its doors to overwhelming fanfare and a true cult following, Loker Commons is in trouble...
Millennium, produced by The X-Files creator Chris Carter and one of the most eagerly awaited debuts of the fall season, suffers from delivering its point too aggressively. The show is constantly contrasting the bleak offices and dark labs in which Black works to hunt the deranged cult leaders and sexual serial killers who are his prey, with the image of his blindingly yellow Seattle home, framed always by a blue sky that is eerie in its brilliance. Says Carter: "For me the whole reason to do the show was that yellow house--a bright center in a dark universe...
...pack of unfiltered Camels can range from $1.25 to $3.15.) Why the expense for such tiny smokes? In 1994 the ATF reclassified beedies as cigarettes rather than cigars, thus imposing a tax rate about 10 times as high as was previously charged. Though they may have cult status in America, beedies have little cachet back in India, where more than 800 billion are smoked each year. They remain what they have always been, says Ralapati, "the poor man's cigarette...