Word: cult
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DISMISSED. The last claim in a $416 million lawsuit against TIME MAGAZINE by the Church of Scientology over the 1991 cover "Scientology: The Cult of Greed;" by federal District Judge Peter Leisure; in New York City...
...identify Alicia, who knew Mills slightly, as a particular copycat risk. The local press and tabloid-television reporters made much of the fact that both girls hung with a crowd that wore black clothes and black lipstick and listened to gothic music, as if they belonged to some death cult. Their friends think this is ridiculous. "I used to have a class with one of the girls who dressed like that, and she was really nice," says ninth-grader Clarissa Muzzy. "They were just girls who liked to dress in black...
...didn't see a holy white light when he gave the green light to ID4; he was thinking grosses. Michael Sullivan of UPN didn't have religion in mind when he put four sci-fi shows on his network; he was thinking demographics. "Sci-fi has traditionally been a cult item, and 20 years ago, networks had to draw a mass audience. Now with the networks' share of audience diminishing, that core audience becomes more significant," he says. And NBC's Warren Littlefield was not looking for metaphors when he programmed an entire Saturday evening of fall shows with spooky...
DIED. BRIGITTE HELM, 88, the robot-vamp actress in Fritz Lang's 1926 cult classic Metropolis; in Ascona, Switzerland...
...tarmac at the Tel Aviv airport. Jonathan served in the same unit, and was killed in 1976 while leading the team that rescued the passengers of a hijacked plane at the Entebbe airport in Uganda. Jonathan's death badly traumatized the Netanyahus. They have made a kind of cult of this son, producing three books about him and establishing the Jonathan Institute, devoted to the study of terrorism...