Word: cult
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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More troubling are criticisms of Arianna's past involvement with John-Roger, a cult operator whose credibility has been challenged by an investigative series in the Los Angeles Times and charges by staff members who have left in disgust. In 1974 she began a spiritual quest that led her to Roger Hinkins, a former schoolteacher who assumed the name John-Roger in the early '70s after the "Mystical Traveler Consciousness" entered him after a kidney-stone operation. The Cult Awareness Network classifies John-Roger's Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness as "destructive," its most damning category. Author Peter McWilliams...
...entertained Nixon and Reagan in his house, held a fund raiser that made $100,000 -- for Feinstein. Says Klinger: "Michael fooled us once . . . He has no goal. She does, and she's about 10,000 times smarter than he is, but her goals are to promote her cult, of which she is a high priestess, and become First Lady. I'd like to see him lose by 20 points to send a signal that you can't buy a seat in our Senate...
...goes, 600 or more gags per show, in 104 episodes aired incessantly (24 hours a week). The staff has weathered its flourishing cult status, the challenge of devising new jokes about the same old sorts of films, flirtations with Hollywood to make an MST3K feature and, last year, the departure of creator and host Joel Hodgson. His sleepy-voiced charisma was replaced by the flummoxed gentility of the baby-faced Nelson, who also composes many of the delicious song parodies (collected on two Play MST for Me videocassettes). At the convention, Conniff asked impishly, "Would now be the time...
...couple of summers ago, Shanker and some friends joined up with the Grateful Dead, the legendary rock band, for a tour along the West Coast. He spent weeks living with Dead-heads, and eventually becoming a fully-credentialed member of the cult...
...confidential guide to courses described Nye as "godfather and possessor of the most dedicated cult of personality since...