Word: cult
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cool," which may be the most excruciatingly self-concious "underground rock" song I've ever heard: the breaks in between the verses are note-for-note or word-for-word quotes from the songs Eggs listened to ten years ago, meaning not cool obscure postpunk records but Blue Oyster Cult's "Burn Out the Day" and the Who's "Baba O'Riley." And all those quotes are integrated into a genuinely moving song, another one of Beaujon's studies in extended teenage self-hatred: it's hard to remember how the lyrics go, because they're so deadon that they...
Leonard Maltin's review of this film tagged it a "sure bet to become [a] cult item over the years." The surreal disconnection of its random events does give the movie a flavor similar to cult director David Lynch's work (presumably why it has been billed with his "Eraserhead"). But Polanski, both as actor and director, lacks the energy and abandon that have made Lynch's films so successful. Instead of being exhilarating, Trokovsky's illogical behaviour is simply frustrating. For those obsessed with the surreal The Tenantwill be an intruguing period piece. For the rest...
Douglas M. DeMay '94 said that his home town inupstate New York has a large satanic cult. Hisinterest in the course stemmed from a "curiosityabout the sensationalism that surrounds thesethings, and how people are influenced...
...Core curriculum, which has assumed almost cult status as the perfectly useless system of academic requirements, is the most obvious, though by no means the only, example of Harvard's neglect of undergraduate education. Only at Harvard can one find requirements that usurp a quarter of an undergraduate course load without guaranteeing that any student will actual learn anything...
...Antonio, Texas, the trial began of 10 men and one woman who are members of the Branch Davidian cult and who are charged with murder and conspiracy to commit murder in connection with the death of four federal agents. The agents were shot during a raid on the cult's compound near Waco in February...