Word: cult
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...Cult-classic science-fiction novel--check. Comic novel about environmentalists--check. Best-selling thriller--also check. What is there left for Neal Stephenson--author of Snow Crash, Zodiac and Cryptonomicon, among other novels--to write? The answer is The Baroque Cycle, a stunning 3,000-page trilogy about 17th century scientists that will defy any category, genre, precedent or label--except for genius. (That's right, I'm using the g-word...
...Wales--they met in England in 1994 after stints in the worlds of classical music and graphic design, respectively. "Marcus was a photographer's assistant, and I had a little design shop," says Alas. "We did some tests, and some were cool, so we showed them to [the London cult fashion magazine] Dazed and Confused, and next thing you know, they had published them." Alas and Piggott now count among their credits some of the fashion world's most influential advertising campaigns, including recent ones for Lancome, Hugo Boss and Missoni as well as Louis Vuitton...
...book for Evidente, "To Ben. Without you, we are nothing." He makes so much money that he just bought a vacation house in Hawaii. And here at the semiannual sale, with women standing in line down an entire block to get into the store, he is a ponytailed, tranquil cult leader amid a rush of manicured hands hopefully holding boots up into the curtained storeroom in supplication...
...bassist John Morrison are the French. Why call a band the French? Hayman, who grew up in Essex, explains that due to the antipathy his countrymen have for their neighbors across the Channel, "it's a kind of litmus test of my audience." His audience - somewhere between big cult and the bottom of the pop charts - will be relieved to discover that the essence of Hefner is still there: the realization that the stupid experiences we all have can be the building blocks of art. Hayman's is the music of false starts and dead ends; like Woody Allen...
...does have a very cult-like following,” said Elizabeth H. Rivers ’05, who has been a regular visitor for the past two years. “If you go there on a particular night, you will see the same people—it’s such a niche market. There’s nowhere else for these people to go, so you’ll see them every week...