Word: cult
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...knowledgeable about the music, and maybe it’s always going to be that way to a degree,” he says. SO WHATBut, as Everett notes, the status of jazz at Harvard echoes the dynamics of the broader jazz culture. Although jazz is not quite cult music, it is also not the music of the masses. Everett paraphrases a saxophonist who describes jazz as “an unpopular form of popular music.” Besides reflecting the situation of the jazz world outside Harvard, the relative smallness of the student jazz culture has allowed...
...something you want to do.’”Despite breaking into the business with relative ease, it has taken Segel a while to get his leading role. Segel is probably best-remembered as Nick, the John Bonham-worshiping burnout from the Apatow-produced cult television series “Freaks and Geeks.” After that series he did another critically acclaimed but short-lived show with Apatow called “Undeclared,” followed by a stint on “CSI.” Recently, though, he has settled into the role...
...other experts, however, the concern is not the separation of church and state but deprogramming. The bottom line, according to Utah psychologist Dr. Larry Beall, who has worked work with women and children who have fled polygamists sects, is the FLDS is a "cult" involved in "plain ole brainwashing since birth." Says Beale, "They have been taught that anyone on the outside is untrustworthy. They are the enemy and they are going to hurt you." He adds, "My experiences with these kids is once they are out of the controlled environment they come to enjoy their freedom...
...acclaimed fictional graphic novels, and works of autobiography.The idea of going the extra mile to give information to an interested but uninformed buyer is key to Picnic’s business. “With underground comics, we took a different tack,” Davis says. Take the cult hit series “Eightball,” by Daniel Clowes. “The idea was to say, ‘Did you like ‘Eightball’ #5? We have #1, too.’ That way, we could build readership...
...script ages ago, I was sitting and thinking that it would be really fun to translate some random song into Yiddish and I came up with ‘Bohemian Rhapsody.’ It’s a really fun, crazy song that has a sort of cult following,” she says. “It is the grand finale of the show.”Now that the writing and directing processes are reaching their conclusions, Togut hopes that her play will find a wide audience. “It was very important for me that...