Word: cult
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...market value, all the gold doubloon clipart in the world can’t fix his social deficiencies or bad breath. On the plus side, a book about fake ambitions, repressed fantasies and the inability to function in the real world probably will sell great over at MIT. The Cult of iPod by Leander Kahney I felt embarrassed holding this book at the COOP, because the cover—a bird’s eye view of someone with an old-fashioned iPod click wheel shaved into his head—was already obsolete. Or maybe this was done...
...CULT OF THE SMALL FAMILY FARMER dates back to Thomas Jefferson, who hailed humble "cultivators of the earth" as America's "most valuable" and "most virtuous" citizens. Politicians still paint American Gothic portraits of the country folk who toil in the soil to grow our food and fiber. But at the Husker Harvest Days farm show in September in Grand Island, Neb., it was clear how far American agriculture had come from the days when Cornhuskers husked corn by hand...
That outcome was far from certain. Romney and his PowerPoint traveled from one end of Massachusetts to the other. But as a Republican, Romney had very little leverage with the legislature, where the GOP's representation was so small it was less a minority than a cult. What's more, the senate and the house had very different ideas of what they wanted to do. As the two chambers squabbled, the Medicaid money was in danger of slipping away...
...Orwellian world only a stretch of the imagination? The former tutor of North Korea’s ruling family thinks not. “North Korea is not an ordinary dictatorship—it is a religious cult,” Hyun Sik Kim told 200 audience members yesterday in a speech entitled “North Korea Inside Out—How North Koreans Think, What They Want, Why They Submit to Kim Jung Il.” When asked what religion they practice, Kim said North Koreans say they study the teachings of Kim Il Sung, the country?...
...things went the way he thought they would, director Howard Deutch would be working in advertising and the 1986 cult classic “Pretty in Pink” would never have been made. Had things worked out the way she pictured, Lea Thompson would have pursued a dancing career, not the role of mother-turned-heartthrob Lorraine Baines McFly in 1985’s “Back to the Future.”Generations X-ers and ’80s fans must be glad things didn’t work out as planned. Husband-and-wife team...