Word: cult
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When California Congressman Leo Ryan tried to lead a group of Peoples Temple defectors out of the cult's Jonestown, Guyana, headquarters in 1978, Larry Layton joined him at the last minute. Later, when a truckload of Peoples Temple members ambushed and killed the Congressman and four others at a nearby airstrip, Layton pulled a pistol and wounded two would-be defectors. Within hours, Cult Leader Jim Jones led 912 of his followers in a grisly mass murder--suicide...
...wasn't the taste or smell that made me bail. Nor was it the lack of options or even the hunger. It was the difficulty--the social exclusion of being in a cult whose members talk about food all the time. But I did like a good deal of what I ate. And I liked the way the diet packed nutrition into each of its precious calories. I'll probably order from RAWvolution again. And I'll probably knock off most of that week's delivery on Monday night. But it will make me feel much better about the ribs...
Aaron Baer, 25, who won a cult following among G.O.P. officials as e-mailer of the party's constant stream of news alerts, is going to Romney. Matt David, 27, a behind-the-scenes document wizard who knew every word Kerry had said and remixed those words for effect, chose McCain. Matt Rhoades, 31, the former Republican National Committee research director and master of the invisibly planted story, is going Romney. Brian Jones, 36, his former boss, went McCain. Most are protégés of Steve (Bullet) Schmidt, 36, the imposing workaholic who ran the 24-hour war room...
...Some call The Secret a "transformative" message movie. Mixing the ancient conspiracy hoodoo of The Da Vinci Code with the psychic science of 2004's cult hit What the Bleep Do We Know!?, it interweaves computer graphics, historical recreations and interviews with "experts" into a study of "intention-manifestation" - the philosophy that contends our emotions and thoughts can actually influence real-word events. In other words: if you really, truly believe you can beat the lottery and visualize scratching off a winning ticket, you can do exactly that...
...Utah, man (Bill Paxton) and his multiple wives was a surprisingly sympathetic treatment of religious fundamentalism and a master-class acting showcase. Ginnifer Goodwin, Chloë Sevigny and Jeanne Tripplehorn portrayed a complicated "sister-wives" dynamic, while Harry Dean Stanton was supporting character of the year as a deliciously snaky cult leader...