Word: cult
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...bottles have cult followings. "If I were planning a room inspired by [Arizona's] Green Tea with Ginseng," wrote interior designer Carelton Varney in the Palm Beach Daily News, "I'd go for an aqua-blue wall with a carpeting of rose pink, and I'd be certain to find an Asian print to use for drapery...
DIED. DAN CURTIS, 78, TV producer; in Los Angeles. In the early 1960s, Curtis pitched a campy soap set on a desolate Maine estate and centered on a vampire and other gothic creatures. It became the cult hit Dark Shadows, which ran on ABC from 1966 to '71. Later he produced and directed two of the best-rated mini-series in history: The Winds of War and its sequel, War and Remembrance--starring Robert Mitchum, above with Curtis--for which he won an Emmy...
...standards have improved vastly over the past decade, thanks to the emergence of a uniform language involving five main types of behavior. The testing industry remains largely unregulated, however. "There's still a Wild West of unsupported, unproven tests out there," says Annie Murphy Paul, author of The Cult of Personality Testing...
Science should not have felt compelled to censor Lawrence’s article, for which there is overwhelming biological, evolutionary, and genetic evidence. When it comes to cutting-edge scientific theories, do not fault the messengers—only the suffocating cult of political correctness that is tainting the objectivity of science with foul political agendas...
...maniacal dedication to what is least likely to surprise, confuse, or offend passes as a celebration of tradition at best; at worst, it becomes a tired, nauseating series of in-jokes. No matter what arguments writers, producers, and directors come up with to stick to such “cult of theater” elements, it’s become increasingly clear that these tropes are not being included for their own merit, but to cover something else—mediocrity. So when the rare show comes along that aspires to break through the familiar mold, it?...