Word: cult
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...mechanics school, is now the visionary behind a $100 million-a-year design business that is also the largest luxury manufacturer in Bali. But Hardy's journey isn't just about growing his company; it's about reimagining a world that is as sensuous, luxurious and sustainable as his cult jewelry...
...Hardy's unique silver designs became a marker for kindred souls traveling through Asia. ?People saw others wearing my jewelry in the airport, and it was like a secret code,? he says. ?Without speaking, they knew where the other had been.? The code became a cult following and then, in 1989, became an order from Neiman Marcus, the premier retailer of luxury goods...
DIED. CHRIS WHITLEY, 45, innovative singer-songwriter best known for his 1991 debut album, Living with the Law, and its radio hit, Big Sky Country; of lung cancer; in Houston. With its fresh, electrified take on country-blues, Law inspired glowing reviews and a cult following. Yet Whitley avoided formulas, going on to record 11 albums that touched on a range of styles, from grunge to jazz...
...best known for Things Fall Apart, a powerful work of fiction that almost half a century after its release still tops lists of Africa's greatest novels - uses blunt prose to deliver the message in Trouble. Chapter headings telegraph his views: "False Image of Ourselves"; "Social Injustice and the Cult of Mediocrity"; "Indiscipline"; "Corruption." Achebe lays out his case in the book's very first sentence: "The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership." Many Nigerians agreed, and Africans across the continent reached similar conclusions about their own countries. Which is why, in the mid-1990s...
...tech-savvy enough that they'll pay not to miss episodes--or to watch them on their own schedule--the revenue could help keep such a marginal but critically praised show on the air. With new distribution channels, a production company could even try to sell a canceled cult show directly to the public. Nothing like this will happen immediately. It took DVD years to take off, but once it did, DVD sales of Family Guy were so huge they prompted Fox to uncancel it. Could VOD do the same? "It's conceivable," Zucker says. "I could envision that happening...