Word: cult
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...fans of the cult-hit comic, the movie is a lushly realized dream. The dialogue, plot, and scene composition of every second of the story mirrors the original, and its casting is spot-on. Its structure parallels that of Pulp Fiction, and consists of three full-length story arcs from the comic...
...lives, as a wickedly dark commentator on America with an apparently inexhaustible supply of ideas - all of which are on display at the exhibition "Robert Crumb: A Chronicle of Modern Times" at London's Whitechapel Art Gallery. Crumb's brilliant, savage but also truly comic strips earned him immediate cult status when they were first published in the U.S. in the late '60s. His creations suited the mood of the time - an ebullient rejection of the preceding conformist, suburban decades. He drew and wrote whatever came into his mind, including fantasies of bizarre sex and physical disintegration, delineated with meticulous...
StriVectin certainly isn't the first antiaging cream to spark a frenzy with better-than-the-rest claims. Crème de la Mer, bought by Estée Lauder in 1995, was the first cream to become a cult favorite. Made with sea kelp, La Mer sold for more than $150 for a 2-oz. jar, the first skin-care product to break that price point. Another big push came with the publication of well-known dermatologist Dr. Nicholas Perricone's book, The Wrinkle Cure, in 2000 and the launch of his pricey line of skin-care potions. (Perricone just opened...
...Moment of silence observed at a Tokyo subway station last week on the 10th anniversary of Aum Shinrikyo's sarin gas attack, which killed 12 and wounded 5,500 1,650 Number of followers of the Aum Shinrikyo cult, now known as Aleph, down from 11,000 at the time of the attack...
...jury heard, this was a man so obsessed with saving a buck that he sniffed out $18,000 in cost overruns in a $3 billion budget, fretted about coffee-filter expenses and wanted the bottled-water machine filled with tap water. Penny pinching like that had made him a cult hero on Wall Street--and an improbable dupe to a jury...