Word: cult
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...Puri enjoyed a prolific film career, acting in more than 200 movies. His success in foreign features such as Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and Gandhi brought him global recog-nition, while his role as devious gang leader Mogambo in 1987's Mr. India made him a cult figure at home...
Turns out, people were up for that. Although it was neither a reality series nor a procedural cop show--the dominant formats of the past few years--Lost (Wednesdays, 8 p.m. E.T.) was an instant top-10 hit. ABC last week moved Alias, a cult favorite whose ratings never matched the fame of its star Jennifer Garner, into the hour afterward; it won the time period with its biggest prime-time audience ever. It is only fitting that Abrams should get, essentially, his own night on the network, because he has practically invented his own genre: intelligent confections that combine...
...1960s with the spy spoof That Man from Rio, which followed Jean-Paul Belmondo on a global search for a statuette, and the antiwar satire King of Hearts, starring a young Alan Bates as a disillusioned World War I soldier, a flop in France but a longtime art-house cult...
...time when older workers are having trouble finding jobs. For persons born after 1959, the minimum age for full social security benefits has been raised from 65 to 67. “Raising the age of retirement when the economy is losing millions of jobs, and the youth cult is growing, and midlife discrimination is growing, is a refinement of cruelty,” said Gullette...
Since then, their cult has grown exponentially to such an extent that it’s hard to overstate their influence on the current musical landscape. Even those that don’t obviously ape them are indebted to the scene that catalyzed around them (for a good example, see TV on the Radio’s recent cover of “Mr. Grieves?...