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...freak fashion may be contributing to its popularity this season. Marketing has targeted those who would not ordinarily look to buying off-beat clothing, through the usual mediums of television and radio advertisements, along with flyers throughout Cambridge. To inform regulars, advertisements regularly run in newspapers with a cult following, such as The Noise and the Weekly...
...time to pull the trigger on my life has finally arrived. I find myself deciding between working for five years for three letters (P, h, and D), or one year for (hopefully, but unlikely) six digits. I must say, after Summers’ installation, the cult of academia seems pretty cool, with all the robes and the pomp and the circumstance and the bagpipes. But scooting around on the Internet investigating graduate programs, I realized that much of science has become as stale as the moldy bread from the perennial junior-high microbiology experiment...
...that regard, the experience of Japan's Aum Shinrikyo cult is instructive. The group, which carried out an infamous nerve-gas attack in the Tokyo subways in 1995, had tried to work up an anthrax weapon. Aum had plenty of cash, recruited scientists into its ranks and cultivated biological-warfare experts in the former Soviet Union. But in the end, it never could pull off a successful assault using anthrax...
...metaphors ("I will spread my buttery justice over your every nook and cranny!"), and in the pilot he fights a Soviet robot built in 1979 to kill Jimmy Carter, as if to admit that the very idea of the infallible superhero is decades outdated. Based on Ben Edlund's cult comic, this is exactly the kind of highly ironic, hero-puncturing entertainment that is supposedly a no-no now. Except that it's also creative, appealing and spray-milk-out-your-nose funny. The Tick is a blustery, lovable naif, a rippled blue mountain of earnestness so innocent...
...what you will about the cult of celebrity, but it is interesting to see young Al Pacino reclining in his apartment on Fourteenth Street (1969) or to see Norman Mailer sandwiched between two reels of film as he worked on the film Law and Order, his second documentary (1968). It is the photos of these people with famous faces that grip the most; Cary Grant, unsurprisingly, fills the frame, as Jeffry herself said: “It doesn’t usually take more than 10 minutes to get a good picture— especially if you look like Cary...