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...Crimson Key: 1. Cheery cult of students cloaked in crimson who organize orientation week and give campus tours to wide-eyed visitors...
Jeff Bridges got zapped into it in TRON. Keanu Reeves reached it by means of a red pill in The Matrix. In Neal Stephenson's novel Snow Crash--a cult classic in Silicon Valley--our hero, Hiro Protagonist, goes there wearing goggles and a pair of virtual-reality gloves. It's where I expect to be spending my evenings in the twilight of my life, without ever leaving the comfort of my sofa. And--who knows?--maybe I'll meet you there...
...troops dug in along the cease-fire line. Deep differences, in other words, may remain for some time, as Pyongyang makes its first, hesitant moves toward opening its doors to the world, ever fearful that such an opening could bring the edifice of its personality-cult communism crashing down. But in opening a dialogue that could continue for years, the two Kims warmed the hearts of their divided people with the first set of images almost certain to make it into any "Great Moments of the Decade" collection...
...first-year, she gained a small degree of cult-like fame among her classmates. People she didn't know would strike up friendly conversations with her in Annenberg, waiting to emote a "Hey...Macarena!" somewhere mid-sentence...
DIED. PAUL BARTEL, 61, writer, director and actor whose talent for black comedy was best exemplified in the 1982 cult hit Eating Raoul; of unknown causes; in New York City. Bartel acted in nearly 70 films, including the recently released adaptation of Hamlet...