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Wherever they are now, those 39 Nike-clad members of the Heaven's Gate cult who committed the tidiest of suicides last March didn't leave behind much except for their bodily "vehicles," a few personal possessions and a handful of still living devotees who, in the cult's decidedly unsoaring ecclesiastical language, hadn't yet made it to the "level beyond human." Six weeks later, fellow "students" Chuck Humphrey and Wayne ("Nick") Cooke attempted to complete their course work in the approved manner--by swallowing a combination of alcohol and phenobarbital and tying plastic bags over their heads...
...Brightest Light The heavens were lighted last spring by the magnificent Comet Hale-Bopp, which whizzed within 120 million miles of Earth. Countless people turned out and craned up to see it--among them 39 members of the Heaven's Gate cult who took the comet as a sign that it was time to take their lives. That they did, leaving a dark blot on a brilliant event...
...another part of the alien-conscious nation, at Rancho Santa Fe, near San Diego, Calif., 39 disciples of the Heaven's Gate cult mixed phenobarbital, applesauce and vodka, slipped plastic bags over their heads and persuaded themselves that they were headed for a better life among the stars. Their suicide--the most lethal of the year's mass emotional activities--came in response to the appearance of the Hale-Bopp comet, an astronomical surprise that incited other public anxieties about the coming millennium...
...Promise Keepers, all men, another cult of sorts, came together in stadiums all over the country to make mass statements of contrition for past sins and to beg forgiveness for wife abuse, child abandonment, infidelity and, apparently equal to the rest, insensitivity. In one whopping convention in Washington on Oct. 4, hundreds of thousands of them pledged their devotion to Jesus, family and one another. Their exhibition of mass apology seemed a down-home version of a wider impulse that has affected whole nations of late. France reiterated its apology for its treacherous and murderous treatment of French Jews under...
...staged at Houston's Alley Theatre. The musical then sat unproduced for several years while its songs worked their way into the pop mainstream: This Is the Moment has turned up at everything from the Winter Olympics to President Clinton's Inaugural. Remounted in 1995, the show became a cult hit around the country before landing on Broadway last spring...