Word: culted
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...TOOK HALF A DECADE and some very lean seasons for most designers to figure out what women were looking for in the '90s. But one, Miuccia Prada, knew the answer all along: wearable clothes with a touch of class. Prada is a cult that is about to become a movement. The popular thing to say about the Prada style is that it looks like nothing--but that is meant as a compliment. Instead of making a bold statement, like Versace or Lacroix, the clothes are unassertive, combining traditional good manners and an ultramodern industrial sleekness...
COURT ORDERS CULT DISBANDED...
...Tokyo District Court, finding that Japan's Aum Shinrikyo manufactured the sarin nerve gas used in the Tokyo subway attack, ordered that the cult lose its tax-sheltered status as a religious organization. The ruling paves the way for a liquidation of Aum's assets, estimated at anywhere from $20 million to $1 billion. The proceeds from the sale would be seized by the government or used to settle lawsuits against the cult. Echoing the relief felt by a vast majority of his countrymen, Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama said, "We were expecting to hear this conclusion, and I am glad...
...overreacting to a mere newspaper column. "She's married to a rich man," sputtered Dole campaign spokesman Nelson Warfield, "and if that's the criterion, Zsa Zsa Gabor should be on the Sunday talk shows." Her seriousness has also been questioned on account of her past association with California cult leader John-Roger...
...year's top novice was Kevin Smith, with his clever, scratchy comedy Clerks. Now these twentysomething phenoms are flouting the sophomore slump--the Hugheses with the epic-size Dead Presidents, Smith with the loosey-goosey comedy Mallrats. Joining them in the ambition to reach a wider audience is gay cult fave Gregg Araki, who gives his new tragi-comedy, The Doom Generation, the cunning subtitle "a heterosexual movie." The director of the homo-erratic dramas The Living End and Totally F***ed Up is itching to break out, on his own terms. But straight or gay, black or white, these...