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...Order's cult status has roots in the mid-'70s, when three of its members were part of Joy Division, an English quartet whose name belied its obsession with the darker side of reality. When Joy Division's leader, Ian Curtis, committed suicide in 1980, the survivors formed New Order, which quickly established its trademark mix of emotionally opaque lyrics, high-tech smarts and hypnotic dance grooves...
...BOTTOM LINE: The cult secret is out: this comic charmer about pen paramours who meet is one of the all-time greats...
CINEMA Arnold battles the rumormongers in Last Action Hero. Un Coeur en Hiver takes a close look at a cold heart. TELEVISION A cartoon dog has its long- promised day. THEATER The cult classic She Loves Me is revealed as a classic, period. BOOKS Arthur Ashe's moving, strangely defensive memoir...
...less competition for positions of rank and power. Occurrences of racism were negligible. "The same changes you notice in the rest of society have affected Harvard students...narcissism and almost neurotic idealism," says Whiteside. "There was far less social concern...political correctness was unthinkable...the politicals were a narrow cult, just as the jocks were...
...supremely fitting that David Koresh fronted a rock-'n'-roll band because many kids look for the same things from a rock group that they do from a cult: a sense of belonging, a sense of worship and the feeling that what they're doing will drive their parents absolutely crazy. Singer Perry Farrell's previous band, the Los Angeles-based alternative-rock quartet Jane's Addiction, provided fans with concerts of pagan celebration: their music was bursting with guitar-powered Dionysian frenzy and golden calf-esque imagery (Bored with your lives, children...