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Harry, the former high school football coach who had made a string of B pictures not quite bad enough to attract a cult following, got his break with a TV tearjerker about a dying athlete and the mini-series The Blue and the Gray. Linda attributes her success in network television, one of the last remaining outposts of prefeminist thinking, "to the Bic pen and nothing else." She wrote 35 straight episodes of Designing Women, an indoor record in Hollywood. But after 150 episodes, the top-rated show about four intelligent women had won only one Emmy -- for hairdressing...
...religious group, which has been called a "cult" by critics, is not a part of the Harvard-Radcliffe United Ministry since its practice of proselytizing violates Ministry policy...
...political propaganda, and has to embrace stereotypes that no classicist today would accept without deep reservations. First, the exhibit wants to indicate how Greek sculpture changed in the classical period, by showing its movement from the frontal, rigid forms of 6th century B.C. kouroi, whose ancestry lay in Egyptian cult figures, to the more naturalistic treatment of balance and bodily movement one sees in works such as The Kritios Boy (circa 480 B.C.), which was found on the Acropolis. And it demonstrates this in considerable detail, through marvelous examples of 5th century sculpture that include the titanically grave and simple...
What's going on here? Can this dark, gritty show really be the latest spin- off in the Star Trek saga -- that seemingly never-ending cult series about a Utopian future in which knowledge and technology conquer disease and poverty and all the races and species in the universe coexist in near perfect harmony? Yes, Mr. Spock, this is Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, a syndicated show premiering the week of Jan. 4. It takes Star Trek, created 27 years ago by visionary producer Gene Roddenberry, further into uncharted territory than ever before, and is the first Trek venture initiated...
...been known to give employees a ride home in her limo just to keep a conversation going. "Donna draws you in. She's this irresistible force," says Beth - Wohlgelernter, who worked as her executive assistant for six years. The staff, in fact, amounts to something of a Karan cult. Says Jane Chung, the senior vice president for design at DKNY, who has worked for Karan for 10 years: "There's no question that everyone loves what she does and wants to dress like her and be like...