Word: culted
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...roommates are amazed. I have taken on cult status among my friends and I have the feeling that the National Enquirer is going to come knocking on my door to ask where I get my psychic energy...
...years later, Lauderdale has become something of a cult figure in Adams House, where he is as much a part of the landscape as the dark wood panneling, black turtlenecks and cigarette smoke haze...
There is a permanent residue of ideas from early Abstractionists in Pousette-Dart's thinking -- notions about transcendence and spirituality that filtered in from fin-de-siecle cult figures like Madame Blavatsky and Rudolf Steiner, and that had more impact on Mondrian and Kandinsky than all the established churches put together. The effect is to downplay nature in favor of culture. "Nature does not satisfy art," one finds in Pousette-Dart's copious notes, cited in the catalog, "but art satisfies nature. Nature is dumb, while art is conscious, articulate, triumphant." This aesthete's idealism sounds unduly high flown. What...
...choice on to me; you won't find me jogging in Central Park at night. I want something better for my daughter. I want fathers to raise boys to respect women as equals and keep their fists to themselves. Some cherished male folkways may have to go -- the cult of hyperviolent heroes like Rambo, for example. Too bad. I want men to confront their own aggression, the pleasure they take in its depiction and the excuses they make for its enactment -- that no really means yes, that wives need to know who's boss, that "bad" girls are fair game...
...bomb than play it safe." Like her colleagues, she finds plenty of pratfalls in autobiography. She recalls her overprotective parents: "My tricycle had seven wheels. And a driver." She speaks about pets with fancy trims: "I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult." And she fondly remembers an apartment near New York City's Central Park. "I couldn't actually see the park, but if I concentrated I could hear the screams for help...