Word: cultish
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ultimate Supper." The original Last Supper starred only Jesus and the 12 apostles, but version 2.0 includes not only them but also most of the cast and crew joining together in one unholy racket. Everyone is trying to talk at once, each hoping to convey the unbridled, almost cultish enthusiasm that pervades all aspects of this show's production. Jesus tries to silence the masses a few times but eventually takes to silently breaking His bread (actually a calzone) and drinking from His cup (just lemonade...
...satellite cameras, the viewing public is warned earlier ?- and titillated more meticulously ? than ever before. Like voyagers to Kong Island, we heard the slow, ominous drumbeat long before we glimpsed the beast. Eye-popping computer models, resplendent in oranges and greens, swirled on television screens; mass-market CNN and cultish Weather Channel competed for wide eyeballs with nonstop coverage. On September 11, CNN.com could already trumpet the coming of Floyd "picking up steam," though it was still in its Category 2 infancy, crawling at 10 mph, and hundreds of miles from the Florida Coast. On the 14th, it was close...
...Vespas have had a devoted following. Supplies of the bikes dwindled after a 1981 California law prohibiting their smog-emitting engines led Piagio to stop exporting them to the U.S. in the mid-'80s. Yet demand has only grown, and lately devotees have transformed a cultish affection into an unprecedented vintage-scooter revival. Sales of old and restored Vespas and Lambrettas (no longer produced) have more than tripled since 1996, averaging $3,500 each...
...movie, adapted from his own novel by Scott B. Smith and directed by Sam Raimi, whose specialty is cultish horror films, has an addled, feckless sobriety about it. These people think they're saying something serious about greed and how it can cloud people's judgment. They want you to think Fargo or The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. But there's neither intricacy nor surprise in the narrative, and these dopes are tedious, witless company. Mostly you find yourself thinking, "How long until dinner...
...American Girls Collection, drawn from evocative periods of U.S. history. They include daring slave girl Addy and plucky Victorian orphan Samantha. Each of the six chubby-cheeked dolls comes with a book that tells her story. Though they cost a pocket-puckering $82 apiece, the dolls have won a cultish following among preadolescent girls. Sales reached $287 million last year, up 12% from...