Word: cultish
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...prominent novelist who had offered his services as a negotiator in late 2000. Echoed Yucel Sayman, head of the Istanbul Bar Association: "Both sides have decided that death is the only solution." Local journalists say the public has lost heart and lost interest in the "death fast" and its cultish embrace of morbidity. The strikers appear to have mastered the science of dying, taking liquid and vitamins at a rate that permits them to waste away at an incredibly slow rate. As death approaches, supportive "carers" comfort them and encourage their families to accept the legitimacy of the protest tactic...
Dahl has a history in the business of directing thrillers, having done films of cultish followings such as Red Rock West, The Last Seduction and Unforgettable. Therefore, his direction does not disappoint. Dahl establishes an ominous atmosphere using a variety of unique color and light. Note that a painting of a stormy sea fills a room with its sickish green hue and the glow of fluorescent bulbs outside a motel illuminate a suspenseful scene in red. Furthermore, Dahl savors situations in which his audience knows more about a tense situation than his heroes and heroine do. Viewers are aware...
...Anti-fan yet cultish; objective yet biased; professional yet amateurish; independent yet compromised; indispensable yet irrelevant: so goes "The Comics Journal." It feels like a work of conceptual art. The importance of its existence often overshadows its execution. Still, a serious artform deserves a serious critical outlet and for now the "Journal" is the best and only game in town...
...delighted to come across your profile of the Scottish band Belle and Sebastian [MUSIC, June 19], but I felt it was my duty to object to your description of the group as inspiring "cultish adoration from folks too old and too smart to be hanging posters on the wall." I would remind you that youth doesn't have a monopoly on good taste in music. If my parents' friends are finally beginning to like the songs of Belle and Sebastian, then more power to them. Maybe the band has created not only an album full of incredible songs but also...
Devoted fans aren't unusual in the music world, but Belle and Sebastian--not a duo, but a mixed-gender septet from Glasgow, Scotland--inspires cultish adoration from folks too old and too smart to be hanging posters on the wall. The group's votaries meet in coffee houses to pore over lyrics. A couple proudly reported naming their children Belle and Sebastian. There's even a website devoted to--no joke--original fiction inspired by B&S songs. What artistic force could cause perfectly normal adults to regress into thoroughly obsessed teens...