Word: cultishly
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...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...
...deadline? Some sort of cultish prophecy, perhaps? Nope. He's talking about the famous Year 2000 computer bug, or Y2K, as the acronym-happy computer industry has dubbed it. On Jan. 1, 2000, May and many other software experts believe, millions of computer systems could go haywire, shutting down life as we know it and turning our information age into a digitally dysfunctional society. Electric and phone service could be lost. Banks and supermarkets shuttered. Life savings could vanish and lives be imperiled...
...Through this evening's discussion I hope we can lend some respectability to anime as an art form," said Michael K. Tan '01, a member of AAA and moderator for the evening's discussion. Tan said he wanted to make Anime less of a cultish phenomenon...
...BASH officers frown at intimations that their group resembles a cultish can of die-hard fans. "We're not out to incite revolution, all we're saying is happiness is a warm gun, that's all," Kwak says, in reference to one of his "White Album" favorites...
...will never be easy to talk, or deal, with North Korea, an almost cultish hall of mirrors ruled by a neophyte whose only qualification for power is his patrimony. Cuba, to be sure, has many Potemkin surfaces, plus all the brutality of a police state, but its people are worldly enough at least to know how much salt to sprinkle on their slogans, and its leader, up against his ninth American President, is canny enough to adapt a little to the times. While Cuban official billboards occasionally note how "Pride" in the Revolution has led to "Upset" and "Disenchantment," North...