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...preening like a parrot on a stump about the need to renew American civilization. This is the guy who hates the '60s but reincarnates them in his 40-acres-and-a-laptop Utopianism; who thinks kitsch "futurologists" like Alvin and Heidi Toffler are gurus and that a fund-raising cultist like Arianna Huffington is an intellectual. He filled his cable-TV sermons about "Renewing American Civilization" with brazen plugs for corporations that contributed to his funding operation, GOPAC. He wants to destroy the national endowments while promoting tax breaks for developers on Mars. There are times when "American civilization" should...
...four young men jumped out of a Mitsubishi van and grabbed him. He has not been seen since. When police found a similar van with traces of Kariya's blood in it and the fingerprints of sect members, they issued a warrant for the arrest of a high-ranking cultist...
Just what terms the Kurds might exact from Baghdad were unclear last week. Such is the cultist world Saddam has created that the talks were suspended until this week so that he could publicly celebrate his 54th birthday. According to British diplomats, though, the deal includes more Cabinet seats for Kurds in a reorganized government, safe passage for returning refugees, the adoption of democracy in Iraq and autonomy for the Kurds within their native area. Whether the major oil-producing center of Kirkuk should be included in the autonomous zone is a divisive issue, as it has been in past...
Macedo, a former Catholic and spirit cultist, says Catholics "cause all the suffering and misery in the country" and accuses the spirit cults of devil worship and the sacrifice of children and animals. Striking back, the national body of Afro-Brazilian cults filed criminal charges in 1988 against the Universal Church for fraud and slander of other faiths. Police in four states are investigating the church. Macedo laughs off the inquiries: "If I'm really making them poor and am bad for them, why do the people keep giving and coming back...
...really are conventional stories, or nearly so, with shape and some sort of resolution. Two or three are wholly shapeless, like twelve months out of twelve in the real world. The narrator meets a renowned Indian healer named Rolling Thunder, and nothing happens; then a crazed and menacing religious cultist, and nothing happens again. Even when the narrator's brain- dazed brother, an outlaw biker, kills a man in a brawl -- something happens here, certainly -- the fact comes out only as an aside, as part of a moody, troubling description of his skirmish with a bored psychiatrist...