Word: cults
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WHEN PEOPLE BECOME cult figures it frequently becomes difficult to separate the usually vulgar behavior and attitudes of their admirers from the quality and meaning of their work. They become engulfed in their popularity; to outsiders, they become obscured by the swarm around them. This phenomenon is particularly true of figures in the world of entertainment, and even more valid when applied to deceased entertainment figures, blurred or overwhelmed by their constantly receding popularity. Still, some of these figures--particularly the true giants of their fields--manage to shine through their haloes, as it were. By their lives, reputations...
...writes a note that might have been minted for the Me Decade: "The Cult of the Self presupposes either optimism or a dilettante's attitude toward life. Both nonsense. Do not select a life, but make the one you have stretch...
...artsy-craftsy fern patterns and other vegetable decor, to their detriment. But her references to an archaeological past are almost always successful. The biscuity surface of the sprawl ing bodies alludes, though not blatantly, to the plaster corpses of Pompeii, just as the division into parts refers to the cult of the antique fragment ? a hand here, a fragment of leg there, a split face...
...rock and even classical concertgoers are now being closely watched by a new audience. The Food and Drug Administration's Bureau of Radiological Health has begun sending inspectors to light shows to make sure that FDA safety standards are being met. The bureau recently informed the Blue Oyster Cult, a rock band, that its laser show needed readjusting, and last month it abruptly halted a preview performance of an M.I.T.-sponsored light show scheduled to run all summer on the Mall in Washington...
...three different locations. His mysterious captors not only wanted to break up his marriage, he said, but to talk him out of his new-found religion. He had been the victim of a bizarre and forceful "deprogramming" technique, he claimed. Levitt was no convert to a weird new cult, however, but a Jew who had lately converted to Christianity and wanted to marry a Gentile...