Word: cults
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...drunken lark. The second man, however, gave an alias and disappeared. Last month he suddenly turned himself in, identified himself as Michael James Meisner, 27, a former national secretary of the Church of Scientology, and said he had just escaped from two months of "house arrest" by cult members. Meisner told the FBI that he had supervised a whole program of covert operations against several Government agencies during 1975-76. Scientologists had planted the arrested IRS employee and a Justice Department secretary in their jobs for the express purpose of stealing documents concerning investigations of Scientology, Meisner said. Church operatives...
...Shirts. Produced at a cost of $10 million, Star Wars by most estimates will gross $100 million this year alone. Fox, which owns 60% of the picture (Director George Lucas and some partners share the rest) stands to gain $30 million. Add in Fox's share of cult merchandise already inspired by the film -model spaceships, T shirts, 640,000 sound-track record albums, figurines of the movie's fantastic characters, such as Artoo-Detoo and Chewbacca-and the company stands to stash away a lot of cash. On top of that. Fox has in distribution several other...
...good guys still win some of the time, and an affectionate needle at the legendary Flash Gordon movies of yesteryear all wrapped into one very slick package. And while devotees of the sci-fi movie genre may not take too kindly to the implicit parody of their chosen cult contained in Lucas' film, the dazzling special effects of Star Wars by themselves should prove sufficient to eclipse any lingering qualms they might experience about this decidedly good-natured spoof of motion pictures that journey into the great unknown of space...
...Knutti is not applying any show-business touches to the cult of the cloth. He vetoed all proposals for concession stands and bumper stickers. "Whatever it is, it's good and people have gotten a tremendous spiritual uplift from it," he says. "I want to share it but I don't want it to become a side show...
...grown fruits and vegetables. I have little faith in fanatical purists, and the stray bits of cellophane-wrapped junk food made the valley residents' convictions about energy and nature, waste and consumption emerge with more validity in my mind than if they were just the rhetoric of some perverse cult...