Word: cults
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Until 1958, when the success of his bronze Seagram building in Manhattan changed Mies from the architects' architect to something of a general cult figure, his output of finished structures was quite small. But his final years were full of projects, the last of which is the Brown Wing of Houston's Museum of Fine Arts, which officially opens next January. Completed after his death, it was previewed last fortnight by a black-tie party of more than a thousand Texans. It is the fourth museum building by a leading international architect to rise in Texas...
...Loud. At any rate, the first Tomorrow was spent discussing group marriages with two "triads" of spouses, one with two males, one with two females. Subsequent programs included a round table of rock groupies explaining their avocation, and a confrontation between a young woman involved with a Jesus people cult and a former social worker who "deprograms" such kids at the request of their parents. Upcoming shows will visit a nudist colony and entertain a delegation of homosexuals. "The network knows everything we're going to do," says Tellez, "and they've given us carte blanche...
...Orson Welles, which raised its ticket prices to $2.50 over the summer, now has its own cult film. The Harder They Come has occupied their Cinema I since last March. Its run was recently extended again. So two out of the six area theaters show the same two films every single day. So more and more people have to turn to Boston or TV to find a movie they want...
...Harder They Come. Starring Jimmy Cliff. The movie is already something of a cult phenomenon. And why shouldn't it be? It's got everything: Set in a Jamaican ghetto under sunny blue skies, the movie looks like a rough etching for a travelogue; a reggae singer on the up and up is bullied and spat down by the local fat king of the record business; he falls for a young sweet 'n innocent ward of the neighborhood preacher, and then shows up the preacher's God-stricken ranting and moaning and raving and groaning as simple lechery; his ambition...
...youth cult films of the '60s catered to the grossest fantasies of the times. In Wild in the Streets, a 19-year-old becomes President and puts over-35s in concentration camps. In // ... rebel students gun down parents and teachers for no apparent reason. Today Hollywood vaults contain films of this sort that were made after the generation battle had cooled; they are no longer box office...