Word: cults
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...doll in the ass, a replies of a penis that shot whipped cream over the first ten or so rows of the orchestra, and others too humerous to mention. In 1968, IT WAS CALLED SOCIAL SATIRE. But times have changed, and Alice Cooper is now "the droog as cult-idol." And his stage act is called "ominous, overwhelming, primal...
...Four more years of hypocrisy, duplicity, and the cult of presidential personality. Four more years. God help...
UNFORTUNATELY, NICHOLSON is threatening to become America's newest anti-mainstream cult figure. He made his reputation in Easy Rider as a boozy small town lawyer hopping across the country in a search of an alternative to urban America. In Five Easy Pieces he played the misfit artist who made an ethic out of lonely and ignored self-destruction. He was an uncritical social dropout, however, suffering from a congenital incompatibility with what happened to be a sick scene. Like it or not, his road trip was still an endorsement of Playboy America. David Staebler lacks even this vivacity...
...part, Peronism is also a personality cult-in fact, a split-personality cult-built around the twin legends of the deposed dictator and his dead second wife Eva, whom the Argentine descamisados (shirtless ones) have enshrined as a secular saint. "Perón y Evita," are an enduring political force in Argentina. Walls in Buenos Aires are plastered with fresh posters of a sleek and inspiring Evita Perón, "flag bearer of the workers...
During the tumultuous upheavals of the Cultural Revolution, Mao Tse-tung's Little Red Book of Quotations from Chairman Mao became the Bible of Communist China. Now a letter has surfaced indicating that Chairman Mao himself had grave reservations about the cult of personality that engulfed him and his words in the mid-1960s...