Word: cults
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first the villagers reacted in kind, but as Gibran became a cult hero of the young, royalty income mounted to a current $300,000 a year. The town dissolved into political, legal and physical fighting for control of the money...
Weld film festivals have been held in Manhattan, and there is already something of a Tuesday Weld cult, which was partially inspired, paradoxically, by the fact that she has been so good in so many bad films. "She was undervalued year after year," says Roddy McDowall, who starred with her in Lord Love a Duck, one of her less awful movies. As a drum majorette in Pretty Poison, a fine but little-publicized 1968 film, she mixed innocence with evil to chilling effect, etching her character with acid and honey...
Vivid Warning. Yet when Maurits Escher died last month, aged 73, a cult had begun to gather round him. Through many channels, from head-shop posters to science magazines, Escher had been insinuated into world currency. A lavish book, The Complete World of M.C. Escher, will shortly be published by Abrams. This week an almost complete exhibition of his graphics opens at the Vorpal Gallery in San Francisco, where the prints Escher sold for $ 17 to $40 two decades ago are being offered...
...experience was particularly intense for Clare Rosen, who was completing six months training for her conversion from Catholicism to Judaism. Those studies dovetailed with her journalistic chores, which included a visit to a mysterious cult of Jews outside Mexico City, lunch with six Orthodox rabbis on Manhattan's Lower East Side interviews and with Conservative Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum. After bestowing the traditional three blessings that complete the conversion cere mony, the rabbi quipped: "You even look Jewish." At a family gathering, her mother-in-law teased that Clare had learned more about Judaism and its history than anyone else...
Beneath the enthusiasm evident all over China the visitor senses an almost palpable current of restraint and hesitancy-a whiff, perhaps, of the kind of fretful, nervous caution that pervaded Russia during the Stalin era. There is an echo of Stalinism in the prevalence of the cult of Mao, which overwhelms the visitor. The country seems slightly dazed, as if only recently emerged from shock therapy. There is a visible effort to blend in, not to be singled out because of deviant actions or opinions...