Word: cults
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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King Of Hearts (Harvard Square): The movie this reviewer will attend if a suitable companion can be found. It's about a French town that opens the doors of its insane asylum just before the Nazis arrive. Cheaper than the MX and more effective. This is one of those cult movies that people go to see 37 times before they scream "I'm sick of this shit" and run out of the theater. My theory is that every fifth frame of a cult movie shows an authority figure saying "See this movie repeatedly." I use a similar tactic...
Cause and Effect--And yet, Rebel Without A Cause sent a shockwave through the 1950s--to the point where the movie was banned in Japan. To the point where red barracuda jackets were becoming an epidemic. To the point where a cult of Dean emerged complete with teenagers who tried to contact his spirit and were convinced that somehow he'd come back. It was one of those weird flashes of fusion, where some source, regardless of its quality, taps into some undercurrent that everyone else has ignored. Witness Kerouac. Witness Kesey. Witness Presley...
...month after Dean died Rebel was released and the cult of Dean began...
Your article on books promoting the cult of ailurophobia, the hatred or fear of cats [Sept. 21], reminds me of the Chinese proverb: "He whodislikes the cat was in his former life...
Those people who fiddle around with the federal budget have become the new cult figures in Washington. There is glamour in ledgers, computer print-outs and bar graphs. The big star, clearly, is David Stockman, director of the Office of Management and Budget. But Alice Rivlin, director of the Congressional Budget Office, surely deserves an Oscar for supporting actress in this new drama...