Word: cults
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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First, there is the cult of the body, whose origins extend to the physical fitness craze of the last decade, but since then it has hypertrophied into a multibillion-dollar industry of fad diets and workouts, swank running shoes and high-tech exercise equipment. Who has not known someone whose motto is "no pain, no gain" or someone who scrutinizes their muscles for their tone...
Whenever Harvard defenseman Kevan Melrose heads into the penalty box, fans cheer. He is Bright Center's newest cult figure. It is one strange relationship...
...what Gilligan said shouldn't detract from the excitement at Bright where Melrose played the role of unlikely hero. Bright rocked. Bright rolled. Its new cult figure celebrated on the ice. The relationship is not so strange anymore...
...SINGING DETECTIVE Dennis Potter's BBC serial, about a writer lacerated by memory and liberated by fantasy, was an instant cult classic on TV. Now it has barreled onto the big screen -- all 6 hr. 42 min. of singing, dancing, dazzling talking. In either format, a bloody masterpiece...
...Potter celebration reaches its climax: The Singing Detective, his 1986 masterpiece about a hospitalized writer, has begun a six-week run in Manhattan's Public Theater movie house. When this 6-hr. 42-min. serial was broadcast on PBS earlier this year, it attracted a rabid cult following, and New York Times film critic Vincent Canby called it "one of the wittiest, wordiest, singingest-dancingest, most ambitious, freshest, most serious, least solemn movies of the year." Now Detective, handsomely directed by Jon Amiel, is on the big screen where it belongs -- and where it looks marvelous...