Word: cults
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...eight years, Patrick has been tried 13 times and convicted only twice-of misdemeanors. His usual defense: cult-naping is justified if parents think a convert, of whatever age, is in danger. Finally, in San Diego, he was convicted of felony kidnaping, for planning an abduction of a woman he never met. Last week, after hearing a parade of anticult witnesses, the judge gave him a light $5,000 fine and a year in local custody, during which he will be confined to the city...
...Fellini's strategy of deflecting criticism by placing it in his film-in the mouths of buffoons. Predators and editors, gargoyles and groupies, all want a piece of his present and a lock on his future-his promise to make the kind of romantic comedies that established his cult, which for him means a return to the played-out past. He rejects this advice, but he can't escape it. He even dreams of encountering an extraterrestrial who tells him: "You want to do mankind a real service? Tell funnier jokes...
...when most kids are off at college discovering the pleasures of the mind and of the senses, Barbara Grizzuti Harrison started scrubbing toilets in a Jehovah's Witness commune. Ten years in the twisted cult convinced her that "my intelligence was some kind of tricky, predatory animal, which if not kept firmly reined, would surely spring on and destroy...
...latest entry in the Brothers Warner annual line of low-priced sampler LPs available only by mail order. This year's model focuses on punk/new wave performers and their early Seventies antecedents and it's a typically uneven collection of bona-fide gems, collectibles and curiosities for cult fanatics, and the old product-pushing hustle...
...reason for this is largely historical. Europeans, intoxicated with the cult of the Noble Savage, got interested in Hawaii through the Pacific explorers of the 18th century. Large quantities of porta ble Hawaiian artifacts went back on the boats to Europe, where they remain in the British Museum and other collections from Ireland to Germany. European collectors also gathered most of the paintings and drawings of real historical significance that whites made of Hawaii. (How much clearer our sense of English cultural attitudes to the Hawaiians would be, for instance, if the show had borrowed Johann Zoffany's ambitious...