Word: cults
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lost (not to mention loud) Generation of the '60s took up the sect's chant ("Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna, Krishna, Hare, Hare; Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama, Rama, Hare, Hare"). Within ten years, and with a little help from the Beatles, the Hare Krishnas became a worldwide cult, flaunting millions of dollars and commanding thousands of devotees whose shaved heads, saffron robes and mantra became familiar on street corners from Times Square to the Ginza...
...smiling, smirking and haranguing, Broussard evaded all direct questions while blaming the death of his daughter on "the media." His only display of emotion came when he broke into tears as he complained about the media's treatment of him. His program has been unfairly likened to a cult, he said, and he has been called, in his own phrase, a "new Jim Jones." Broussard denied that children in the house were beaten. They were merely "spanked," he said...
...fitness cult may even be growing around ballroom dancing as a contact sport. Some athletes find it a welcome break from grueling training regimens. Former Los Angeles Rams offensive tackle Doug France discovered that "dancing helped my concentration in football." Paul von Beroldingen, a public relations consultant in San Francisco, maintains that "dancing helps my running because it improves my posture, and running helps my dancing because I build stamina -- it takes a lot to get through a cha-cha." Other converts appreciate the discipline and challenge of an activity that cannot be faked. "Ballroom dancing cannot be learned...
Perhaps the most striking example of the agency's "new thinking" was an article last month in the ideological journal Kommunist by Vladimir Rubanov, a department head in the KGB research institute. Rubanov argued for an end to "the cult of secrecy," which was preventing the Soviet Union from becoming an "information" society. He pointed out that although foreign specialists were allowed to visit military sites, Soviet journalists often could not even visit factories and economic institutions...
...been heard from beyond, seen at Burger King, revered at Graceland. Eleven years after Elvis' death, his cult is becoming a religion...