Word: cults
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been known to give employees a ride home in her limo just to keep a conversation going. "Donna draws you in. She's this irresistible force," says Beth - Wohlgelernter, who worked as her executive assistant for six years. The staff, in fact, amounts to something of a Karan cult. Says Jane Chung, the senior vice president for design at DKNY, who has worked for Karan for 10 years: "There's no question that everyone loves what she does and wants to dress like her and be like...
...form of rule if there are not local democratic traditions to sustain it. During the past year, new Presidents have been overthrown in the former republics of Georgia, Azerbaijan and Tajikistan. In the Central Asian nation of Turkmenistan, President Saparmurad Niyazov is reviving the tradition of the communist personality cult, complete with marching columns of youths dressed in T shirts emblazoned with his portrait...
Years ago the cult-like Boston Church of Christ insisted that members live in Mather House, just because they could...
...wheel? Basquiat had talent -- more than some of the young painters who were his contemporaries, though this may not be saying much. The trouble was that it did not develop; it was frozen by celebrity, like a deer in a jacklight beam. In the '80s Basquiat was made a cult figure by a money-glutted, corrupt and wholly promotional art-marketing system. He died in 1988, a year before the bull market collapsed and took his prices down with it. Now the same system, bruised but essentially unchanged, is trying to revalidate those prices in hard times by strumming...
...found that similar cessation of thoughts, something I had never thought possible, during morning and mealtime chants. Putting aside preconceptions of chanting as a cult practice that requires me to wear orange robes (ours were gray) or to perform nocturnal sacrificial rites, ours was the most incredible group experience of my life. The resonance of the vocal chords of 50 focused persons could have been the hum of a machine. The bones of my nose began to reverberate in concert with the rhythm of the chanting. Harmonic resonance in action...