Word: cults
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...opportunity to prop up sagging sales, record companies are rediscovering the appeal of black rock 'n' roll. Virgin Records has signed up neohippie Lenny Kravitz, whose latest record, Mama Said, has sold about 2 million copies worldwide. Sony Music produces Fishbone, seven musical renegades who have attracted a cult following with their energetic mix of rock, punk and funk. Elektra Records is pushing Eric Gales, 17, a wunderkind who leads a musically adventurous three-man band. Epic recently released a debut album by Eye & I, a genre-busting quintet propelled by the lusty vocals of female singer DK Dyson...
...languages lines the walls, and video equipment is available. Pictures of Hubbard decorate the corridors, along with a bronze bust of "The Founder." Students, who have only the vaguest idea who Hubbard is, are impressed by the lavish appointments. But Western scholars in Moscow are outraged that the cult has gained such influence. With an outpost in an established university, Scientologists plan to launch a college of their own in Moscow this summer...
Richardson's movie was hugely successful, winning a Best Picture award at the Oscars and attracting a cult following. And yet, only this past month has it been released on videotape. In the hundreds of dictionary-thick books listing thousands of home videos, and the glut of literature on the relatively new world of the VCR, Tom Jones is a near-perfect piece of art which had been shoved off into some dark corner while cheap comedies go from the studio cutting floor to the movie theaters then to a video store shelf in a mater of days...
...campaign for Britain's April 9 general election. That the split also upstaged news about the nation's deepest slump since World War II demonstrated one value of the House of Windsor today: as a distraction. At a time of anguish over Britain's national direction, a Hollywood-style cult of celebrity surrounding Queen Elizabeth II's offspring has endowed the royal clan with a more modern relevancy. The Queen's second son and his wayward wife provided everything in the way of gossip-page dramatics that their 1986 wedding seemed to herald. But in the end, the couple proved...
Resurrection, Relic Cult, and Asceticism: The Early Fifth Century--by Caroline Bynum, Dept. of History, Columbia University. Andover Hall, Sperry Room, noon...