Word: cults
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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GEORGE LEWIS: TRIOS & BANDS (American Music). New Orleans-born George Lewis became a cult figure for traditional jazz fans the world over and the model of dozens of clarinetists ranging from Woody Allen to Britain's Sammy Rimington and Japan's Ryoichi Kawai. Lewis died in 1968, but musicologist Bill Russell, 87, is keeping his message alive with the CD release of historic acetate recordings Russell made a half-century ago. (American Music, 1206 Decatur Street, New Orleans...
...black and white cinematography, sparse dialogue and unpredictably strange plot twists of this cult classic prefigure all the weirdness of Lynch's later flicks. While the shadowy sets and often unintelligible action can be excruciatingly frustrating at times, the movie as a whole delivers a hunting message about the search for a meaningful existence in the technological desolation of the post-modern World...
Berlet charges that the NAP is a "totalitarian cult organization" with ties to such political extremists as Lyndon LaRouche...
...INTENT IS not only to point out some of the excesses of our current environmental policy, but to urge that we re-examine the presuppositions of the biodiversity cult itself...
...Beth" (The Boston Globe, 2/7/92): Beth, whose column is subtitled "Sense About Sex," has become a cult figure by answering the decidedly atypical inquiries of such individuals as The Girl Who Couldn't Understand Why Her Boyfriend Wants To Look At Her Breast and The 12-Year-Old Girl Whose 19-Year-Old Boyfriend Wants A Special Present...