Word: cults
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...system has been on the market for little more than a year, and its cost (about $225,000) puts it beyond the reach of nearly all consumers. But virtual reality has already attracted a cult following in and around California's Silicon Valley. Enthusiasts are convinced that today's EyePhones are the forerunners of systems that will transform the way Americans work and play. They have visions of workers stepping into electronic suits to "commute" to virtual offices, surgeons honing their technique on virtual patients, honeymooners frolicking on virtual Caribbean vacations, astronauts exploring virtual planets by remote control...
...knock against Kurt Vonnegut, back a couple of decades ago when he was a cult author, was that he pandered too glibly to the natural cynicism of the disaffected young. He was too quick, it was said, to detect the smell of society's insulation burning -- and to sigh "So it goes" -- when there was nothing more in the air than, say, a harmless whiff from a distant war or the neighborhood toxic-waste dump. No more; his news in Hocus Pocus is that our charred insulation no longer smolders. It has burned itself out, and civilization's great, tired...
Jack Palance CHE! His bombastic portrayal of Fidel Castro in this 1969 flop gave the movie cult status. The campy effect was heightened by the casting of Egyptian-born Omar Sharif as Che Guevara...
...Joan Maragall, Catalonia's finest modernist poet, who wrote about it as a virtual icon of national identity: "Consider the woman in Sunyer's Pastoral -- she is the embodiment of the landscape; she . . . is not there by chance: she is destiny." It was out of that conservatism -- the cult of the parental farmhouse as the model of Catalan society -- that Joan Miro (before he reacted into surrealism) created his detailed and almost fanatically ordered images of life on his father's property at Montroig, whose climax is The Farm, 1921-22. This is the first exhibition to give Catalan Noucentisme...
That self-deprecating style has made Souter the Nowhere Man, a tabula rasa in the cult of personality -- and so the perfect post-Bork appointment. Law- review articles asserting opinions on controversial subjects? There are none. Sweeping court decisions? Souter, as a trial and appellate judge, narrowly ruled on the facts at hand. In Souter, Bush may have found the last person in America who does not think in opinionated sound bites. Souter, with his Yankee reticence, does not presume anyone would be interested in what he thinks if legal scholars have already thought about it. In that...