Word: cults
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Books: The author of Girl, Interrupted has a cult following...
...instrumental in his rise to power persist. Such discrepancies do more than simply call into question Zhirinovsky's personal honesty and integrity; they also suggest that by elevating his life to the level of myth, he may be attempting to lay the foundations for a personality cult...
...April, at the L.D.P.'s Fifth Party Congress, the 340 Deputies unanimously voted to give him absolute power. They also extended his tenure as party chairman until the year 2004 and nominated him as their candidate in the country's next presidential elections. Evidence of a Zhirinovsky personality cult cropped up at the congress. A placard proclaimed him THE ONLY HOPE OF DECEIVED AND HUMILIATED PEOPLES. Copies of the party newspapers on sale offered readers a palm print of the chairman's right hand...
...list. Kaysen has received hundreds of letters from readers who have also been hospitalized for psychiatric problems, and on her just completed tour of 16 cities to promote the paperback, dozens of people whispered their own stories of mental illness to her. To many, the author has become a cult figure; the irony is that she actually wants to keep her life private...
...they wish they had not been so hasty. Since it first appeared in English last January, Ninh's book has gained a cult following in Europe and Asia. It has been reprinted six times in Britain, where in May it received the daily Independent's 1994 foreign-fiction award. Sorrow of War appeared on the shelves in Sweden in April. It will go on sale in France, Norway and Italy later this year and in Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland and the U.S. next year. The English version is already available across Asia but is hard to find. Ninh...