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...photographs were airbrushed extensively by graphic designers. “Mao never brushed his teeth, but in photos his black teeth were always pearly white,” Heller said. Heller also described how Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini both used graphic designers to promote “the cult of the kid.” In Fascist Italy, youth was idealized: posters which depicted virile young men and women were the cultural advertisements that championed this ideology. In his research for a book on the subject, Heller even came across the Nazi “branding manual...
...regarded with an almost mystical reverence by followers, thanks to a personality cult maintained by constant LTTE propaganda and his remarkable ability to escape capture whenever backed into a corner...
...Tigers would be unlikely to recover from the loss of Prabhakaran, who has led by personality cult and has no second-in-command or designated successor. "LTTE's center of gravity is Prabhakaran," says Gunaratna. "The LTTE will factionalize, fight each other and die after Prabhakaran...
...anymore. Women across the centuries - across the millennia - have been feeding people with their boobs! You should be able to do it! You should sacrifice everything that you are to do this for your child, don't you understand?" That's seriously what they say. There is a cult of people out there who dedicate their lives to making sure the creed of breastfeeding is out there. Yes, it is very healthy for your child. Yes, it's a bonding experience between you and your child. Yes, it helps you lose the baby weight. But it's also very, very...
...been in power only a few years when the famine struck, but it didn't shake his grip. Ever since then, China has been pressuring him, unsuccessfully, to reform his economy. Kim has been able to resist such demands partly because North Korea is dynastic, with a cult of personality that is freakishly strong; there are no fewer than 30,000 statues and monuments to the Kim family throughout the country. Kim has three sons from which to choose a successor, and it's now become something of a parlor game among analysts to select the front runner...