Word: followers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cult came to national attention after two dozen people from the small town of Waldport, Oregon, dropped everything to follow Bo and Peep. A 1975 TIME article described Applewhite as having a "rare ability to impress audiences with the urgency and truth of his message." (Such was Bo and Peep's appeal that NBC aired a series pilot called The Mysterious Two--originally titled Follow Me If You Dare--about an extraterrestrial couple.) But Bo and Peep's disciples were not all sheep. One group of discontented followers rejected the cult when a promised space visit never materialized. To stem...
...determined to protect their dwindling enclave with an unwritten set of rules governing which avenues minority residents can walk on, which parks their children may play in and what time they must be off the streets. The rules are enforced subtly--steely glares, selective ticketing of cars, storekeepers who follow shoppers from aisle to aisle--and in more brutal fashion: racial epithets, trash thrown on lawns, windows shattered and beatings of the sort administered to Lenard Clark. "Here the No. 1 issue is color," says Curly Cohen, director of the Bridgeport Volunteer Center. "If you don't learn the rules...
...what will our criteria be? Is a cult defined by the smallness of the congregation? Then what of those who follow Emerson or Whitman in observing a religion of one? Is it characterized by a lack of ancient scriptures? Then why does an Internet index call the old and established faith of Zoroastrianism a cult? Is it a function of a group's distance from orthodoxy? Then what of Jesus or Buddha or Muhammad--all of them heretics in their...
...which takes a look at people who used to be in the news, from Morton Downey Jr. to George McGovern. Final Cut will run unedited versions of interviews previously broadcast in shorter form on various CBS shows, while 60 Minutes More and 48 Hours Later will reprise and do follow-ups on stories aired earlier by those magazine shows...
...heavy hitters settle this weighty issue? They flipped a coin. Not without some maneuvering, of course. Team DreamWorks, which consists of Jeffrey Katzenberg, David Geffen and Spielberg, was determined that Spielberg should follow a premonition and call tails. "I believe in Steven's premonitions," Katzenberg explains. But Sumner Redstone, chairman of Viacom, Paramount's parent company, and a man who would negotiate a sunrise, insisted that Spielberg toss his own quarter while he, Redstone, made the call. The DreamWorkers gave in. Redstone, to their relief, called heads. Tails...