Word: heavenly
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...HEAVEN'S GATE Mad About Memorabilia...
Wherever they are now, those 39 Nike-clad members of the Heaven's Gate cult who committed the tidiest of suicides last March didn't leave behind much except for their bodily "vehicles," a few personal possessions and a handful of still living devotees who, in the cult's decidedly unsoaring ecclesiastical language, hadn't yet made it to the "level beyond human." Six weeks later, fellow "students" Chuck Humphrey and Wayne ("Nick") Cooke attempted to complete their course work in the approved manner--by swallowing a combination of alcohol and phenobarbital and tying plastic bags over their heads...
Today Humphrey--who prefers to be known by the name Rkkody--is running a Heaven's Gate Website where potential followers can buy videotapes of leader Do espousing his philosophy as well as gift items like Heaven's Gate mouse pads, NASA-style "Away Team" patches, "dishwasher-safe" mugs and T shirts emblazoned with the slogan WHAT IF THEY'RE RIGHT? In an E-mail interview with TIME, Rkkody claims that his site receives 1,000 hits a day but that he has sold "disgustingly few" of the merchandise items: "less than five mouse pads, no T shirts...
...sale, Randall Bell, is an expert at moving "distressed" properties, having previously consulted, he says, on the sales of homes where Nicole Simpson, JonBenet Ramsey and Sharon Tate passed away, as it were. Not afraid to confront his chief marketing obstacle head on, Bell has renamed the property the Heaven's Gate Mansion, or the Gate for short--which, he says, is at least preferable to its usual media label: "the death house." --Reported by Paul Krueger/San Diego and Margot Hornblower/Los Angeles...
PREDICTION: Yes! A match made in heaven...