Word: thrall
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...year-old son of 1960 Winter Olympics gold medalist Jean Vuarnet, best known today for his line of chic sunglasses. For Vuarnet fils--whose mother Edith, his woman companion Ute Verona and their daughter Tania, 6, accompanied him in death--the prerogatives of status had melted under the mystical thrall of a sect known as the Order of the Solar Temple...
...nothing else, the sense of crisis and impending doom that Asahara cultivated has kept his followers in his thrall. He always sits one level higher than his devotees, and they have to bow and kiss his toe. A follower recalled, "When he found that I was carrying a picture of an Indian saint, he went berserk and said I should not respect anyone but him." In this way, perhaps Asahara's early life was a foreshadowing of what would come later. "When I look at the way Aum operates," a onetime classmate in Kumamoto said, "I think Matsumoto is trying...
...Flora's surviving sister (Margaret Tyzack) to create a tenderly comic rumination on the ironies of history and colonialism, of creativity and eros-all unexpectedly mellow for the pyrotechnical Stoppard. Art Malik catches Das' contradictory yearnings, caught up in India's independence movement yet in thrall to Dickens and all things English. Felicity Kendall wittily and poignantly plays the free-spirited Flora, who shows Das that only by being true to himself and his own culture can he find communion with her in the realm...
Amid spasms of public anarchy, Anton Vowl, a Parisian insomniac in psychological discomfort, prowls his lodgings by night. Hypochondria haunts him, plus a doom that has him in thrall: "A unit is lacking. An omission, a blank, a void that nobody but him knows about, thinks about, that, flagrantly, nobody wants to know or think about. A missing link." As "panicky as a pig in an abbatoir," Vowl awaits his karma...
...moment that, in fact, the painter hadn't seen. And though Manet was not notable for his piety in real life, he tried to reinvigorate biblical painting with his great image of The Dead Christ and the Angels, 1864, just to show that he wasn't in thrall to Courbet's realism or to his anticlericalism -- to be really free, you have to rebel against the rebels...