Word: worshiped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nexus between art and money, then, is not new. But the pervasiveness of this relationship and the intensity of money-worship in the art world certainly is. There was a time-and it is not so long ago, say ten years -when one could with perfect ease walk into the Met, the Wallace Collection or the Museum of Modern Art and spend a day communing with paintings without once reflecting on how much they might have cost or what they were now likely to fetch. But given the relentless publicity about art prices and auction triumphs-even when one knows...
SYLVIA PLATH. Romantic cults seem to spring up rapidly round poets who die young. An element of thanatophilia enters into the worship of such poets. It is somehow felt that they were purified by dying and spared the physical and moral corruption to which ordinary mortals are subject...
...mainstream Protestantism by Manhattan's posh St. James' Episcopal Church and a Midwest Lutheran parish, the Jews by a Hasidic sect. Two segments are about black Christianity, one about a Jesus commune, one on Kundalini yoga. But the series' special focus is not on ways of worship but on individuals who have faith...
Organized last May by Jerome Cutler, a Hollywood talent agent and part-time rabbi, the 400-seat house of worship has been virtually S.R.O. for its monthly services ever since. "They attend with enthusiasm on a monthly basis," says Cutler. "I want to keep it that way." Almost all the synagogue's members are connected with show business. Members-besides Matthau, Lewis and Segal-include Marty Allen, Jack Benny, Milton Berle, Sammy Davis Jr., Monty Hall, Jan Murray and Joan Rivers. Others are unemployed actors or struggling writers...
...sanctuary of a former Westwood synagogue that is now a school for the deaf. The services are part traditional, part free-form. Hebrew prayers, for example, have been augmented with passages of poetry from W.H. Auden, e.e. cummings and others. Israeli Folk Singer Michael Burstein often opens Friday evening worship with Sabbath songs-"audience warm-up before air time," as one member puts it. TV Producer Allan Blye (The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour) serves as cantor, a role he used to perform professionally in Toronto. The synagogue "staff'-including Rabbi Cutler-are all unpaid volunteers...