Word: worshiped
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...years STEPHEN KING has made us afraid of things we didn't even know we should fear: vintage cars (Christine), Saint Bernards (Cujo), children who worship corn (Children of the Corn). Only now do we learn that what curdles his blood is the idea of ending up a hack. Not exactly the same as being caught after dark in a pet cemetery, but chilling enough to make King, 54, decide to stop publishing at year's end. As he revealed to the Los Angeles Times, his greatest "nightmare" is "finish[ing] up like Harold Robbins," the novelist who churned...
...What's ironic about all this is that the Mormons, by preserving in its purest form the Greco-Roman worship of the body, have in some ways outstripped the Olympic athletes themselves. Good health is no longer, and hasn't been for some time now, an Olympic ideal. Performance trumps all. Between their indulgence in harrowing training regimens that warp young athletes' sexual development and the widespread use of drugs and supplements meant to induce short bursts of speed and power, a lot of today's would-be medallists might be regarded, in Mormon terms, as defiled and deficient...
Once upon a time, nine hungry emcees prowled through a war-ridden concrete jungle and tamed the people with their flawless lyrical shadowboxing technique. Entire cults rose in worship of their new discipline, which some extravagantly christened “horrorcore.” For a moment, the world was united under the sign of the yellow phoenix...
TIME: Your wife chaired a press conference about the bad treatment of women in Afghanistan. What about Saudi Arabia? Do you approve of the way women are treated there? Do you think Christians should be able to worship freely there? BLAIR: There are positions taken there that are not the positions I take here in my country. I'm not going to get in the business of attacking the Saudi system...
...world. It also gives them the confidence to practice their religion more openly, unlike their parents or grandparents who thought their sojourn in Europe was temporary and so were content to express their faith in private. Their children view Europe as their home and see no reason not to worship more publicly...