Word: worshiper
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...story of a Belfast punk (Paul Ronan) obsessed by the grit and grace of Jimmy Cagney. It finds none of the above, lost as it is in a muddle of moralizing and attitudinizing. But it shares a potent theme with the season's cannier off-Broadway ventures: that star worship is a virus, carried by the popular media and infecting anyone who has a little talent and big gaudy dreams. The difference is that, in many other shows, the Warner Bros. star whom the hero might dream of being is not Cagney but Bette Davis, patron saint of bitchery, proto...
...finding the voice of God in Shakespeare or Emerson or Freud, depending on my needs, I have no difficulty in finding Dante's Comedy to be divine." He amplifies this perception a bit later: "As a writer, Shakespeare was a sort of god." Bloom is entitled to his worship, since he has spent a lifetime of reading achieving it. But he is not, in The Western Canon, a very effective prophet for his cause. Imaginative literature -- sacred texts or a rich lode of inspiring writing -- badly needs a less agonized champion...
They also engage in that most honorable and despised form of wordsmanship, the pun. The gooey remains of an ancient Egyptian are "guaca-mummy." A vampirish hospital worker is called "Nurse Feratu." Acolytes cavorting in worship to a Japanese monster are "the Mothra Graham Dance Troupe...
Shenk says some people become Deadheads for the same reason others worship God: they find meaning in the band that is lacking in other venues of American life...
...illusions. It could be argued that 1963 marked the true end of the 1950s. While Phillips' campers frolic, the U.S., having ignored Eisenhower's departing warning about fighting a land war in Asia, is getting pushy in Vietnam; rock 'n' roll is beginning to convert youthful masses to the worship of the free libido; and Lee Harvey Oswald is ordering his rifle by mail...