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The broadcast version of Greenspan's speech looked like it was coming off the Web, giving him the disconcerting appearance of the leader of a strange cult sitting at a small desk in a crowded room.
In Maharashtra, a cult grew up around the Maratha leader Shivaji (see page 42) against the British and also the Muslims whom Shivaji had fought all his life.
There is a precedent to the Che cult.
The cable network's animated show about third graders obsessed with violence and bodily emissions "has replaced Beavis and Butt-head as America's premiere gross national product" (Ken Tucker, Entertainment Weekly ). Critics attribute the show's cult following to the timeless power of bathroom humor and to its dark and clever plots, such as a thwarted assassination attempt on Kathie Lee Gifford.
Grain and animals were used, but the gods came to demand more, and a cult of human sacrifice grew.