cult object

It’s a familiar enough spectacle, and if there’s any justice this movie will become a touchstone and cult object among the grasping, scheming denizens of the current media jungle.

For a long while, the book was more easily accessible than the movie, which became something of a cult object, in part due to its relative unavailability.

That movie, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, has since become an endlessly quoted cult object and an influential teen-movie classic.

Was he merely mass-producing an image that had privately already entered human form as a cult object?

In California and New York, in the advertising world and in Silicon Valley, it became a kind of cult object that matched the stripped-down aesthetic of the new economy.