It is about to become cultishly familiar.

He has been feted, cultishly, but only now is he the recipient of a full-dress local retrospective.

These Microserfs are cultishly loyal to their corporation, its soaring stock price and its staggering 51 percent operating profit margin ("Show me the money!"

I found Bikram yoga a year or so ago, when one of the cultishly trendy, tropically hot new studios opened near my apartment in San Francisco.

In the novel, the main character, Miller, is obsessed with Frederick Exley, the cultishly beloved author of A Fan's Notes.

Also for defrosting toes, the White Company, the cultishly popular English linens catalog, makes soft cashmere bed socks in a variety of sorbet colors ($42 at www.thewhiteco.com/csny).

Besides his psionic abilities, the Master also has a genius level intellect and incredible natural charisma, having rallied an army of cultishly devoted human and super-mutant followers around him.

PROPOSITION: The creator of a cultishly adored television show is writing a new script when he hits a snag.

The actress, best known for her role as a geeky high school nerd in the cultishly acclaimed, short-lived television series "Square Pegs," has just finished filming her first action adventure feature, "Three Rivers," opposite the big screen's ultimate anti-nerd, Bruce Willis.

The label's strongest effort so far is a recording of the Prokofiev piano concertos with Kun Woo Paik, a little-known but cultishly admired Parisian pianist who gave a phenomenal recital last year at Alice Tully Hall (8.550565/ 6; two CD's).

These seemingly 'educational' little blocks of connectable fun and happiness have irrevocably brainwashed entire generations of youth from the information-dense industrialized nations into developing mindsets that view the world as unitized, sterile, inorganic, and interchangeably modular-populated by bland limbless creatures with cultishly sweet smiles."

It was the mid-1980's, and the Zanes brothers were fronting the Del Fuegos, a cultishly popular roots-rock outfit started by Dan Zanes that briefly knocked at the door of stardom until Warren Zanes left the band and the group eventually fell apart.