Word: fetish
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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After Gawker.com, the New York gossip rag with a peculiar Harvard fetish, noted the irony in a posting last week, the club removed Metullus and Campbell’s photo, leaving just the harebrained headline (alliteration is indeed hard to resist) and a brief note of thanks...
...Harvard, it’s more common to play the “Do you know...” game than beirut or flipcup. The creators of thefacebook.com have capitalized on this fetish for making connections. Now we have a way to form bonds in writing for the whole student body (and even those in schools across the country) to see and subsequently stalk...
...While the fans of Rangers and Celtic will continue to treat the Glasgow derby match as a sectarian fetish for clashes ranging from the Battle of the Boyne to Belfast's Falls Road "troubles", those concerns are increasingly remote for the men who don the blue shirts of Rangers and Celtic's green-and-white hoops. What could it possibly mean to Rangers' Georgian striker Shota Arveladze when those cheering his team on against Celtic are singing "We're up to our knees in Fenian blood!" ? And what passions does an IRA anthem stir in the heart of Celtic...
...with esoteric investment strategies. Consumer companies for years have turned to data managers such as Acxiom and infoUSA to see how their products and those of their competitors play with various groups. Logic might dictate that Toyota Prius drivers wear Birkenstocks, but a deep data dive might uncover a fetish for Ferragamos...
...favored genre. But Vol. 2 makes a compelling case for a more serious interpretation of Tarantino’s talent, and the film justifies the otherwise vapid (and very cool) Vol. 1, which should never have existed as a separate film. Indeed, Tarantino’s lip fetish is itself enough to empower Vol. 2 with far more powerful scenes than Vol. 1: when a tied-up Beatrix must wrap her lips around a flashlight, the degrading image is worth more than any moment in the first volume. Here Tarantino employs the same technique as in Reservoir Dogs, where...