Word: fetish
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...very cool) Vol. 1, which should never have existed as a separate film. The commercial logistics of a four-hour movie aside, Kill Bill would have worked best as a single entity, the second half imbuing the first with a certain weight. 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...
Drina L. Chan ’06 has become notorious for her dirty little fetish, which has sent many a hook-up into feverish personal deliberations over the merit of remaining faithful to widely held mores of personal hygiene versus realizing a long-held childhood fantasy ingrained in those days of heightened scatological awareness prior to potty training. Things have gotten really down and dirty, however, since Chan got together with Chris Bryson ’05, whose sexual repertoire was similarly shaped by Psychology...
Bush, meanwhile, has made a fetish of constancy. He brags that he never revisits a decision or reads a poll. Intellectuals change their minds, he says; leaders know where they are going and act. "Steady leadership in times of change" is his campaign slogan, as though the steadiness is what matters, regardless of the direction in which he is leading. Voters have by now had plenty of opportunity to take the measure of his convictions, whether it's his immovable commitment to cut taxes or his resolve to take out Saddam Hussein. That has given the President a weird advantage...
...Escapist, with art by Eric Wight, along with several tongue-in-cheek tales by other comic-book writers and artists. Each one evokes a different period of the medium's history: Howard Chaykin turns in a '50s-style hard-boiled story of a red-baiting Senator with a diaper fetish; another, by Jim Starlin, flashes back to a trippy "cosmic" look of the '70s. The Escapist is sometimes amusing, but it lacks the emotional ambition of its literary source. --By Andrew D. Arnold
Many of the attacks on the administration’s perceived tight-fistedness seem to stem from a misunderstanding of the role of the endowment at Harvard. Epps lamented on the telephone, “There is a certain fetish of the endowment here.” Undergraduate Council President Matthew W. Mahan ’05, among others, appears to share Epps’ misconception. After stopping by Thursday’s rally to show support for the labor movement (even though the Director of the Harvard Union of Clerical Workers and Technical Workers dismissed the NLC?...