Word: fetish
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Thus, the standard deviation (“sigma” should not be used in this context for what is really a sample standard deviation but, alas, that is the slang) has become a fetish among certain circles of science concentrators because it’s generally agreed that “making it” on an exam—that is, getting one standard deviation or more above the average—is a guaranteed “A.” Assuming that scores on an exam are normally distributed, making the “sigma?...
...long do you think the U.S. fetish for Asian martial-arts films will last...
...promoting Iron Monkey with director Quentin Tarantino and one day he took me back to his house, sat me down and described in detail an action film that he wants to make in Hong Kong and Japan. The actress Uma Thurman will play the lead. Is this merely a fetish? No, I don't think...
...painted gold from the groin down, like something out of a James Bond credit sequence. At one point she stepped into a foaming bath and was sponged down by four scantily clad coryph?es. She lifted her feet in the air for them to admire and soap. Same-sex kink, fetish worship, an abundant and exuberant naughtiness without consummation?Mok loves to tease. "That was completely over the top," she reflects. "We knew the Hong Kong audience wasn't really ready for it, but we thought, 'So what...
...take another example of extreme solicitousness: the fetish for coalition. We have been running around the world begging and borrowing Muslim allies so that we can claim that this is not a war against Islam. Why? We never declared war on Islam. This war, unsought, was declared against us by fanatics proclaiming jihad in the name of Islam. Why do we need borrowed legitimacy to fight back...