Word: fetish
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...ominous intro to “Photograph” is reminiscent of “The Virgin Suicides” and maintains intensity without an overstated volume or tempo. “Mer du Japon,” a further exploration of Air’s quite apparent Asian fetish, is closer to “Talkie Walkie” than any of the proceeding tracks. The song even comes fully equipped with a bridge devoid of all other sounds besides waves crashing and a tragic-sounding mandolin. “Redhead Girl” finally brings the album?...
...individuals, but by one aspect—the sexuality of the company they keep—that could be wholly irrelevant to the actual friendship. My gay friends are just that: friends who also happen to be gay, and not the objects of some sort of platonic gay fetish...
...fraying of Malaysia?s national unity is a dangerous development with profound consequences for the country. But, on a personal level, the parallel universes into which Malaysia's ethnicities appear to be moving is also bad news for my food fetish. Malaysia is home to one of the world's first fusion cuisines, Nyonya, a melding of Chinese cooking and Malay flavors that evolved, in part, from intermarriage between the two groups. To my taste buds, Nyonya is one of the most delicious cuisines ever created. I could write odes to its fish-head curry, and its aromatic braised meats...
...next Alice in Wonderland. 5. Ankle boots: Tuck the pants in or out? You’re damned if you do, you’re damned if you don’t. 6. Pants under dresses: See Rebecca M. Harrington’s column. 7. Leopard print: Your Tarzan fetish is better left in the private sphere. 8. Knit dresses: There is never an excuse to wear a sock as a dress. Never. 9. Balloon skirts: It always looks as if your skirt is tucked in your panties. 10. Harvard Class of 2010 t-shirt: Enough said...
Picking Tim Burton to direct “Bones,” then, works well, since both he and the Killers are mainstream populists masquerading as alternative visionaries. The song’s bone imagery plays into Burton’s undead fetish, and he directs a tediously straightforward video...