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...right. But the result justifies the effort. Tsai's work is free from the determinism and obtrusive simplicity of most kinetic art, and remains wholly poetic. "I don't have any fear of engineering," he asserts, "so I can't see electronics as an art fetish. The how isn't important. It's what you see that counts...
Worst of all seem to be the frogs. Before he produced the epic named after the species, George Edwards had a kind of frog fetish; even the door knocker on his studio bungalow was shaped like one. Now that he has got to know 2,000 of them, he says: "I hate them. They're cold, slimy, and they pee all over you." Ray Milland knew he disliked them from the beginning. "I'm not touching one damned frog," he told Edwards, who got a stand-in for the death scene...
What still confounds the audience is Jagger's ripe compound of menace and energy; he seems an ultraviolent wraith from Fetish Alley. As king bitch of rock, Jagger has no equals and no visible successors, and at least one of his songs has to be autobiographical...
...eight motorcycles and does nothing with its left arm but throw bullets? The answer: 6-ft. 1-in., 207-lb. Mickey Lolich, left-handed mound ace of the Detroit Tigers. Mickey explains the pot easily. "Big bellies run in my family. All the male Lolichs have them." The cycle fetish and the sinistral fastball derive from a childhood accident. When Lolich was a lad of three in Portland, Ore., his tricycle collided with a motorcycle, which crushed his left shoulder. Although the shoulder healed properly, the doctor gave Mickey throwing exercises to strengthen his arm. The exercises worked so well...
...heavily into beauty products. "He'd buy crates and crates of skin cream, and he would spend hours using it," writes his recently alienated wife "Miss Vicki," 20, in the Ladies' Home Journal. Other peeps into the private life of Herbert B. Khaury: "He has a fetish about food...