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Word: fetishism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Notre Dame. "Don't call it a fetish. Call it a passion," he says, though either description may fit. An early childhood in Indianapolis --with a diehard Irish fan for a father--served as the catalyst, and his devotion survived a move that might have left an average fan with split sympathies...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Dave Scheper: The Center of Attraction | 10/4/1979 | See Source »

...area than in any other of the Four Modernizations. The initial Chinese objective is the establishment within five years of a research network for the basic sciences, then a system of modern laboratories that will press on with research into what the Chinese (who have a sort of political fetish for numbers) call the Five Golden Blossoms: atomic science, semiconductors, computer technology, lasers and automation. In March, Vice Premier Fang Yi reported an eight-year timetable for China to begin the launching of space laboratories and probes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man Of The Year: Visionary of a New China | 1/1/1979 | See Source »

...public office to muckrake and of spending public funds ($11.83) to make his investigations. "Judge Taunton is a right nice fella," John Wigginton, general counsel to the commission, told the St. Petersburg Times. "It's just that he's got what seems to be a deep-seated fetish about poor people. We feel he ought to be doing something else for a living-like welfare work, or social work, or anything other than being a judge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Robin Hood Of the Bench | 9/18/1978 | See Source »

...takes guts to make a movie as bleak and uncompromising as this new Dustin Hoffman vehicle-misplaced guts. The story of a compulsive small-time crook with a lousy past and a doomed future, Straight Time makes a fetish of refusing the audience any frills. The movie aims only to describe its unappealing protagonist as coolly as possible-without tears or laughs or passion. This it accomplishes, but at a very steep price: while Straight Time offers a convincing portrait of a loser, it never gives us any reason to care whether the portrait is genuine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hard Labor | 4/3/1978 | See Source »

...film is why it was made at all. There just isn't much of a market for a movie like this in the U.S. any more: family films are too slow for adults and too tame for children raised on ABC sitcoms and Star Wars. By making a fetish of booking such movies, Radio City Music Hall has in effect willed its own death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Last Picture Show | 3/13/1978 | See Source »

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