Word: fetishist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Maples Pavilion in Palo Alto, with its vibrating parquet and passionate, maroon-decked faithful, is a big-gym fetishist's fantasy. So when the Harvard women's basketball team marched into Maples for its first-round NCAA Tournament game against topseeded Stanford last season, Janowski was on cloud nine even before her team waltzed out with the biggest victory in its history...
...work, seems to be making some confessional statement with the film. Manifestly autobiographical segments, including an amusing sendup of Mia Farrow's allegations of Allen's misconduct with their child, support this interpretation. But Allen complicates things by introducing drastic contradictory elements--his character's interest in fetishist prostitutes, drug and alcohol addiction, and painfully inarticulate vulgarity seem intended to confound the audience. According to this analysis, the film reads as a kind of failed art maneuver--failed because Deconstructing Harry is not funny or moving or sad or engaging or heartwarming or heartbreaking--and we were already confused about...
...important damage from the polymorphous con jobs on political display this year is symbolic and atmospheric. Morris' train wreck last week, compounded by his ideological promiscuity, adds to the widespread public suspicion that it takes an unwholesome personality--a professional liar or a power fetishist--to go into politics in the first place.The conventional rules of hypocrisy have been modernized by the principles of television--life as a continuously temporary hallucination. Just as an image on the screen five minutes ago is only a memory on the retina and has no necessary connection to the image on the screen right...
...other hand, though Friday can be psychologically astute, she also suggests in describing a soleful fetishist that "sooner or later, the shoe, the vagina, and the penis are going to have to sit down together and have it out." It might work best as a musical number. Not since the cowboy and the farmer became friends in Oklahoma! has there been such potential for a square dance...
...appearing on television amidst such hoopla--newspapers covered it like it was as anticipated as Windows 95--Diana, following Charles's own television appearances, had toppled the monarchy off its already wobbly knees and onto the ground, into the dirt with the rest of the adulterous, fetishist, omnivorous masses. Nothing is sacred anymore...