Word: fetishize
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...novelty and head shop items an impulse to debunk childhood fantasies, or at any rate the fantasies of Disney's artists, by degrading the whole crew and thereby achieving a kind of liberation. It is Disney in the style of Jean Genet-a symptom, paradoxically, of the fetish for childhood that has seized many who are in the process of leaving...
...into the elevator calmly reading some political brochure or other and ran into a guy about twice my size in a green tracksuit calmly carrying a hammer for a hammer throw. Somehow reading seems to go better with elevators than the hammer throw. But that's probably just a fetish...
...well received that Church went out of his way to list all the preparations that contributed to its success. One item that others might have overlooked: he had got his hair and beard trimmed before writing. Since then he has made the pre-cover clip a personal fetish and an office joke. Business Editor Marshall Loeb, who has edited all of Church's cover stories, finds the writer's affection for the whimsical an asset. Says Loeb: "George has the ability to write stories geared to both the general reader and the specialist. He is one of those...
...joyful domination, these amount to nothing more than that derangement of the instincts that comes from being caught on the rails-of metonymy. Wherefore its "perverse" fixation at the very suspension-point of the signifying chain where the memory-screen freezes and the fascinating image of the fetish petrifies...
...perhaps the film's ultimate equivocation, refusing to make even one unambiguous political statement on the crude level of extending the corruption of one cop to encompass his buddies on the police force as well. The film signifies nothing political, but leaves us with a single fascinating freeze-frame fetish to perceive however we wish...