Word: fetishize
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Died. Robert J. H. Kiphuth, 76, Yale's peerless swimming coach from 1918 to 1959, who was only a fair-to-middling paddler himself but had such an eye for form, such a fetish for physical fitness and such a commitment to his sport (he would sit at the bottom of the pool in a diving suit to spot flaws invisible from above) that he won 528 dual meets (v. only twelve losses) and four national championships for Yale plus four Olympic victories for the U.S.; following an intestinal hemorrhage; in New Haven, Conn...
...central. She has one hell of a behind. But remember: a schoolgirl animated by sex. Tell about Margaret's sex life. Husband's. Mama's. Producer's. Director's. Agent's. Co-star's. Don't forget character with shoe fetish. Add a little lesbianism. Anything else? No? O.K. Margaret returns. Shooting resumes. Everybody happy. Fade out into wine-dark...
...party elections: his Tanzania Africa National Union put up two candidates for each post, with the result that several of his own Cabinet ministers were defeated. Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta has overridden the intense tribal rival ries of the Luo and his own Kikuyu and made a national fetish out of harambee (togetherness), winning the good will of most white settlers in the bargain. Even the disappointments have not been total. The personal tyranny of Ghana's Nkrumah has been succeeded by a military regime that is miraculously popular despite the fact that its firm austerity measures have...
CHINESE FOOTBINDING, by Howard S. Levy. In a book that often reads like an Oriental Kinsey report, Sinologue Levy recounts the lurid history of a fetish that persisted for 1,000 years...
Secrecy is a fetish in the auto-rental business, but best estimates are that Chevrolet-sized Avis has upped its revenues by 34% in 1966, compared with Cadillac-sized Hertz's gain...