Word: fetishized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...policeman called the underwear theft "someone's fetish," and noted that there have also been cases of theft of men's underwear and jockstraps. He added that thefts of designer jeans and shirts--"a quick $50 a whack"--may be unrelated to the stolen underwear...
Apart from the hoo-ha attendant to David Stockman's telling us what most of us already knew [Nov. 23], there is something disturbing about the fetish of dogged fidelity to leadership that has become so fashionable in recent Administrations. Like most other virtues, loyalty in moderation is a noble trait. Of late, however, it has taken on exaggerated proportions that are inimical to a democratic society. As currently defined, team playing does more than merely quash originality. It vouch safes us a generation of faceless robots to whom individual responsibility is equated with treason. In the extreme analysis...
...light skin of the new buildings, came to Europe from the Chicago School, whose leader was Louis Sullivan. The Bauhaus ideal of the open plan was transmitted to Germany by Frank Lloyd Wright. Adolf Loos' messianic rejection of ornament in the early 1900s, which became such a fetish with the International Stylists, came straight out of his infatuation with American machine culture. Le Corbusier derived a good deal of his architectural syntax from the "functional" shapes of American grain elevators, docks and airplanes. And when European modernists in the early '20s dreamed up their Wolkenkratzers (cloud scratchers...
...holdup. The investigators descended on Beaver and learned that Lester had bought a 30-ft. boat for $6,500. But they moved on when they heard he might be living in Port Angeles (pop. 17,500). There they discovered that a Tony Lester was buying vitamins (a Boyce fetish) and marine paint in local stores. A team of 27 undercover agents blanketed the area and waited for Boyce to show his face. When he finally did, they found a rifle, two wigs and false sideburns in his car trunk, signs of life on the run and possibly bank robbing. Says...
...somebody from California why they have smog. "Hey, like we can't help it, man, it's because of the mountains." Right, Ronald Reagan--and trees cause pollution, too! Mountains may have something to do with it, but the real reason for the smog is the Southern California Automobile Fetish. L.A. invented the 13-car family...