Word: fetishized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Reason to comp Satire V: Bond with fellow Yardlings with palindrome fetish...
Lorrie Moore's Birds of America is a collection of short stories. Originally published individually in magazines, sometimes under other titles, the stories contain a surprisingly strong amount of thematic cohesion. With a few exceptions, the tales each sport an intelligent but dissatisfied heroine, an almost fetish-like interest for said heroine, and a mired or low-key or entirely absent climax...
...then there's the fame fetish. Maybe they're arrogant, maybe they're insecure or maybe they're just normal guys who happen to have come up with a bunch of songs about being famous, but Reel Big Fish certainly spend more than enough time singing about being stars. Their comments on popularity range from the extraordinarily subtle "Big Star"-"Now that I'm a big star what am I gonna do/I'm so bored countin' all my money"--to the potential attempt at modesty "I'm Cool" (a remake of the hidden track on Turn the Radio...
...skills are snubbed by the opposite sex [vol.10,no.3] and your Grille pick-up lines don't cut it on the town [vol.9, no.2]. You just have us worried that FM has acquired a complex about Penthouse Pets [vol.10,no.6] and has succumbed to a secret (or licorice?) underwear fetish during a recent draught of sexual chemistry [vol.10,no.6]. To address these touchy issues we recommend that you pay a visit to Room 13 in the Grays Hall Basement, open nightly 7pm-7am (495-4969). While the decor doesn't quite live up to Room 15 standards [vol.10,no.1...
Though the exact location of porcine pulse points remains elusive, MISS PIGGY, the megalomaniacal muppet with a fetish for frogs, next month launches her own scent, Moi, a perfume that smells as sweet as honey-baked ham. Asked why anyone would want to wear something that smells good to a pig, Miss Piggy, or, more precisely, the people who speak for her, insist that "elegance and sex appeal transcend species...