Word: fetishized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Alger Hiss made almost a fetish of his unflappable objectivity. Presumptuously, no doubt, one imagines that there were shadows in his mind so disturbing (his father's betrayal-suicide, a black hole of grief and abandonment and shame) that cauterized objectivity became the only salvation. I have always believed the Chambers rather than the Hiss version of events, just as I think Chambers was the more gifted and interesting of the two men; there seemed less to Hiss than first appeared and more to Chambers. But I wonder if their lives did not intersect at some subterranean level, some hidden...
...enduring appeal was certified with The Beatles Anthology 1, a collection of the group's tracks from 1957 to 1964, which has sold some 10 million copies worldwide since its release last November. That album was, musically speaking, kid stuff with nostalgia value--a fine addition to your fetish file, to put between the bootleg tapes and The Baroque Beatles Book. Now comes The Beatles Anthology 2, a two-CD set that dispenses with the first album's period chat and cover versions of R.-and-B. songs to concentrate on alternate takes of songs from the band's musical...
...made--a movie that deliberately shuts itself off from the clean, redeeming beauty of prairie, mountain and desert--takes the celebrity metaphor into new realms of darkness and hysteria. Written and directed by Walter Hill (48 HRS.), it presents Wild Bill Hickok (Jeff Bridges) as a moron with a fetish: if anyone touches his hat, he will shoot him. Not that he really requires an excuse to ventilate any and all comers. It is just that this is what the man does when he's not repairing to an opium den and losing himself in bad pipe dreams. Or drinking...
Writer/director Walter Hill ("48 Hours") presents Wild Bill Hickok (Jeff Bridges) as a moron with a fetish: he'll shoot anyone who touches his hat. Not that he really requires an excuse to ventilate any and all comers. It is just that this is what the man does when he's not repairing to an opium den and losing himself in bad pipe dreams. Or drinking too much. Or resisting the advances of Calamity Jane (Ellen Barkin). "'Wild Bill' is one of the dankest and most claustrophobic westerns ever made," says TIME's Richard Schickel. "It's a movie that...
That weekend also marks the Ice Cream Bash, asocial function designed to initiate first yearsinto the Square's fetish for frozen desserts. Forthe next four years, the Union will provide icecream at least once a day, giving its students thedelusion that in the real world, they will haveice cream regularly. The Bash is also one of thefirst opportunities to meet other members of theclass. It's certainly not the last...