Word: fetishizers
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...bombardments. Even if taking a formal census of the Iraqi dead were possible, it's doubtful the U.S. military would try. Americans got out of the business of counting enemy losses after the Vietnam War. Then, tallying North Vietnamese and Viet Cong casualties became something of a bureaucratic fetish, and the ludicrous methods often used--counting five body parts as five "kills," for example--destroyed U.S. credibility. The Pentagon has never released a formal estimate of how many Iraqis died in the first Gulf War in 1991. During the war in Afghanistan, General Tommy Franks, the theater commander in that...
...residents, however, has been the quotidian impact of living in a hot zone. Handshakes are out, obsessive-compulsive cleaning is in, and beauty is now measured solely by the eyes, for those are the only facial features visible above surgical masks. (Oh, and the ears, if that's your fetish.) Usually packed hangouts?bars, clubs, karaoke parlors and restaurants?are no-go zones, while each day brings news of more concert cancellations. And it's an equal-opportunity bummer: the Rolling Stones, Santana and DJ Shadow have all said no. Even Mong Kok's celebrated prostitutes are losing customers. Hong...
...based street-fashion photographer Kjeld Duits claims that these pictures—photoshopped to perfection—are regular fare in porn magazines. Worldwide credulity and the enthusiasm of Western business moguls to import the fake trend, however, highlights the larger cultural issue of the “Asian Fetish.” Harvard-Radcliffe Japan Society spokesperson and Student Activities Council representative Sae Takada ’03 says, “I think it’s appalling how eagerly people believed it—it shows how Japanese pop culture, especially Japanese women, are exoticised...
...Reilly, “hoping that hard core sex will lead to the purchase of sneakers.” O’Reilly would no doubt be shocked if he actually watched some of Fox’s own programming, including Joe Millionaire, which featured the fetish artist Sarah, or Fastlane, which, in one particularly deviant episode featured (gasp) two women kissing each other in a hot tub. I won’t even mention Melrose Place...
...role of student, and not public figure or even writer, in which Zadie Smith is most at ease. “I have a university fetish,” she admits, saying that she is happy to take classes and read books...