Word: fetishizers
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...this parade of exquisitely designed objects, from lamps to ashtrays to such inviting modular sofas as Mario Bellini's "Chameleon" cushion system (see color page), it is apparent that the functionalist concerns of the Bauhaus are receding. Some emphasis has shifted to furniture as dream or fetish or ikon. Thus Gae Aulenti designs a variable bookcase/shelf/sleeping-platform unit that, glittering in vermilion fiber glass, resembles a Mayan sacrificial altar; while Sottsass's red ceramic vase has the archaic look of a ziggurat...
Prosperity is a relatively new fact of life at the Trib. For much of its history, it was a red-ink case, belying the efficacy of the owls with which Founder Bennett decorated the paper's original Paris office as a good-luck fetish. But the Trib has been solidly profitable since 1968, and an enormous owl still holds the place of honor in its offices. Appropriately, the metal bird is gilded...
...least of Kandinsky's achievements is that he worked out the first viable alternative to Cubist space -and did it as early as 1915. He was not concerned with what exercised the Cubists and later became an absolute fetish in American painting, the "problem" of filling the picture plane. In fact he strove to destroy the illusion of a unified, comprehensible surface, which representational art had gained by means of perspective and which Cubism achieved through its multiplicity of facets. The forms of Ribbon with Squares, No. 731, 1944, simply hover in an illimitable field of color, whose depth...
Over the years. Hughes developed a fetish about cleanliness, a phobia about germs. Talking with Mike Wallace on CBS News' 60 Minutes, Irving recalled how Hughes classified people he came in contact with, rating them from A to D-filthy, moderately dirty, dirty and moderately clean. He noted that Hughes in talking with him about Katharine Hepburn particularly liked the fact that "she was a very clean woman who used to bathe three or four times...
...efforts to overthrow the tyrants who oppressed him, bolstering his courage and spurring him to nearly superhuman effort. But the same ideal, Skinner maintains, now threatens 20th century man's continued existence. "My book,'' says Skinner, ''is an effort to demonstrate how things go bad when you make a fetish out of individual freedom and dignity. If you insist that individual rights are the summum bonum, then the whole structure of society falls down." In fact, Skinner believes that Western culture may die and be replaced, perhaps, with the more disciplined culture of the Soviet Union or of China...