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...assigned roommates and I got along wonderfully most of the time. Karen and I shared a "clean" fetish and spent hours scrubbing the hall bathroom before parents weekend and more hours laughing about how gross it was afterwards; Kim and I had survived pre-med Chemistry together, forging a bond not unlike the friendships survivors of war share; and Michelle and I mainly complained about the venerable vegetables in the Union and spent a lot of time at Christy's and Store 24 buying Ramen and instant soup...

Author: By Katherine E. Bliss, | Title: A Texan Avoiding Becoming a `Blue-Bellied Yankee' | 7/7/1989 | See Source »

...always been afraid of women, is now a member of a London sect devoted to parent hatred, which doesn't make her feel any better. Aside from the uptight Gerald, her only companion is her antagonistic sister-in-law, an incompetent Cornish cook with a reincarnation fetish...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: Out of Their Minds? | 5/10/1989 | See Source »

...Both sides, in culturally and systemically different ways, have made a fetish of secrecy over the years, and both sides, in still more different ways, have done themselves great damage by that bad habit," he said...

Author: By Eric S. Solowey, | Title: Bundy Talks of Need For Arms Reduction | 4/4/1989 | See Source »

THIS ghoulish fetish for reliving Kennedy's murder does more than distort how he is remembered, it affects the national self-image and willingness to deal with difficult, pressing problems...

Author: By Michael J. Bonin, | Title: Putting It to Rest | 11/23/1988 | See Source »

...port on the Mississippi River, and a share of the state oil money, and a reputation for wickedness and charm that drew a steady stream of tourists for decades. For most of this century, New Orleans hasn't done much more than make do. It has never made a fetish out of equipping schools or paving streets. It has always had a lot of poor people; its rich people have never been seriously rich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Republicans:The Town That Practices Parading | 8/22/1988 | See Source »

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