Word: fetishizing
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Picking Tim Burton to direct “Bones,” then, works well, since both he and the Killers are mainstream populists masquerading as alternative visionaries. The song’s bone imagery plays into Burton’s undead fetish, and he directs a tediously straightforward video...
...Cleese and Chapman, whose senior revue was directed by Trevor Nunn, were stars from their first auditions, with John doing "a routine of trampling on hamsters" (Pythons always had an animal fetish) and Chapman, in pre-med as Miller had been, impersonating "a man with iron fingertips being pulled offstage by an enormous magnet." Chapman's gift for physical comedy blossomed in a sketch about a man who wrestles himself - a bit reprised in Monty Python at the Hollywood Bowl...
...writing lecture notes on the fly on his tablet PC, which he projects on the screen. For extra fun, ask Sanes to pronounce the name of "Rita Levi-Montalcini," a famous Italian neurobiologist. You won't be disappointed, believe us. Professor Jeffrey Lichtman, who has a somewhat strange fetish for powerful microscopes, is perhaps the better lecturer of the two (though his sense of humor might leave some scratching their heads.) Both are receptive to questions, even in mid-lecture, and clearly put effort into their lessons...
...being a superhero, but it can make you move through your day in a more powerful way. You've got an easier way to organize things and a lot of information at your fingertips. For people who feel naked without having gadgets around, like their cellphone, it becomes a fetish. So, when you upgrade your piece of electronics, you are upgrading an extension of yourself...
...affiliated with the shrine, and that mainstream Japan has confronted its war past head on. Koizumi's Yasukuni visits are highly controversial in Japan itself, with public opinion split roughly in half. Yasuo Fukuda, a candidate to succeed Koizumi, has picked up support by publicly criticizing Koizumi's Yasukuni fetish. One of Japan's most influential business associations has called for the erection of a new, non-denominational memorial where the next prime minister can pay his respects instead. That may be the only way to prevent Asia's old wounds from opening up again...