Word: fetishizing
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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...
...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...
...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...
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...
...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...