Word: fetishistic
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What with a suicide, a normal death, an abortion, an aristocratic nymphomaniac and a wig-fetishist of an elevator operator, The Pink Hotel might have rated a black mark in any Baedeker except for Author Dennis' quips and quiddities, e.g., anent the nouveaux riches: "Better nouveau than never." The book also enjoys spoofing the Hippocratic oath of the hotel business. "What is a Guest? A Guest is the most important person in this hotel . . . We are not doing him a favor by serving him. He is doing us a service by permitting us to do so." After staging...