Word: fetishization
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Certainly no artist before World War I would have thought so. The real issue has always been discovery and use, not dismissal, of the mighty energies of the past -- compared with which the fetish of innovation and the claims of revolution are mostly chatter...
...attempt to become the unobstrusive, all-observing Maury Pauvich, Jeschke conveniently stereotypes the Wellesley student as a "giggling and chattering," "self-absorbed" woman with a fetish for hair spray, high heels and strong perfume. We as Wellesley students are offended by having ourselves, along with 2200 other Wellesley women, lumped into this brainless and wanton image so vividly portrayed in this unnecessarily long article...
...microwave oven is not to blame: it is not machines that kill taste but the people who use them. What is destroying American cuisine is the growing fetish for cooking entire dinners during the commercial breaks on Wheel of Fortune and Family Feud. "Unlike in Europe, where someone might savor the experience of food," says Joel Weiner, the former executive vice president of Kraft, "Americans have gone the other way in a rapid-fire, lowest-common- denominator world...
George Bush, who said he wanted to be an environmental President, is making trees a kind of fetish of his Administration. In his budget submitted last week, Bush allotted $175 million to plant 1 billion trees this year. By the year 2000 there should be 10 billion new trees that eventually should absorb 13 million tons of carbon dioxide a year, or 5% of the nation's annual emissions...