There is something so fetishistic about their handling of it.
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Yet the fetishistic obsession with secret surveillance should not be commonplace.
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Or is it a highly romanticized, fetishistic treatment of real gay identity?
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Yet despite their best efforts, Hess became an object of fetishistic attention.
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"I think I can say it is fetishistic, but specifically for men," says Enuhito.
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Have you heard from people who have a full-blown, fetishistic gingerbread man fantasy?
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There is dread of the color yellow and a fetishistic interest in black hair.
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It's this fetishistic sort of thing that you see with a lot of immigrant cultures.
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The discovery of his boat 10 months later sparked a fetishistic fascination with his disappearance.
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And her fetishistic view of black male sexuality is equally troubling (more on this later).
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With all its laces and lace holes carefully described, the boot intimates a Freudian, fetishistic vibe.
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Russian nesting dolls are given spikes or their rosy-cheeked wooden heads become a fetishistic mask.
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We see it today in fetishistic advertising and worshipful depictions of superheroes and action stars in movies.
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Starting in 1819, the Grimms substantially pared down the prince's fetishistic obsession with Snow White's dead body.
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"L'Homme Assis," meanwhile, explores a violent, fetishistic sexual encounter, and has been regarded by many as pornographic.
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There were hints and nods to hardness with fetishistic netting, leather bustiers, and heavy-buckled trousers and chains.
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"Cannibalism is very much nourished by fetishistic desire," the killer rationalizes at a point early in the movie.
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But there's something so fetishistic about TV's increasing reliance on resurrecting its own past by any means possible.
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Yet his intuitive process and his attraction to figuration imbue his works with a totemic or fetishistic sensibility.
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Deneuve insists on seeing the sites of Israeli destruction, indicating a desire for a fetishistic encounter with catastrophic debris.
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His eyes, behind a pair of groovy frames, look directly at the viewer, subverting the consuming and fetishistic gaze.
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Paglen's version will be a 12-foot sculpture inscribed in fetishistic detail, like medieval armor for the cyber age.
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On the one hand, there's something almost fetishistic about the way we now revere women who seem not to age.
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But while this idea of trauma-induced ability could be taken as empowering, it also feels a little fetishistic here.
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Kotaku's Grayson points to a fetishistic faith that if people are badly manipulating data, the answer is to add more data.
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It's a caricature that nevertheless feels like an accurate representation of how some see black children through racist and fetishistic lenses.
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Her lovers included Oskar Kokoschka, a daring artist who commissioned a fetishistic, life-size doll of Alma after she ditched him.
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Such diversity requires constant management, leading to an almost fetishistic attention to liberal unifying principles by Democratic activists, which engenders intolerance.
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All this gilding suggests an emerging form, wavering on the edge between ancient alchemy and ultra-technology, the fetishistic and futuristic.
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Even to a disaffected teen-ager, the world is still proximate and new, and one's relationship to things is often fetishistic.
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Here, Beard transposes that almost fetishistic archetype and subverts it by swapping genders and inverting the male figures, as they perform handstands.
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It's also true that there are plenty of examples of simplistic and fetishistic representations of black bodies in Western art and advertising.
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The melodic lines are jagged and disjunct, the language is proudly atonal, and the textures can take canonic counterpoint to a fetishistic extreme.
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A case in point was MoMA's fetishistic "Machine Art," a show of everyday design from 1934 that was utopian and commercial at once.
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Mr. Cronenberg's breathtakingly bold adaptation of the J. G. Ballard novel shocked viewers with its portrayal of fetishistic sex involving cars and scars.
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It's a fetishistic fantasy that exists in a state of limbo, forever suspended in that moment before a home is tainted by life.
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Carrington's engagement with the Surrealist movement was complex, but it also reflected the fruitful but sometimes narrow, fetishistic path the movement had for women.
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I'd just like to believe that a hashtag #hoebag campaign wouldn't be successful even in our fascist-fetishistic post-apocalyptic never-ending political dystopia.
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I asked him about his use of Soviet imagery, in writings and lyrics, that can be read as fetishistic, but he pushes back a bit.
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Or maybe Paulson isn't acting and just really wanted to touch her gorgeous co-stars mane — not realizing the often fetishistic nature of doing so.
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More broadly, the administration's fetishistic focus on corporate profits and the stock market continues to stand in the way of quick and aggressive, government intervention.
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But he also has a wariness of fan culture, which he has seen turn fetishistic in a way that is easy for corporations to exploit.
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But Knight's constructions don't feature anything as enduring as iron; the mostly tabletop works on view here are fetishistic, like a menagerie of amputated limbs.
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But lavishing all this care on the women's costumes while the male servers slink like ninjas in simple dark shirts and jeans can border on the fetishistic.
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Images could be scissored out of National Geographic and Vogue, and repatriated to blocks of strident primary colors, where their fetishistic weirdness became hilariously disturbing (Sarah Charlesworth).
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That those Lilliputian items are, like Mr. LeDray's sculptures, executed with fetishistic formal perfection makes the idea of control through art feel as desperate as it does heroic.
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Vendors were selling decorative fetish gear, such as leather cuffs and pants, body jewelry, and bow-ties, and there was also a myriad of fetishistic performances going down.
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Robots are fairly dumb at the moment to engage in fetishistic nuances of the human psyche, but the question becomes more complicated as technology advances, as technology always does.
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"It's generally, in the West anyway, considered a bit kinky or fetishistic to have sex on your period," wrote adult filmmaker Erika Lust in a blog post last week.
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Even though the label was founded just as digital music platforms like Napster were altering the business, Ipecac's fans still want something physical — "like a fetishistic thing," Patton adds.
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There can be a mania for fetishistic rule-following in the name of fairness, with citizen's-arrest-style confrontations that feel more kindergarten bully than protector of the peace.
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To add a little fetishistic flavor, Dani Tull included a totem of a nine-foot phallus, while Jack Bangerter hid in the theater's plants various watercolors of people masturbating.
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Or they can be fetishistic: Witness the sickly-shiny gloss of a woman's leather heels, or the evocative dimple of a man's necktie, blown up to five feet square.
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Michel said that he made his arch to "redress a sense of loss" felt by Syrians, and he complained that Western scholars were "very fetishistic" about high-resolution data.
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And it doesn't hurt that he comes from Ohio, the all-important swing-state that has a fetishistic quality for pundits and poll watchers trying to game out presidential contests.
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Mr. Sternberg had tended Band's image with a nearly fetishistic specificity, with a cinematographer's eye to every detail, not only of the clothing itself, but each aspect of its communication.
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Nelson, even then, was downright fetishistic about manipulating space by jamming unconventional skill sets into different positions, and Dirk represented the most extreme manifestation of his dreams thus far extant.
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Meanwhile, the film's fascination with the inner strength required to withstand such a crushing assault—with "the anvil that outlives the hammer"—rather indicates a fetishistic love of strength itself.
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On the other, the game has drawn criticisms of being fetishistic, designed less for actual gay men than for women and straight people wanting to treat gay men as play dolls.
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Thanks to the unit design, combat is actually kind of hilarious, especially once you get further in and you face off against fetishistic Tainted Coil and Adams Family-reject Drowning Doom.
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Immediately I was struck by the work of Edgar Endress, whose lush printed collages tease viewers with the fetishistic beauty of natural history images drawn from 18th- and 19th-century prints.
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With the smell of stale champagne and cologne wafting through the galleries, it's extremely hard to digest this deluge of genitalia as anything more than a fetishistic amuse-bouche for the crowds.
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Seven of the 175 displayed photographs were at issue: two portraits of semi-nude children and five images from Mapplethorpe's X Portfolio, which depicts acts of BDSM and other fetishistic sexual practices.
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The music itself is 100 percent pop, although there's a creepy edge that simmers beneath the surface, and her pastel-colored, cutesy aesthetic is vaguely fetishistic, like a twee, Tumblr-fed lolita.
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In this case, the throwback references — jazz and the Kinks on the soundtrack, antiquated vinyl and reel-to-reel playback technology depicted with fetishistic reverence — are just the tip of the iceberg.
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Trump can continue to campaign against crime largely in places where crime never happened much but where, having long been molded to preëxisting bigotry, the spectre of violence still occupies a fetishistic role.
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You might imagine this mischievous fellow to be the creative persona behind the female nudes that Outerbridge produced in the 1930s, fetishistic, borderline-kinky pictures of which there are several in the show.
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Certainly female reporters who covered the Vietnam War have made the case that their gender frequently helped them look beyond a near-fetishistic coverage of guns and bombs to the real costs of war.
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As feminist author Germaine Greer put it in 2007, We must identify the men of Surrealism as those who sought out sexual partners who corresponded to their fantasy and then forced fetishistic roles upon them ….
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This fetishistic narrative still holds weight today, and the trend of casting multiracial models can be seen as its capitalist corollary: a sexier, post-identity world is possible, only now it's accessible via the brand.
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I create sardonic and humorous portraits of OPEC Oil Ministers and Western government officials based on real events; each of the photographic scenarios proposes an interplay of fetishistic love and sex between those in command.
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The show's depiction of the fertility crisis necessary for its world to exist has always been a little fuzzy (which might be why some of this fetishistic treatment of the young doesn't land for me).
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It is that there is always something interior and fetishistic, something intimate and slightly creepy, about the way Mr. Browne approaches the human body and conscripts you as an accomplice to his point of view.
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These materials and the architecture of their presentation in this exhibit can border on fetishistic or theatrical at times: Does one really need to experience an approximation of the office rented for the January Show?
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The wild, untamed fantasy of the West has always sat next to negative depictions of industrialization but Red Dead Redemption 22017's meticulous, verging into fetishistic, presentation feels charged with our current moment of ecological devastation.
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And where Argento's use of color was partly fetishistic, indulging in a gleeful orgy of violence, Guadagnino uses it to argue that violence — specifically violent social revolution — is not only cathartic but necessary and even inevitable.
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The upshot is an oppressive, inscrutable puzzle that made me more curious about the inside of Alcazar's head than that of his tortured subject — the kind of movie that, in some circles, might inspire fetishistic rewatching.
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During this period, he completed three self-contained bodies of work: collages; small boxed assemblages and hanging "fetishistic" assemblages; and numerous photographs, including his well-known sequence, "Cy and Roman Steps (I, II, III, IV, V)" (1952).
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There's the almost fetishistic level of detail lavished on the futuristic military gear like in Aliens, the aggressive alien wildlife ripped right out of Avatar, and the plentiful worker robots that would look at home in Elysium.
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Indeed, every aspect of a meal at Craft reflects a near-fetishistic desire for perfection, from the quality of a stock or a sliced tomato to the spotless gleam of a wineglass that has been polished three times.
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There's clear appropriative and fetishistic elements to these objects, and it isn't hard to draw a line from them to the imagery seen in media like the video for Katy Perry's Dark Horse, or Hollywood films like The Mummy.
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After a couple of years working this way, I felt that I was becoming a fetishistic still life painter, so I gradually transitioned to building the models out of things like modeling clay and thermoplastic that can be reused and repositioned.
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Gialli (plural for giallo) conjure up their own unique fetishistic gothic baroque: a sentiment steeped in shadows, bright red blood, leather, fur, well-curated home décor, and a general sense that the dolce vita is what makes this all possible.
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His stories — including a tale about the seduction of a man and the fetishistic robbery of his pants that occurs in the hotel room next door — feel creepy and unhinged, compelling us to think about the emotional strain of military operations.
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On a gleaming metallic set whose silvery serpentine backdrop suggests a digestive tract (and whose light brown shag rug suggests, well, eww), Ikechukwu Ufomadu plays the fetishistic doctor with the shame-free self-satisfaction of a well-practiced talk-show guest.
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The project has a socio-political mission that many parties of this sort lack: challenging the mainstream porn industry's misogyny, exploitive treatment of its workers, and fetishistic views on race and sexuality by creating an alternative model based on inclusivity and queerness.
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They're extremely beautiful and powerful, but within Frieze, the obvious working-class taste and degraded settings have a certain fetishistic appeal in this scenario, which kind of ruins it for me because he was my favorite photographer when I was a teenager.
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Speakers never tired of making fetishistic invocations of logic and reason and facts; as Sophie Thomas insisted, the "utter hatred for people with different views goes against Socratic debate"—as if everyone you impose yourself on should have to follow Oxford union rules.
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Setting aside that spectacularly ill-conceived hook, Skin's processing of racism through a "safe," easily hateful outlet of a repugnant white-trash stereotype and its fetishistic depiction of violence against a black body are nothing new to American film, though no less ugly for it.
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This play is asking white people to stop suffocating black people with their fetishistic interest, to allow black people to tell their own stories, to give them room to be subjects rather than objects — and the final moments of the play make that request literal.
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And while I understand that it will take a lot more time for popular culture to get beyond a fascination with young, dead white women, there is something bizarre and fetishistic about pandering to that fear at the outset of a story with wider social ambitions.
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Photograph from Colorsport / REX / Shutterstock But media saturation has also given rise to an opposite, if no less fetishistic, way of thinking about soccer—a focus on tactical analysis and data crunching, whereby the inherently fluid rhythm of the game is dissected into statistically surveyable chunks.
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While these inescapably misogynistic films mostly feature women being killed in cruel and bizarre ways, men are murdered too: In A Thousand Pleasures, Richard is smothered by the breasts of Boobarella—definitely more of a fetishistic gesture than an expression of retribution for killing his wife.
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"We were basically having a sort of fetishistic relationship with the Millennium Falcon last year, so that was actually one of the starting points, oddly — that we wanted to feel its actual scale and sort of what it was like to actually be there with it," he says.
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The duo enlisted Uri Minkoff to create nine dark, uniform-like suits "in a fun, fetishistic way, but also a fascistic way," Kelly says, evoking Johnson's turn to the extreme right — including time spent in Germany during the Third Reich, a detail often glossed over in his popular lore.
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For example, a recent study published in the Journal of Sex Research involving more than 1,000 Canadian adults found that nearly half (44.5 percent) expressed the desire to engage in fetishistic behavior, while just over one-quarter (26.3 percent) had actually done it at some point in the past.
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On a more sober note, consider the image of a tailored three-piece wool suit by Carr, Sonn and Woor from 1951 cut with fetishistic precision and featuring details (sleeve cuffs, a suppressed waist) that, as Mr. Jones said, oblige the wearer to live up to the clothes.
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And, in an age of fetishistic obsession with objects that are handcrafted, the 40-year-old Milwaukee native has harnessed the power of social media to do better than simply make the claim: He'll show you exactly how it's done, in mesmerizing Instagram videos that have earned him nearly 600,000 followers.
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Sometimes it's a condition that draws pity (the person in the face mask has a compromised immune system), other times, it might inspire a morbid curiosity (it's become a garment popular among post-apocalyptic-fetishistic communities including preppers and burners who spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about society's collapse).
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At that point she becomes a woman, a full-bodied woman, not a fetishistic pair of lips, and they do indeed reconcile, with Sean remaining in the last scene of the movie vulnerable and awkward because of having to confront a woman who is no longer a fetishized object form.
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Rotten Tomatoes rating: 73%Starring: Allison Williams, Alaina Huffman, Steven Weber, Logan BrowningAs critic Katie Rife wrote for the AV Club, "The Perfection takes deep, fetishistic satisfaction in pushing the envelope, then pushing it some more, building in seductive fits and shocking starts to an orgiastic frenzy of cinematic excess."
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Available on: Amazon Video Rebecca Alfred Hitchcock's classic 1940 film is, at the least, a useful case study of what follows when a young mistress lacks the spirit and resolve to wrest control of her grand house from a mad, delusional maid – one who also has a fetishistic regard for fine lady's underthings.
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"Fetishes, in general, can start for many reasons, such as an early crush who farts and the anxiety/embarrassment can transform into arousal (which is called sexual imprinting), or during sex if someone farts and it's connected to high arousal (such as right before orgasm) it can become fetishistic as well," she said.
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That said, it seems that techno, rather than house, in the eternal horse race between the two, has nudged ahead recently in terms of what people want to hear in a DJ. Techno's fetishistic, sophisticated iterations of production techniques and tricks really seem to be important to people at the moment—like guitar solos in the 80s.
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Even the nonfiction Sarah has written herself, she feels, has been shaped by editors into not exactly what she wanted to say; for instance, she said that editors at Vox pushed her to focus on the mundane details of her life and "fetishistic descriptions of my house," rather than the Victorian philosophy and thought she wanted to discuss.
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That contrivance and the stolen glances it entails gives "Portrait of a Lady on Fire" an extra frisson of danger, even if Sciamma and her audience know exactly where this will lead: Drenched in fetishistic pleasures (those bodices!) and a faint mist of tragedy, the film is less about the narrative itself than its attempt to marry eroticism and feminist theory.
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" — but if that's what it takes to get well-written queer characters into the mainstream, that might ultimately be OK." If anything, instead of catering to the knee-jerk assumption that stories like Dream Daddy's escapist romance are inherently fetishistic, the game's broad success seems to indicate that there's room for multiple kinds of stories to exist under the queer narrative umbrella.
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"Five on a Treasure Island," Enid Blyton I grew up reading the "Famous Five" books, and recently I reread the first one and was shocked to realize it contains the first trans person I ever encountered, and also how much its almost fetishistic description of food had everything to do with the rationing that Britain was ensuring at the time.
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With little time, we crisscrossed the city to absorb the grim lessons of history that Berlin teaches in spades, along with an almost fetishistic devotion to contrition and atonement: the bombed ruin of the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, Checkpoint Charlie and remnants of the despised wall, the Brandenburg Gate and the labyrinthine Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe with its 2,19483 suffocating stelae.
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