Word: obsessing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Trier has a tendency to go overboard in his denunciations of American violence (Dogville). By contrast, Dear Wendy is a cogent, comprehensive take on the land and the films that obsess him. In his upended western plot, these nice kids are inventing villains, reacting to outside threats that don't exist. By the end, the political implications are clear: the U.S. sees itself as the lonesome marshal--Gary Cooper in High Noon--when in fact it possesses the world's biggest arsenal and is making more trouble than it's preventing. Or not. But you needn't agree with this...
...hints of '60s movie themes, chunks of '70s Eno-era Roxy Music, Donna Summer disco, '90s trip-hop - all with a knowing 21st century pop take. Like the magpie Scissor Sisters and other light-fingered musicians, Goldfrapp shamelessly borrows past pop genres, playing to an audience too enthralled to obsess about originality. And yet there is something unique about her trips to the past: Supernature shimmers along with an electric buzz like a dangerously overloaded socket, enlivening the edge between human voice and machine. "I think that's why we love old analog synthesizers - like the Mellotron, which tries...
...that doesn't mean we're off the hook. "There is enough oil, but most of the easy oil, the cheap oil has been got out," says David Wyss, chief economist at Standard & Poor's. Energy experts obsess over whether we've reached "Hubbert's peak," the point at which oil reserves are 50% depleted. That's because the remaining 50% gets increasingly harder and more expensive to extract. At some point in the next decade or so--estimates range from 15 to 25 years--the world's oil production will peak. Yet demand for oil will continue to rise...
...love is not hate: it’s indifference. So even if you are able to move from “I miss him” to “I hate him,” you are still too tied up in the relationship. The more you obsess over this, the worse you will feel...
...that publishers give a very short turnaround deadline for writers to proof galleys—the last opportunity to make changes before a book goes to press. “Probably outside writing the book, it’s the moment in the life of the book when you obsess most about it,” she said. “You don’t become E.L. Doctorow without obsessing over your prose...