Word: obsession
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...person's mind is in a fog," Grassian said. "If they can focus, they obsess. They can't stop thinking about the sound of a drip...
...women who obsess over their looks in Venezuela, making it the vainest place surveyed...
...Well, I went to this really competitive school academically. It was sort of a prep school and the kids all knew one another. It was sort of tough and I didn't really fit in that much and I used to obsess about guys who were unavailable. I was sort of depressed. It's gotten much better since after high school. I just worked my ass off. I was a perfectionist, overachiever and it was a hard, dark time for me. I didn't like it. I think the people that peek there sometimes plateau, and the ones that struggle...
During a recent office move, someone heisted a pair of trusty old computer speakers from one of my machines. A lot of people would obsess about the crime and curse the cruel God who could create such larcenous, broken souls. Not me. I saw it as an opportunity to get a better stereo system for my computer...
These books and others that feature stark themes, complex plot lines and ambiguous resolutions are edging out the happy endings and conventional morals of the old-style teen "problem" novels, which would obsess over something like a divorce, or an accidental pregnancy, for 120 pages. "The formula has been broken," says Eliza Dresang, author of Radical Change: Books for Youth in a Digital...