Word: obsession
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...what happened to The Studio, which Picasso completed in 1928. It was first seen briefly in the U.S. five years later. But by 1935 it had found its way into MOMA's permanent collection. In the Whitney show's catalog, guest curator Michael FitzGerald says that that canvas "would obsess Gorky and his friends for the remainder of the decade...
...first loves Henry because she too wants to be a concert pianist, and she sees some of her own troubles reflected in his wild persona (and according to her shrink, she is also acting out some form of Oedipal complex). Marian follows, and begins to obsess over him too, even though she doesn’t really feel the same attraction. Val and Marian clip articles about him from the society papers and stalk his concerts at Carnegie Hall...
...nomadic army of losers, on the other hand, don’t do this. Look out for these reserved introverts, who, while failing to obsess over other human beings, have been swindled out of a community...
This is book No. 5 in the Clique series, a fascinating, almost anthropological exploration of life in the popular girls' set at a rich New York private school. The girls do nothing but obsess about boys, clothes and makeup, talk in phonetically rendered dialogue ("Ehmagawd!") and stab each other in the back. They're scared of each other, but they're stuck with each other--it's like Sartre with lip gloss. "The Pretty Committee girls were like wild animals," thinks Claire, the most sympathetic one (she actually has one dorky, noncool friend). "If they smelled fear, they'd pounce...
Have you been to any of the Lebowski Fests, where fans obsess about the film...