Word: obsessional
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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For a time he seemed more stable. His father, a loan collector in an Atlanta bank, gave him money for a round-the-world trip. In June 1979, the stocky (5 ft. 11 in., 195 Ibs.) Chapman married Gloria Abe, the attractive Japanese American who planned the itinerary. Though Chapman...
With oil costs soaring, the hunt for alternatives to OPEC petroleum has become a global obsession. To bolster conventional sources of crude, oilmen are drilling more and deeper than ever before. Often they are going to depths of 15,000 ft. or more, and frequently in storm-tossed seas that...
The actors, one imagines, needed very little help at all, beyond the occasional suggestion to play broadly. As usual, Ming the Merciless, Emperor of Mongo, is bent on destroying the earth and, failing that, making life as unpleasant as possible for Flash (Sam J. Jones), his girlfriend Dale Arden (Melody...
But what is the closing tune, "The Overload," doing on the album? Even Byrne calls it an anomaly. It is reminiscent of a funeral march but the critics have been comparing it to the latest posthumously popularized group Joy Division. It sounds to me like Eno's obsession, Ambient Music...
They worked hard and precipitately. Nicholas Nickleby opened to guarded enthusiasm that turned, over the course of an initial ten-week run, into a national obsession. Nicholas Nickleby helped to right those vexing money matters, became a rallying point for yet another of those renaissances in British theater that occur...