Word: obsessionals
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"O.J. SIMPSON IS NOT Everybrother. I keep thinking about the thousands of black men who have been arrested since Mr. Simpson who cannot afford legal representation, and about whom we hear nothing. Likewise, Nicole Simpson is not Everyvictim, and Mark Fuhrman is not Everyracist. When we create these false archetypes...
We can now see Copley's work as the origin of one of the main lines of American painting: that empirical realism that, disdaining frills of style and "spiritual" grace notes, tried in all its sharpness (and, occasionally, bluntness) to engage the material world as an end in itself. Later...
Beethoven's contemporaries declared that the Seventh Symphony could only have been composed by one who was drunk, perhaps alluding to Beethoven's unusual obsession with the rhythmic qualities of this composition. In that light, Kleiber presents a reading replete with charm and joyful abandon, tempered with sensitivity and intelligence...
With typical scientific precision, Crichton tries to get to the bottom of this literary obsession with the inner lives of characters. "I've become very interested in where this inner life came from--as defined by Henry James, I guess. You don't see it at the very beginning. You...
Artistic license has expired on shtick like that, and further critical explication of the separate realms of fact and fiction can no longer insulate the comedy from the offense . But the sexual obsession and obscenities are intrinsic to Sabbath's exaggerated character as a dirty old man. There is much...