Word: obsessionals
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Author Spoto is too shrewd to imagine, however, that an artist is the sum of his quirks. Hitchcock's brilliance was entangled with his personal grotesqueries, but it was real brilliance. He grew up with the film industry, and at his best gave movies a dazzling visual impudence: the...
The charm of being air bone may not be clear to those who scan the sky only for unidentified flying objects. Why fly? Por Russell, "it's an obsession--more addicting than any drag I know."
One of those children was eight-year-old Nikola. Transported to the U.S. to join a father he had never met, the boy discovered the cathartic power of words when he wrote a school essay about his mother's death. He took the name Nicholas Gage and grew up...
And, though history is Tuchman's medium, the current century is her philosophic obsession. Born into a world of hope and self-confidence, she watched the idealism of the 19th century dissolve in war and recongeal into the recrimination and self doubt of the 20th. In contrast to the proud...
Whatever Reagan's convictions on arms control-however sincere, however misguided-they do not amount to a grand obsession with him. That could be a blessing in disguise. It could make it easier for him to modify and moderate the policies that have been pursued in his name. At...