Word: obsessionals
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When she began writing her book she thought it would surely be a kind of history. One of her achievements, in fact, is the sense of historic perspective that she brings to a roiling subject. But as has happened to many others who have reported it, Viet Nam has taken...
Those skeptical of Casey's craft might argue that his reliance of dialect is a mere trick, that anyone with his eyes and ears open for a few years in Vietnam could capture and same idiosyncrasies and recount the same stories, that one work is not enough to establish Casey...
Theoretically, gambling ought to be an interesting obsession. In this engaging first novel James Guetti is not always certain just what the obsession is: an untrammeled subculture with openings to the metaphysical or merely a shabby compulsion that can absorb the addict to the point of rendering every thing else...
For Alex, the cars sometimes offer a disjointed sense of romance, but mainly they are an obsession, a brief freedom and, simultaneously, a vehicle for the half wish of getting caught. Only the cars seem to renew themselves, with new models every year.
Plaster dreams for people to walk into are Hunter's stock in trade, and a very profitable trade it is, too. In the past 20 years, his 45 movies have grossed countless millions; one of them alone, the 1969 Airport, has grossed $45 million, according to Variety, making it...