“That’s right. Anyway, the General Oblation Board grew out of ideas like that, and out of the Church’s obsession with original sin.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

After that, hounded by what happened in a Philippine jungle and the ghosts of a thousand men who didn’t escape it, his steadfast disdain for cowardice turned to obsession. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She felt that the obsession driving Bobby was I must get married, I must have a child, I cannot die without an offspring, or else my genius will vanish forever. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Many thanks are owed to the above mentioned for their roles in what has been, for the past few years now, an obsession and a second life that I never expected to live. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

And the obsession with my identity which I had developed in the factory hospital returned with a vengeance. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was disqualified for picking a fight with a fellow teammate, so she switched her obsession to Warcross after that. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“What if the Titanic was hit by a meteor?” said Phoebe, whose latest obsession was outer space. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

Throwing me over Devil’s Drop is his obsession this summer. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

South Korea’s obsession with achievement has paid astonishing dividends. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

That was the dark side of the world’s obsession with aviation. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

That involved the invention of many new instruments for improved measurements on Earth and in the heavens—cross-staffs, sextants, quadrants—and it was driven by a new obsession with accuracy. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Do you see the level of obsession here? The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Greeks had learned about zero because of their obsession with the night sky. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Everyone on deck is occupied in their own particular obsession. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Raising a baby—magical or not—is not without its challenges: the inconsolable crying, the near-constant runny noses, the obsession with putting very small objects into a drooling mouth. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

It says something about our century, our attitude toward life, our obsession with disease and death, our human chauvinism. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, at that moment he was blinded by his twin obsessions: to destroy Lyra and to possess her mother. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The obsession with putting ourselves at the centre of everything is the bane not only of theolo­gians but also of zoologists. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

He wasn't going to lie, but he also wasn't going to go into detail about his meat loaf obsession. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

His dream—his obsession—of becoming the youngest World Champion in history had eluded him. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Had my dual obsessions with the egg and Art3mis finally driven me completely insane? Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Penny trails behind us, wearing a huge red and white hat like the one in The Cat in the Hat—the girl has a major hat obsession—and always with her Doodle. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

By this time there were captains in the Owsla who said privately to each other that the General was in the grip of an obsession. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thanks to science class and Ms. Cantor’s obsession with prepping, I know all about purified urine. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

My foolish, shallow, affectionate pets, with their obsessions with feathers and parties, nearly break my heart with their good-bye. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

To be fair to Briggs, his office was not the only place developing an obsession with secrecy. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He also knows about my Flannery O’Connor obsession. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

“Is there a point to this, beyond your obsession with those marks in the garden? Are you that bored?” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

That line from Freaks and Geeks, one of Lydia’s obsessions, had been a running joke with them ever since Lydia had made Travis and Dill watch every episode in a single day. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

She was referring to Maya’s obsession with making the world’s largest dot game to play at lunchtime. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

"The media's obsession with Watney's death is finally starting to taper off," Teddy said evenly. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had always found his obsession with everything Star Wars kind of geeky, and that braid in the back of his hair, with its little beads, was just awful. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

But no matter how shabbily he is treated, Goriot goes on, living out the obsession of his life. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

There are degrees of obsession, of awareness, of grief, of insanity. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

We were obsessed with the movies around the same time as our Jonas Brothers obsession. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“Listen to me, Alice. I saw his mind. Tracking is his passion, his obsession — and he wants her, Alice — her, specifically. He begins the hunt tonight.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Indulging my grandfather’s obsession with them had made me worse, not better. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

They knew that old Frank’s devotion to the house and grounds amounted almost to an obsession, and it amused them to see him limping across the garden, brandishing his stick and yelling croakily at them. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“The emperor has a bit of an obsession with immortality.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Jim always wanted everyone to share his obsessions, to love the same things he loved. I think this contest is his way of giving the entire world an incentive to do just that.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He was deluded by obsession; his logic and reasoning became corrupted, irrational, and increasingly dangerous. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

They were my latest obsession and I thought he'd like them, too. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I had a secret obsession with them that predated my days at Lynbrook. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Considering Egyptian society’s obsession with immortality, it’s not surprising that Egyptian art remained unchanged for 3,000 years. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z

Or are they simply manifesting the worst aspects of adolescence—an obsession with conformity, group identity, and peer approval combined with an appetite for risk and sensation? The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

During the trial, the appointed defense lawyer presented no evidence about Herbert’s background, his military service, his trauma from the war, his relationship with the victim, his obsession with the girlfriend—nothing. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I kept up my single-minded obsession with finding food, to the point where I had no time or room in my mind for other thoughts. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

I’d elbowed his chest, a warning not to encourage my mom’s obsession for embarrassing costumes. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

I asked myself once, “What is the nature of obsession?” Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a preoccupation, verging on obsession, that would inform his decisions, and guide his energies. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was great exploring out there, but Shay’s obsession with David had started to sour it for Tally. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“It was my obsession,” Gates says of his early high school years. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Back at Down, Charles involved the whole family in his worm obsession. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The crying and clashing of the harmonies were an obsession in the melted bowels. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Halliday seemed to expect everyone around him to share his obsessions, and he often lashed out at those who didn’t. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Selfish and grandiose though Beck’s obsession may have been, it wasn’t frivolous. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

She went to confession, for her true obsession—’ ” Kvothe leaned forward to watch as Chronicler wrote. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

To women as yet unaware of his private obsessions, it was an appealing delicacy. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

In Vienna he had lived first with the fear of her, then the joke of her, finally the obsession, followed by rejection of her. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I do not get the obsession,” Moody murmured to Trip, in the corner behind the kitchen island, where they had retreated with paper plates of quiche and pastries. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

A pink jump rope lay coiled like a snake near the foot of the narrow twin bed—evidence of her latest obsession. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

To beg drinks in the saloon became an obsession. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only thing Anorak's Almanac seemed to indicate was that a familiarity with Halliday’s various obsessions would be essential to finding the egg. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

His one obsession was to destroy what he called “the Marxist cancer,” which was slowly gaining ground among the people. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

While another part of me wants to deny the obsession. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

My obsession with hip-hop kept me credible with the kids in my neighborhood. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

But as she sat there amid her guests, she felt the old ennui overtaking her, the hopelessness which so often assailed her, which came upon her like an obsession, like something extraneous, independent of volition. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She says we need to do a clean sweep. Throw away Nat’s button box. They’ll be no more counting for her. No more obsessions.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not this weird obsession with my studies again. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

And despite his own conversion to Mojo he seemed not to understand it all quite, the devotion, the obsession, the way some people clung to it as if there was nothing else in life. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Black people love their children with a kind of obsession. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

These dangerous visions, at first insubstantial as a memory, became a lifelong obsession. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Already Nathan’s obsession with guilt and God’s reproof was infecting me. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The revival of Galen was part of the humanist obsession with all things Greek. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Berlioz was not alone in his obsession with this tragic love story. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

If it was unlikely for a scruffy little girl to turn up in his cell knowing the very man who figured in his obsessions, the Regius Professor didn’t notice. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Your Jenny Lindt obsession knows no bounds. You know what your big project’s going to be yet?” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Of late the badger had become preoccupied with an idea that was rapidly turning into an obsession. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

For instance, reading The Autobiography of Malcolm X—a book that begins and ends in the madness and pathology of America’s racial obsessions—is a rite of passage for young black men. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

She has a weird obsession with being strong, with proving she can lift heavy things. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

A skinny kid with braces, a member of the debate club as well as drama, he has a passion, bordering on obsession, for recycling. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Besides the number 7, I have two other major obsessions. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“I guess. I never thought about it before. You’re normal. I mean, aside from the Doctor Who obsession.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

All languages embody the obsessions of the people who speak them, and so Sasha’s language was meant to reflect the interests of a people whose world was dominated by growing seasons, grains, and harvests. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Harry’s belief in and longing for the Hallows consumed him so much that he felt quite isolated from the other two and their obsession with the Horcruxes. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

My obsession with pineapples nearly drove me mad. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

His focus, indeed his obsession, was the interior architecture of his own remembrances, the construction of an Adams version of American history, a spacious room of his own within the American pantheon. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Saddling my brother with my own obsessions with chance and fate? Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“The ten empty seats became an obsession to weary workers,” wrote Jo Ann Robinson, an English professor at Alabama State College at the time. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Second, doesn’t addressing Yali’s question automatically involve a Eurocentric approach to history, a glorification of western Europeans, and an obsession with the prominence of western Europe and Europeanized America in the modern world? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

And what is this obsession you have with your brother? Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

As I told him about the history of my HeLa obsession, he grumbled and sighed, letting out occasional mmmmmms and wellllllls. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Another postal examination was scheduled for spring and to that end I made eating an obsession. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like Max G and Max W will never live down their Dungeons & Dragons obsession. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Rain and I weren’t sports fans, what with the obsession over winning and losing. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

In all that time his love for her had grown to the point where it had become an obsession. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

His pursuit to win a state championship became a ruthless obsession, say those who worked for him, for he knew that any-thing less would not be enough. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Lowell Observatory, as you will recall, was a bit of an oddity thanks to Percival Lowell’s obsession with Martian canals, which in the 1910s made it, in every sense, an outpost of astronomical endeavor. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Still reading from ancient texts, secret writings, and the Bible his mother had given him at age fourteen, Cabot had taken his curiosity to obsession. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Like his misguided obsession with those Potomac canals, his campaign for a national university in the capital city never bore fruit. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

If something captured my undisciplined imagination, I pursued it with a zeal bordering on obsession, and from the age of seventeen until my late twenties that something was mountain climbing. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

What was all this obsession with enemies anyway? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew what love was supposed to be: obsession, with undertones of nausea. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“The Italian stallion,” he chorded, a dual reference to the heritage of our new neighbor, Marcellus DiAngelo, and his obsession with physical fitness. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

So then it became something else: an obsession. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just remember, I am here to help you through this intense-Need-to-kiss-Ryan-Dean obsession you have. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

She didn’t need to get run over by a one-horned bull with a scroll obsession. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Briony was lost to her writing fantasies—what had seemed a passing fad was now an enveloping obsession. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

As an obsession I prefer the chemistry set to the girlfriend. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

It didn’t inform the rest of your brain about its sudden obsession. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

My daughter Kathleen tells me it’s an obsession, that I should write about a little girl who finds a million dollars and spends it all on a Shetland pony. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d had an obsession with phoenixes when I was ten, and this one followed me home every night. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

They knew I had an unhealthy obsession with movies and television shows, and they were partially to blame. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Your obsession with, like, dying for something or leaving behind some great sign of your heroism or whatever. It’s just weird.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, he hammered at his statements with the small obsession of a woodpecker. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He said the guy had an obsession with naiads. What’s a naiad, anyhow?” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Bacon read it in manuscript, but had no time for it: Gilbert’s preoccupation with magnetism seemed to him an irrational obsession, and as a result he had ‘built a ship out of a shell’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

"I believe you've had an opportunity to witness just how wild Sophia can be. I saw her handiwork with one of the Pompadour twins. And I take it she's shown you her portraits? Her obsessions." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

They helped transform the way in which philosophers thought about machinery, just as Descartes’ obsession with automata resulted in a new mechanical philosophy. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

She became an immediate obsession, her image and need locked in his brain. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Rich, poor, Panhandle, Gulf, city, country, Texas is the obsession, the proper study and the passionate possession of all Texans. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

In him Sullivan saw a kindred capacity for obsession. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“I’m not crazy, all right? I know about Scarlet. I know about your obsessions. I’m not letting this get past me. And I’m not going to let you hurt Miles.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“By November 6,” Daniel Ellsberg later said, “the day after the election, I was back to my regular obsession with Vietnam.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

In his final years, Cope developed one other interesting obsession. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

First, she has kind of an obsession with disco balls. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

And the joy and obsession he’s had with his computer. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Years later, when her father was in New York, baseball became their obsession. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He gave him a mechanical bear that walked on its hind legs on a tightrope, but he could not distract him from his obsession. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The prospect of a meeting between the two was becoming an international obsession. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somehow, without my realizing it, my obsession with finding Halliday’s Easter egg was gradually being supplanted by my obsession with Art3mis. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Who cares about the light? 'four obsession with it is tiresome. Listen. We are rats. Rats. We do not like light. We are about darkness. We are about suffering. ” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Unable to eliminate the rail obsession completely, the trainer made use of it. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

About Taylor’s new obsession with Nick joining the band. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

I don’t know if there’s a how-to-go-on-a-first-date-without-making-a-total-fool-of-yourself handbook out there, but if there is I’m pretty sure fessing up to your weird Dolly Parton obsession is not on the do list. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I did not understand the Iranian obsession with French loan words. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

As the years passed, the need of talking intimately with a woman who was close to him became an obsession. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you have a lot of obsessions, a lot of things you really like, the opportunity for best days ever increases. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

For all Burnham’s obsession with detail and control, one event at the fair escaped his attention. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

But researchers are apt to lose sight of whom they are writing for, and narcissistically describe the obsessions of their guild rather than what the audience really wants to know. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

I’ll never understand Mom’s obsession with trying to get us to stay close to her. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He proceeded, however, to vent his obsession yet again. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I remember walking in art galleries, through the nineteenth century: the obsession they had then with harems. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The search began as a project, quickly evolved into a challenge, and now was an obsession. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

"I need you to focus right now. Her issues. Her obsessions. I thought she'd gotten better. I thought I'd helped her," she says. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

To do justice to the increased obsession with death and destiny, someone needed to turbocharge music’s engine. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

In particular, this sudden obsession with Harry Potter . Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t remember how our obsession started, exactly, but my brother and I had always loved breakdancing videos. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“The Roman genius, and perhaps the Roman flaw,” he said, “was an obsession with order. One sees it in their architecture, their literature, their laws—this fierce denial of darkness, unreason, chaos.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Then I played a brief clip from the 1990 movie version of “The Handmaid’s Tale,” and we moved on to discussing theocracies, America’s Puritan roots and anxiety and obsession over the female body. Why I banned “The Handmaid’s Tale” — and why we need it more than ever 2017-04-30T04:00:00Z

It looks at Jobs' technology obsessions while sharing his own stories of touring iPod and iPhone factories in China, the theater company said. Steve Jobs' agony and ecstasy to hit NY stage 2011-10-06T22:40:25Z

Occasionally the songs’ lyrics overlap, returning to insoluble obsessions; they wander among observation, parable, reminiscence and incantation, sometimes infusing the most commonplace sentiments with mystery. Nick Cave Searches for Solace on ‘Ghosteen’ 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z

Mr. Johnson traces his obsession with rice to six years ago, when he bonded with the Anson Mills founder Glenn Roberts over a quest for the elusive heirloom African glaberrima rice. ‘Rice Is Culture’ at FieldTrip in Harlem 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

Reading Dandy in the Underworld, you get the sense that here was a man whose major obsession and achievement was himself, and whose brilliance would not be fully appreciated in his lifetime. Underworld dandy: Sebastian Horsley dies, aged 47, of suspected overdose 2010-06-17T16:27:00Z

She had prize horses and that was her obsession. 'Foxcatcher' and the Screenwriter Who Didn't See How It Could Be a Film 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z

The third season, beginning this fall, interrogated the “crazy” in Rachel Bloom’s musical comedy of obsession by exploring her character Rebecca’s diagnosis with borderline personality disorder — while still delivering multiple spot-on song parodies a week. The Best TV Shows of 2017 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z

Is that meant to suggest a sense of equivalency of obsession between the two? The Art Forger Who Wasn't in It for Money 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z

Gus’s cranky obsessions are catnip to Mr. Jones, who makes a meal of the character’s belief in the omnipotence of Alexander the Great and the curative powers of Windex. Review: ‘My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2’ Is Something Tired, Something New 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

This is a bold work that requires bold playing, “a phantasmagoric tour through an obsession,” as composer Daniel Felsenfeld put it. National Symphony Orchestra shines in quiet moments at Wolf Trap

Tony Soprano is responsible for my complete obsession with lobster linguine. Hill Street Blues, The Sopranos, The Following: Chris Tarrant's favourite TV 2013-05-06T11:00:00Z

Her fashion obsession was sparked in the 1980s by a British television series, “The Clothes Show.” The Making of Fashion?s Latest ?It? Girl 2010-12-01T08:10:00Z

Glaciation blessed it with hundreds of gorges and waterfalls, while the microclimate of the lakes has created fecund wine country, not to mention a passion for watersports and a town-wide obsession with rowing. The best towns and small cities in the US: Ithaca, New York state 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z

Netflix is bringing Borgen back to our screens more than a decade after the Danish political drama first aired on British TV and became a nationwide obsession. Borgen to return with new series on Netflix 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z

To remain faithful to that obsession is to remain crippled, stunted. Oscar's Big Secret: Love and Death in Argentina 2010-04-25T02:35:00Z

There is no obvious reason for the sudden bathroom obsession, said Rebecca Kane Burton, chief executive of LW Theaters, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s company, which owns seven West End spaces including the Theater Royal. London’s Theaters Tackle the Big Issue: Women’s Bathrooms 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z

From 11:30 p.m. to 3 a.m., alone in a college studio, he would devote his nights to what he calls “Josh obsession time,” honing his skills. Joshua Henry Does Whatever It Takes, in ‘Carousel’ and as a Father 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z

And defence against all sorts of threats were obsessions for them as they are for us. You don't have to go to the British Museum – Rome leads to all roads 2013-04-12T21:00:04Z

Presented by Gavin Esler, a BBC journalist, “The Big Steal” traces the roots of Putin’s obsession with Ukraine, and how his ascent to power began when he was a KGB officer based in East Germany. 6 Podcasts About Political Scandals and Upheaval 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z

They will say that the wounded former believer was prone to anxiety or depression or obsession in the first place — that his Christianity somehow got corrupted by his predisposition to psychological problems. The crazy-making in Christianity: Religion’s cycle of self-doubt and self-punishment 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z

There’s a specific variety of nonfiction I’ve never been able to resist, in which the storyteller's obsession becomes part of the story. “Dead Air” and the true crime boom: What happens when amateurs investigate murder? 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z

The elation she felt after winning a local amateur tournament soon turned to something more like obsession, and she began to worry about the game’s impact on her mental health. How Rekindling a Love for Tennis Turned Into a Raging Fire 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z

Others have taken their obsessions to a different level by mimicking what they've learned from film, TV shows, books and video games, using works of fiction to create real-life nightmares. 'Call of Duty' latest fiction to inspire nightmare 2012-04-20T02:22:11Z

Credit the acting of Viva Seifert, or Barlow's writing or the way in which it taps into one of the media's favorite cultural obsessions. Head games in 'Her Story' will make you feel almost like a true detective 2015-07-04T04:00:00Z

“There is a fear of what is ‘unhealthy,’ but with an undercurrent of thinness and an obsession with fitness,” she says. Could social media’s ‘healthy food’ focus be contributing to a little-known eating disorder? 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z

Madrick also throws shade on our bipartisan obsession with refunding the taxes of our poorer citizens rather than just giving them and their families money. Eliminating Child Poverty With a Government Check 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z

I found in many ways that it was similar to writing in the sense that both visual art and writing begin with obsession. Talking with Jill Bialosky about writing, editing and her new novel, 'The Prize' 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z

The problem is that, by this point, obsession has set in for everyone involved, including the viewer, who now shares the frustration of dead ends. Review | If serials are the new way to solve mysteries, maybe ‘The Keepers’ can help close the case of Sister Cathy 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z

“Coming out of university, one of my obsessions was that in the novels I was reading, they seemed to be portraying a world that had a social fabric,” he recalled. Whit Stillman Pays a Visit to Jane Austen 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z

His debauchery went hand in hand with an obsession with Garland. Rufus Wainwright’s 10-Year Journey Back to Judy Garland 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z

Si: This obsession with celebrity – or wanting to be a celebrity – drives me insane. The Hairy Bikers' favourite TV 2013-02-02T06:00:04Z

The actress rather focuses her energy satisfyingly on Amanda’s other big, involuntary obsession: breaking her offspring’s wills. A “Menagerie” of real feeling 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z

In one way or another, Ms. McCartney was exposing a female obsession with this collection: how much of one’s self to show? Fashion Review: At Givenchy, Coming Up for Air, and Taking a Step Forward 2012-10-02T00:26:10Z

“The piece is playing in the time of the French Revolution, and this obsession of being a count or being a servant is very, very important,” he said. Ivan Fischer Returns to Mostly Mozart With ‘Nozze di Figaro’ 2013-08-09T18:45:43Z

The British fascination – or obsession – with crime has been a subject of curiosity for everyone from Dickens to Orwell but are we now saturated with it at the expense of the victims? When true crime films prove to be guilty themselves 2019-03-17T04:00:00Z

From a 15th century Spanish clockwork monk who kisses his rosary to a Japanese newsreader with lifelike facial expressions, the exhibition tracks the development of robotics and mankind’s obsession with replicating itself. London museum charts 500 years of evolution of robots 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z

“Thrones,” the thinking went, might just be the last big TV series ever: That is, the last blockbuster-level behemoth that would dazzle and focus the obsession of a mass audience. Can TV Get Big Again? 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z

Say what you will about our celebrity obsession, the participation of megastars does confer some validation on an occasion such as this. Perspective | America yearns for an era of good feeling. The inaugural ceremony launched one. 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z

They fit in well with Philadelphia’s collection, evoking at once Duchamp’s devotion to the found object and Cézanne’s obsession with process. Seeing Double With Jasper Johns 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z

The best and worst thing you can say about “Will & Grace” is that it’s the kind of half-hour confection that doesn’t cry out for obsession over narrative continuity. Review: The World Changed. NBC’s ‘Will & Grace’ Hasn’t. 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z

There is an operatic neediness to Arquette’s obsession that suits the circus of wrestling, and it suits the documentary too. ‘You Cannot Kill David Arquette’ Review: Ready to Rumble (Again)? 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z

“There’s been an obsession with identicals going back to Romulus and Remus,” he says. Three Identical Strangers: the bizarre tale of triplets separated at birth 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z

Later, in a democratic Brazil, she made equally poignant drawings and works in clay and plaster, which explore more elemental themes of hunger and nourishment, ritual and obsession. Weekend in Los Angeles: That Touch of Brazil 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z

That Caravaggio left behind no drawings, no letters, no will or estate record, only police and court records, makes him a perfect Rorschach for our obsessions. Abroad: Caravaggio in Ascendance: An Antihero?s Time to Shine 2010-03-10T02:49:00Z

Maybe Hollywood’s obsession with oppression and elitism is an unconscious expression of the filmmakers’ own fears of subjugation. The Social Split Between TV and Movie Dystopias 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z

Two years ago, she watched the stage production with Mason at Disney World, which spurred his ongoing obsession with the movie. They adored ‘The Lion King’ as kids. Will their children connect to the remake? 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z

“This obsession that I should be punished for the advertising is fascistic and anti-woman. I will express myself as I always have done.” American Apparel founder Dov Charney: ‘Sleeping with people you work with is unavoidable’ 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z

When she writes about the object of her obsessions, she makes even the minor details sound epic, as on “Noccalula”: “I can almost taste your spit, pilsner brew and cigarettes.” Allison and Katie Crutchfield, Twins, Go Separate Ways 2012-08-30T13:34:19Z

In the years since, the cruffin, cereal milk soft serve and unbaked cookie dough have capably carried on the tradition of gastronomic obsession. Why stand in line for TikTok famous cookie pies when you can bake them yourself? 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z

Their obsession with a boy band results in a panda-on-panda showdown that is part superhero film climax and part Sumo wrestling match. With ‘Turning Red,’ a Big Red Panda Helps Break a Glass Ceiling 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z

Mr. Dibbits said that what he feels people will understand through all of this year’s exhibitions is that Rembrandt, throughout his life, had “a complete obsession with depicting the world around him as it is.” Rembrandt Died 350 Years Ago. Why He Matters Today. 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z

Faux finishing became an obsession, as people employed decorative painting techniques to make their walls look like marble or wood grain. The reign of beige: In a political town, design stays neutral 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z

It was only two days but, Wegner said they clicked, sharing both a similar aesthetic and an obsession with preparation. Ari Wegner: A Cinematographer Who Knows Actors Down to the Eyelash 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z

Indeed, the Holbrooke family members featured in the film paint a portrait of a man with two singular obsessions: his career and himself. Searching for Richard Holbrooke 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z

What we’ve forgotten about is that this obsession with pedigree, this obsession with controlling the boundaries between not only races but classes, is a really central part of our past and our history.  The deep roots of “white trash” in America: “Not only are we not a post-racial society, we are certainly not a post-class society” 2016-07-09T04:00:00Z

This approach to architecture is part of a larger cultural obsession with privacy — a concept that is very modern relative to human history, according to Christopher Leinberger, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Why a city block can be one of the loneliest places on earth 2017-07-15T04:00:00Z

But “Training Day” fails to provide any such material for Paxton, relying instead upon the audience’s presumed obsession with flying bullets and ridiculous villain stereotypes. The wheels come on in the television take of “Training Day” 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z

What began as a six-month sabbatical to explore his roots became what he described as “an obsession that took over my life.” Theo Richmond, Who Revived the Past in a Polish Shtetl, Dies at 93 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z

Despite the obsession with historical detail, there were plenty of re-enactors who brought air mattresses, propane burners, flashlights and jugs of Gatorade. The Decline of the Civil War Re-enactor 2018-07-28T04:00:00Z

Particularly in a city as expensive, busy and competitive as New York, the performing arts reward single-mindedness, stubbornness, even obsession. Critic's Notebook: Deaths of Olga Bloom and Anthony Amato Represent End of an Era 2011-12-16T15:20:40Z

Based on Dr. Ford’s explanation of Arnold’s obsession with the bicameral mind theory, it’s logical. 8 Key Reveals From Westworld’s Sixth Episode 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z

The search for Jaballa is an obsession that takes the son into the corridors of power. O mio babbino caro 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

Still, it's one thing for college sports, a uniquely American obsession, to be broken. Fixing the Leadership Crisis In Sports 2011-06-03T10:00:00Z

“It wasn’t exploitative. We really enjoyed the character of Villanelle and the inventiveness of her kills, but we were particularly engaged with the mutual obsession between the women.” Killing Eve: how my psycho killer was brought to life 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z

Hiding my freckles Topics: , , , Irish, Freckles, Molly Ringwald, Self-image, Goth, The Cure, , "Body Issues" is a personal essay series about obsessions with our own shape. Hiding my freckles 2012-12-27T22:35:00Z

The rocks and water in the scene are his own obsessions, going back to his earliest landscape drawing and haunting him right through to his late drawings of rocks blown apart by the deluge. Leonardo swap will make for the greatest gathering of his work to date 2011-07-28T10:39:30Z

Yes, my passion for the music had become an obsession, and to such an extent that my parents could no longer tolerate the lugubrious basslines and vocal pleas rattling their nerves each night. Closer to Curtis 2010-05-18T11:25:00Z

Just the idea of being overwhelmed by something, being devastated by something — an obsession that dominates your mind. ‘Moby-Dick’ Marathon in New York 2012-11-15T22:48:31Z

Which is what leads to their mission: To find a proper home for their obsession. A bobblehead museum! Wait, you’re shaking your head? 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z

I had no clue why, but when I started going back and looking at my childhood and connecting it back to my obsession with Hughes films it started to make more sense to me. When you grow up, your heart doesn’t have to die: Kevin Smokler and Jason Diamond on the perfectly imperfect world of John Hughes 2016-11-26T05:00:00Z

Spread across this playing field are all the components of Mr. Apatow’s life: his aspirations, obsessions and anxieties; trusted collaborators, artistic heroes and even his relatives. Judd Apatow’s Life as Art in ‘This Is 40’ 2012-11-14T15:13:43Z

But this obsession eventually pays off – touched by all this creepy devotion, Thurman eventually falls right back in love with Izzard and they live happily ever after. Please release me: Why getting dumped is a film hero's best hope 2010-09-30T21:30:00Z

Simply Red interviews from the peak years are almost exclusively concerned with gourmet dining and lashings of guilt-free sex – journalists' pre-imagined outline of one man's obsessions laid bare time and again. Mick Hucknall: 'I feel a bit like the antichrist' 2010-12-02T21:30:00Z

Jared Fogle was reportedly recorded bragging about his horrific obsession with children on audio tapes to be aired later this week on the “Dr. Phil” show, according to The New York Post. “It just felt so good. I mean, it felt—it felt so good”: Jared Fogle reportedly caught on audio tapes 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z

Or, rather, is Woods's sentence part of what seems like a worrying obsession for punishing free speech? Why did Justin Lee Collins get such a lenient sentence? 2012-10-10T15:56:16Z

So what was it about that hermitic basement summer of 1995 that produced such stainless cult magic, a clutch of generational spells that continue to rings bells and inspire a multigenerational obsession? The RZA has made some of your favorite music. Now he wants to help you find enlightenment. 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z

Both the Warhol and Holzer works suggest the no-holds-barred, visual-image obsession of the tight-knit group of artists working in a single era — the 1980s — and from a single place: New York City. Fort Worth’s Modern Museum of Art hosts exhibit of ’80s New York art

I think it’s hard to imagine what the culture would even look like without its obsession with nostalgia. What binds Palin and Stewart? 2012-07-23T01:00:00Z

Of course, all things are relative, and my downscaled music obsession is still far more fanatical than what most people get even close to in their 20s. How to rock out when you're over 35 and not be lame (but for the love of Bowie, wrap it up earlier) 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z

As its title suggests, “Edvard Munch and the Sea” focuses on the Norwegian artist’s obsession with seascapes. The Week Ahead: Selena Gomez in concert, ‘Scandal’ season finale, ‘A Rap on Race’ 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z

She spent hours watching the bizarre true crime case unfurl into public obsession. Casting JonBenét director on our obsession with the murder of a child pageant queen 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

But every note in Mr. Sondheim’s score feeds a larger, sustained air of menace and obsession, of ugliness and dissonance lurking beneath surface prettiness and harmony. Two Sides of Sondheim in the Berkshires 2010-07-06T21:36:00Z

Considering American society’s neurotic preoccupation with youth and the hugely profitable exploitation of that obsession by a vast array of commercial enterprises, it’s a potentially rich vein for imaginative mining. Review: Faile Mines the Dark Depths of Modern Youth With Two Exhibitions 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z

The major focus, indeed obsession, of the run-up to the debate was whether Mr. Holt would be willing to fact-check lies and inaccuracies. How the Split Screen Framed Trump and Clinton 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z

They also indicate that maps were an early obsession. What to See in New York City Art Galleries This Week 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z

Among my obsessions I include cows, pencils and all things Greek, and I count myself lucky to have been able to write for publication about two of these things. Golf Balls! Pencils! Whales! What Makes an Author’s Obsession a Thrill, Not a Bore? 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z

In “Spineless,” her memoirish, witty, insightful work, she explores her fascination with ocean science and the detours in her life — academic, professional and personal — that led to an unexpected and happy obsession with jellyfish. Wild Animals Gallop, Swim and Scamper Their Way Through These Books 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z

Old-fashioned Guy: Let’s grant your gal her obsession with her teenage kids’ shoes. Perspective | Ask Amy: Man wonders if he is a worthy rival to his GF’s phone 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z

"The secrecy of the designer is making it more of an obsession" for brides and millions of royal fans everywhere, she added. Kate's royal wedding dress still veiled in mystery 2011-04-27T10:52:16Z

Disturbing paintings plaster the walls, endless iterations of his childhood terrors and lifelong obsessions. Review: ‘Dark Star’ Peers Into H. R. Giger’s Creative World 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

We hear about a pioneer of 19th-century Norwegian mycology so gripped by obsession that he changed his last name to “Sopp,” which means “mushroom” in Norwegian. A Unique and Affecting Memoir Combines Grief and Mushrooms 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z

Whether we welcome the Second Coming or not, there’s a reason for our obsession with apocalypse in times of terror: the quick singe is always preferable to the slow burn. The Literal Stink of the Trump Apocalypse 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

FOX Blame it on Wes Anderson movies or an obsession with the cult taxidermy shop Deyrolle, but nothing gets a Parisian bohemian more excited than a room filled with stuffed animals. 36 Hours in Paris 2010-12-16T19:09:43Z

In documentaries I try to dive and dive and dive and go very far into the subject, like an obsession, and it's different with movies. "Monsters Inside" examines how a criminal's claims of dissociative identity disorder made him a star 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z

Fashion’s obsession with the early 2000s may be another reason the French manicure is making a comeback. How the French Manicure Made Its Comeback 2021-07-07T04:00:00Z

Some of Ms. Nunn’s friends are suggesting that what once seemed a worthy fight against ageism in the media is dangerously close to taking a right turn into the land of unhealthy obsession. How Emily Nunn Turned Salad Into a Soapbox 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z

He’s a Gen-X sensibility trapped in a millennial body, with the tastes and obsessions to match. ‘Under the Silver Lake’ Review: Andrew Garfield Gets Lost in a Haze of Pop-Culture Allusions 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z

There is one thing that is deeply American about “More Life”: its obsession with winning and prolificacy. Drake’s Musical Wanderlust on “More Life” 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z

Take “Just for Me,” which verges on saccharine while spooky obsession hovers just beneath the surface: PinkPantheress’s Slivers of Dance-Pop Play With Memory Like a Toy 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z

This was a new Lund, a woman tentatively trying to build a life for herself and forget her obsessions. Has Sarah Lund in a fluffy jumper gone soft in the final Killing? 2012-11-17T23:14:00Z

Mr. Muniz’s latest efforts continue his long-term obsession with remaking famous paintings, this time using scraps torn from glossy magazines. Art in Review: VIK MUNIZ: ?Pictures of Magazines 2? 2011-09-15T21:15:09Z

Desire — destructive obsession, the awful thrill of sexual jealousy — lies at the core of much of his work, not just as dramatic engine but as a spur to moral thinking. Julian Barnes, Playing Against Character, Writes About a Character of Action and Appetite 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z

McPherson became something of an obsession for Gifford, who read everything she could on the preacher. Kathie Lee Gifford preaches about an evangelist 2012-10-19T12:27:10Z

Hitchcock’s dark, swoony tale of romantic obsession sweeps me in, every time. 18 love songs, movies and more to set a Valentine’s Day mood 2014-02-13T01:20:35Z

Like much of his art, it is autobiographical: a frank representation of his young self and his obsession with popular culture. Peter Blake, ‘Sgt. Pepper’ Artist, Still Going In and Out of Style 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z

Above all, there is Collins’s avowed obsession to resist what she sees as the American tendency to idealize black characters — to depict them as “sinners or saints.” The Kathleen Collins Revival Continues With ‘Notes From a Black Woman’s Diary’ 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z

Harding and Kerrigan were the perfect example of our national obsession with watching pretty young women fall from grace. Our figure skating obsession: Why America loves watching women fall 2014-02-20T21:45:00Z

When the world is ending, the director suggests, one’s obsessions are more focused, urgent and chaste. Lars von Trier's Melancholia: The End of the World as He Knows It 2011-11-10T18:07:51Z

Most Americans find both our narrative and our obsession with the war inexplicable. Lies I learned as a Southerner: Racism, the Confederate flag and why so many white Southerners revere a symbol of hatred 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z

Since the publication of “I Heard You Paint Houses,” Zeitz has quietly nursed an obsession, in a sense building a defense of Sheeran, acting as his old friend’s posthumous lawyer. ‘The Irishman’ tells us who killed Jimmy Hoffa. A lawyer with a secret trove of documents says the movie got it wrong. 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z

“They’re savvy media manipulators who leverage that obsession with image for a great deal of personal financial gain.” Red carpet coverage doesn’t have to be sexist 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z

It’s an undeniably catchy tune made all the more interesting by a unique Zef styled cadence, as well as the group’s obsession with animals. REVIEW: Die Antwoord's Donker Mag Fails to Maintain Momentum 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z

Strolling among its shrine-like offerings is a little like being ushered into a world of private and maybe even shameful obsessions. 'Slippery Slope': art collection as obsession 2012-03-16T19:38:04Z

Simonson is an artist with a bit of an oceanic obsession. Moment of Friday: Hagfish hanky-panky, Lily Simonson's oceanic obsession 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z

Terra’s “Walking Dead” obsession is key to the story and adds a strange cosmic poetry to its payoff, but in the TV adaptation that’s downgraded to a non-brand specific zombie apocalypse. Viral podcast “Dirty John” goes Bravo: It’s true crime, “Real Housewives”-style 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z

The performance of death and its rituals is a recurring motif of this series, an obsession of its characters, perhaps, because they were denied it when their loved ones disappeared. 'The Leftovers' Recap: Grief and Its Hucksters 2014-08-03T04:00:00Z

But for all of that activity, Abrams struck me as focused to the point of obsession on “Super 8.” Filmmaker J. J. Abrams Is a Crowd Teaser 2011-05-29T01:23:02Z

"Only Murders in the Building" follows Selena Gomez, Martin Short, and Steve Martin as three nosy neighbors united by their obsession with a true crime podcast. How “Only Murders” foreshadowed the Gabby Petito media circus and citizen sleuthing 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z

Sorrentino’s artistic obsessions go to extremes in “The New Pope” — every shot is framed for maximum visual interest by a filmmaker turned giddy with so much artistic freedom. Review | ‘The New Pope’ has all of the style but none of the substance that ‘The Young Pope’ had 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z

That ceaseless need for reinvention — bordering perhaps on an obsession with relevance — has threaded together Nash’s career and life. Graham Nash Has a Few More Songs Before He Goes 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z

Granger took the part of Franz Mahler, an Austrian official who conducts an affair with a countess, played by Alida Valli; theirs is a doomed love, marked by betrayal, obsession and death. Farley Granger: a life in clips 2011-03-29T15:18:38Z

The only unusual things about her are her height — she is 6 feet 2 inches but looks even longer — and her obsession with horses, which rivals that of Trollope, another of her idols. Jane Smiley on ‘Some Luck,’ the First in a Trilogy 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z

When is the nation going to get past this obsession with the Black woman's hair? "Say 'no' nicely": Toxic workplace culture demands Black women shrink themselves and never speak up 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z

The Texas filmmaker begins simply by explaining her girlhood obsession with the film, but soon hops into the story to partner with a shirtless Patrick Swayze. Review | In the galleries: An intimate panorama of video art’s variety and breadth 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z

In another way, the richly colored garden, with scented roses and swathes of Lily of the Valley, shaped the young boy's obsession with floral colors and shapes. Dior exhibit traces 60 years of cinema 2012-05-10T21:16:08Z

Also important was his experience as a World War II bomber pilot, which caused him to ruminate on human nature: Would we ever outgrow our obsession with violence? A legendary show’s turbulent beginnings: How ‘Star Trek’ almost failed to launch 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z

“The A-Team” was at the leading edge of the ’80s pop culture obsession with the Vietnam War, and also revived the career of George Peppard, who starred as Hannibal the ringleader. Binge Your Way Through 99 Days of Summer 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z

The Hollywood obsession with machismo and violence, which touches “May Allah Bless France!,” is mostly absent in the series. César Winners Fill Roster at Rendez-Vous With French Cinema 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z

The way some children are known for being strong swimmers or apt students, she was known for her magazine obsession. Finding Love, One Nugget at a Time 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z

He was fascinated by technology and our obsession with it. Tribeca Interview: Tom Hiddleston 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

Sixty years later all the various cultural obsessions over Kennedy treat the story as inspiration, fading the simple humanity of those involved into shapes on ancient celluloid. “JFK: One Day in America” restores the humanity to one of America's most dramatized tragedies 2023-11-05T04:00:00Z

In general, James finds himself drawn to works that try to capture the obsessions and sweep of the 20th century. Clive James’s ‘Last Readings’ review: A critic’s final homage to literature, life 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z

As a means of conveying the reductive nature of sexual obsession, the limited focus may be apt but it inevitably impoverishes the narrative and, in certain crucial respects, dehumanises it. The Divine Comedy by Craig Raine ? review 2012-02-10T22:35:01Z

Once upon a time I had a similar obsession with my best friend, whom I relied on for emotional support. I’m jealous of my best friend’s romance 2014-08-31T04:00:00Z

Anchin ascribes her lifelong obsession to her birthday, which falls on the same day as that of the late Queen Mother Elizabeth. US fans descend on London for wedding madness 2011-04-27T13:47:35Z

She struggled with anorexia as a teenager, a disease she later attributed to her obsession with purity and achieving control, and almost starved herself to death before eventually recovering through therapy. Louise Glück Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z

She writes like a painter, imagery skittering off every page, and many of her prose obsessions recur in her visual art. Leonora Carrington, the surrealist storytelling genius you've never heard of 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z

I’m fascinated about what our obsession with football says about us as a culture. Neal Bledsoe on the love triangle of 'The Pride' and finding home onstage — and in downtown L.A. 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z

Ligon swears that he was finally over his obsession by this point, but then one of his bands opened for Adams and the impossible happened — they had an instant connection. Why NRBQ never really needed a hit record to measure its success 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z

To say he is an artist of peculiar obsessions is an understatement. Christopher Williams’s Garden of Fantastical Delights 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z

In fact I am almost inclined to say that if you don't have that degree of obsession as a writer, then there's a problem. Andrew Motion: a life in writing 2012-10-05T21:55:13Z

When you ask true crime fans to trace what first awakened their obsessions, you'll notice certain recurring themes. Think the new "Unsolved Mysteries" is scary? The original will freak you out 2020-07-06T04:00:00Z

Pinchin's own obsession began in 2019, the year she learned of the late Al Anderson, the curmudgeonly captain of a charter fishing boat called the Prowler. In bluefin tuna, fisheries science is never neat 2023-08-02T04:00:00Z

“There’s an obsession with decentralizing blackness, and I think All Lives Matter is a clear opening to people’s racism.” 2015 BET Experience: Black Lives Matter takes center stage 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z

The paralyzing uncertainty of what to do at a party, the weird obsession with “Dungeons and Dragons,” the ill-considered fashion choices — exhibit any of these, and your social life was doomed. Welcome to the golden age of social awkwardness 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z

The enduring obsession with comic-book characters, he said, “is a perfect prey for our comedy.” Never-Ending Superheroes: Here Come the Defenders and the Tick 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z

Alongside the blank verse and stream of consciousness lyrics were doodles: pictures of whales, 70s glam-rock stars, 1920s decadent figures – all of my obsessions. Philip Hoare: a life in writing 2013-06-21T15:37:01Z

“It’s largely a product of our own obsession with squeaky clean and using product upon product upon product,” said Whitney Bowe, a dermatologist in New York. All of Those Products Are Making Your Skin Worse 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z

Well, in these comments several people debunked contemporary music and the seeming obsession among critics for contemporary music. Who Should Lead the New York Philharmonic? Readers Respond. 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z

The morning show's interest in Johnston amounts to an "obsession," according to a conservative media critic, who said he wondered whether CBS was out to embarrass Palin and her family. Levi Johnston makes 6th visit to CBS morning show 2010-08-27T22:40:00Z

Indeed, Italy’s obsession with quality ingredients works to the gluten-free traveler’s advantage. Gluten-Free Dining in Italy 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z

“These rooms reflect all of her elements: her obsessions, her accumulations, her infinite repetitions. And it’s all very bodily and immersive,” Yoshitake said. How Yayoi Kusama, the ‘Infinity Mirrors’ visionary, channels mental illness into art 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z

Is this video a bizarre, sly nod to society’s obsession with celebrity in the social media age? Can You Spot All the Celebs in Maroon 5's New Music Video? 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z

Heard as a whole — unlikely as that might be in 2018 — it’s an album that moves through trauma, lust, resistance, obsession and, finally, lasting love. Christina Aguilera Exults in Her Voice on ‘Liberation’ 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z

Labour's obsession with contemporary chic has underestimated the intelligence and curiosity of a country that can no longer be characterised, after this divided election result, as either modern or old-fashioned. Tate Modern's birthday was a soulless celebration 2010-05-17T10:49:00Z

Maybe it has to do with, up to a while ago, an obsession with looks — that they focused more on the looks than what I was doing. Robert Redford Isn’t Going Anywhere, for Now 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z

“He limits himself to that. There is no interest in architecture. Even his landscapes are human in his obsession to reveal the world around him.” Review | The Rijksmuseum displayed ‘all the Rembrandts,’ and crowds went crazy 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z

Wright’s obsession with poetry remained throughout his life, though he frequently considered abandoning it, particularly in the early years of struggle and frustration. Pulitzer Prize-winning poet James Wright ‘couldn’t be casual about anything’ 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z

The obsession with expensive, exotic superfoods also means we forget the easy, cheap foods that are more likely to keep us healthy – apples, oranges, broccoli and milk. Coconut oil: are the health benefits a big fat lie? 2017-07-09T04:00:00Z

Since fame is now a universal obsession, we are interested in other people’s experience of fame the way we are interested in other people’s experience of affliction. Cultural Studies: On Celebrities Good and Bad, or Alec Baldwin 2012-06-29T20:57:20Z

The Dreadfuls made their names on the fringe with a string of shows riffing on all things Victorian, an obsession that resurfaced in their excellent BBC Radio series The Brothers Faversham. This week's new comedy 2010-08-13T23:06:00Z

But consider this: our obsession over tall men is related to patriarchy. Why women should start giving short men a chance | Poppy Noor 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z

She has been "quietly encouraged to cultivate my own obsessions and treat them with respect". Royal Court theatre prepares to bid farewell to King Dominic 2013-03-10T07:00:00Z

In “Arcane,” the disfigured Silco is the kind of tortured soul whose distorted dreams become lifelong obsessions — not unlike the Batman villain Two-Face, for example. ‘Cowboy Bebop’ Beats and the Universe of ‘Dune’: What ‘Arcane’ Is Made of 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z

Binet’s book tells the story of the assassination and, alongside it, or maybe enveloping it, his own story, the story of his obsession with the assassination and his struggle to write about it. Assassination Fascination: A Review of Laurent Binet's Prize-Winning HHhH 2012-04-25T10:45:49Z

Bert’s name appears in the credits more than even mine is in my films – and I admire such obsession and megalomania. 'Trump made me do it': director Nicolas Winding Refn on how the American apocalypse is fuelling 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z

Cycling became such an obsession that I started racing. From pop star to chiropractor: musicians' post-musical careers 2010-09-23T21:29:00Z

The obsession referred to at the top of the piece is largely brought to us courtesy of the NY Times. In Los Angeles, Ditching the Car for an Eco-Friendly Trip 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z

Sometimes, as is only natural, Pittman’s obsession with cataloging so much means the most potent weirdness receives only cursory mention, like the improbable Coral Castle south of Miami. Jeff VanderMeer on the beauty and weirdness of Florida 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z

He also has a foot fetish, which Gloria gratifies, and an obsession with Humphrey Bogart. Review: ‘Alleluia’ Follows Partners in Crime, but Not Necessarily in Love 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

Mr. Busch channeled the obsession of his youth — the history of American cinema with a special emphasis on distressed but resourceful dames — into vehicles that spoofed the hoary conventions of the Hollywood melodrama. The Week Ahead: June 20 ? 26 2010-06-17T14:39:00Z

Lightweight luggage is an obsession for frequent travelers and overpackers alike. | Hartmann Luggage 2012-04-26T17:00:08Z

Fluidly capturing the trajectory of a ruinous obsession, the writer and director, Sara Colangelo, skillfully fudges the line between mentoring and manipulation, and between nurturing talent and appropriating it. Review: The Disturbing Obsession of ‘The Kindergarten Teacher’ 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z

Clouzot's obsession with the film nearly cost him his life and his marbles, as surviving collaborators attest. Doctor Who 2010-06-19T05:45:00Z

And, as many female critics have pointed out, the second season’s obsession with violence makes it a little exhausting for anyone to watch, let alone someone who doesn’t already agree with the show’s ethos. The future isn't female enough: the problematic feminism of The Handmaid's Tale 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z

The number is low not for a lack of commitment or obsession. In the Falkland Islands, a quest to see as many penguins as possible 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z

But the obsession with six-packs truly blossomed in the early 1900s. Why do men obsess over six-packs 2021-03-01T05:00:00Z

Levine, who died in June, took an infectious delight in the sheer cacophonous variety of human behaviour, and time was one of his obsessions. Members of the Uptighterati hate lateness: are we wrong? | Oliver Burkeman 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z

It is a story of obsession, disengagement and isolation. In translation: nine authors pick their favourite children's fiction 2013-06-28T17:29:01Z

Threes! is another beguiling game about numbers that threatens to become a cellphone obsession. Reviews: Smash Hit, Castlevania, Calculords and Threes! 2014-03-18T22:00:41Z

“It was becoming increasingly brutal, with mass incarceration and the obsession with drug stats,” he said in a phone interview. ‘We Own This City’ Brings George Pelecanos Back to Baltimore 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z

That first Gnarls Barkley album was also one of the early examples of CeeLo’s obsession with television, or at least with television-themed titles. CeeLo’s Strange New TV-Theme-Song Album 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z

Removing this regular visual trigger should help you to recover from your obsession. Ask Amy: Woman ponders gym-side fantasy 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

But then, plot matters far less in Vertigo than the machinations of desire and obsession – and about those there is no finer film. Vertigo 2010-10-17T10:53:00Z

An early romance evolves into a relationship that suffers under the strain of Chagall’s obsession with his work, and the play finally transforms into a meditation on grief when Bella dies in 1944. Play About Marc Chagall Wins Edinburgh Theater Prize 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z

The late bell hooks — Newsome’s primary inspiration — wrote that “Paris Is Burning” was “both progressive and reactionary” since it showcased Black men’s “obsession with an idealized, fetishized vision of femininity that is white.” Rashaad Newsome Pulls Out All the Stops 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z

What emerges is the unflattering portrait of a powerful director who nursed a dark, uncontrollable obsession with the icy-blonde leading ladies of his films. Tippi Hedren accuses Hitchcock of sexual harassment in memoir 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z

Aging is the upfront obsession, from the title onward, of Amis’s essays. Two Generations on View in Essays by Martin Amis and Zadie Smith 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z

I am not the parent of a child with weight issues at this stage of the game, and weight isn't my particular obsession. Motherlode Blog: An Interview with Dara-Lynn Weiss, Who Put Her 7-Year-Old on a Diet, and Wrote a Book About It. 2013-01-15T14:07:08Z

Seidlin's hearing became a national obsession, with a cast of characters suited for reality TV. Anna Nicole Smith judge urges new police probe 2010-06-21T16:29:00Z

That was his brief; it became his obsession. LS Lowry's rage against the machine 2013-06-13T06:00:04Z

In an interview, Mr. Passebon, whose exhibition advertises his obsession, said that he “wanted to show what Marlene was like as time passed.” Marlene Dietrich in Photos: A Study in Contrasts 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z

Johnson has often been labeled a Pop artist, and you can see overlaps with people like Warhol in his obsession with the booming culture of celebrity of the 1950s. Ray Johnson’s Camera Was Disposable. The Photos Are Unforgettable. 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z

As with her novels, the decoration of the Milan apartment belonging to Italian writer Benedetta Cibrario reveals an obsession with moments gone by and objects that mark the passage of time. | The Narrative of Home 2014-05-06T15:28:42Z

Mr. Rosenbaum doesn’t engage at length with the body of literature of nuclear peril, but attaches this subject to his own obsessions, notably Hitler. Books of The Times: Thinking the Unthinkable Again in a New Nuclear Age 2011-03-01T16:45:09Z

His particular niche, and gift, as a writer is to elucidate a chef’s obsession and demystify kitchen methods in straightforward language. A Tasting Expedition With Michael Ruhlman 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z

Only then do we learn the chilling reason for her obsession with graveyards. For P.D. James, literary success came late in life, and continues in a new book 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z

That was around the time, and part of the reason, that “made in America heritage” became an obsession of the fashion world. Band of Outsiders and the Business of Casual 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

The Disneyesque fireworks of the finale can’t hide the fact that the hero of the tale is abandoning his family in the grip of a monomaniacal obsession. Listening to “Star Wars” 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z

With age, and after years of therapy, those obsessions subsided. They’re Mad as Hell 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z

So how much more worthy of his care and affection is Siri, with her soothing voice, puckish humor and capacity for talking about whatever Gus’s current obsession is for hour after hour after bleeding hour? How Apple’s Siri Became One Autistic Boy's B.F.F. 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z

With "Memento Mori," the group's latest compositions, in their own words, run "the gamut from paranoia and obsession to catharsis and joy." Depeche Mode embraces life and death with new album "Memento Mori" 2023-03-25T04:00:00Z

Sarid tells the story of a tour guide to the Nazi death camps and how his mind begins to slowly unravel as his knowledge of the mechanics of genocide becomes an obsession. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z

Back in New York, Finley will turn her attention to her current twin obsessions: religion and politics. For Karen Finley, Jackie O. is for outrage in 'The Jackie Look' 2015-11-21T05:00:00Z

He still tells jokes — many of them as funny as they are tasteless — but viewers get a glimpse into his private life, his childhood, his fears and obsessions as well as, his cuddly side. WATCH: Gilbert Gottfried wants everyone to hate him less 2017-04-30T04:00:00Z

The show also has an uncommon obsession with nailing some small details that, in other shows, tend to inhibit plausibility. Lady Mary as a boozy, floozy Southern criminal? Works like a charm. 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z

A 1968 article about Chryssa in The New York Herald Tribune suggested that this was the wellspring of her obsession with fragmentary text. Chryssa, Artist Who Saw Neon’s Potential as a Medium, Dies at 79 2014-01-19T04:08:44Z

It was as important as his obsession with Ireland, or with Dublin. Joyce's Dublin: city of dreamers and chancers 2012-06-15T21:55:00Z

Wright’s particular obsession is the past — his own, and the very idea of the past, which is to say, the metaphysical nature of time. A Poet Maps the Landscapes of Memory 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z

Her obsession with images of her lost friends, references she makes to withheld information and her own psychological instability, even the book title itself, all point to one message: Emma’s not reliable. A Thriller Set at a Summer Camp Where Bad Things Happened 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z

Setting aside the fuming obsessions of Bassanes, most of the characters in “The Broken Heart” mask their passions in language that lacks the exuberant vigor and variety of Shakespeare’s. Theater Review: In ?The Broken Heart,? Tainted Love, Onstage at the Duke 2012-02-14T23:28:52Z

Call it obsession, call it dedication, but this immersion in the war and the art it produced is not typical of Vietnamese-Americans — or, for that matter, of Mr. Nguyen’s own family. Viet Thanh Nguyen, Prizewinning Author of ‘The Sympathizer,’ Still Wrestles With ‘Apocalypse Now’ 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z

As I read that email, I reflected back on the time I spent with Mr. H. I thought about my obsession with that wound, my painstaking focus on closing it perfectly. The patient I couldn’t heal 2012-11-27T00:00:00Z

But in Bhutanese culture, there is not an obsession with conquering things. A New, Flourishing Literary Scene in the Real Shangri-La 2018-08-19T04:00:00Z

He sarcastically declares her obsession is not love, but "the reverse, like a curse." Review: Intense revival of Sondheim's 'Passion' 2013-03-01T03:45:10Z

It was an obsession that many men could relate to. Men Shop in Bulk 2011-12-28T22:05:57Z

The fiery, cayenne-laden style of yardbird, born in the city, is a foodie obsession. As Seen on TV: A Road Trip Tracks the Shows of the South 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z

What began as a desultory pastime has turned into a minor obsession, and is now about to become a book. We're all going on a ... 2011-07-30T23:04:12Z

Republican Party’s near pathological obsession with guns was also on full display. Fine, just call him the N-word: All the Republicans want to do is say it. Would be more honest if they did 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z

The audience's reverence and obsession are now as much part of the performance as the artist's endurance. Mark Wallinger: Site; Yoko Ono: To the Light – review 2012-06-23T23:05:31Z

Closely enough to suggest that he’s been long nurturing a passion, perhaps an obsession — something deep, troubling and real. Movie Review: ‘Endless Love,’ About a Ferocious Attachment 2014-02-13T23:33:44Z

Like pop stars, they were often only slightly older than their fans, and their work was followed with cultish obsession. “Black Mirror” ’s “Bandersnatch” and the Pitfalls of Interactive Fiction 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z

But this 1963 work, “Dinner Date,” displays a Pop influence and hits many of its essential concerns, including its distinctive obsession with food and consumerism. Priestesses of Pop: The female imprint on a genre of sex, irreverence and desire 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z

Every menu tells a story, and the stories they tell are about where we've been, what we eat and our culinary obsessions. Seattle and beyond: restaurant menus, the collector's edition 2011-04-20T02:01:04Z

It seems a good moment to reflect on the central position he has occupied in the subsequent transformation of English football from cobwebbed outsider pursuit to ubiquitous mainstream obsession. World Cup 2014: why Gary Lineker is a man of two halves 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z

Despite powerful performances by Pryce and Thompson, though, the film's blinkered obsession with the sexual neuroses of Strachey and Carrington soon becomes tiresome. Carrington: what a carry-on 2010-09-02T08:00:00Z

Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the statistician and former options trader who wrote the best-selling book “The Black Swan,” about unexpected events, said he believes the current obsession with metrics is a seductive trap. The United States of Metrics 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z

Meanwhile popular obsession with the phrase was growing. ‘The Whole Nine Yards’: Seeking a Phrase’s Origin 2012-12-26T22:43:52Z

Mr. Chow is a man with a Warholian obsession with celebrity in an era when everyone is a celebrity in their own orbit. Sky-High Prices? Bad Reviews? No Matter: Mr. Chow Powers On 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z

I have empty-seat syndrome, a near manic obsession with trying to secure the best possible spot on a flight. How One Airline Ticket Can Equal Two Seats 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z

It's the secrets buried there that matter, the human pain and obsessions tucked unseen in the valleys, and threatening to implode. Author, author: Joanna Briscoe 2011-07-08T21:55:25Z

Ms. Roach said her husband doesn’t always get her Peloton obsession but still surprised her with fancy doughnuts when she completed her 150th ride. Sometimes I Hate My Husband’s Peloton 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z

She traces the roots of De Quincey’s obsessions — opium, his idol Wordsworth and even dead young girls — and how they helped influence some of the strangest writing from the Romantic era. Paperback Row 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z

She’s been brewing a massive carbuncle of rage and obsession towards this guy. Bruce Campbell, Lucy Lawless talk 'Ash vs. Evil Dead' -- with a side dig at Batman 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z

My favorite stall sells 16 kinds of salt cod, called bacalao, a national obsession. Q&A: Q&A With Allegra McEvedy 2012-02-03T20:09:44Z

But these days, the store known for inciting parental panic is also home to a dizzying array of obsessions. Hot Topic Is Still Hot 2019-04-06T04:00:00Z

It is the cornerstone of his argument that our obsession with food is a dangerous waste of our energies. Christmas gifts 2012: the best food books 2012-11-30T09:00:01Z

We learn about his drug use and, later, his obsession with good red wine. Books of The Times: James Sullivan on George Carlin?s Life: ?Seven Dirty Words? 2010-07-08T22:02:00Z

But “Traces” goes deeper in its relationship with the audience, as the performers open up about their personalities, vulnerabilities and obsessions. Theater: A Circus That Lets Its Freak Flag Fly 2011-02-13T01:06:22Z

Ms. Apple’s low, dusky, bluesy contralto and her measured piano backup are ideal for her songs about obsession, self-destruction and self-invention. The Week Ahead: Mar. 19 ? 24 2012-03-16T16:22:18Z

It's like an obsession, he says, because he's constantly looking to build relationships on the street so that the trust is established when it comes to a crisis. Meet Chicago's Interrupters? 2011-08-06T22:48:57Z

“Girls” is both the ultimate obsession of think-piece culture and its most astute chronicler. 6 Ways ‘Girls’ Changed Television. Or Didn’t. 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

The list of conditions includes anger, anxiety, binge eating, depression, anxiety, obsessions and compulsions, panic, phobias, self-esteem, stress and worry. GPs to prescribe self-help books for mental health problems 2013-01-31T17:42:10Z

Halfway through, the track turns to synthetic sounds and the lyrics drift into a different obsession: “Jimmy only love me when he want to get high.” Feist’s Electrifying Return, and 9 More New Songs 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z

Pipo’s obsession with proving scientifically that pizza is the very best food is a subtle in-joke for fans of López-Alt, whose writing often frames his recipes as the best way to do a dish. Chef and writer J. Kenji López-Alt cooks up a kid’s book 2020-08-31T04:00:00Z

Vezzoli finishes up at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, with a show focusing fittingly on his obsession with all things cinematic. T Magazine: Idol Worship 2013-05-22T13:00:10Z

Like his father-figure Warhol, he vaunted an obsession with death. Robert Mapplethorpe: sexual terrorist 2010-09-21T21:00:00Z

“Americans worship their obsessions in violent ways— / they write them down,” Diaz writes, even as she counts herself among their number. Poems of Love and Desire That Push Back Against Oppression 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z

The absurdism is there in ZZ Top's obsession with the ephemera of US pop culture: the Cheap Sunglasses and TV Dinners of their songs. ZZ Top: Dalís of the Delta 2012-11-08T19:00:00Z

Sprinkles became my pandemic obsession shortly after I first saw a video of them being made. You don't have to be a skilled decorator to make these cute, flavorful holiday shortbread cookies 2020-12-13T05:00:00Z

Clothing obsessions may be about those early explorations. Motherlode: Preschool Wardrobe Wars 2011-02-28T18:37:55Z

There was no spectacle that day; but that did not mean there was no public obsession. This courthouse is the closest you can get to Mueller’s probe, one wall away from its secrets 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z

The name signals Mr. Koons’s obsession with their virginal purity, and his interest in isolating an essential pleasure of consumerism: newness itself. ‘Jeff Koons: A Retrospective’ Opens at the Whitney 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z

Kraus insists that all sorts of experience—even romantic obsession, dependence, and desperate pursuit, stereotypically “female” states of abjection—hold universal significance. This Female Consciousness: On Chris Kraus 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z

Well, is it just me, or … look, does anyone else have an unhealthy obsession not just with what people have on their bookshelves but what they're actually reading right there and then? The Book Depository map: a boon for book voyeurs 2010-07-29T10:57:00Z

He keeps her captive in his mansion, and soon an outlandish, lurid back story to his obsession emerges. Film: Pedro Almod?var?s ?The Skin I Live In? and Golden-Age Melodrama 2011-10-09T03:33:03Z

It’s a movie about obsession and drive, in which Shelby and Miles are often chafing at the constricting corporate dictates of Ford. ‘Ford v Ferrari’ revs into high gear at Toronto Film Fest 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z

His obsessions themselves are obsessions, to the point that he recently asked his sister, Gaby Ebert, who is a psychotherapist, if he might be diagnosed with narcissism or some other condition. A Pop Star Becomes a Guru 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z

It’s better than any concept-record premise could describe; it’s got grace and mystery and obsession, and encapsulates the record’s entire argument in seven minutes. New Music: New Music From Miguel Zen?n and Red Hot Chili Peppers 2011-08-29T22:37:58Z

Is it any wonder, then, that a year like this has coincided with a fascination, bordering on obsession, with the Danish concept of hygge? Hygge Is Where the Heart Is 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z

The girls, children of a Larchmont accountant, are prodigies whose obsession with language begins when they’re still infants in their cribs. In Love With Language, but Not Necessarily With Each Other 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z

HG Wells, who saw a certain "cloacal obsession" in Irish wit, would have easily identified in these shores a certain phallocentric compulsion that accentuates ethnic and cultural differences. Come Fly With Me is tasteless comedy 2010-12-28T10:00:02Z

The dad's checking out with his obsession around the farm. Kyra Sedgwick knows we're obsessed with her marriage to Kevin Bacon: "I totally feel pressure" 2023-04-14T04:00:00Z

They form a Fight Club a deux which devolves into a feverish sexual obsession and ends, surprisingly, with a pregnancy. The supreme weirdness of Miranda July: How her debut novel gives “effortless” new meaning 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z

“It is here that the author reveals the immense power of human will and obsession.” Cecile Pineda, Latina Writer Known for a Novel of Identity, Dies at 89 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z

Joe is essentially the 2021 edition of Dexter Morgan except he was built without a code to keep his obsessions in check. "Dexter: New Blood" is less of a revival than another stab at a satisfying closure 2021-11-07T04:00:00Z

But the more Hope’s own obsession grows, the more involving the movie gets, even as it raises ethical questions about its making — and about those who continue to watch. Review: In ‘32 Pills,’ a Filmmaker Investigates Her Sister’s Death 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

Mr. Brant is baffled by the public’s growing obsession with his sons. The Brant Brothers, the New Princes of the City 2012-06-20T20:17:45Z

And I said yes.”Like so much of her work, Varda’s new film is a two-fingered salute to the world’s obsession with celebrity. Agnès Varda: ‘I am still alive, I am still curious. I am not a piece of rotting flesh’ 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z

The book also acts as an index of Young's obsessions, some of which, it has to be said, are more expected than others. Neil Young: 'You don't want to OD on music' 2012-10-04T19:00:01Z

Distill all that cultural passion down to a single album, movie or, if you must, a special obsession. Trust Me on This: Father knows culture best 2012-06-17T13:00:00Z

It’s a staggeringly selfish move and a tragic waste — one that our society accepts in its obsession with the Revered Child. Motherlode: More on Women and Medicine 2011-06-15T19:30:16Z

Already, our fierce love of the music of the 60s was very much in evidence, and we started to run into other people in LA who had a similar obsessions. The Paisley Underground: an oral history of Los Angeles's 1980s psychedelic explosion 2013-05-16T17:00:00Z

The siblings, Bobby and Alicia Western, are tormented by the legacy of their father, a physicist who helped develop the atom bomb, and by their love for and obsession with one another. Sixteen Years After ‘The Road,’ Cormac McCarthy Is Publishing Two New Novels 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z

Now in its 14th season, the show that started our obsession with singing competitions is another year past its prime. 'American Idol' still entertaining, but no longer a starmaker 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z

It tells the story of Christine, a young soprano and the obsession of the masked, musical genius who lives secretly beneath the Paris Opéra House. Farewell to “The Phantom of the Opera,” which welcomed outcasts 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z

If there are baseline characteristics of the rg_bunny account, they are enigmatic juxtaposition and unbridled obsession. Who Is rg_bunny1: An Instagram Whodunit 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z

“It was a life-changing experience and spiraled into an obsession exploring any place I could find,” said Christopher, who went on to visit hundreds of abandoned sites across the county. Matthew Christopher puts America's abandoned buildings in sharp focus 2015-01-17T05:00:00Z

Our collective obsession with finding happiness is not a reason to meditate. My exhausting meditation retreat: 10 days of Vipassana, silence and spiders 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z

Which brings us back to The Hothouse, where the institution's staff are so consumed by their desire for control that they are now the "troublesome" party – apparent in their bizarre behaviour and obsession with hierarchy. Pinter's Hothouse will never cool down 2013-05-09T10:45:25Z

This early encounter blossomed into a literary obsession. Reading Proust in the Gulag 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z

Its characters seem, unconvincingly, weighed by attitudes from grander movies, such as McAvoy's cop's obsession with netting the one that got away, and Mark Strong's soulful armed robber. It's looking up for London as its skyscrapers crack Hollywood 2013-03-19T16:59:33Z

The problem with creative writing programs, she says, is their obsession with craft. 2010-02-16T22:32:00Z

The pursuit of Chang soon became an all-consuming story among exotic-food hunters: a tale of obsession, devotion and love for one chef’s authentic Chinese fare. How chef Peter Chang stopped running and started empire-building 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z

Inevitably, given the house’s wide central hall and the world’s obsession with a certain Soviet space capsule, it was nicknamed Splitnik. How a Modernist Architect Shook Up the Hamptons with Funky, Low-Cost Vacation Houses 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z

Instead, he lamented good-naturedly the other day, his life appears to be “a patchwork quilt of bizarre, disparate obsessions.” Bill Pullman Keeps His Passions Out Front 2013-01-01T23:42:34Z

Once ensconced in the theater world, he would never leave; making the four elements of movement, image, music and text work together became an obsession. ‘Words Without Music’: A look inside Philip Glass’s creative genius 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z

David Simon: Media’s sex obsession is dangerous, destructive Topics: , David Simon, Media critic, , , Reprinted from DavidSimon.com I can remember the specific moment when I swore off the sex lives of the famous as journalistic currency. David Simon: Media’s sex obsession is dangerous, destructive 2012-11-15T02:43:00Z

It has helped transform Ms. Vanderpump from glamorous restaurateur into an avatar of the city’s obsession with wealth, good looks and success. Lisa Vanderpump of ‘Real Housewives’ Sips Her Tea. And Spills Some, Too. 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z

The prevailing obsession, then and now, with the personal biographies and foibles of the candidates prohibits other writers, and more importantly, politicians from doing the same clarifying work of her journalism. Joan Didion exposed political stories America is still telling itself in order to live 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z

If anything, an obsession with "realness" exists in disco circles that is as fierce as anything in rock: an insistence on remaining true to the original sound by the proponents of disco past and present. Disco gets lucky 2013-05-31T08:58:13Z

The beloved 1948 film “The Red Shoes” wasn’t the first or last to portray ballet dancing as a fatal obsession, but it remains the most indelible. Demons, on the feet and in the soul, in Matthew Bourne's 'The Red Shoes' 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z

Speaking to reporters in Chicago on Friday, Marsh said the show reveals Bowie's "degree of obsession" with the creation of culture. David Bowie exhibition lands in Chicago for only U.S. visit 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z

On the other hand, our cultural obsessions in this moment include "The Bachelor" and "The Bachelorette." “No One Tells You This”: That single women aren’t a problem for marriage and kids to fix 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z

Another branch of the path opens up by way of breaking down Epstein's obsession with transhumanism and seeding women with his DNA to create a "superior" breed of human, which also happens to be true. In a fitting finale, "The Good Fight" makes the case for nipping Jeffrey Epstein whodunit in the bud 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z

The series, entitled “American Vandal,” is a satirical take on television’s current obsession with true-crime. True-crime purveyor Netflix’s spoof of true-crime shows looks goddamned perfect 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z

So, both components of our photography obsession -- the experience of parents and others regularly clicking away, and the regular viewing of the results of this relentless documentation -- are making our children increasingly self-aware. Motherlode Blog: Why We Should Take Fewer Pictures of Our Children 2012-10-12T15:55:46Z

Well known to fans of outsider art, Schröder-Sonnenstern’s drawings seem the products of a mind unmoored from the foundations of normal psychology and attuned to an eccentric, paranoid system conjured by its own obsessions. Art Review: A Perverse Mind Populated by Devils, Snakes and Buxom Nudes 2011-03-31T22:27:26Z

Severinsen spoke further about the making of “Never Too Late,” its revelations and his fulfilling, frustrating obsession with the trumpet. Doc Severinsen Recalls High Notes, Low Notes and Everything in Between 2021-03-28T04:00:00Z

“I'm often chasing my obsession with as much adrenaline as my subjects,” the director admits toward the end of her film. Lessons of "Generation Wealth": In an age of excess, women lose 2018-07-22T04:00:00Z

“My obsession was Frank Spencer. I just loved that character and the physical comedy. And Fawlty Towers and The Good Life.” Ashley Jensen: 'I never had a plan – I don't even know what I'm having for tea' 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z

As a parent you hope your sons or daughters will find an obsession to consume them. Michael Chabon Tries Hard to Be a Good Dad 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z

My favorite work from the Chinese master focuses on a corollary idea, that the vulnerability required of that connection can make us guarded, which in turn perverts affection into vindictiveness and trust into self-destructive obsession. Casablanca to Starship Troopers: the movie breakups that hit our writers hardest 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z

The show, much like the book it was based on, followed the notoriously unreliable narrator Humbert Humbert and his sexual obsession with the titular adolescent girl. An Infamous ‘Lolita’ Musical Gets a Belated New York Debut 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z

Despite their apparent obsession with a moment of stunning violence, and despite the occasional predictable display of machismo, these men are not brutes. Two Novels About Frustrated White Men, Thirty-five Years Apart 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z

Reconciling the natural limitations of the piano’s fixed pitches with the rich variety of tuning systems that underlie Middle Eastern music became an obsession. Bringing the Colors Back to a Mystic’s Music 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z

The thought that authorities devoted so much manpower to going after the wrong people catapulted Jenkins’s curiosity into obsession. Six black girls were brutally murdered in the early ’70s. Why was this case never solved? 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z

In a video interview during a break from “Star Trek” in Toronto, Notaro discussed her obsession with rock memorabilia, Black sitcoms and other cultural essentials. Tig Notaro, Action-Hero Heartthrob, Gets Her Blasts From the Past 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z

After that, I expect I’ll be in the market for a new obsession. A Season to Savor a Cherished Musical Again and Again (and Again) 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z

But this contained, cryptic, carefully composed black-and-white film is an instantly recognizable repository of Quay obsessions and themes. The Week Ahead: Aug. 19 — 25 2012-08-17T20:40:22Z

Dead creatures may seem an odd obsession for a man known for his energy. Washington Ballet’s Septime Webre turned company into a big tent 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z

Imagine a snow cone that’s part obsession, part self-justification, part masculine fragility, sweetened with self-pity and sweat, and you’re mostly there. Review: In ‘Islander,’ the Puck Stops Here 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z

In exploring her deep familial ties to fashion, she wants to both celebrate and interrogate her obsession with pretty, swishy things. Jenny Slate’s Netflix Special Is All About the Joy of Getting Dressed 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z

Her obsession with the 90s and the ephemeral nature of the online world is a recurring theme. Ones to watch in 2013: Charli XCX 2013-01-03T10:00:03Z

Perhaps this is because steampunk, despite its obsession with kit, boasts a great many feisty heroines who are handy with a wrench or a Temporal Displacement Occulator. What's steampunk? 2012-08-28T13:55:51Z

Arc in Stockton offers an evening of mayhem in Arcade's Staggered, and obsession and addiction in Mess. Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2013-04-26T13:42:00Z

Premised on a European obsession with the Tutsis as a eugenically or even biblically chosen race of “Hamites,” it ultimately proved a curse. Turning the ‘Curse of Ham’ Into a Blessing 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z

Sponge cake, a Porto obsession, arrives as a lush mush with orange and kiwi slices. 36 Hours in Porto, Portugal 2011-11-25T06:02:02Z

He knows that “his obsession is pitiful, sweet, and sad,” but that only makes the boy more precious to him. Francine Prose’s ‘Mister Monkey’ takes on the bananas world of children’s theater 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z

It’s a classic high-concept sketch that’s stuffed with good jokes and a layer of commentary on our cultural obsession with Trump over everything. Saturday Night Live: the 10 funniest skits of the biggest season ever 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z

Joe tells himself that he murders to protect his obsessions, you see. The latest "You" makes a killing in the 'burbs, fulfilling the dark fantasies we'd rather ignore 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z

It’s part of this four-decade fantasia, this obsession with Polynesian arts and culture, which included music and painting and art and architecture.” A Book Adds Rigor to the Laid-Back World of Tiki Cocktails 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z

Light in the Attic’s Thin Lizzy obsession is cemented with the arrival of the first three albums from the working class Irish band best known for “Smokin’ in the Boys Room.” Throwbacks: Vinyl and digital reissues of note for winter-spring 2015 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z

He suffered a nervous breakdown in the 1960s which some of their friends believed was triggered, at least in part, by his wife's obsession with her burgeoning political career. Margaret Thatcher: The Authorised Biography, Volume One: Not for Turning by Charles Moore – review 2013-04-27T13:00:11Z

That’s why you have this obsession in the 20th century with self-esteem. Our new era of hearbreak 2012-06-24T18:15:00Z

The American need for ice speaks to our obsession with refrigeration as an antidote to death, and to our heightened terror of perilous bacteria and spoiling food. American Exceptionalism on Ice 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z

And with its obsessions with confession and therapy, disconnection and alienation, and a cast of metropolitan PR and performer types, this material bears too obviously the mark of the rehearsal room. Narrative – review 2013-04-11T13:10:00Z

Andrea’s drawing of a standing man, however, betrays Mannerist inclinations; there is a sauciness to the figure’s pose, with its foreshortened elbow, and an obsession with the folds of the cloak draped over the shoulder. Art Review: Rosso Fiorentino at the Morgan Library 2012-11-29T22:55:37Z

She talked her friends into a group trip but they have flaked, citing her unhealthy obsession with the British boyfriend who dumped her five years ago. If You Lived Here, You’d Be Home Now — Sort Of 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z

It's about the aftermath, it's about a time and a place and a feeling, it's about the police, and the press, and the people, and it's actually about that obsession. TV review: Ripper Street; Neil Armstrong – First Man on the Moon; The Hotel 2012-12-30T22:00:02Z

So it was that and just a little bit of obsession.” Auctioning Dawn Powell’s Diaries on the Web 2012-06-29T22:24:09Z

Those shirts are the latest obsession of Mike McGinnis, one of the shop’s owners. Journeys: Finding Hawaiiana To Take Home, on Kauai 2010-06-11T18:32:00Z

But anorexia arises from an obsession with one's body. Virginia Woolf was anorexic, claims great niece 2013-05-28T12:56:39Z

From the wedding dress, with its architectural shoulders that appear to be made from bones, to the twice-embroidered gown that eventually resembles an old, peeling skin, Atwood's costumes reflect the evil queen's obsession with appearances. Theron's evil queen wears feathers, beetle wings 2012-05-29T16:01:04Z

British cinema is often ridiculed for its obsession with royals and aristocrats, but here’s the thing: Hollywood is even worse. The Last Jedi: can Star Wars’ Rey break Hollywood’s obsession with privilege? 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z

Orwell assumed that Gulliver reflected his creator’s morose character and claimed that Swift suffered from a “general hatred of humanity” stoked by a perverse obsession with mankind’s sins and weaknesses. Perspective | Ghosthunters, grabbers and grifters: What would Jonathan Swift say of our times? 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z

Other lineages, connecting art and pathology, suggest themselves: Kazimir Malevich’s obsession with the tuberculosis bacterium, as a model for the development of abstraction, or Hannah Wilke’s unsparing documentation of her own terminal illness. Please Smell the Art: Anicka Yi Will See That You Do 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z

In 2019, Mr. Palmer started Staffing Properties, leaning into this obsession. What to Do With a Multimillion-Dollar Megamansion? They Have Some Ideas. 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z

His obsession with war, particularly World War II, also led him to collect pistols, machine guns, aerial bombs, grenades — even a whole tank. Is Nazi Loot Amid His 6,000 Oils, Some Grenades and Napoleon’s Toothbrush? 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z

A woman, now married with small children, reflects in an insistent and disquieting tone on her earlier life in New York, her multiple lovers and her obsession with an obscure Mexican poet, Gilberto Owen. First fiction roundup – reviews 2012-05-25T21:44:02Z

His father’s obsession with the news, Wood recalled, was driven by anger at an unjust world. How Roy Wood Jr. crushed the toughest room in comedy 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z

“We’re reaching a possibly insane point of more and more stuff and obsession,” Mr. Scott said before the show. Prada and Moschino: Burning Down the House 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z

My cherry obsession aside, this darkly funny encyclopedia-memoir-essay collection is not a witch’s guide to killing your man. Pick Your Poison: The Sweet, Sometimes Lethal Sides of Your Produce 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z

With her previous novel, “Commonwealth,” she tried to break the grip of the obsession, approaching her family history directly for the first time. In Ann Patchett’s New Novel, a Glass House and a Family With Things to Hide 2019-09-21T04:00:00Z

Hollywood's obsession with younger women has been well known for decades. Uma Thurman, Ready to Be Tested 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z

This is the fourth consecutive Black Keys album produced by the band with Danger Mouse, whose obsession with spaghetti-western grandeur has been absorbed into the band’s bloodstream. New Music: New albums by the Black Keys and Swans 2014-05-12T22:08:25Z

I was fascinated by the way he combined his obsessions: to “Flash Gordon,” he added fast cars. The Crazy History of “Star Wars” 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z

India Bradley, a 17-year-old advanced student at the school said her ambition — obsession really — is to become one of them. Push for Diversity in Ballet Turns to Training the Next Generation 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z

Cocktails include sophisticated riffs on the Spanish obsession “gintonic,” as well as a nutty, sugar-kissed but still refreshingly dry “Sherry Cobbler” served over crushed ice. Poise, great food fulfill chef’s passion at Aragona 2014-02-13T21:38:24Z

In one of the manifestoes he began issuing in 1959, he described it as “an art that re-enacts the obsession with destruction, the pummeling to which individuals and masses are subjected.” Gustav Metzger, ‘Auto-Destructive Art’ Provocateur, Dies at 90 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z

Over the years, what started as a hobby became an obsession. With Modigliani Purchase, Chinese Billionaire Dreams of Bigger Canvas 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z

At one point his fiancée explodes: “Not Donald Trump again… This obsession has got to end!” Donald Trump, “American Psycho” muse: How the “Art of the Deal” elitist became a poor man’s Patrick Bateman — and now he’s a real threat 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z

Far from being super-healthy, she was suffering from a serious eating disorder: orthorexia, an obsession with consuming only foods that are pure and perfect. Why we fell for clean eating 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z

If the authors had picked a thematic lane — kitsch, pure pageantry, dysfunctional family dynamics, monarchical history, the media’s celebrity obsession — one could begin to look for deeper meaning. Review | In time for Thanksgiving, Broadway serves up a turkey: ‘Diana’ the musical 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z

The joke lands for me partly because it gets at something fundamental about the relationship between our personalities and our obsessions and how they manifest in our reading lives. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z

In another inspired, if creepy touch, choreographed by Aletta Collins, black-clad dancers wearing television camera headdresses increasingly follow Anna around as she becomes the object of media obsession and ridicule. Opera Review: ?Anna Nicole? Reimagined at Covent Garden 2011-02-18T04:59:19Z

His collages were deeply rooted in a fascination with mythology and the occult; an obsession shared by Duncan, whose adoptive parents were Theosophists. Jess, Robert Duncan: a collaboration both romantic and artistic 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z

Told to a soundtrack of Billie Holiday, this is a story of women trapped in a seedy underworld, and sexual obsession mixed up with dreams of escape in dreary, grey 50s Britain. This week's new theatre 2013-03-30T06:00:21Z

By showing his obsession with details, we see that this is a man who likes to control every aspect of his life, and ideally the future. Boardwalk Empire: season one, episode four 2011-02-12T22:10:00Z

The paradox at the heart of Koolhaas' obsession with the book as a format is that he reveres it and disrespects it in equal measure. Tome, sweet tome 2010-05-17T15:37:00Z

Callie uses this newfound ability to turn her father into an improbable late-age superstar, but her involvement, and her dad’s obsession with his own success, begins to suffocate her life. ‘Fantasy Football’ Review: Controlled Chaos 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z

“My garage used to be full of bourbon. Now there’s my childhood obsession.” Chef Sean Brock Puts Down the Bourbon and Begins a New Quest 2017-07-03T04:00:00Z

Odell’s best seller, “How to Do Nothing,” cautioned readers against an obsession with productivity. 19 Works of Nonfiction to Read This Spring 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z

A large, and largely silent, minority thinks the whole sex obsession is weird, boring or even annoying. Sex? No, thanks: Rather than obsession, what millions of Americans feel about sex is indifference 2015-07-25T04:00:00Z

He has a genuine “obsession with the camera” — and “obsession with me. … No matter where I am … he always has to be right next to me.” We asked Emmanuel the TikTok-interrupting emu about his sudden fame 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z

In his museum, he has artfully arranged these objects, so that, liberated from the novel, the viewer experiences the narrative of loss and obsession in a more direct way. | Sentimental Journey 2014-03-21T21:21:20Z

But, Waller-Bridge says, her obsession with loss comes more from a sense of foreboding – the fear of loss. Phoebe Waller-Bridge: 'I have an appetite for transgressive women' 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z

With an artist in charge of editing, obsessions with certain stories and images was O.K., even a plus. Art Review: ?Warhol: Headlines? at National Gallery of Art - Review 2011-10-20T22:00:37Z

When we come across mention of his obsession with “digression’s hospitable embrace,” he is, for once, speaking in understatement. Review | In the loopily expansive ‘Figure It Out,’ Wayne Koestenbaum ponders everything from Robert Rauschenberg’s shoes to the notion of the line 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z

Water, for instance, can be for a pianist both problem and obsession. The natural elements prove a breeze for Vicki Ray's Piano Spheres recital at REDCAT 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z

"Archetypes" is designed to obliquely speak to these perverse obsessions, establishing its mission as diving "into the labels that try to hold women back." "Archetypes": Meghan Markle would like to have a word, but the media circus won't hear it 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z

Admittedly, it's usually by accident, but the genre's obsession with dystopias means it's always engaged in futurology. Prophetic and poetic: in praise of heavy metal 2010-08-31T19:00:00Z

But popular culture and sentiment have a way of cycling yesterday's heroes and obsessions back into vogue after they've been out of sight line long enough for us to miss them. From "Gladiator" to "Nope": How Jordan Peele maps our decline into spectacular denial 2022-07-31T04:00:00Z

Its cranky obsession with the evils of the Internet was terrible. Listen Here, Internet Girl: The Newsroom Rapesplains It All 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z

Yet his work was also part of the stream of history, not just his Scottish heritage and his obsession with the dark side of Victorian England. Special Report: Fashion: The Savage and the Romantic 2010-09-20T17:36:00Z

He doesn’t have the architectonic obsessions of Daniel Barenboim, and doesn’t seem to be concerned with any kind of tradition at all, unlike Christian Thielemann. In a Wagnerian Whirlwind, One Conductor Breaks Through 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z

While I regret their obsession with letter grades, I cannot blame my students. I don’t hate millennials anymore! 2013-05-25T13:00:00Z

Wolf scoffed at the media’s ever-enduring Trump obsession – the reason why she suggested news outlets hang onto his every last word. Michelle Wolf went full meta on “The Break,” and it was the best comedy moment all week 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z

One of the obsessions of the book is how language fails her. Girl, Interrupted 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z

Its success is in large part due to author Natsumi Iwasaki's creative decision to write about high school baseball, a national obsession. Japan falls for novel on management guru Drucker 2010-12-24T12:46:06Z

But, experts believe our new interest in the diastema represents a backlash against unattainable beauty standards and an obsession with perfection. Gaptoothed women are in vogue 2010-10-18T18:57:00Z

A group of students from the Manhattan School of Music, who joked about their obsession with Mr. Dudamel, were also positive. Critic?s Notebook: Orchestra Arrives On Big Screen 2011-01-10T23:01:21Z

I wonder how much the artists who regularly crop up on these lists really benefit from our obsession with ranking and categorising. Isn't it time to lay off the list-making and let our artists make art? 2011-03-16T13:03:58Z

In 1851, he adds, Schumann turned it into “a symphony of darkness and obsession and indeed oppression.” Schumann, via Simon Rattle, Robin Ticciati and Nézet-Séguin 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z

Epstein published an early excerpt of Nabokov’s “Lolita” and fought unsuccessfully to convince Doubleday to publish the scandalous novel about a professor’s obsession with a 12-year old girl. Jason Epstein, publishing editor and innovator, dead at 93 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z

He also disparages Silicon Valley’s obsession with disruption, which he writes has become “a self-congratulatory buzzword for anything trendy.” Silicon Valley provocateur Thiel takes on 'many-sided mediocrity' 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

The works themselves are almost perversely mannered fusions of those postmodern staples, set-up photography and rephotography that, on their own, render obsession opaque. What?s Blooming Indoors 2011-04-21T22:57:20Z

“It’s one of those topics that unfortunately is a conversation that won’t be over until we get over our weird puritanical obsessions with sex and the female figure,” Ms. Hoffmann said. Skin Deep: Brazilian Bikini Wax? In a New Trend in Hair Removal, Women Prefer the Natural Look 2014-01-29T20:42:14Z

There is also an obsession with “original” for the mere sake of it, as though original is automatically good, and original often involves some level of irony and gimmick. ArtsBeat: Q. and A.: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on 'Americanah' 2013-06-06T14:50:36Z

Those backdrops conjure the neoclassical obsession with ruins, the melancholy gaze on the past by artists like Piranesi and Hubert Robert. Review: France Once Fought Over This Opera. Juilliard Shows Us Why. 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z

The famous blog “Suri’s Burn Book” satirized the obsession with the newborn, treated as an influential media presence simply for the fact of her existence. Celebrity baby worship is insane: Good for Eva Mendes and Ryan Gosling for saying “no, thanks” 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z

On the contrary, their obsession with the idea of sex seems to distance them from its physical expression. Sheila Heti gets sex wrong 2012-09-28T23:30:00Z

Foxcatcher was the gripping true-crime story from the 1980s of violence and obsession in, of all things, the world of American Olympic wrestling. Cannes 2014 awards: Timothy Spall an anchor in a stormy night of surprises 2014-05-24T04:00:00Z

As a study of Hitchcock's peculiar and demanding directorial methods, together with some eye-catching early 60s Hollywood period detail, The Girl was a class act: as a study in sexual obsession it was peerless. TV review: The Girl; Doors Open 2012-12-26T23:00:01Z

Her newly translated book, “The Barefoot Woman,” focuses on her mother, Stefania, for whom protecting her children was an obsession. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z

In the nineteen-thirties, in Leicester, England, a future knight of the realm named David Attenborough developed an obsession with finding fossils. David Attenborough on the Variety and Resiliency of Nature 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z

It doesn’t push its ambitions too hard, while engaging your sympathy for characters you hope will eventually set aside their self-defeating obsessions and, like enterprising little gerbils or hamsters, break free from their cages. Theater Review: Ethan Lipton’s ‘Red-Handed Otter,’ at the Cherry Lane Theater 2012-09-21T02:00:00Z

Her impulse to convert her obsessions into images has hardly changed since then, but her toolbox has been transformed. Netia Jones, Making Maurice Sendak’s Creatures Sing 2012-10-07T05:00:06Z

It’s all right there, should future alien archaeologists ever discover it: Our obsession with celebrity of almost any wattage, past or present tense, mixed with a deeper, historical reliance on disguise. Perspective | ‘The Masked Singer’ lets us work out our national anxieties about who’s who and what’s true 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z

"A rivalry is an act of obsession and love," Morgan said. 'Rush' screenwriter inspired by rivalry, not Formula One racing 2013-09-25T14:58:47Z

To that end the director, Dave Boyle, who wrote the screenplay with Joel Clark, avoids the genre’s most common markers: the obsession with food, the meddling grandparents, the no-future family business. Movie Review | 'White on Rice': Domestic Dramedy 2010-03-12T04:47:00Z

RELATED: What's behind the obsession that Elizabeth Holmes intentionally lowered her voice? What comes after "The Dropout" ending: What Elizabeth Holmes, Erika Cheung and others are doing now 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z

He rants about bizarre state mottos, the American right to complain about everything, the nation’s obsession with Amazon Prime delivery, and the New York City subway. Ronny Chieng on Andrew Yang: “There aren’t enough Asian people in positions of power” 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z

One man keeps explaining that his daughter is named Albertine, like the key character in the book who is the narrator’s romantic obsession. ‘Le Temps Perdu’ Review: Proust Club 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z

This is a philosophical conundrum that haunts American movies, whose obsessions with law and order have fostered an enduring romance with vigilantism. What I Learned About Democracy From the Movies 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z

But his personality perfumes the whole production and his contradictions, obsessions and idiosyncrasies tell an ornate story about America that’s deeper, stranger and darker than maybe even “S-Town” knew. The Best Performances of 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

Pa Daeng specializes in northern Thai drinking food — one of Mr. Ricker’s newest obsessions, which he explores at Whiskey Soda Lounge. Choice Tables: In Chiang Mai, a Chef Traces His Menus 2011-11-04T18:37:25Z

Tate’s work lacks any obvious effort at virtuosity, but his central obsession — that chaos, often delivered at the hands of the natural world, is forever intruding on the mundane — will shake you. New & Noteworthy 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z

Then along came a trilogy of Scandinavian exports – The Killing, Borgen, The Bridge – and what was once niche entertainment became a nationwide obsession. Fjord focus: Nordic noir lets the light in at last 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z

As a mild satire on contemporary media obsession, that works fine. The Explorer by James Smythe – review 2013-01-18T09:31:02Z

Whatever and whoever the Time-Keepers are, their obsession with order is outstripped by their aversion to chaos, hence their laser-focus on eliminating Lokis. How "Rick and Morty" and "Loki" built thoughtful altars to apathy for everything we hold dear 2021-07-03T04:00:00Z

And it circles directly back to the extraordinary obsession he has been nurturing on his land for almost 20 years now of trying to reinvent himself as an artist by being a farmer. Farm to Gallery: Peter Nadin?s Comeback 2011-07-03T05:30:29Z

It looks at the way an obsession with growth entangles us all, no matter where we sit on the digital web. Don’t blame the Google bus riders: The company “doesn’t look at the employees as any more human than it does the residents of San Francisco” 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z

In this century he has begun to focus more on independent films driven by his obsession with history and politics. Rob Reiner on Donald Trump’s “classic fascist” ways: “He’s a con man and a criminal” 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z

But the tendency of both principal characters to analyze their scholarly obsessions and their personal foibles in the same microscopic detail, contemplating every single “exponentially branching” possibility, eventually wears on the nerves. | 'Completeness': ?Completeness,? by Itamar Moses - Review 2011-09-14T02:01:02Z

I also kept Borges close by—his obsession with the many dimensions in a story gave me courage. Inspiration Information: 'The Last Illusion' 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z

But it does risk becoming dependent on that question mark, turning it into a “Who Killed Laura Palmer?” obsession that overwhelms the rest of the storytelling and leaves a vacuum when it’s finally settled. Why It’s Time to Kill Jack on ‘This Is Us’ 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z

“High Fidelity’s” other obsession — record collecting — is an obvious misfit in the Spotify age, which the show doesn’t stop to fully ponder or, better yet, use as a means to fan an argument. Review | Sampling too much from the past, Hulu’s ‘High Fidelity’ remix fails to find its own groove 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z

Consider seeking treatment for it, especially if you feel that your obsessions are negatively affecting you or others. I’m a straight man but I am disturbed by my fantasy of being a woman having sex with a guy 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z

That may be taking the snowdrop obsession a bit far. The iconic white snowdrop could be getting a new look (or many), thanks to breeders 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z

Like, why did I have this weird obsession with these three girls playing music? Paul Thomas Anderson Goes Back to the Valley With ‘Licorice Pizza’ 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z

Years pass, yet Ray’s obsession with the Bioprime conspiracy never subsides. ‘Sweet Girl’ Review: Violence as an Insurance Policy 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z

To pay a visit, even in winter, is to feel the passion — obsession, even — that marks so many English gardeners as horticultural connoisseurs. The mysterious appeal of the dainty snowdrop 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z

Yennefer's initial arc may be marred by an irksome ableist plot twist, and unnecessary obsession with establishing her legacy through procreation, the one power mages cede in exchange for the ability to control chaos. "The Witcher" is back to give women a more equal share in its power 2021-12-19T05:00:00Z

This obsession with style over substance also had a knock-on effect on the shows that came after. Game of Thrones: how it dominated the decade – then lost its way 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z

They're being swept up in an obsession that, echoing my own childhood fixations, feels both communal and deeply personal. Frozen-mania: how Elsa, Anna and Olaf conquered the world 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z

Blank Workshop and Moon Wiring Club is where all of Hodgson's enthusiasms and obsessions converge: "Electronic music, Art Deco, and the England of teashops, stately homes, ruined buildings and weird magic." Moon Wiring Club: music for children, by children 2010-11-24T14:04:00Z

The guitar became an obsession in seventh grade after she discovered Jimi Hendrix. Mary Halvorson on Guitar: Unflinching and Full of Grace 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z

With commercials lasting only a few minutes, there’s no time for prolonged obsession. Skin Deep: An Hour to Pamper, Remote in Hand 2011-03-30T18:07:02Z

It reflects the American obsession to eliminate all forms of risk in their lives. How to Stay Safe at the Airport 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z

Now, it seems, it is the turn of my parents’ dorky obsession with rail travel, which defined and scarred my early life, to be recast as the height of chic. 'Don't play Truth or Dare with your mum': how to survive a family holiday by train 2019-08-03T04:00:00Z

Griffin reflects on the period and his father’s obsession with the sculptures, and the resulting novel is an adventurous coming-of-age tale and a homage to a bygone city. Paperback Row 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z

Jake's obsession with the stars is shared by Sara, and that obsession is linked intuitively by Jake with his sense of fate: "that elusive moment when disaster sends its first calling card." 'The Constant Heart': Beware the devotion of a complicated woman 2012-09-19T21:10:09Z

What begins as an ironic fringe interest, discovered while sifting through vinyl oddities, becomes something of an obsession for Young, and the film evolves into a quiet love letter to ephemeral art. Stream These 9 Shows and Movies Before They Leave Netflix in June 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z

It was a tour de force intellectual comedy encasing an apologia for literary obsession. Elif Batuman turns her gifts to fiction in 'The Idiot' 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z

That split consciousness, those two realities were kind of my obsession, because I grew up in Storrs, and Storrs is . . . here’s the thing, it was the place that cow tipping was invented. Creating “Luke Cage,” the First Woke Black-Superhero Show 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z

“The global stage where a president could bend the arc of world history remained Kennedy’s preferred arena and the presidency his obsession,” David M. Kennedy writes in his review. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z

“She completely understood Burton’s obsession with conquering Hamlet, and why it was so difficult for him.,” she added. What Makes a Great Performance? Backstage Drama, That’s What. 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z

I don't know whether this show is boring or not but these obsessions with race/Trump is passe. Review: ‘Anastasia,’ a Russian Princess With an Identity Crisis 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z

Ms. Valle, 30, used to be embarrassed about her grandmother’s obsession with reusing containers. Finding Memories, and Mom’s Sewing Stuff, in a Reused Cookie Tin 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z

He prepared a report that dealt with the "pushback against youth obsession." What's shaking fashion? An adult-quake 2012-11-15T18:24:09Z

It also produced some unexpected ammunition for parents already eager to curb the digital obsessions of their children. Cultural Studies: Hurricane Sandy Reveals a Life Unplugged 2012-11-09T23:13:30Z

As the obsession with digestive health dovetails with the fascination for fermenting, kimchi, sauerkraut and pickled things will work their way into new territory. A Peek at Your New Plate: How You’ll Be Eating in 2019 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z

Americans have been familiar with his personal aesthetic for decades: the gold, the braggadocio, the huckster superlatives, the reality-TV staging, the all-encompassing obsession with his surname. The presidency has been swamped by the Trump Aesthetic 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z

“We see people struggling here and she tries to help every time. She is very empathic. She also tolerates my sports obsession,” he laughs. How we met: 'He was really drunk all the time' 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z

It’s admiration, but a kind of display-case admiration; a sentiment driven less by loving you than by an obsession with keeping you in mint condition. Perspective | Melania Trump is no Jackie O, but, yikes, who would want to be? 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z

Deciphering hieroglyphics became something of an obsession with some Renaissance scholars. Exhibition Review: Venice's Love Affair With Egypt 2011-11-08T13:30:07Z

In "Perfect and Private Things", the university lecturer specialises in Weldon Kees, a poet whose life story is a miniature of Burnside's obsession with strange disappearances. Something Like Happy by John Burnside - review 2013-01-19T09:30:01Z

She proceeds to unpack the possible reasons for his obsession, genetic and Freudian, as well as her own complicated responses. ‘Eat, Live, Love, Die’: At 89, Betty Fussell’s hard-earned recipe for happiness 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z

She also revealed an obsession with the TV reality series The Bachelor. Kirsten Dunst Binged Pizza and Friday Night Lights to Gain Weight for Fargo 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z

The object of their collective obsession was the Lilly Pulitzer for Target collection, an affordable line of brightly printed women’s wear, children’s wear, home goods and matching makeup. Lilly Pulitzer for Target: They Came, They Waited, They Went Home Mad 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z

My recommendation for essential weekend viewing: “Big Wrench,” a 1980 video about automotive obsession by Chris Burden, the great performance artist and sculptor who died in May. What to Do This Weekend 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z

Other parents tell me they are also bewildered by their sons’ “Star Wars” obsession. Cultural Studies: Popularity of ?Star Wars? Endures, Even for Children 2012-03-10T00:31:59Z

Over all, it’s still kind of crass and lowbrow, showing a particular obsession with flatulence, but there’s a good-heartedness to it that somehow overrides your gut instinct to stop watching. Movie Review: ‘Someone Marry Barry,’ a Gross-Out Rom-Com 2014-02-12T13:02:44Z

Take away the dead bodies and duct tape and notice how, despite the violent outcomes of Joe’s obsessions, this story is about two rather selfish people putting their own needs first. Review | Seen one psycho Lifetime stalker, seen ’em all — but then came ‘You’ 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z

But in history, a subject you'd think would appeal to his excellent memory and obsession with fact-gathering and numbers, Simon was at sea. The genius who lives downstairs 2011-08-19T22:01:50Z

Hollywood's obsession with tiny women, big meals Good news, Hollywood actresses – having a healthy appetite is in. Hollywood's obsession with tiny women, big meals 2011-02-17T21:01:00Z

Pip becomes an Indian village boy whose encounter with an escaped convict leads to a startling change in his life, lived out against a backdrop of Indian caste and English class obsessions. This week's new theatre 2011-02-12T00:05:39Z

But the room’s design revealed its creator’s obsession with efficiency and technology. Check In, Check Out: Hotel Review: Hi Matic in Paris 2012-07-06T16:23:59Z

The day after President Obama announced new measures to try and curb gun violence in the US, Redford suggested the film business contributes to America's obsession with firearms. Robert Redford wades into Hollywood gun violence debate 2013-01-18T14:36:48Z

Too much food and exposure to pollutants are also clear causes of cancer and obesity, but these are being ignored because of our obsession with genetics. Genetic modification: glow-in-the-dark lifesavers or mutant freaks? 2010-08-07T23:05:00Z

Well, we know what happened there: temper tantrums and even more obsession about the sweat patches and malformed toes of people we have barely heard of. I have had enough of irony 2012-05-30T19:00:04Z

In the Cuban capital, Kurlansky writes, Hemingway is “remembered with an obsession that borders on fetish.” Destinations Await in the Summer’s Best Travel Books 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z

Taken as an extended anecdote, though, this creaky tale of masculine obsession is not without its charms – in a Luis Buñuel-on-anti-depressants sort of way. Film review: Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl 2010-08-05T21:35:00Z

And the consequence of the evangelical culture's obsession with purity, Klein says, is the amount of control it places over people's lives — especially women and girls. The evangelical purity trap for women: “A lamb outside of your marriage bed and a tiger in it” 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z

MCKEON: Love, obsession and internalized prejudice, and what a dangerous cocktail those three are. How Alexander Chee wrote “The Queen of the Night”: “‘Buffy’ reruns daily. The need to watch all of ‘Six Feet Under’ in a week. So much Internet” 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z

Raniere’s lectures had the energy of a TED Talk, his women’s groups adopted the blandly feminist sheen of “Lean In” and his enforcement of extreme diets echoed the Silicon Valley obsession with “biohacking.” Nxivm Had a Cult Leader Made for the Internet 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z

I suppose the art museum is also being likened here to a red-light district, a quasi-safe public space where ordinary desire and fierce obsession might collide. LACMA's exhibition 'Sculpt': Incoherent pretension for an audience of one 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z

In the 1970s, Shepherd’s obsession intermittently drew local reporters to his door. The man who tried to contact aliens from his grandma's living room 2020-08-23T04:00:00Z

There are tenuous alliances and demented obsessions—a panoramic rendering of folly. The Provocative, Preposterous Power of “Insatiable” 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z

The novel recapitulates many themes that have preoccupied Mr. Boyle in the past — the hazards of ideological certainty and obsession; and the imperatives and responsibilities of freedom — even as it showcases his virtuosic storytelling talents. The Top Books of 2015 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

West says she is not worried about her Spice Girls obsession undermining her reputation as an artist. Liz West: An artist with extra Spice 2013-10-25T00:28:17Z

It's not around in Paris, the way it is in America, this crazy obsession with celebrity, all these reality shows. Sofia Coppola: 'Is this psychoanalysis?' 2010-12-01T21:30:00Z

The obsession about tanning and the gym has led to parodies on YouTube. Snooki?s Time on ?Jersey Shore? 2010-07-23T21:47:00Z

Ms. Lamott said the current obsession with quantification also represents a male point of view, because it favors order. The United States of Metrics 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z

It also features Bausch’s familiar stylistic obsessions: The women wear their hair long and loose — it’s a veil, an extra limb, even, as it glides and slices the air. Review: A Pina Bausch Trip to Brazil Overstays Its Welcome 2023-03-05T05:00:00Z

My obsession started before we left the United States. The Meaning of Tracksuits 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z

Charlie Brooker has always taken our consumer technology obsessions to the very edges of twisted fantasy – and we usually catch up in the end. Reflections on Black Mirror – by those for whom science fiction became reality 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z

Boccaccio’s nuns are carnally insatiable; Isabella’s virtue is up for grabs in Shakespeare’s “Measure for Measure”; temptation and obsession drive Rumer Godden’s “Black Narcissus.” The Nuns of Fiction: Experts in Affliction and Awe 2021-09-12T04:00:00Z

“I think we both like the intoxication of feeling overwhelmed by a creative obsession,” Ahmed said. Losing Control With Riz Ahmed 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z

"A Wolf at the Door" is undoubtedly effective and well-crafted, but its tale of reckless obsession and its inevitably unhappy ending are finally too unsavory for its own good. 'A Wolf at the Door' a disturbing noir tale of obsession 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z

This obsession with looking is so racist and so shallow. Ava DuVernay’s Fiercely Feminine Vision for ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z

There are government programs like food stamps — Lewis profiles the director of the program and his obsession with fraud — that have pretty much abolished hunger in the United States. Michael Lewis Wonders Who’s Really Running the Government 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z

At the end of the day, you come to realize that there's "like father, like son" things and I think obsession was one thing that sort of unites the two of them. "The Most Dangerous Animal of All" asks what if your dad was the Zodiac Killer? 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z

“We’re creating it with historical obsession and mesmerizing detail,” Thomas Krens, the former Guggenheim Museum director and a Mass MoCA founder who is spearheading the project, said in a phone interview. Frank Gehry to Design Museum for Architectural Gems (and Model Trains) 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z

To a certain way of thinking, Mr. Metheny remains appealing and important precisely because he goes in so hard, because his obsessions are so pointed. Music Review: Pat Metheny and His Quartet at Town Hall 2012-10-14T22:01:15Z

The exhibit also showcases Warhol’s obsession with iconic American marketing images: the box of Heinz 57 ketchup, the myriad versions of the Campbell soup can. Warhol at the Dali 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z

Yet already, she has found the beginnings of tastemaker recognition and fan obsession online. The Most Famous Girl at the Waffle House 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z

Over the years it grew into a bit of an obsession. Edgar Wright explores ‘glam rock anomaly’ Sparks in doc 2021-01-30T05:00:00Z

This country is obsessed, dominated and shackled by class to a still unhealthy degree, and that obsession is focused on the royal family, with the consequent trickle-down effect through the social strata. A Kinder, Gentler Portrait of Prince Charles 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z

New York is well known for its obsession with cheap pizza: the $1 slice, the sporadic price wars, the hand-wringing over each new increase in the average cost. The Rise of the $38 Pizza, Exclusive and Elusive 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z

But even if your mother-in-law is a real Cruella de Vil, with a full-blown weight obsession and a case of amnesia about her own children’s chubby legs, simply arm yourself with the facts. Social Q’s: Weight Off Your Mind 2013-09-05T22:48:20Z

But Mark Ruffalo and Channing Tatum are just as strong as champion athletes whose loving rivalry drives this chilling, subtle study of social climbing and status obsession. 'Mockingjay Part 1' sets up 'Hunger Games' finale nicely 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z

Underpinning it is not a vague nostalgia for simpler times, but scientific evidence that our modern obsession with hygiene is playing havoc with our health. Snap, crackle and filth – let kids eat dirt 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z

That obsession with politics grew until the most powerful and charismatic Medici of all, Lorenzo the Magnificent, let the bank decay while he concentrated on running the Florentine state. The Medicis: money, myth and mystery 2011-08-10T16:36:28Z

Dowson's Cynara represents the lost love who has become a constant obsession. Poem of the week: Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno Cynarae by Ernest Dowson 2011-03-14T11:48:11Z

This weekend I’ll continue indulging my current obsession with Australian TV. What You Should Watch This Weekend: ‘The Night Of’ and ‘The Circus’ 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z

Her grit obsession, as she recounts, began at least a decade earlier. The Limits of “Grit” 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z

But let me tell you, when the clouds of obsession and betrayal finally break, the disturbance is a humdinger. The 1955 play topical as ever: ‘View From the Bridge’ revival storms into D.C. 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z

Not surprisingly, the mainstream media are anxious to service these obsessions, and so every launch of a sacred object is lavishly reported. iPhone worship has seen the media lose all sense of proportion 2010-08-07T23:05:00Z

There is a lot in common in terms of the obsessions I have always worried away at and probably will always worry away at to my dying day. Andrew Motion: a life in writing 2012-10-05T21:55:13Z

Here, for Israeli as for Palestinian novelists, the "situation", ha matsav, is always there, pressing in, as a duty, or a burden, or a fruitful obsession. Ian McEwan on winning the Jerusalem prize 2011-02-24T11:30:36Z

Just as Klaus’s heart and his secrets may be deeply connected to his obsession with the canvases of the Russian painter who never portrays battlefields or soldiers in action. Emilio Fraia on Stories Within Stories 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z

But that’s not necessary to grasp the shape and feel of these characters’ obsessions. Mark de Silva talks about his novel 'Square Wave,' a paean to process 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

Waldman discusses Ginsberg’s obsession with Dylan, and so does Dylan himself. “Rolling Thunder Revue,” Reviewed: Martin Scorsese’s Slippery Chronicle of Bob Dylan in Concert 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z

I just knew that I had this obsession about cooking for one and loneliness because I was a very lonely 20-something year old. How cookbook writer Eric Kim found home through Korean-American food 2022-07-25T04:00:00Z

That Western vibe notwithstanding, her obsession remains New England, and she seems to embody its particular brand of flinty assuredness. Stage Fright: Daisy Foote on Writing Since the Death of Her Father, Horton 2012-09-27T22:29:22Z

MA Important safety tip, teenagers: When you ask an adult to buy you alcohol, make sure you’re not cadging off someone who will develop a dangerous obsession with you and your cohorts. Summer Movies 2019: Here’s What’s Coming Soon to Theaters 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z

There’s a bit of Thomas Piketty in his obsession with economic inequality. Review: When the Digital World Is Judging Your Every Thought 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z

But others welcomed the move, saying it would help end the exploitation of models who were driven to dangerous levels of anorexia by an obsession with slimness in the industry - and perhaps the public. Magazine changes 'no models' rule 2012-09-06T10:48:15Z

Victoria’s obsession led to the creation of what is now humanity’s single most important source of protein, the modern chicken. The bird that flipped the world: Secret histories of the modern chicken 2014-12-06T05:00:00Z

“Life of the Party” is also a meditation on Gatwood’s obsession with the true crime genre and her long-running fear of male violence. Olivia Gatwood, a Poet With a YouTube Following, Branches Out 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z

Certainly this is true of all pop stars, no matter what gender they identify with; it’s a byproduct of society’s obsession with fame and glamour. Lay off Miley Cyrus and Taylor Swift: We’re so unfair to women growing up in the public eye 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z

Without having to worry about what might appeal to readers of popular sports publications, he was free to explore his obsessions and crack theories. Books of The Times: Crunch the Numbers; Solve a Famous Murder 2011-06-02T21:24:11Z

Adolf Hitler’s interest in Norway bordered on obsession. Review | ‘Hitler’s Northern Utopia’ juxtaposes an oppressor’s fantasy state with Norway’s reality under Nazi occupation 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z

Theo’s father, Sir Aubrey, retreats into morose solitude and an obsession with the house, meticulously chronicling its history and agonizing over its crippling tax burden. ‘We That Are Left’ review: Can the British manor house survive? 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z

A friend forwarded me a trailer for a documentary, “Stuffed,” about the “craft, technique, and obsession” that informs “the world of modern taxidermy,” with its bro-ey enthusiasts and feminist millennials. Taxidermy Is a Metaphor for Our Time 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z

At their best, they are about obsessions like comic-book movies, video games and gadgets. Critic’s Notebook: Chris Hardwick of Nerdist Industries 2012-08-20T22:05:41Z

What animates Lendl, instead, is talking about his current obsession: golf. Lendl Goes Golfing 2010-03-12T21:00:00Z

As Vesta plunges deeper into isolation, her obsession with Magda's murder only continues to intensify. Brit Bennett's "The Vanishing Half" and 4 more must-read novels out in June 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z

My obsession with not turning into my mother was slowly but surely turning me into my dad. My father’s double life 2014-03-24T23:07:00Z

The exhibition also deals with Warhol's appropriation of historic images like his famous Mona Lisa and obsession with endless repetition and patterns. NYC museum explores Warhol's impact on artists 2012-09-18T15:01:10Z

They called themselves “Gothics,” shorthand for a composite of binding beliefs and aesthetics from different rock subgenres, including dark clothing, severe makeup and an obsession with death. From MySpace to the Streets of Lagos 2019-01-19T05:00:00Z

It is impossible not to hear in that a metatextual echo of the obsession of Delany’s practice: that of creating the most immersive possible aesthetic experience for us, his readers and devoted enthusiasts. In Praise of Samuel R. Delany 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z

These are among the rarefied obsessions of the collectors I have interviewed in eight years as the Antiques columnist for The New York Times. Magnificent Obsessions: Pursuits of a Lifetime 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z

Are there any soccer obsession stories in your family? World Cup: 'Golazo!' author on soccer passion in Latin America 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z

And according to critic Harold Bloom, Shepard saw doom in the “materialistic and technological obsessions of modern society.” Rural America: Where Sam Shepard’s roots ran deepest 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z

Business does nothing out of the goodness of its heart, and this latest obsession with wellness is aimed at achieving two profit-driven goals: increasing production and reducing costs associated with employee health care. “Wellness” is making us sick: How corporate America’s favorite mantra leaves us all feeling inadequate 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z

At some point Ezra developed an obsession with the calendar. Motherlode Blog: Autism, One Parent to Another 2011-09-07T18:26:48Z

Then a fire alarm empties the building and brings them together over the campfire of their common obsession: a popular true crime podcast. "Only Murders in the Building" bridges Boomer and Millennial sensibilities for a comedy that slays 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z

His obsessions with war, women, boxing, booze, and guns. The androgyny of being Ernest: A gender-fluid reading of Hemingway that upends his macho image 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z

But Cronenberg gets points for the film’s bits of black humor, and for deftly honing in on our culture’s obsession with celebrity. ‘Antiviral’: Chilly look at celebrity obsession 2013-04-18T21:35:02Z

But it was the mystery of the work, and of Twombly’s life, that turned interest into obsession. A Life of Cy Twombly Brings a Poet’s Eye to the Artist’s Mythic Work 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z

Yet Del Rey is unapologetic here, doubling down on her obsession with old Hollywood, tortured relationships and glamorous depictions of vice. Lana Del Rey’s Cinematic Honeymoon Isn’t So Sweet 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

In the home fragrance business, there's no bigger obsession than the candle, and no bigger candle than Yankee. Does this train station smell like ... grapefruit? How the air around us suddenly became so fragrant. 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z

He never made too much of a fermata — especially in the famous four-note opening motif — and subtly rejected notions of fate knocking at the door, relishing instead the symphony’s exploration of motivic obsession. Review: At the Philharmonic, a Conductor Is the Star 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z

“Not recklessness of deed and impulse, not casual epithets,” she presses on, taking to task his limited vocabulary of superlatives and his pathological obsession with the word “I.” Looking for the lighter side to a nasty election? Playwright Jon Robin Baitz delivers it in 'Vicuña' 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z

In fact, the film industry’s long obsession with Manson-ology began almost as soon as the crime scenes were cleared. Behind the bloodshed: the chilling untold stories about Charles Manson 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z

In his teens, he transferred that pop-culture obsession to fashion and studied the fashion glossies religiously. Up Close: Fashion?s Approachable Ambassador 2011-03-16T20:33:42Z

Hughes’s obsession with control, secrecy and beautiful women are qualities reflected in Mr. Beatty’s past behavior. Review: ‘Rules Don’t Apply’ Features Warren Beatty as Howard Hughes 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z

Some women resented Rivers obsession with looks and her conviction that women must present themselves as beautiful. Remembering Joan Rivers: Groundbreaking Feminist Icon 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

We all are guilty of this obsession with the tape, the clip. Rodney King beating helped drive video revolution 2012-06-18T20:48:08Z

West has a blindingly vivid messiah complex; he also has an obsession with iconoclasm that has led him all the way to the idea that slavery was voluntary. Kanye West’s Sunday Service Is Full of Longing and Self-Promotion 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z

My dad was the first one to be all for any new creative obsession that we thought we might like. Generation B: The Column Wraps Up With a Word From a Son 2010-05-20T23:26:00Z

Whether it’s battered and fried, steamed and cocktail-sauced, or boiled until tender in spicy brine, shrimp is a national obsession. What Are We Supposed to Think About Shrimp? 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z

He spun that experience into an award-winning restaurant group that includes Blackbird, Avec and The Publican, all of which reflect his own culinary obsession - sustainably sourced ingredients and close relationships with producers. David Chang, Paul Kahan tie for top chef honor 2013-05-07T01:14:09Z

But the TV Colbert went to Dartmouth, humiliates his underpaid staff and has harbored an almost stalker-y obsession with his teen love Charlene. Stephen Colbert: A Great Talk-Show Host? No, the Greatest! 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z

I valued our weird Washington friendship, born of mutual cinematic obsession. Perspective | Only in Washington: The CIA lawyer, the film critic and the obscure 1950s movie that forged their unlikely bond 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z

From there it developed into a full-on obsession, dedicated to preserving the entire physical spectrum of television history. A huge collection of odd TV stuff needs a home 2012-12-24T11:31:05Z

Christopher Guest’s most familiar movies—This Is Spinal Tap, Waiting for Guffman, Best In Show, A Mighty Wind—are about groups of people with a shared passion, or obsession. TV Weekend: Family Tree 2013-05-10T14:02:20Z

Avian casualties of its force became an obsession. The man who interviewed the wind 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z

Much of its humor is grounded in gentle satire of the specific experiences and obsessions of the baby boom generation — matters that might seem to have sprung from a time capsule today. Review: ‘The Heidi Chronicles,’ With Elisabeth Moss, Opens on Broadway 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

Over the last five years, my love of misguided guides and peripheral poetry pamphlets has bordered on obsession, in fact my tattered collection of "killer crab" novels currently stands taller than my child. Robin Ince's top 10 truly bad books 2010-07-05T13:23:00Z

A virtuoso of obsession and abandonment, Fukase was one of the signal photographers of postwar Japan. The Best Art Books of 2018 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z

With Ms. Mayfield often playing baritone guitar, lowering the pitch of the central guitar chords, they put a feedback-edged grunge power trio at the core of the songs: the sound of trouble, obsession, foreboding, decadence. New Music: New Rocordings by Riverside, Jessica Lea Mayfield and August Alsina 2014-04-14T21:25:54Z

The nation's obsession with trendy kale is a godsend for chains such as M&S, Gould says. Snack to the future: foraging in Texas for the next big food sensation 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z

In “Traveling Sprinkler,” Mr. Baker rakes his obsessions — or, rather, Paul’s — into three main piles: music, politics and tobacco. Books of The Times: ‘Traveling Sprinkler’ Is Nicholson Baker’s New Novel 2013-09-09T21:31:25Z

She’s been spreading the word on her concerns and obsessions for a long time. Oprah pardons gluten: Why her “glorious revelation that bread is okay” is causing such a stir 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z

The sighting led to the first use of the term “flying saucer” and a global obsession with U.F.O.s. A Search for U.F.O.s Leads to Utopian Dreams in This Debut Novel 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z

More important to him, was his dad’s obsession with fishing. Marcus Samuelsson: the restaurant king of Harlem 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z

Yes, this book’s obsession with riddles and game playing is what one of its characters calls “high nerd.” Books of The Times: Literature Can Turn Most Lethal 2011-07-06T21:30:34Z

He points the finger at a long-standing and misguided obsession with calories, one that demonizes fats for containing more of them than processed carbohydrates and sugars, leading to “dangerous low-fat diets.” Does eating fat make you fat? This doctor says no. 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z

And, day after day, the journalistic obsession with special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s Russia investigation probably far outstrips the public’s level of interest. Perspective | Actually, Melania, your disappearance is a legitimate news story 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z

Go back to the 1970s, after the obsession with retelling the legends of world war two wore off, to find a multitude of films about the common man. Stiff upper lip or man on the edge? How movies see real-life heroes 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

An Incessant Birdcall, Then Peaceful Fishing No composer has transcribed bird song with more dedication than Messiaen, an ornithological sampling artist whose obsession manifested itself in myriad colorful works evoking birdcalls. Music Review: Emerson String Quartet at Alice Tully Hall 2012-08-14T22:06:47Z

Such is the US trade press's obsession with the record books that if a movie launches below the level set by its predecessor, it's deemed to be something of a disappointment. Twi-hards out in force as Twilight: Eclipse affirms saga's undying appeal 2010-07-06T09:52:00Z

That obsession did not end when he had a stroke and found himself confined to a home. This American Mess 2020-11-21T05:00:00Z

“As Elaine used to say,” he noted, “obsession is part of the process.” Alone With Their Muses, Artists in Retreat Wonder if It’s Too Much 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z

During the opening titles of “Wilde Salomé,” it announces itself as “a story about an obsession.” Review: Al Pacino’s Journey With Wilde’s ‘Salomé’ 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z

For the fans, obsession with the music weaves its way into everyday life, influencing what they watch, wear and even eat. K-Pop Fans Swoon During East Coast KCON 2015-08-09T04:00:00Z

Claire and her two best friends find each other in fourth grade, bonding on their shared obsession with the adventures of “Cynthia Silverton, teen sleuth and girl detective.” Review | The ‘best detective in the world’ is back with more offbeat adventures 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z

Hughes is surprised by the reaction he sometimes gets about his Wagnerian obsession. Wagner’s four-opera ‘Ring Cycle’ at Kennedy Center lures swarms of diehard ‘Ringers’ 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z

Still, the key point here is Trump’s obsession with size.  Trump’s military nostalgia is influenced by the war movies of his youth 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z

One reason the character registers so strongly is that Derek suggests Mr. Stiller’s personal obsession with his looks. Review: In ‘Zoolander 2,’ All Is Still Vanity 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z

As always, she is mesmerized to the point of obsession with masculine codes of behavior. "Restrepo" vs. "The Hurt Locker" 2010-07-01T19:39:00Z

What began as a symbol of liberal objection to Trump has spawned a whole genre of signs enumerating political and pop-cultural obsessions. ‘In This House’ Yard Signs, and Their Curious Power 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z

“She has no academic credentials, only her obsession — which is less with the actual woman, one feels, than with the poem’s copiousness, its mingling of grief, desire, revenge.” 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z

Keller’s desire for revenge will evolve into an obsession that will impact every aspect of his life. Review | Don Winslow’s ‘The Border’ offers a harrowing look at the war on drugs 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z

But “Phantom” was a show about obsession, so its richness and hysteria made sense. ‘Bad Cinderella’ Review: The Title Warned Us 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z

The obsessions of others are opaque to the unobsessed, and thus easy to mock. ArtsBeat: Morley Safer Launches a Halfhearted Salvo in his War on the Art World 2012-04-02T16:30:26Z

This desire for directness is best exemplified by the obsession with naming that runs through her novels. In Gory, Majestic Fiction, a Hard Look at the Holocaust’s Stubborn Silences 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z

Good food and drink rank high among Hong Kongers’ obsessions, so it’s appropriate that there is a whole month devoted to it. In Transit Blog: In Hong Kong, a Monthlong Celebration of Food and Wine 2011-10-19T10:00:46Z

The creative team behind "Vampires Suck," which takes its inspiration from the global popularity of the "Twilight" movies and the current obsession with vampires generally, is seasoned with the newest, 21st century-style of spoof movie. Spoofs seek proof of life at box office 2010-08-19T04:02:00Z

“She spins her obsessions into narratives that are engaging and thoughtful and scary and surprising, and ultimately impossible to forget.” Reveling in the Eerie and the Spooky, but Finding ‘True Horror’ in Real Life 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z

The obsession with alerting the audience to the equipment of the paparazzi is also the subject of frequent baffled queries on TV blogs. Why do newsreaders make such a big deal about flash photography? 2010-08-05T07:00:00Z

An illuminating new work of history called “The Social Life of Books,” by Abigail Williams, describes the public’s obsession with reading aloud — and together — in 18th-century England. The book is dead. Long live the book festival. 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z

Graham, 37, who originally wrote “Quiz” as a play, said that the idea was rooted partly in his obsession with “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” How ‘Quiz,’ a Drama About Coughing, Captivated Lockdown Britain 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z

Alfred Hitchcock's "Vertigo," one of the most dazzling tales of romantic obsession ever filmed, screens Wednesday night as part of the current Metro Classics series. Merce Cunningham films, Kentucky banjo music and Hitchcock's 'Vertigo' 2011-03-03T21:02:03Z

And yet, in this season we see more clearly than ever before how Elizabeth’s obsession with the Russia of her youth is slowly destroying her. The danger of nostalgia: a tough, timely final season of The Americans 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z

“The Silence,” filmed under deceptively sunny skies, is a story of obsession, of the permanence of loss, of how deeds of the past haunt us, closing over our heads like water. ‘The Silence’: a haunting, mesmerizing German thriller 2013-03-28T22:02:41Z

There is also the well-documented millennial obsession with wellness and self-improvement and the emerging science proving the benefits of growing plants on mental health. My houseplant garden is a tiny national park Donald Trump can never destroy 2020-03-21T04:00:00Z

Biographers should remain an unobtrusive presence, concentrate on the reader’s interest rather than their own obsessions and focus not on the facts of the life but on what these facts mean. Literary biography: possibility and peril 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z

“There are, among other things, stories of obsession,” Morris said in an interview. Erroll Morris creates ambitious documentary series for ESPN 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z

I think there are a lot of teenagers that are lost because of the obsession with recognition based on no accomplishment at all. Film: Joel Schumacher on ?Twelve,? Starring 50 Cent 2010-07-23T21:51:00Z

Instead, let your kids express their current obsession in small ways: a poster, lampshade or pillow. Three things you don’t want to do (and three you do) when decorating a kid’s room 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z

Now that he’s married with two young sons of his own, Dr. Lakra admits to seeing many similarities between himself and his father, primarily their obsession with drawing. A Tattoo Master, Off the Street, Into the Gallery 2011-03-25T20:47:08Z

But the differing narrative venues, modes and atmospheres in each sequence exhibited VanderMeer’s insistence on clothing his perennial themes and obsessions in diverting new garments. Review | Jeff VanderMeer’s ‘Hummingbird Salamander’ is a gripping eco-thriller full of cinematic set pieces 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z

Perhaps that is not surprising, given the art world’s recent obsession with fashion as subject matter, but lately those model-chasing photographers are getting their own attention from museums. Highlights of Mario Testino Exhibition 2012-10-19T21:41:03Z

While Alia and her friends roll their eyes at each other about their parents’ obsessions with status, they also enjoy the swimming pools, BMWs and California universities that those priorities make possible. ‘India Sweets and Spices’ Review: Gossip, Secrets and Biting Laughs 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z

Food is not a fetishistic obsession for great photographers, it seems, so much as a movable feast, a theatrical moment in the midst of everyday life. From Ansel Adams to Stephen Shore: famous photographers shoot their favourite food 2016-03-26T04:00:00Z

Yet I suspect our collective obsession with photos is hastening its demise. Motherlode Blog: Why We Should Take Fewer Pictures of Our Children 2012-10-12T15:55:46Z

Dieting implies effort and obsession and it certainly doesn't imply any degree of uninhibitedness, in the dining room or anywhere else. Hollywood's obsession with tiny women, big meals 2011-02-17T21:01:00Z

She succeeded in raising her daughter outside the public eye long before stars and their kids became a tabloid obsession. The Diane Lane Thing is deep and it’s real. Especially with women. 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

So too is her mother, who vanishes into debilitating anxiety and an obsession with nuclear disarmament. ArtsBeat: Book Review Podcast: Lamenting Defectors, Soviet and Otherwise 2013-05-24T16:19:14Z

The Frenchman’s obsession with Built has a pivotal impact on Clearday’s public- relations emergency, but Marcel’s role comes across as false and facile. Review | ‘White Pearl’ is an amusing take on the beauty business. But watch out — things get ugly. 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z

His imaginative life revolves around Disney princesses, and his fondness for Cinderella has become a virtual obsession. Theater Review: In ‘A Kid Like Jake,’ the Title Character Worries His Mother 2013-06-18T02:00:15Z

Britain's lousy weather might have contributed to the national obsession, but experts say it's the royal family that has kept it alive. Hats off! Britain's royal wedding stirs hat fever 2011-04-18T10:11:11Z

“On Nietzsche” recalls the narrator’s obsession, years ago, with writing a book about Nietzsche, a project he cannot complete. Review: New Novels by Kris D’Agostino, Kathleen Rooney and Others 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z

All of Galeano's usual obsessions are vividly represented here: US imperialism, the pharmaceutical industry, western governments, the military, the church, advertising, business, Hollywood. Children of the Days: A Calendar of Human History by Eduardo Galeano – review 2013-05-17T10:46:43Z

It became Alkhanshali’s obsession to restore its honor — never mind that he was broke, knew nothing about coffee and, frankly, didn’t much care for the taste. ‘The Monk of Mokha’ is Dave Eggers’s Latest PG-13 Story About the American Dream 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z

Her obsession and love of Bowie is wholly her own.” ‘Thank You, Mr. Bowie. You Changed Our Lives.’ 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z

He and Ms. Meitner marvel at how friendly and precocious their son is, traits neither of them possessed as children, and at his obsession with jellyfish and volcanoes. State of the Unions: From a Couple to Parents 2011-08-11T19:33:45Z

Magic and movies: those were his twin obsessions, and for him they were intertwined. Filmmaker J. J. Abrams Is a Crowd Teaser 2011-05-29T01:23:02Z

Bolin’s own obsession is nowhere near as lurid but just as fascinating. Coming of Age — and Becoming a Writer — in an America Obsessed With ‘Dead Girls’ 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z

My family’s true connection to the French was through our shared obsession with the food — learning about it, exploring it and preparing lavish feasts with it. How I Came to Cook in French 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z

Like many artists, he was fascinated with "Moby-Dick," its symbolism, obsessions and religious substructure. Christopher Martin Hoff show a reminder of talent, loss 2012-08-15T18:57:06Z

His obsessions are hollow and the world too flawed to satisfy them. American Psycho at 20: a vicious satire that remains as sharp as ever 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z

Lubow wonders whether these obsessions were some sort of antidote for the depression that always threatened her, just as it had terrorized her mother. A disturbing new image of photographer Diane Arbus 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z

And from a far-off corner of the internet’s obsession with animals, a recurring “Late Late Show” bit appeared. Stephen Colbert Joins Trump’s Twitter ‘Intervention’ 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z

On his new album, “Physical Whisper,” Mr. Gondelman satirizes the critique of children ruined by their parents’ obsession with self-esteem. Sick of Angry Comics? Try Some Sweet-Tempered Stand-Up 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z

Strevens, who has a background in mathematics, traces the origins of modern sciences and argues that our obsession with empirical data is both irrational and inhuman. New in Paperback: ‘The Fabric of Civilization’ and ‘The National Road’ 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z

It may not be community theater or folk music, but in its own way Tom’s is also a rewardingly eccentric obsession: asking, literally, why am I here? TV Weekend: Family Tree 2013-05-10T14:02:20Z

My obsession might have started with Swedish Fish, which were sold for 50 cents a bag at our community swimming pool when I was growing up outside Pittsburgh. I have a food vice, and it’s yummy and gummy 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z

He posted that his new daughter "has mom's beauty and dad's obsession with breasts." It's a girl for Kristen Bell, fiance Dax Shepard 2013-03-28T22:56:08Z

Our obsession with always being socially acceptable is unnecessary, he says. Welcome to the golden age of social awkwardness 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z

For his thesis, O'Shaughnessy wrote officially on mental imagery, but in fact on the location of sound, his real obsession. Brian O'Shaughnessy obituary 2010-07-14T17:13:00Z

While building his business, Mr. Kaplan had nurtured another passion — some observers called it an obsession — first privately, then in public, almost spectacular fashion. Gilbert Kaplan, millionaire businessman and self-taught maestro of Mahler, dies at 74 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z

Thus evolves my curious obsession, not with biking and its accouterments, but with understanding a particular form of suffering, unique to the Pacific Northwest. My year without a car 2013-12-09T01:00:00Z

Inspired by the structure of Puccini's Il Trittico, Triptych is made up of three short operas - a tragedy, a comedy and a piece about nuns - and touches on the themes of obsession and alienation. When modern art meets opera 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

“His devotion to Mahler gradually grew into almost an obsession,” Sybille Werner, the editor who is completing the revised biography, wrote in an email. Henry-Louis de La Grange, Mahler Authority, Is Dead at 92 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z

By mid-September, Dairy Queen’s official Twitter account reached out and asked Kris to shoot the company a direct message, so it could send her “a little something to feed your ranch obsession.” Dairy Queen promoting its ranch dressing by giving away free merch 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z

The book captures the bewildering, incoherent melding of Eisenhower values with a late beatnik obsession with the artist. Cultural Studies: Sharing Her Secrets 2011-03-24T21:13:59Z

An obsession with the least-visited National Park Service property in the country animates an argument for vanishing. National Parks, 100 Years In 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z

MEATLiquor, meanwhile, arguably the architect of Britain’s current obsession with burgers from its early days as MEATWagon, seems to be abandoning ship. What next for the burger? 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z

“Victoria & Abdul” is about an aging British queen, her eccentric obsession with an engaging Muslim servant from India and the half-farcical opposition of the British establishment to their relationship. When the Empress of India Met Her Muslim Teacher 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z

But the crush veers off into obsession, as Juliette starts to follow Madame Solenska around town and even to her home. New Directors/New Films Series Sets Lineup 2010-02-25T17:48:00Z

Along with the actual artwork, the exhibit includes vintage photographs that evoke the flavor of the Warhol era, with its celebrity obsessions, aestheticization of the mundane, and focus on the instantaneous and ephemeral. Tacoma’s missed chance at Warhol’s flower power 2012-12-20T22:02:29Z

But now Apollonius slows the action to depict that Hellenistic obsession: the pathology of love. ‘Jason and the Argonauts’: Picture thepre-Trojan War equivalent of the Avengers

In my Guatemalan American family, soccer is such an obsession that “gol!” was my daughter’s first word. World Cup: 'Golazo!' author on soccer passion in Latin America 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z

Meanwhile, the acting career of her daughter, Carrie Fisher, took off, and then so did the second act — as rehabbed addict and memoirist who chronicled her bitterness over Ms. Reynolds’s mothering and career obsession. The Unsinkable Debbie Reynolds 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z

On Monday at 6:30 p.m., a screening of “America the Beautiful,” a 2007 documentary by Darryl Roberts about Americans’ obsession with beauty, will be shown at the Student Union. Spare Times for Feb. 24-March 1 2012-02-23T22:35:05Z

He has no goal, no profession, no obsession other than Estella. Beyond Expectations: Rereading Dickens 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z

After moving in with Billy, Stub is free to pursue his newfound obsession, Asthma, the 8-year old daughter of a history professor. Rikki Ducornet's 'Brightfellow' is a sophisticated embodiment of children's imagination 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z

“It became more and more of an obsession,” the 28-year-old art director confesses. Millennials are filling their homes — and the void in their hearts — with houseplants 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z

No, it’s their obsession with “Game of Thrones” he’s all in a froth about. Rush Limbaugh: Millennials think “Game of Thrones” is real! 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z

And he realized there might be away to combine his two loves: applying his skills as an artist to create a better understanding of his decades-long obsession. Watch: Ed Piskor Talk About His Upcoming History of Hip-Hop Comic Book 2013-10-01T15:20:18Z

This obsession tips over into ominous hints of child trafficking and abuse; the slaves of Nibelheim are here a roomful of identically dressed blonde girls drawing at tables. Review: A New ‘Ring’ at Bayreuth Does Wagner Without Magic 2022-08-07T04:00:00Z

Then Cody begins to suspect that Virginia is not actually in Berlin, as she claims, and Mr. Wigon’s film briefly enters a delicious, almost Continental realm of existential ambiguity and obsession. ‘The Heart Machine’ Explores Human Connection 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z

Because, just as with the outsider wanderer of “Winterreise,” he, his narcissism and his obsession are part of all of us. Ian Bostridge on Schubert’s Hidden Depths 2020-11-03T05:00:00Z

But PETA’s truly dysfunctional obsession with women’s bodies is nothing new. PETA’s ridiculous new birth control stunt 2013-12-03T15:45:00Z

Britain’s obsession with Gypsy culture has spread into bookstores. Books of The Times: ?Gypsy Boy,? a Memoir by Mikey Walsh 2012-02-16T15:29:02Z

The contemporary duet “Growth,” which the choreographers will perform July 22, responds to our era’s obsession with economic indicators like the GDP. Natalia Arias’s ‘Femininity Beyond Archetypes’ photos strike unusual poses

When prompted to explain the apparent obsession, her simple but sincere refrain is that she “wants to push prints to the limit” and challenge herself to “engineer” them to the body. The Future of Fabric Prints Is Bright 2012-02-21T18:16:17Z

Mostly, though, Mr. Church’s obsessions come through in the lyrics. On ‘Mr. Misunderstood,’ Eric Church Pays Homage to His Influences 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z

As the bullying poet, the versatile baritone Steven Page monopolises the stage each time he enters, exuding an air of crazed obsession. Aida; Elegy for Young Lovers; O Sonho 2010-05-01T23:07:00Z

But broadly, this obsession with health and a longer life seems to be based on distrust in the idea of an afterlife. The age of atheism: “If God exists, why is anybody unhappy?” 2014-02-15T15:45:00Z

It was meant to happen when it controversially moved to Channel 4 three years ago, not when we were all collectively distracted by Henry’s snazzy ties or Helena’s obsession with the undead. Bake Off is broken – here's how to fix it 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z

Whisenant’s film catches Young two decades deep into his obsession, which, thanks to the Internet, became a far less lonely one. Can a Musical Sponsored by a Toilet Manufacturer Be a Work of Art? 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z

True original: Another presiding genius in Mosley's work is Darwin, notably in his portraits of men with simian profiles that speak to 19th-century obsessions with cavemen, devolution and phrenology. Artist of the week 148: Ryan Mosley 2011-07-28T11:11:44Z

Inside, it’s a warm jumble of antiques, books, artworks and plants – the latter something of an obsession – that belie the modern surroundings. 'I love colour and excess': Gretchen Röehrs’ San Francisco apartment 2018-08-04T04:00:00Z

There’s a troubling story of obsession and dominance buried within the film’s dark heart and an alarming comment on heteronormativity that remains incredibly relevant. No sequels allowed: the 12 best alternative movies to watch this summer 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z

King’s crucifixion sounds a new birth of freedom; the white republic forsakes its obsession with the color of our skin and fixes instead upon the content of our character. The Civil Rights Stories We Need to Remember 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z

So I wanted to write a book that explored my – and our – obsession with money and success, from a super-vulnerable and honest place. “There are not a lot of happy people on Wall Street”: Sam Polk opens up about greed, wealth and toxic masculinity 2016-07-16T04:00:00Z

Play Without Words Matthew Bourne's 25th anniversary season continues with this much-deserved revival for his take on the style and sexual obsessions of the 1960s. This week's new theatre and dance 2012-06-22T23:06:40Z

But in a manner that might make for a neat twist in one of Ms. Roberts’s novels, the obsession with divorce is playing out against a remarkable backdrop: actual divorce is plummeting. Family Matters: The Joys of Vicarious Divorce 2010-08-27T19:16:00Z

He kept talking about craft beers, his latest obsession, then malting, then about barley being a regenerative crop that improves soil conditions for the wheat. One simple dish changed the course of this visionary chef’s life: Scrambled eggs 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z

Like “There Will Be Blood,” it casts Mr. Day-Lewis as an avatar of obsession, driven this time by the pursuit of aesthetic perfection rather than money and power. Review: Daniel Day-Lewis Sews Up Another Great Performance in ‘Phantom Thread’ 2017-12-24T05:00:00Z

This story is about the struggle to break free of a dire past; about the powerful forces arrayed against reason, sanity, happiness itself; about the demons that keep us locked up in old obsessions. Anne Rice's 'Prince Lestat,' and More 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z

At a 12-step meeting for victims of online obsession, people much like ourselves testify, confess and even — in songs like “Hymn: The Forest” — pray. What Is the Sound of a Theater Season Interrupted? 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z

The obsession with food is handed down from generation to generation; it is how we relate to our community. Pennsylvania Dutch, a puzzle with potpies

Chekhov's play was an obsession of his and the resulting work reflects this. In theatre, there's devilry in the details 2010-04-13T16:25:00Z

Capturing motion in art was a Modernist obsession. When It Comes to Calder, the Same Piece Is Always Different 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z

I think this is partly where my obsession with geometry and form began. Crystal Creatures, Mr Porter’s California Collection and the Return of PF Flyers 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z

As the host, I have experienced great joy in exploring our guest stars' tales of Beatles discovery and obsession. "Everything Fab Four": Our new podcast about the life-changing power of the Beatles 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z

What we said: “A rather lovely poetic portrait of male friendship, cinephilic obsession and elegant dignity.” The best films of 2020 so far 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z

I'm better than them, there's an obsession with self. Jerry O'Connell talks murder, dog hoarding, Drake & "Real Housewives" 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z

“This is growing into an obsession,” he said, as he gestured around the cluttered room. An Artist’s Obsession with the Ruins of His Homeland 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z

"This government is obviously not going to lose its obsession with the deficit but if you are looking for ways to spend a little and get maximum return – then here we are." National Theatre artistic director calls for government to restore arts funding 2012-10-01T16:48:43Z

Mr. Ide was in his mid-50s when he decided to draw on that rough world of his youth and meld it with his childhood obsession with Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories. Raised in South Central, Joe Ide Expands the Territory of L.A. Noir 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z

Vidal, inspecting the idiocy of this belief, concludes, “There is something strangely infantile in this obsession with dice-loaded physical courage when the only courage that matters in political or even real life is moral.” Civil war at the cineplex: “American Sniper,” “Selma” and the battle over American masculinity 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z

Jones added an edgy interpretation to the strict codes of Christian Dior, the designer who died in 1957, by translating his obsessions. Dior pulls the stars in conveyor-belt menswear show in Paris 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z

At the time Lenkiewicz was working on a project about addiction, mainly focusing on people hooked on drugs and alcohol but he was taken by Foot's obsession with politics – and football. Michael Foot portrait to be auctioned for Plymouth memorial fund 2013-07-18T21:12:18Z

Initially a blur of culture shock juxtaposed with her ongoing disenchantment, the journals track her obsession with her elusive, rakish colleague as well as her increasingly erratic state of mind. Review | Amanda Dennis’s ‘Her Here’ is a spellbinding existential thriller 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z

Seems quite possible, given Trump’s obsession with loyalty, defiance and showing up his opponents. How America became a grudgeocracy 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z

And every year, long after my son has moved on to the next obsession, I still pass a Christmas tree, think: “It’s not a fish!” and smile. My autistic son made me see the season anew – a Christmas tree is not a fish! 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z

But Facebook doesn’t allow for inconsistency without amplifying it, a constant record of our obsessions and our contradictions to the point of caricature. When the school is the bully 2012-05-18T16:15:00Z

It respects both the integrity and the eccentricity of the avian obsession, and it communicates something of the fascinating abundance and weirdness of the animals themselves. | 'The Big Year': ?The Big Year,? With Owen Wilson and Steve Martin - Review 2011-10-13T21:45:11Z

It’s painful to think back on those depressing media obsessions, about headbands and cookies, that dominated Hillary’s early career: it was a humiliating period, a kind of cultural hazing. When Hillary Was a Black Man 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z

One of his many obsessions is rescuing mostly dead plants that people have left on the sidewalk and nursing them back to health. How a Missing Sock Changed My Life 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z

Avery’s obsession with David extends to an obsession with political scandals in general, which feels a bit heavy-handed but also makes sense. A Political Scandal’s Trauma, Seen From the Inside 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z

I’m interested in the texture of obsession, particularly creative obsession: scientific, artistic, philosophical. Mark de Silva talks about his novel 'Square Wave,' a paean to process 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

The “conducted sacrifice” becomes an allegory about obsession and its costs. A Poet Whose Calling Is Doubt Celebrates Language’s Uncertainty 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z

The case closed, but the story – its fascinations, its implication of obsession – continued to ripple throughout the national consciousness. A Wilderness of Error: the year's most troubling true crime series 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z

There is a tendency among Hollywood stars and countless others increasingly plagued by the cultural obsession with youth and beauty, Dr. Brandt said, to cut too soon, to overfill, to go too far. Dr. Fredric Brandt: Cosmetic Dermatologist to the Rich and Famous 2014-03-28T20:25:48Z

Her quest to find him doesn’t border on obsession, it is obsession. Four Thrillers, United by Male Trouble 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z

The dazzle of my high-tech phone was merely a red herring to my daughter's photo obsession. Motherlode Blog: Why We Should Take Fewer Pictures of Our Children 2012-10-12T15:55:46Z

Both the absurdity of the provincial social climbers and the mad ideological fervor of the cadre of secret revolutionaries who infect them with their obsessions came through only tepidly. | 'The Demons': Peter Stein Takes Dostoyevsky to Governors Island 2010-07-11T23:13:00Z

This exhibition brings together works from across his career, including paintings of his wife, Marthe, who had an obsession with cleanliness, tidying herself in the bathroom. What's On This Week Around The World 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z

One man’s obsession with the exploitation of miners proves pivotal, as does another’s drug dependence. Review: In ‘Butcher Holler Here We Come,’ Tensions Down in the Hole 2015-07-26T04:00:00Z

Kundera saw sex as an act of redemption and of liberation under repressive regimes, but his obsession came back to haunt him. In Milan Kundera’s Work, the Erotic Meets the Subversive 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z

He jokingly credited his Italian-American heritage as the source of his obsession. ‘From Waterloo to New Jersey,’ a Glimpse of Joseph Bonaparte’s Life in Exile 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

It’s almost an obsession to be in the right place for the right image. Mario Testino’s Tips for Travel Photography 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z

This is all a bit odd for those of us who grew up with – maybe even got beaten up for – an obsession with these sorts of books. “Snow White and the Huntsman”: A would-be fantasy classic 2012-05-30T23:00:00Z

Arguably, they would loom even larger, dwarfing all of the “J’s,” Dean, Morrison and Hendrix in the “what if they had lived” obsession. Bob Dylan’s “electric trilogy” masterpieces: I played all 18 discs and 357 tracks. Here’s why you should 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z

They had no children which probably fed their obsession of creating a museum of national renown to house their vast collection. Edwin Landseer's Otter Speared: rare display for 'gruesome' painting 2010-05-09T19:24:00Z

It is also a national manifesto, nay, an obsession expressed in the constant pursuit of homespun pleasures involving candlelight, fires, fuzzy knitted socks, porridge, coffee, cake and other people. Wintering the Danish Way: Learning About Hygge 2016-12-24T05:00:00Z

But it was a cautionary tale about this obsession with ourselves and narcissism and how we are teaching children that it’s all about them and what they look like. Jamie Lee Curtis Has Never Worked Hard a Day in Her Life 2019-12-01T05:00:00Z

“I feel like that’s where the questions started from with this process: What is that interest of mine, my obsession with total evacuation, with making time stand still?” Gillian Walsh, Taking Dance to a Still Place 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z

This original movie has all the ingredients of a pulpy Lifetime thriller: histrionics, crime and sexual obsession. What’s on TV Friday: Ben Affleck in ‘The Accountant’ and ‘Love Is Strange’ 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z

Current museum displays there and elsewhere, as well as new and forthcoming books, explore the couple’s careers, homes, obsession with weather, and previous spouses. New Life for a Cottage That Doubled as an Artists’ Laboratory 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z

“There are people to this day that say O.J. is innocent — not me — but it’s an obsession among Americans,” Gleason says. Why the organizers of a pop-up 'O.J. Simpson Museum' are displaying the artifacts of notoriety 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z

Mr. Axelrad commences his lonely and debilitating obsession with online poker. Books of The Times: Casino Crazy in Josh Axelrad?s ?Repeat Until Rich? 2010-03-30T23:21:00Z

Dating back to the early days of his regime, killing Castro became the tragicomic obsession of a generation of American spies. Change in U.S. policy toward Cuba dismantles an artifact of the Cold War 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z

Here they promise to all be funny Valentines in a show about a subject that might be considered a teenage obsession. Spare Times: For Children, for Feb. 10-16 2012-02-09T21:47:27Z

The Nazis' obsession with documentation provided more material meanwhile. An opera for my resistance fighter aunt 2012-11-21T19:07:19Z

It could telegraph changing times and America’s gaining technological superiority — themes perhaps picked up in Henry’s obsession with video games. ‘The Americans’ Season 5, Episode 5 Recap: Whole Lotta Shakin’ 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z

Mr. Guare presciently captured, with aching empathy and brusque insight, an American obsession with celebrity that has since only grown and festered. | 'The House of Blue Leaves' : A Papal Visit Has Dreamers Dreaming 2011-04-26T02:01:06Z

With our media consumption habits and obsession with sex, we still have a perverse, tortured relationship with accepting that. While sexual attitudes change, society's objectification of famous young women remains 2021-04-10T04:00:00Z

It was the relentless double entendre; the schoolyard obsession with tits and bums. The Two Ronnies: the double act's popularity is still booming 2010-12-23T10:30:00Z

The greatest film of all time, according to hundreds of critics, festival programmers and others around the world was not Orson Welles’ 1941 drama, but Alfred Hitchcock’s 1958 masterpiece of unease and obsession, Vertigo. The Best Movie of All Time Turns 70: Here’s Looking at You, Casablanca 2012-11-23T10:40:25Z

Nevertheless, the actor proceeded to explain his obsession via a deep dive into the flavor notes and profiles of certain types of coffee. The unusual ingredient that Ashton Kutcher adds to his coffee 2023-02-19T05:00:00Z

Still, the borough’s biding obsession — housing — is given a nod. Television Review: Don?t Expect References to Literary Giants 2011-01-14T23:20:22Z

In Franz Ferdinand’s day, hunting was an aristocratic sport; but for him, it seemed an obsession. In the heart of Europe, Habsburg family homes offer a haunting glimpse into history 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z

And once again, it took Hardy’s obsession and Ellie’s diligence; they picked away at the scab until it bled. 'Broadchurch' Season 2 Finale Recap: Alec and Ellie Forever 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z

The need to take pictures of people he admires was, in the beginning of his career, “almost an obsession,” he continued. In Transit: Amsterdam Show Combines Corbijn's Two Careers 2011-08-02T10:00:26Z

But what emerges from this richly rewarding event, which tours Ireland, the US and the UK until the end of October, is Murphy's obsession with emigration and its impact on Irish identity. Druid Murphy – review 2012-06-24T17:00:03Z

A good example is the stickers’ obsession with the alleged misuse of “like” where “as” or “such as” should be used. Can something be totally unique? Steven Pinker’s new book says yes.

Certain motifs are repeated in many variations like a growing obsession. Spanish thriller dredges up dark childhood secret 2012-02-11T20:08:24Z

My obsession with Snapchat Stories began about a month ago, when a group of friends visited Japan and recorded a daily Snapchat Story. Be the Star of Your Own Snapchat Story 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z

Had she been a pop star – and a brief obsession with Françoise Hardy in her teens made her consider it – Tabor's feelings about reaching her 60s might have been different. June Tabor: watery, not grave 2011-02-10T22:30:01Z

The current obsession with true crime, you could argue, helped propel Hoskins and Schaub’s years of overlooked industry into the national spotlight. As Making a Murderer returns, is the obsession with true crime turning nasty? 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z

But his obsession with perfection is wide-ranging and merciless, not limited to fish. Tough on Others, Tougher on Himself: The Perfectionist Behind the Milos Restaurants 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z

The same obsessions with the demons of alcohol and drug abuse would overwhelm me, and I would revert back to a life of crime and violence, wreaking havoc upon everybody around me again. Billy Moore’s first Muay Thai “Fight Night” in Thailand 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z

The thought has become an obsession, the obsession a slogan. Banished: Surviving My Years in the Westboro Baptist Church by Lauren Drain – review 2013-04-10T07:01:01Z

But I disagree with anyone who dismisses Madonna as a pop diva with revolving boyfriends and an obsession with her glutes. Wendy Shanker: Madonna is my guru 2010-05-09T21:00:00Z

For another streaming option, the 2020 documentary “MLK/FBI” examines an F.B.I. director’s unsettling obsession with King’s personal life and political affiliations, and his determination to bring down the civil rights leader. 6 Ways to Remember Martin Luther King in New York 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z

It all started in his hometown of Providence, R.I., where his parents enabled his obsession with all things music. Thee Oh Sees' John Dwyer knows how to make a scene 2012-09-26T22:16:00Z

The desire to open an inn appears to be an equal-opportunity obsession. New York Country Inns, a World Apart 2010-04-22T21:27:00Z

It began as a lark, quickly grew into a hobby, and then an obsession. I was a screenwriting guru groupie 2012-11-24T15:00:00Z

Here, Cage takes that to the nth degree in a metanarrative that syncs his fandom’s Cage-related obsessions with his own reflections on stardom. Nicolas Cage, Ranked From Wild to Mild 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z

As it happens, I’d been thinking about the Beatles and their pronouns, because my five-year-old son is currently working through a serious obsession with all things Fab Four. ArtsBeat Blog: I Me Mine: The Beatles and Their Pronouns 2011-08-29T14:30:32Z

The internet means that we can never get away from ourselves, our temptations and obsessions. The internet: is it changing the way we think? 2010-08-14T23:05:00Z

True to form, though, the Twihards are not letting their phenomenon die without a fight – albeit a fight that acknowledges the flaws of their shared obsession. Twilight forever: how superfans kept the vampire critics at bay 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z

This bit of social satire imagines possible causes: watching too much television is one; others include too many oily cosmetics and an obsession with the napalm that killed a son in Vietnam. Books of The Times: David Means Colors His Stories Dark in ?The Spot? 2010-06-29T22:00:00Z

The show, praised as an intoxicating female perspective on obsession, cruelty and power with an overlay of dark comedy, earned two Emmy nominations for best drama series and was a boon for its stars. ‘Killing Eve’ deadly cat-and-mouse game enters last season 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z

Cultural expectations around marriage and body size go back to the Protestant obsession with discipline, merit and morality. “Fat Guy” biking across America: Why we believe only thin people deserve to be loved 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z

For what Ms. Piper achieves is an anatomy of an obsession that, layer by layer, peels off one woman’s skin until every nerve ending is mercilessly exposed. Review: A Blistering Billie Piper Unravels Brilliantly in ‘Yerma’ 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z

In this instance the obsession is death, and in the show’s overarching ideology its impact is unfailingly totalizing and destructive. Critic?s Notebook: Murder and Melodrama: An Obsessive Killer Is Revealed in a Stylish Whodunit 2011-06-19T22:08:38Z

By contrast, Mr. Corigliano’s engrossing “Fantasia on an Ostinato” is a study in obsession and how it precludes any attempt at progression and narrative. Review: Pianist Ursula Oppens Seamlessly Connects the Classics With New Music 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z

I’m aware that it is an unhealthy obsession. Seth Meyers Takes a Break With ‘Strange Adventures’ and Monty Python 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z

He left Doubleday in part out of dismay that it had refused, on grounds of taste, to publish “Lolita,” Vladimir Nabokov’s controversial novel about a middle-aged man’s obsession and affair with a very young girl. Jason Epstein, Editor and Publishing Innovator, Is Dead at 93 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z

In “Friends, Lovers,” Perry shares his obsession with Batman. ‘Right now, I am everywhere’: Matthew Perry’s endless loop 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z

Recent reporting by The New York Times revealed that Ms. Spears had long questioned Mr. Spears’s fitness as conservator, citing his drinking and “obsession” with her. Judge Frees Spears From Father’s Control 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z

Enter Smerling, who picks up the story from Morris’s 20-plus year obsession, after himself achieving notoriety in the documentary pursuit of crime. A Wilderness of Error: the year's most troubling true crime series 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z

“Encampment” is a 30,000-square-foot installation made of six hand-painted canvas tents covered with images that reflect the artist’s personal obsessions. Gigantism 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

If Perec took pride in not repeating himself, it did not stop him from returning, as if in an elliptical orbit, to the same obsessions: police states, citizens going missing, organized brutality, human fragility. The Absolute Originality of Georges Perec 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z

As a boy, Hanks developed twin obsessions that would return and drive much of his professional life. The evolution of Tom Hanks

“We all have the same level of obsession about the show,” she said, “and we like any excuse to dress up.” ?Downton Abbey? Inspires Themed Viewing Parties 2012-01-18T22:56:54Z

Much like his hyperactive Twitter account, the essay collection features improbably humorous observations on such personal obsessions as Grindr, middle school trauma and his abuela’s ghost. John Paul Brammer Is Obsessed With Kate Bush 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z

A young man falls in love with a beautiful young woman who dumps him in favour of a rich smoothie who has a creepy obsession with setting things on fire. Royals, rogues and Rudolf Nureyev: the best films of 2019 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z

The show rode the zeitgeist of obstacle competitions like Tough Mudder and Spartan Race, as well as America’s general obsession with the fitness lifestyle. American Ninja Warrior: obstacle course has new challenges – onscreen and off 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z

The slow revelation of the true killer, and his obsession. Lincoln, Argo, Capote and the intricacies of weaving fact into fiction 2013-02-19T15:55:29Z

When collecting strives to become objective, the eccentricity veers into obsession. Object Lessons: The New Museum Explores Why We Keep Things 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

The poet herself dismissed the idea she was writing to "an agenda", arguing instead that the ecological focus of some of her recent work came because "you write about your obsessions". Gillian Clarke 'stunned' at winning Queen's gold medal for poetry 2010-12-24T00:00:01Z

As Ms. Reich started meeting contemporaries at tap festivals, she discovered that many shared her obsession. Tap Dance, and the Hard Work of Making It All Look Easy 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z

McDean wasn’t shooting with any particular end in mind, except perhaps to fill the hours of the day and to feed his childhood obsession with martial arts. | Craig McDean's Sumo 2011-09-09T15:03:03Z

But he also made light of the headscarf obsession in Russian Orthodox churches and shared a favorite anecdote. Moscow's New Dress Code: Less 2010-08-23T18:10:00Z

The hunting theme was actually an organic way to explore one of the oddest trends to appear on the Milan runways this week — a seeming obsession with pockets. Menswear on the European runways 2011-01-24T19:08:53Z

A new San Francisco Symphony album features two of Adams’s Beethoven obsessions spaced nearly 30 years apart. CD Reviews: John Adams’s musical jokes 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z

If I wrote songs or poetry, I would say it’s my style; I have my own obsessions, certain things I like. YouTubers at the mercy of the algorithm: “The idea is to post content, not have an interesting... 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z

And his son also shares in the family obsession with it. On Seattle stages: ancient Greece, 'The Scream,' your neighbors' deep, dark secrets 2011-02-03T20:38:12Z

"I've found it fascinating talking to remarkable people about their obsession with chess and how it has changed and influenced their lives," said Lawson. Chess chat show comes to BBC Radio 4 2013-12-18T11:44:59Z

And I was getting excited that, for a single night, I would share it with strangers who might not find my musings on Jesus and dairy products so entirely unfamiliar with their own teenage obsessions. Mortified: Reading old diary entries in front of an audience is only part of the challenge

The “Black Swan” idea of ballet is narrower: obsession, torment, inadequacy, paranoia, delusion. Critic?s Notebook: The Many Faces of ?Black Swan,? Deconstructed 2011-02-09T23:04:37Z

For Steve Bishop, responsible for the recent Rinse: 11 CD as DJ Oneman, the obsession began at school in south London.  Rinse FM finally gets the recognition it deserves 2010-06-18T15:32:00Z

It was named for the memoir by Joyce Carol Oates chronicling the author’s childhood obsession with a troubled girl. An Artist Who Champions and Channels Female Voices 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z

To be sure, Smith's willingness to go to any lengths to lift herself out of poverty and her lifelong obsession with publicity have a lurid quality that seems almost mythic. Anna Nicole, the opera: She aims to sleaze 2011-02-18T01:35:12Z

After all, Texas textbook standards require that an obsession with the gold standard be taught as a legitimate economic theory instead of the mad ravings of cranks that it is. 11 heinous lies conservatives are teaching America’s school children 2013-03-13T16:34:00Z

These are two of several dramas based on true stories of corporate implosions wrought by a**holery – a brand of ripped-from-the-headlines drama that plugs into America's obsession with wealthy, amoral people. "The Thing About Pam," "Super Pumped" and "The Dropout" make it official: It's A--hole Season! 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z

Other topics - color and music, for example - merit separate sections, too, making the book reader-friendly without taking away the pleasure of discovering what lies behind Scorsese's cinematic obsessions. 'Conversations with Scorsese' well worth a listen 2011-03-09T12:39:10Z

It was fascinating to observe how easily she could manipulate the poor man as his carnal attraction turned to obsession and, finally, abject desperation. Second time's the charm for 'Carmen' at Lyric 2011-03-13T23:19:23Z

Literally, in the case of his protégé Gareth Pugh, and figuratively in the lineup of other designers with a magnificent obsession for signature silhouettes and a passion for the dark side. Fashion Review: Rick Owens and a Vibe From the Tribe 2012-03-01T19:23:40Z

Here, in the fifth film in this animated series, his obsession leads him to a flying saucer and a wild ride — which accidentally results in a meteorite heading straight for Earth. Summer Movie Release Schedule 2016 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z

Spielberg was after a Boy Scout photography merit badge, while Abrams's focus was his lifelong obsession with special effects. JJ Abrams: 'I called Spielberg and he said yes' 2011-08-01T19:30:01Z

Wally’s fascination edges into obsession when she learns that the estate of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor is going on the block at Sotheby’s, where she worked before her husband forced her to quit. Movie Review: Madonna?s ?W.E.? With Andrea Riseborough and Abbie Cornish 2012-02-03T00:14:32Z

The rules are meant to counteract an "obsession" with Western holidays at the expense of Chinese ones, an official at the city's education bureau told Xinhua. Christmas banned by Chinese university, says it is kitsch 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z

One final reveal further illustrates Lindelof’s interrogation of who gets to play the American hero, why power behaves the way it does and how our obsession with legacy enforces those ideas. "Watchmen" finale: One last reveal explains all those eggs and the crushing weight of legacy 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z

King Harren the Black wanted to have the highest hall and the tallest towers in all of Westeros, and his obsession resulted in the deaths of thousands of enslaved workers. ‘House of the Dragon’: Is Larys Strong the New Littlefinger? 2022-09-26T04:00:00Z

But if you think about it, the work is also deeply connected to Modern art’s obsession with vision. Art Review: At New Museum, Brion Gysin?s First Retrospective 2010-07-29T21:21:00Z

Behind that protective curtain of sarcasm is a young woman feeling alone and exposed in the big city, fueling her true-crime obsession. "Only Murders in the Building" bridges Boomer and Millennial sensibilities for a comedy that slays 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z

Sexual obsession landed him there, and it’s also what keeps him company: the memory of his desperate, two-decade romance with Song Liling, a Beijing opera star. Your Week in Culture: Clive Owen, St. Vincent, ‘Marshall’ Before the Supreme Court 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z

It’s not long before home becomes an obsession. Translating a Book Caught Between Two Languages 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z

Luca Silvestrini is the sharpest of comic choreographers; his satires on the shallowness and obsessions of the modern world were wickedly honed in works such as Big Sale and Dear Body. LOL (Lots of Love) - review 2011-01-31T17:54:33Z

But somehow "Leap Year" uncovers an entire world, recounting a sweeping psychological narrative of a woman's descent into delusion, sexual obsession and self-destruction and then her voyage out again. Pick of the week: A dark, erotic "Leap Year" in Mexico 2011-06-24T00:30:00Z

My skinny arm complex Topics: , , , gay men, , , "Body Issues" is an ongoing personal essay series about obsessions with our own shape. My skinny arm complex 2012-12-16T01:00:00Z

Part of the reason is Beckim’s obsession with loops, his characters’ self-destructive gyre leading one to observe, “This place is like a spider’s web. You stay long enough you’ll get stuck in it for good.” Review: Stuck in Maine in ‘Nothing Gold Can Stay’ 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z

Even before food became a national obsession, with reality cooking shows drawing the attention I thought was reserved for prime-time legal dramas, I’ve imagined my family eating dinner together. Motherlode Blog: Can Breakfast Replace Family Dinner? 2011-10-29T14:28:20Z

This cultural obsession with dogs on the apps has spiraled into another problem: Daters are posting photos of pups they don’t own, to attract matches. Analysis | Dogfishing: When online daters pose with adorable pets that aren’t theirs 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z

Although it sometimes turns a bit monotonous, and, by the end, morbid, the show gives evidence of Western art’s not entirely healthy obsession with realism, as well as the resurgence of sculpture in recent decades. Real, or Too Real? A Dazzling Show Goes the Way of All Flesh 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z

Next came India, which Walton labels "a story of gross mismanagement" so inept that even MI5's misplaced obsession with Jawaharlal Nehru's supposedly communist affiliations "failed to prevent India from gravitating towards the Soviet Union". Empire of Secrets by Calder Walton – review 2013-01-31T11:00:01Z

She also described her obsession with Abraham Lincoln and how she “cleared rooms” one Thanksgiving by incessantly talking about the Civil War and Gettysburg. For Annie Leibovitz, an Opportunity to Work and Build on the Past 2023-10-20T04:00:00Z

Whatever the reason, the technique is more effective in "Listen Up Philip"; the obsession with getting right up in the actors' faces pays off. 'Listen Up Philip' is a toxic triumph 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z

She and the other acolytes harbor a mild obsession with his origins. The Mysterious ‘Parking Lot Attendant’ at the Center of a Web of Intrigue 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z

The game’s backbone remains Dynasty, the model-railroad reality that allows an unusual level of control over conference makeups and bowl berths, and properly captures the paranoia and obsession inherent in the recruiting of blue-chip talent. Video Game Reviews: Reviews: Thomas Was Alone, NCAA Football 13, The Secret World, Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance, Fieldrunners 2, Dyad 2012-08-07T16:20:18Z

"Archive 81" taps into that wistfulness and obsession. Sects, lies and videotape: "Archive 81" and the mystique of the semipermanent artifact 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z

And he created immense, vast, inhuman, impersonal cinematic machinery to embody the tiny but mighty flame of his personal obsession. The Robotic Familiarity of “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker” 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z

So what is behind the cultural obsession with turning caviar — once reserved for special occasions or splurges — into an everyday snack food, especially during a time when many people are struggling to afford basic groceries? The "Real Housewives" diet: Why we are seeing caviar everywhere when Americans can't afford eggs 2023-09-20T04:00:00Z

But every line tutor instructs tutee to repeat reveals a strange obsession with a toothy predator. Watch the Very First Sketch Performed on 'Saturday Night Live' 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z

The success of La Paulée has certainly contributed to the worldwide obsession with Burgundy, and the escalating prices. A Vintage Bash for All Things Burgundy 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z

The obsession would last the better part of 20 years. New Harvard graduate tells dad: ‘Now, I want to play Ultimate Frisbee’ 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z

The flip side of that obsession is that the gardens appear somewhat less memorable at ground level. Brazil's modern look: Why Olympic viewers should know the name Roberto Burle Marx 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z

She replies: “Oh god. Is that why you were acting like such a buffoon? This obsession has got to end!” In Hindsight, an ‘American Psycho’ Looks a Lot Like Us 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

"I don't understand the obsession with violence," he said. Brad Pitt: gangster movie Killing Them Softly reflects economic crimes 2012-05-22T21:03:32Z

And, anyway, Jackson’s business allows him to feed his own obsession. Inside the Million-Dollar Garage Of The Man Behind Barrett-Jackson Auctions 2012-12-06T15:00:00Z

In both works, the true subject is obsession: how and why it strikes us individually, what it says about us psychologically and what larger meaning we might derive from it culturally. ‘B & Me: A True Story of Literary Arousal,’ by J.C. Hallman 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

After leaving Berlin the narrator decides to pursue his obsession instead of going home. Afraid of a Lurking Evil, a Writer Goes Down the Rabbit Hole 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z

It's the latest obsession for the self-confessed adrenaline junkie, along with a prized collection of automobiles at his 80-acre Buckinghamshire estate, located west of London. Jamiroquai returns after lengthy break 2010-10-22T22:52:00Z

Her criticism of the industry is political, but she’s also saying that the American obsession with meat is plain unhealthy. “We’ve become a food culture” 2012-11-19T12:45:00Z

There's a lot of really good investigation into that and I really started to understand the complexities of not only Gary and his obsession, but Earl Van Best Jr.'s obsession with Judy. "The Most Dangerous Animal of All" asks what if your dad was the Zodiac Killer? 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z

As a young girl growing up in rural Canada, Harris dreamed of the far-off lands Polo described, igniting an obsession with the world beyond the farthest bend in the road. Need Gifts for Readers? Check Out Our Holiday Book Suggestions 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z

Her obsession even got her into trouble on the set of the CBS show “The Neighborhood,” where she plays Gemma Johnson. How ‘The Queen’s Gambit’ Is Inspiring Women to Take Up Chess 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z

Many of the underlying reasons writers and actors are revolting are related to the same tyrannical obsession with established IP despite visibly diminishing returns. "Die Hard" changed action movies in Hollywood – then it became part of the franchise problem 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z

Walter is writing a family history detailing the generational obsession with “the Accidents,” those holes in time. Review: ‘The Lost Time Accidents’ asks the big questions about where we are 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z

“It stops short of that magic line between extreme interest and obsession.” For a Biography of John Wilkes Booth, Terry Alford Turns to Amateur Researchers 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z

Her obsession is as nagging as that "la la la": an earworm of the heart. The best No 1 records: Kylie Minogue – Can't Get You Out of My Head 2012-05-31T20:11:00Z

It was both uncomfortable and exhilarating to see such obsession. Disney-esque and demented: Ti West on how his slasher flick "Pearl" compares to "Rocky Horror" 2022-10-01T04:00:00Z

Next to Pokémon, Magic: The Gathering may have been the other great cardboard obsession of the 1990s, with players of the trading card game vying for supremacy in a fantasy landscape. 11 infamous '90s school bans 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z

But I have a soft spot for unhealthy obsessions — and the Chalet was certainly that: Golia's obsession with creating a face-to-face social space and Chan's obsession with architecturally reconceiving a pair of small rooms. Follow-up: Chalet Hollywood, party in the name of art ... and alpacas 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z

The crime was so odious that it became a nationwide obsession. We?re Holding Your Plot Device. If You Want It Back, Send Us ... 2011-07-02T01:33:02Z

Like skinny jeans, or One Direction, Britain's obsession with American food is a trend that refuses to die. Haute dogs, fried pickles and savoury doughnuts: how Britain fell in love with midwestern food 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z

“That’s when the obsession started,” he said recently at his TriBeCa studio, where dozens of the machines, covered in protective Bubble Wrap, were piled in a corner. Celebrating the Stereos of the Street 2010-10-15T15:45:00Z

The lack of hardcore crime stories in a book by crime buffs may also seem a surprising turn for two women who originally bonded over a shared obsession with all things macabre. ‘My Favorite Murder’ co-hosts Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark are expanding their empire 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z

The attraction and repulsion between a would-be messiah and his apostle anchors this madcap skewering of contemporary culture packed with fake gurus, cheating spouses, junk-food obsessions and yoga. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z

It’s precisely that promise that’ll keep us tuned in when our old obsession returns for another season next January. Cultural Studies: Worshiping at the ?Idol? Church 2010-05-15T00:44:00Z

For Ms. Taichman, 46, Asch’s play has been an obsession since 1997, when she was a first-year student at the Yale School of Drama. For Paula Vogel, a Once-Banned ‘Beautiful’ Love Story Inspires Her New Play 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z

“Pages for You” — written in sensuous, lyrical prose that contrasted appealingly with its truncated, two-page chapters — was a poetic outburst of obsession and energy. Illicit Lovers, Reunited in Adulthood 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z

Mr. Othoniel, even in his earliest work, shares the high medieval obsession with beauty and death. Special Report: Contemporary Art: A French Artist's Solitary Path 2011-10-13T11:00:14Z

“The obsession with architecture as a work with a single genius — I think it’s completely out of place,” he added. Boldface Names Give Los Angeles a New Cultural Center 2022-01-02T05:00:00Z

The band combined Bell's obsession with the Beatles with Chilton's love of garage rock and folk. Big Star's third album finally gets star treatment 2011-03-23T22:16:48Z

In the States, he took sculpture classes and roamed the Midwest, reconsidering his media obsessions from up close. A Chinese Photographer’s Secret Installations Inside His Parents’ Home 2019-08-03T04:00:00Z

Chris’s obsession gives her a certain reckless power over her husband, and he knows it. A Deflated Adaptation of the Singular Cult Novel “I Love Dick” 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z

She catches the eye of a handsome new student, Rob, whose affection turns into obsession. Weekend TV: ‘Keeping Up with the Kardashians’ Season 17 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z

It’s not about the dialogue, as in a George V. Higgins or Richard Price novel; it’s about the obsession to make sure everything gets said. Stephen King Reviews Tana French’s ‘Extraordinary’ New Novel 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z

Dr. First agrees that compulsive sexual behavior is characterized by the same hallmarks as any addiction: escalation of behavior; loss of control; preoccupation and obsession; tolerance and withdrawal symptoms; and increasingly disastrous consequences. Seven signs your dating a sex addict 2012-09-07T14:31:00Z

Not sure why I felt compelled to share this with you, except to maybe purge my obsession. How I Got Caught Up in a Global Romance Scam 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z

He sounds persuasive, though he says he hasn't stolen a coat since 2009, having sought treatment for what he calls an "obsession". Coat-stealing isn't art, Mike Ballard 2010-10-10T21:30:00Z

It’s a scene that speaks to this novel’s obsession with social class. ‘All the King’s Men,’ Now 70, Has a Touch of 2016 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z

It became an obsession, one that delighted him and made him dance and play air sax, air guitar and air banjo in his basement. Joe Bussard, Obsessive Collector of Rare Records, Dies at 86 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z

Mr. Adjaye also spoke about his thinking behind the museum, his obsession with the Benin Bronzes and his view on the debate around returning items to Africa from Western museums. A New Museum to Bring the Benin Bronzes Home 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z

The reason for the obsession is simple: The Killing is brilliant, the best thing on television for yonks. The weekend's TV: The Killing 2011-03-26T23:15:01Z

I think a movie's like a paella," he laughs, "you put all of your obsessions in there. Pablo Berger: 'A movie's like a paella, you put all of your obsessions in there' 2013-07-11T13:58:00Z

Combined with the warnings about the virus, the comment sparked an obsession with germs. The hellish side of handwashing: how coronavirus is affecting people with OCD 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z

Part of that obsession with safety is likely due to the hard times that both Generation Z members and their parents experienced during their formative years. Move Over, Millennials, Here Comes Generation Z 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z

His films reflect something bigger than the practical details of one person’s life; they represent an effort to capture the fullness of an inner world, a lifetime’s range of obsessions and mysteries. Postscript: Jacques Rivette 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z

She only saw a therapist to keep a shopping obsession in check and because it’s New York; you are required to have a metro card and access to therapy at all times. My double life in therapy 2013-01-15T01:00:00Z

After seeing the documentary "Truth or Dare," my Madonna obsession escalated. Madonna, my partner in aging 2011-04-21T20:01:00Z

As a living presence, Flora’s extreme annoyingness stemmed from her obsession with all things Indigenous, as well as her claim that she was “an Indian in a former life.” Louise Erdrich’s ‘The Sentence’ Considers the (Literally) Haunting Power of Books 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z

I expect a similar obsession by young kids made Frozen the number one album for 13 weeks. Why We're So Obsessed With Distorting Disney Princesses 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z

Germans' fetish-like obsession with uniforms during the Nazi era, as well as issues such as how the established churches so readily fell in line, are closely explored. Germany's first Hitler exhibition opens in nervous Berlin museum 2010-10-14T15:39:00Z

“Larry King Live” was a type of show that would feel foreign on cable news today, given its obsession with hard-nosed political combat. From presidents to faded stars, all welcomed by Larry King 2021-01-23T05:00:00Z

The obsession is almost contradictory, because you start to love the self-hatred a little bit. Jessica Valenti: my life as a ‘sex object’ 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z

There is also in this music a seeming preoccupation with the past — the analogue sound world near past and the mythic past — as well as an obsession with the digital present. With Jóhann Jóhannssson and Bedroom Community, L.A. Phil tries to break through the Icelandic cliches 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z

At the end, the woman who found Osama also finds an end to her sacred obsession. First Review of Zero Dark Thirty: The Girl Who Got bin Laden 2012-11-25T05:01:38Z

I’m even going to one: I’m taking my cousin’s 5-year-old son to PNB’s “Cinderella,” which I hope is nothing more or less than a gateway to future obsessions and delights, whatever they may be. Seattle stages will soon be packed with princesses. Is that a problem? 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z

I was a mother, and a single mom at that, and I know that cinema is a demanding lover that requires a kind of obsession. The Carpetbagger: A Mexican Director, a Maori Tale 2013-12-06T13:30:46Z

Lithe, pale, clad in form-fitting leather and PVC, Trinity and Keanu Reeves’s Neo formed two androgynous halves of a heroic whole in a tale of man vs. machine that became a worldwide cultural obsession. Carrie-Anne Moss on the ‘Matrix’ Movies and Playing an Action Hero in Her 50s 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z

So yes, I became bored and confused by what three years ago had been something of an obsession – with the BBC's bizarre scheduling not helping. I've finally lost track of Heroes ? but then, so has the BBC 2010-04-30T11:42:00Z

It’s always been an adolescent obsession to be an American actor. Lambert Wilson: A Man of New Faith 2010-12-06T14:30:00Z

The running bit is likely a response to the internet's obsession with actor Kit Harington's height. Jon Snow's Height Is the Best Running Joke on 'Game of Thrones' Season 7 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z

This is, in short, a work of obsession. A Writer Shakes Her Family Tree, and Cherishes Every Leaf 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z

Because as we were saying yesterday, news travels so fast now, it's impossible to keep secrets or harbour private obsessions for long. New band of the day ? No 784: 1,2,3 2010-05-12T14:50:00Z

If and when you finish that, I insist you get some other obsession. Perspective | What to watch when you’ve seen everything else? Oh, now you want to hear from the TV critic. 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z

The beach, while interesting as a 20th-century and postwar phenomenon — and particularly as a local obsession — is not, in his hands, the stuff of great art history. | Long Island: A Review of ‘Eric Fischl: Beach Life,’ in East Hampton 2012-09-22T05:19:13Z

What started as a hobby became an obsession. Tina Barney: The Photographer’s Origin Story 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z

Someone who, even without any substance, had a blind affection for Pete, almost an obsession with him. ArtsBeat: Matthew Weiner Discusses the ‘Mad Men’ Season Finale 2013-06-24T06:00:54Z

The discovery stokes Tom’s obsession, and he goes to extravagant lengths to solve the case. Movie Review | 'Stolen': Jon Hamm in Anders Anderson?s Kidnapping Drama 2010-03-12T00:56:00Z

A tale of obsession, of righteous conviction which obliterates compassion and the effect this has upon the psyche of each man, Torquemada explores the inner truths of the human soul. Theresa Breslin's top 10 books about the Spanish inquisition 2010-03-24T12:48:00Z

All they share is their obsession with themselves, and sharing their every move on smartphones. ‘See You’ Review: Influencers With Followers, Not Souls 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z

Obama made light of Republicans’ obsession with border security with a joke about moats and alligators. Border fence’s devastating toll 2012-09-18T22:00:00Z

The masses have called out for a president known for duplicity, covering up inappropriate and even racist comments, and an obsession with the media’s opinion about certain anatomical shortcomings. What would a Trump presidency look like? Just ask Veep's Selina Meyer 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z

To Millie’s grown children, this obsession with her dead Lorenzo’s heart looks like stubborn grief for a man who mistreated her for years. Review: ‘Exquisite Agony,’ a Heart-to-Heart With a Dead Man 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z

What were formerly small differences of style are becoming amplified as filmmakers go deeper into their own obsessions and cultivate a surer and more complex technique to realize them. A Generational Shift in Independent Filmmaking, at the 2017 Maryland Film Festival 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z

Learning more about fungi — and getting to know the habits and the obsessions of other people who are fascinated by them — changed the author’s perspective on perseverance and grief. Are Mushrooms Our Friends? 2023-03-11T05:00:00Z

Pontiac Firebirds were a special obsession for a decade of my life. As we enter the summer of the statecation, it’s time we updated our expectations of the ‘Great American Road Trip’ 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z

For me, the obsession started with a humble bean stew called lobio. A Complex Red Bean Stew From Georgia 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z

At one point, van Gogh’s obsession grew so deep that he began to see echoes of Japan in the landscape and lifestyle of Provence. The Hunt for Clarity About van Gogh’s Last Days Leads to Maine 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z

Video is ethereal, delicate, easily changed or ruined — the perfect house for our obsessions. Sects, lies and videotape: "Archive 81" and the mystique of the semipermanent artifact 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z

Opened in 1899, this was Mackintosh’s only church, and another excellent example of his obsession with natural symbols, which I found everywhere, as if on an architectural treasure hunt. A Glasgow Architect’s Masterpiece Is Damaged, but Not His Magic 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z

But the growing number and lasting appeal of reality shows about fertility and babies reflect a particularly contemporary obsession. Television: ... And Baby Makes Reality TV 2011-01-21T17:40:59Z

Before my child's "Star Wars" obsession and the nightly quiz game that kept me on my toes, before "The Mandalorian," I mostly remembered Boba Fett as the action figure everybody wanted and nobody could find. The best scenes in "The Book of Boba Fett" are silent 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z

Logan fumes at his children and top board members when they question his obsession with PGM and his determination to double down on a future in media. Review | Satire? Wallow? There’s no right way to watch ‘Succession’ — hating it works, too. 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z

That said, and while I have greatly enjoyed some of his books, I find his obsessions tiresome. No Longer Writing, Philip Roth Still Has Plenty to Say 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z

Yes, "The Social Network" is about Facebook, and business, and genius, and tactics, and the class system, and filmmakers' undying obsession with "Citizen Kane." "The Social Network": A modern horror film 2010-10-04T18:01:00Z

It is an obsession vividly demonstrated by his model for City Hall Tower, a spiralling double helix based on Francis Crick and James Watson's discovery of DNA in 1953. Louis Kahn: the brick whisperer 2013-02-26T21:00:02Z

“I’m tired of the art market as a sort of obsession,” Mr. Weber said. Delivering Fresh Attention to Josef Albers 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z

This is all, the Semlers acknowledge, a bold move in newly rich Brazil, where brand names are an obsession and “luxury” is synonymous with “highly visible.” Brazil's Mountain Palace: Botanique 2013-03-28T11:00:00Z

Did “Homeland’s” Carrie essentially abandon her baby for her career obsessions? NBC’s ‘State of Affairs’ and the women on Washington’s last nerve

I guess I like watches, but that's kind of a 19th century obsession. Q&A: Actor David Duchovny 2010-04-16T08:50:00Z

"The Boys" turns our superhero and celebrity obsession back on us by pointing out how susceptible we are to cults of personality, and how easily claims of promoting law and order are covers for fascism. Netflix's self-serious "Jupiter's Legacy" is the superhero TV version of a Designer Imposter stinker 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z

The three siblings, who flee Russia-occupied Finland for the United States, are archetypal figures, signifying America’s obsessions with God, money and politics. Review | ‘Deep River’ bucks every literary trend, and that’s what makes it so charming 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z

Perhaps my elitism is what has kept me from being one, believing myself to be above the kind of middlebrow obsession that fandom demands. I was a music snob, until I fell for One Direction 2012-10-25T17:33:00Z

You’re driven by obsession, you’re running around, doing battle against chaos — but at the same time you have to help maintain a bubble of concentration for your actors and crew. | Advice From, and For, First-Time Filmmakers 2014-04-24T22:25:15Z

When I think of our modernist history through the 20th century, and I think of maybe Giacometti, and I think of Joseph Beuys — I think their obsessions are very macho. Two Pioneering Artists Discuss Motherhood and Machismo 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z

To be the best, it takes passion, sacrifice” — dramatic pause — “and obsession.” ‘Break Pointe,’ a CW Reality Show About Ballet West Dancers 2012-05-29T22:07:57Z

The fashion world’s obsession with tennis is reciprocal. The Buzz: A-list Dinners, Parties and Events During New York Fashion Week 2013-09-04T21:09:38Z

As her fantasy obsession collides with reality, she rejects the expectations of those around her and chooses what, to her, seems like the higher path. The ‘Dutchman’ flies again at Seattle Opera, with a feminist twist 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z

Episodes aren’t ordered by theme, but some of Robinson’s apparent obsessions – mudpies and skeletons in particular – manage to cluster together from time to time. I Think You Should Leave: is this the funniest Netflix show yet? 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z

His picture in Eastbourne of Lisa Lyon seen from behind, her torso bound and spinal column deeply etched, is a homage to the Renaissance sculptor and his obsession with backs. Robert Mapplethorpe: sexual terrorist 2010-09-21T21:00:00Z

But his obsession with cricket led to one of the great moments in his work. ‘Tom Stoppard’ Tells of an Enormous Life Spent in Constant Motion 2021-02-15T05:00:00Z

The beauty of boring obsessions is their simplicity. From stationery fiends to hand dryer enthusiasts… who are you calling boring? 2014-08-30T04:00:00Z

Between our demonstrated addiction to the true crime doc format and this murder’s 20th anniversary hook, the tabloid obsession to end all tabloid obsessions is being served up buffet style. Attack of the clones: Four new JonBenét Ramsey shows jump on the true-crime TV bandwagon 2016-09-04T04:00:00Z

David’s obsession is a harbinger for the rest of the collection. First He Imagined a Town Founded by Rebel Slaves. Now He’s Exploring the Lives There. 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z

Greenaway has directed around sixty films, often delving into themes such as obsession, death, guilt and sex. Greenaway Wins Stockholm Film Festival Award 2013-10-22T14:09:29Z

Her obsession with these cases has driven away the man she loves, and has her drinking far too much, but she can’t stop. ‘The Killing Lessons’ review: A thriller for abnormal psychologists 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z

“Even in our final hour/See the beauty in the dying flower,” Dan Auerbach sings in the bridge, but the obsession isn’t over; the song ends with the narrator still wondering, “How long?” My Chemical Romance’s Prog-Emo Surprise, and 12 More New Songs 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z

This is his latest cooking obsession, and if left to his own devices he’ll cook all the salami we have and then go hide in his room and eat a giant pile of it. Peanut butter beautiful 2017-05-07T04:00:00Z

Here, Bresson admits to an obsession with what he calls the “the real” and says that “fake lighting is as treacherous as fake dialogue.” Review: Bresson and the Elliptical Economies of a Master Filmmaker 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z

In a video interview, Abraham said that the tone and mood of the new piece were partly inspired by his childhood obsession with the Prince film “Under the Cherry Moon.” Kyle Abraham’s Second Act at City Ballet: Spare, Wintry, Abstract 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z

Selected as the closing-night feature in last fall’s New York Film Festival, “Miles Ahead” is an obvious labor of love, born out of Cheadle’s lifelong obsession with Davis’ groundbreaking music and troubled personal life. Don Cheadle on playing the drug-addled Miles Davis in “Miles Ahead,” and the toxic costs of Hollywood racism 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z

During the five years he tended bar at Death and Company, his interest became an obsession. | Quaffable Cocktails That Get Their Flavor From Surprising (and Surprisingly Obtainable) Ingredients 2014-05-08T22:20:23Z

It’s an obsession on some level, and obviously as an American and a voter, it’s important to be aware of. Nick Jonas on His New Sound, Gay Fans and 'Complicated' Year 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z

Isn’t our era’s obsession with youth a form of mass hysteria? | Miuccia Prada’s Circle of Influence 2013-05-27T13:00:48Z

A wise and witty novel that follows the diverging lives and linguistic obsessions of identical twin sisters who struggle to figure out who they are on their own and in relationship to each other. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z

Plus, a serious debate on the industry's obsession with skeletal girls is long overdue. Punk spirit lives on in Paris, with Gaultier show 2010-10-03T00:16:00Z

The occasion for his romantic obsession, which somehow doesn’t feel neurotic, is a pretty clear-cut case of two inward people playing emotional hide-and-seek out of habit. Movie Review: ‘An Oversimplification of Her Beauty,’ by Terence Nance 2013-04-25T23:38:53Z

In the 1940s, actress Tallulah Bankhead had something like an obsession with Holiday. ‘Billie Holiday: The Musician and the Myth’ by John Szwed 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

This unpacking of Dylan’s memoir, and the increased scrutiny given to his recent albums, is a reminder that Dylan’s work has always been spurred on by his own fannish, idiosyncratic obsessions. Bob Dylan, Fanboy 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z

As the monstrous, tragic, annoying, delusional Rupert Pupkin, he is utterly transfixing, and his unhinged obsession with the cult of celebrity made the film hugely prescient. Robert De Niro: five best moments 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z

And my obsession with musical theater is growing. Sophie Hannah: By the Book 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z

Then there is the eternal obsession with interiors in her films. Nancy Meyers: ‘I don’t see a lot of movies about complicated women … I think it’s gotten worse’ 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z

Their youngest selves are played initially by puppets, then seamlessly succeeded by the adult actors Lucy McCormick and Liam Tamne, who bring a roiling chemistry to what will become Catherine and Heathcliff’s desperate mutual obsession. Review: In This ‘Wuthering Heights,’ Music, Moors and Untamed Spirits 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z

I can remember the exact moment my obsession began. Why Jack the Ripper and other serial killer narratives endure 2021-07-10T04:00:00Z

Within songs, he was the picture of passionate obsession; between them, he was soft-spoken down to a barely audible mumble. Benjamin Clementine Performs at Rough Trade 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z

These are stories that, in their obsession with class and money, can't help but tangle with the illicit sources of wealth. Stranger fiction 2011-08-01T11:53:49Z

Jon still has not told his lover about his secret obsession and this, along with her suggestion that he attend night school, is what moves the story to the next level. Sundance film festival 2013: Don Jon's Addiction - first look review 2013-01-21T17:03:51Z

“It’s worth acknowledging that actors aren’t passive victims of a global obsession with image,” she wrote. Red carpet coverage doesn’t have to be sexist 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z

A white graphic T-shirt featuring the “Peanuts” character Snoopy has become an object of obsession online. Want This Snoopy T-Shirt? You’ll Have to Pay in Blood. 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z

Looking to the future, Ms. Shamoun wonders where our obsession with social media celebrities will take us in “Mass.” 6 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z

Spontaneous thought, they say, is the opposite of rumination or obsession. Dirt-Road America 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z

She points an accusing finger at the Times, especially for its obsession with the email story it first broke. Perspective | Hillary Clinton thinks the news media was unfair to her. She’s right. 2017-10-08T04:00:00Z

Mr. Rand exudes the energetic zeal of a college professor pondering his own private obsessions. | 'Panic! Euphoria! Blackout': Wall Street: 60 Goats and a Soft Shoe 2010-10-14T22:43:00Z

And you have to acknowledge my obsession with “All My Friends” by LCD Soundsystem as a song throughout my whole career. The 1975’s Matty Healy Is Still Trying to Be Funny, Sincerely 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z

Everyone seems to indulge in the driest of sherries and an unquenchable obsession with thinly sliced ham. Sevilla’s April Fair: Spain’s sparkling spring spectacle 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z

Kraus’s entire body of work betrays an abiding obsession with context; one can easily imagine the desire to escape it. This Female Consciousness: On Chris Kraus 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z

The Batman obsession led me to fret, because – Superman aside – these heroes are bad role models. 'These men are bad role models': will my son get over his superhero obsession? 2018-11-10T05:00:00Z

This cinematic obsession is mainly a product of their isolated adolescence but it gives their songs a macabre edge. Drenge on boredom, teenage rage and being Tom Watson MP's favourite band 2013-07-25T15:56:00Z

Towering figures, abstracted skulls, muscular limbs—these are the images most closely associated with artist Thomas Houseago, whose brute sculptures are a current obsession of top collectors the world over. Thomas Houseago Unveils His Latest Show at Hauser & Wirth 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z

And through this weird obsession with this mystery that lands in their lap, find a life raft in each other. "Only Murders in the Building" co-creator on how Jane Lynch became Charles' stand-in 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z

The Pakistan-born comic, actor and writer spent his formative years huddled in his bedroom playing Golden Axe on his Sega Genesis, and becoming immersed to the point of obsession with The X-Files. Kumail Nanjiani: 'For a long time, there was one famous American brown actor' 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z

“What’s this with the birth certificate obsession? Did he ask to see yours when you met him?” asked TV interviewer Joy Behar. Inside Melania Trump’s complicated White House life: Separate schedule, different priorities 2018-05-06T04:00:00Z

Saldana also studied jazz, modern and Latin dance, but ballet was her obsession. These 18 movie stars are also amazing dancers. That’s their real superpower. 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z

And ever since sixth grade, I had an obsession with Billy the Kid. Meet Chanelle Benz, whose debut book is 'The Man Who Shot Out My Eye Is Dead' 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z

I’ve been writing, with love and obsession, about their films, for the same reason. A Cassavetes/Rowlands Series at Metrograph 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z

What if my obsession had been a sign of callow youth? A Movie Date With My Younger Self 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z

The most recent obsession just prior to the egg project was duct tape wallets, a perfect storm of pretty and pragmatic that lasted for a good few years. The craft that consumed me 2012-08-10T14:59:00Z

There are also the Seinfeldean coinages and obsessions, but pushed forward and highlighted in a way that feels both self-aware and inept. 'Mulaney' feels more than a bit like 'Seinfeld' 2014-10-04T04:00:00Z

My obsession with dips knows no bounds, which is why Trader Joe's refrigerated varieties are unsurprisingly a staple in my weekly dipping rotation. Trader Joe’s 11 best dips for better snacking 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z

Although I didn’t come close to matching her record, I understood her obsession. ‘Diana’s Altar’ by Barbara Cleverly beckons fans of P.D. James 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z

By all accounts, American’s obsession with pillows has been eagerly midwifed by the hotel industry. This Life: The Pillow Explosion Buries America 2012-02-11T01:08:02Z

The media’s obsession with all things Trump eventually developed a matryoshka doll quality. Trump predicted news ratings would ‘tank if I’m not there.’ He wasn’t wrong. 2021-03-22T04:00:00Z

It wasn’t a single photo, or album, or post that ignited my obsession with Paula, but I found myself checking her page daily. Her Facebook disaster show 2012-11-20T01:00:00Z

In his early columns, Aletti flagged important releases, highlighted his own personal obsessions and discoveries, and shared news tidbits. The First Days of Disco 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z

What Price chose to surround himself with tells us about his obsessions, his affections, and perhaps even his perception of himself. 'Dream of a House' tours the eclectic home of writer Reynolds Price 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z

Or there’s her role as Eve in Belle & Sebastian musical God Help The Girl, whose obsession with pop music is coupled with a severe eating disorder. Emily Browning: ‘Hollywood movies are made for white men’ 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z

I will share your frustration in terms of sort of our culture's obsession with celebrity for stupid reasons. “They don't realize how deeply racial bias permeates”: Central Park birder on where liberals fail 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z

They seem to be still digesting it, as well as everyone’s current obsession, “Making a Murderer.” Golden Globes 2016: Live Updates 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z

The film, which won several Oscars, including honors for its art direction and music, glows in Technicolor, an appropriate fit for this whimsical tale of temptation, passion, obsession and sacrifice. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Dancing With the Stars’ and the Soul Train Awards 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z

She inspires disgust, fascination, obsession, sin; she is sexual in that religious way that doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with sex: she is constantly and thoroughly moralized. Is “shiksa” an insult? 2013-03-06T17:20:00Z

Madness brings him horror, obsession, compassion and much more; yet it does not cause his death. They’ve Come Undone: Giselle, Lucia and Romantic Madness 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z

This year's model: Emma Woolf argues that our modern obsession with being slim has got out of control. The Ministry of Thin by Emma Woolf – review 2013-06-01T14:45:03Z

Then there’s the artistic-appropriation obsession, which can become a bit dizzying, in part because Baumbach is also heavily into homages, references, and parallels to other movies. Noah Baumbach, Kicking and Screaming Into Middle Age 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z

While his pub-rock legacy became something of an obsession for rock connoisseurs and historians, Mr. Johnson experienced an unlikely career renaissance after his 2013 cancer scare. Wilko Johnson, Scorching Guitarist and Punk Pioneer, Dies at 75 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z

Final Broadway performances are something of a personal obsession. 12 Surprising Reasons to Be Grateful for the Arts in 2017 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z

Ignoring her husband’s warning that she’s developing an unhealthy obsession with Flora and her family, Beth keeps snooping into her friend’s life and eventually blunders into dangerous territory. The Scenes of the Crimes: Landfalls, Stadiums and Creepy Blogs 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z

Yet its description of a society seized by its worst impulses, enacting the repressed hatreds and nightmarish obsessions of its inhabitants, felt more familiar the more I considered it. In a Brutal Chinese Satire, Villagers Surrender to Their Worst Impulses 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z

The clan of six is both close-knit and dissociated by the privacy of their individual obsessions. A Trove of Continental Fiction Explores Loss 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z

There is, however, a real distinction between Taylor and contemporary obsessions, such as Chantelle from Big Brother – namely, a measure of talent. In praise of ... Elizabeth Taylor 2011-03-24T00:01:02Z

The unpleasant fact is that an obsession with identity is, finally, self-indulgent. Donor siblings: do the ties of blood matter? 2017-01-21T05:00:00Z

His obsession, he says, is not grounded in anything more than simple intrigue and a gene for collecting. His collection of 8,000 Toby Jugs became a museum 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z

But, as I was soon to learn after meeting Christina, surviving and living are not the same, and these routine obsessions, which seemed normal to me for so long, would now have to become obsolete. Now we are three: me, my daughter and my new fiancee 2013-07-20T08:00:00Z

Most of London’s immigrant population shares the same obsession: the city’s economic hierarchy. Beyond the glitter 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z

Once the photographer’s cameras and lights were packed up, Thede sat down to talk about her dedication to helping Black women level up and the adorable obsession that helps keep her grounded. Robin Thede Is on a Mission 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z

Each room of the exhibition opens with a different work featuring a mother and child, a subject that Moore called his "fundamental obsession." Dark side of sculptor Henry Moore on show in London 2010-02-22T20:22:00Z

And his obsession with “bibbits,” invisible bugs he saw on the tablecloth, the blankets, his pajamas. On Death and Dignity 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z

The combination of star power, sensational details and cameras in the courtroom turned the trial into an internet obsession. Johnny Depp Jury Finds That Amber Heard Defamed Him in Op-Ed 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z

In short, the BBC’s “Sherlock” doesn’t treat guns like guns; it treats them like in-jokes that poke cheeky fun at the American obsession with guns. What TV gets wrong about guns 2014-02-14T23:30:00Z

At the end of your excursion through “Underground,” you are unlikely to partake in Hunt’s longtime obsession. A Deep Dive Into the ‘Underground’ World of Caves and Tunnels 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z

Fictional Gotham is still an extremely dangerous city, and yet we keep getting films and comics and TV shows based on this wealthy grown man's obsession. It's time to cancel Batman — for good 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z

Relocating the saga from its California base sounds promising, not least because it might signal an end to the constant obsession with Judgment Day that has arguably ruined each episode since T2. Search and destroy: can James Cameron revive the Terminator by killing its past? 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z

He has an obsession with anatomy, with deformity and decay. ‘The Antiquarian,’ a Macabre Novel About a Search for Truth 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z

I have a bit of an obsession with Gilgamesh, the earliest surviving work of literature, which comes to us in fragments. By the Book: Julia Alvarez 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z

To be fair, while Mr. Daisey’s particular obsession is the product line of the Apple corporation, the ethical problems he explores are not exclusive to owners of MacBooks and iPods. | 'The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs': ?The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs? ? Review 2011-10-18T02:01:31Z

Eventually, I turned this obsession into a book. Christoph Niemann’s “Father’s Day Off” 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z

What is this Christian right obsession with abortion? Trump's Christian right worships power more than they worship God 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z

Bercot portrayed a woman trying to break free of an obsession with a man who routinely abandons her during times of need. Top honor at Cannes goes to story of Sri Lankan immigrants in France 2015-05-24T04:00:00Z

Ruhl and I both shared the obsession of “not being able to smile fully back” at our babies and the worry that a broken face would impact their emotional growth. Review | Playwright Sarah Ruhl lost a vital part of her self, but her story is one of acceptance and hope 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z

Bruner, 35, cheerfully acknowledges never having put aside his childhood obsessions. He’d Always Been Thundercat, Whether He Knew It or Not 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z

Marvel’s habit of de-ageing its veteran Hollywood stars is now something of an obsession. Act your age: why Marvel is obsessed with digitally de-ageing Hollywood stars 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z

Her new book, “The Heart Goes Last,” which comes out on Tuesday, grew out of her obsession with new forms of digital narrative. Margaret Atwood, Digital Deep-Diver, Writes ‘The Heart Goes Last’ 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z

Numbers are an obsession, and I’m incapable of turning the fixation off. The brain injury that made me a math genius 2014-04-20T19:00:00Z

He’s made his money in high-tech drones, a fact that feeds this book’s obsession with surveillance. Guerrilla Gardeners Meet Billionaire Doomsayer. Hurly-Burly Ensues. 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z

Rather, the painters seemed to share an obsession with isolation. Steve Martin Adds ‘Curator’ to His Wild and Crazy Résumé 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z

But elsewhere The Next Day offers what you might call an index of Bowiean obsessions. David Bowie: The Next Day 2013-02-25T16:48:23Z

In some cases, it is just a way to find comfort, to ease the mental burden of irrational obsessions that a loved one might die, or that something dreadful will happen to them. The hellish side of handwashing: how coronavirus is affecting people with OCD 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z

The new wave of contouring has a lot to do with the current style obsession with the 1990s. Contouring Is Back. It’s Not What You Remember. 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z

Dalrymple was drawn into this obsession in the first place in part because of a family angle. William Dalrymple: a life in writing 2013-01-19T10:00:01Z

His current obsession is with building a hammam at the edge of the garden. T Magazine: The Aesthetes 2014-04-11T18:32:15Z

He said it became “an obsession, a compulsive behavior,” and that he wanted to feel as if he were still a part of the industry. Why Would Someone Steal Unpublished Manuscripts? 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z

The current obsession over digital formats is a distraction. At the International Festival of Authors 2010-10-25T15:17:00Z

“We are avoiding the traditional marketing strategies of biennials, with their obsession with numbers and the use of names as brands,” said Mr. Pedrosa of Brazil. In Transit Blog: Istanbul Biennial: One Location, Many Attitudes 2011-09-15T10:00:03Z

Her book isn't just an ode to bluefin — it's about humankind's obsession with them, a fixation as old as our species. In bluefin tuna, fisheries science is never neat 2023-08-02T04:00:00Z

Your eating and exercise obsessions, secret binges, and occasional purges can’t possibly be signs of an eating disorder. Perspective | The overlooked crisis of eating disorders among middle-aged women 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z

Disney posted record earnings last week thanks to the ongoing Frozen obsession: it’s second quarter net profit is up 27 percent. 7 Ways Frozen Has Taken Over Your Life 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

For Perry, though, she sees the current obsession with vinyl as an exercise in misguided nostalgia and a giant step backwards. It’s an eternal parenting question: How can I get my kids to listen to ‘good’ music? 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z

In fact, it’s time to stop it with the obsession of reuniting old sitcoms altogether. Friends reunion: let it go, it's never going to happen 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

That may come as a surprise to fans of Mr. DeLillo’s much-acclaimed book, which is about the American obsession with and denial of death and is often described as a cornerstone of postmodern fiction. Review: The Lists We Live by in Daniel Fish’s ‘White Noise’ 2019-09-22T04:00:00Z

The 25 books on display evince a familiar old-fashioned style — think “Mutt and Jeff” or “Blondie” — distinguished by robust penciling and a cumulative air of obsession. Outsider Art 2017: A Top 10 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z

One of the stories that garnered a lot of attention was about Ivy League obsession. Amy Astley on teens, models and fashion 2010-12-01T17:40:00Z

Sure, their exclusivity was always alluring, but their shifting architectural styles were now something of an obsession, as my other, pre-pandemic pastimes became verboten. In the Pandemic Present, a Literary Tour of Greenwich Village’s Past 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z

Jodorowsky's obsessions are still in force: spirited amputees, circus performers, blood, alchemy and buffoonish authority. Jodorowsky's 'Dance of Reality' keeps his childhood surreal 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

The man has a point – personally, I'm sick to the back teeth of Hollywood's current obsession with war eagles – but is he really right about this being the worst era of film-making in history? The Billy Bob Thornton question: is this really cinema's darkest age? 2010-12-03T12:11:00Z

Frankly I find this news to be not only absurd, but proof of a problem that is indicative of Hollywood's obsession with trying to remake art by people of color, into their own white image. Hollywood, please stop adapting K-dramas. It's not just unnecessary, it's racist 2021-12-19T05:00:00Z

But I really feel that the obsession with maintaining youth, and staying in a youthful mindset, can be really damaging and really limit the experiences that are open to you as a human being. "I'm a Scottish witch, I think": Shirley Manson on the prescient lyrics in Garbage's dark new album 2021-06-12T04:00:00Z

A less well documented English obsession, in fact one of which I've only recently become aware, is our fascination with ghosts. Why are the English obsessed with ghosts? 2010-10-16T23:06:00Z

Hurwitz professes an enduring interest in vigilante justice — he developed an obsession with the Punisher in middle school and more recently wrote several issues of that comic for Marvel. Gregg Hurwitz is full of thrilling, erudite contradictions 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

“Twin Peaks,” meanwhile, has always been an extension of Lynch’s imagination and obsession with absurdist quirk and retro form. “Twin Peaks”: Can a classic succeed at being happening again? 2017-05-20T04:00:00Z

How does she deal with the obsession around body image? Funny, messy and real: why Sharon Horgan is the most watchable woman on TV 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z

The majority of Layden’s characters come from privilege and wealth, some groomed from birth to attend this boarding school, and even non-legacy students describe Atwater with a devotion that borders on obsession. Welcome to Boarding School. Are You Safe Here? Good Question. 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z

The music here reflects not only that openness and interplay, but the blissful serenity — and, sometimes, obsession — of the times. A jazz retrieval, a Beatles translation & Cat Stevens redux | New recordings 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z

"Jupiter's Legacy" may yet say something more profound that hasn't already been said about popular culture's unquenchable obsession over god-like figures and protectors. Netflix's self-serious "Jupiter's Legacy" is the superhero TV version of a Designer Imposter stinker 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z

Note the sudden swerve from world-historical grandiosity to consumerist banality; the attempt to camouflage sincere confusion with winking insouciance; the obsession with generalizing a personal experience. Gen X Has a Midlife Crisis 2010-05-08T18:21:00Z

But Chris Carter, a founder of Alien Workshop, recalls how Pitre began skipping shoots to play bass or study his indie rock obsessions, My Bloody Valentine and Dinosaur Jr. How a Pro Skateboarder Became an Apostle of Ancient Tuning 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z

Fast food's latest fashion obsession further illustrates how more brands are appealing to their younger consumers. Why are so many fast food brands obsessed with bucket hat merch? 2023-04-15T04:00:00Z

They sang about obsession and, in the band’s most recent single, money troubles. ArtsBeat: SXSW 2014: Jungle Unmasked, Sort Of 2014-03-12T15:25:00Z

In either case, I liked Will’s weirdly overconfident smirk and his obsession with WordPress. Modern Love: Even in Real Life, There Were Screens Between Us 2011-04-28T23:32:19Z

This is choreography that generates obsession; for decades now, I’ve hated to miss a performance. Dance This Week: Misty Copeland, the Royal Ballet and Ashton’s ‘Cinderella’ 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z

His obsession with being a substitute father causes a long dry spell in his composing: Beethoven Is More Intimate Than Ever in New Poems 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z

These are also leaders whose methods reshaped culture, and whose obsession with profit strains against the operating philosophies of an economically challenged fourth estate. Maybe Jon Hamm's billionaire act on "The Morning Show" is doing rich men like Elon Musk a favor 2023-09-12T04:00:00Z

People often "form morbid cringe obsessions" with targets that are "a symbol of something they hate about themselves, something they're ashamed of," Wynn theorizes. Chrissy Teigen and Alison Roman's fight reveals a deep well of women's insecurity about cooking 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z

Marco Tronchetti Provera, the chief executive of Pirelli, wrote in an email that the calendar’s purpose is “to mark the passing of time” by capturing the issues or obsessions that define it. The Pirelli Calendar Finally Makes Women Subjects Instead of Objects 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z

Italian satire spurred by one man's obsession with Big Brother. This week's new films 2013-03-16T06:00:06Z

James Joyce, explaining his obsession with chronicling the inhabitants and the landscape of his native Dublin, once noted that “in the particular is contained the universal.” The Uneasy Mirror: Ron Mueck’s Super-Freaky, Hyperrealist Sculptures 2013-05-03T09:45:21Z

Buoyed by Instagram, his generation’s obsession with houseplants is growing faster and more tenaciously than English ivy. Meet the Plantfluencers 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z

Their obsession with sex and social issues results largely from a futile attempt to enforce rigid gender stereotypes, using shame to punish those who don't conform. A Conservative Catholic Begs the Pope: Lead Us Not Into Temptation 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z

The mom's checking out with her obsession around her living son, and the sister's obsessing about her brother and work. Kyra Sedgwick knows we're obsessed with her marriage to Kevin Bacon: "I totally feel pressure" 2023-04-14T04:00:00Z

The obsession with rearing things by hand is what led her to housewares. Ann Demeulemeester Doesn’t Miss Fashion at All. She Has Other Plans. 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z

Within the loose framework provided by its obsessions, the narrative often appears random and undeveloped, undiscriminating in its choice of material and reluctant to give fictive shape to the important matters it touches on. The Divine Comedy by Craig Raine ? review 2012-02-10T22:35:01Z

Nadia is more original, a character pasted together out of disdain for the current obsession with all things local, homemade and beautifully photographed, and some of the many jokes at her expense are strained. ‘The Dish’ at Capital Fringe Festival serves up a decent amount of satire

The latter event started a worldwide Napa Valley wine obsession that continues today. How a world-class chef blossomed in Napa Valley: The French Laundry turns 25 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z

Dealing with his oddities and caring for her small brother Tug seems not much stranger than her friend Marcus's obsession with Hollywood movies. Children's fiction prize book club: Moon Pie 2011-07-29T14:35:17Z

My hunch is that it was that obsession, rather than any kind of innate talent or training, that allowed me to realize that ambition. Adrian Tomine’s “Fourth Wall” 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z

His current obsession is in behavioural psychology; he has become an avid student of the work of Daniel Kahneman. Google and the future of search: Amit Singhal and the Knowledge Graph 2013-01-19T21:59:00Z

Books were scarce in his house, but Mr. Hill’s parents indulged his obsession with the Choose Your Own Adventure series. Nathan Hill Is Compared to John Irving. Irving Compares Him to Dickens. 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z

It's simple, but one of my favorite ways to eat it is slathered on a good hunk of bread, so I decided to capitalize on my pandemic baking obsession and combine the two. This simple, braided apple butter bread only looks complicated 2020-12-06T05:00:00Z

I find myself looking up absolute nonsense only tangentially related to my work, fuelled by obsessions and whims and characterised by topic-hopping, bad spelling, squinting, forum lurking and comically wide-ranging search terms. The internet: is it changing the way we think? 2010-08-14T23:05:00Z

“Artifice,” he said, “is a malady of our time,” an ailment symptomatic of an unsound obsession with self. What’s Faith Got to Do With It? 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z

Spotting the references to his various obsessions is part of what makes his films so fun. Perspective | The ugly underside of Brad Pitt’s cool car in ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’ 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z

Whatever is going on in their marriage isn’t our business, but it’s become our obsession. Beyonce and Jay Z: Why we are obsessed with their marriage 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z

She looks to the art of the 17th-century vanitas school of painting, with its obsession with life’s fragility, and to the example of King Lear. Dementia Patients Aren’t in Their ‘Perfect Mind.’ Then Again, Who Is? 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z

Not so obvious are the boom in plastic surgery salons and fitness spaces, and the growing obsession with healthier food. A Modern History of China, in Photographs 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z

That obsession with the furthest reaches of redness suggests the rarefied sensuality of Saunders' music. A guide to Rebecca Saunders' music 2012-11-05T15:47:54Z

Tea is an obsession every bit as internecine as any in gastronomy, and for those bitten by the bug, the stale bag on a string won’t hold water. | T's Picks, Part One 2010-12-10T19:30:00Z

What could be more modern in these days of financial crises and deficit spending than a morality tale about Midas’s fabulous golden touch and Danae’s obsession with his riches? Strauss Joins Sibelius?s Vacation 2011-07-22T15:31:19Z

All the weight I didn’t lose Topics: Body Issues, , , , , Bariatric surgery, , weight, Weight Gain, Surgery, Elective Surgery, , "Body Issues" is a personal essay series about obsessions with our own shape. All the weight I didn’t lose 2013-01-22T00:00:00Z

Like most stories of obsession, the book is a record of desire—in this case Baker’s quest to observe, follow, and ultimately become one with a falcon. Time Out: The Beauty of J. A. Baker’s “The Peregrine” 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z

Was she swapping one form of body obsession for another? Jane Fonda: ‘I'm very rarely afraid. Maybe emotional intimacy scares me’ 2020-09-05T04:00:00Z

That is another one that shows my obsession with eggs. Here’s proof that vegetarian Mexican food isn’t an oxymoron 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z

That fear is aggravated by Dean’s obsession with the hamsters, whom he is minding for his sister while she is on vacation. Review: In ‘Breeders,’ Parenting as a (Literal) Cage Match 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z

As much as I roll my eyes at our collective obsession with Facebook, watching my online identity vanish hit me hard. Let me be Lil Miss Hot Mess: Facebook took away my stage name 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z

He felt confident, however, that “Maps to the Stars” synchronized with the director’s own obsessions. Bruce Wagner’s ‘Maps to the Stars’ shows dark side of sunny Hollywood 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

And there are some worthwhile detours — into the early history of automotive manufacturing, the fascist obsession with fast cars and Hitler’s plans to motorize Germany’s civilians as well as its military. The Jewish Race-Car Driver Who Outpaced the Nazis 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z

Harold discovers that the old hypothetical “not if you were the last man on Earth” is all too true — she’s still not interested; he’s unhinged by his obsession for her. Review | A new TV version of ‘The Stand’ pits good against evil after a deadly pandemic. Been there, done that. 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z

But concerns aside, the message of Esco and her team is a vital one – that we are a culture that has a toxic obsession with breasts, and crazily enough, nipples in particular. Miley Cyrus wants you to free your nipples 2013-12-16T16:02:00Z

Bennett got Burt interested in women’s basketball, which quickly became another one of his obsessions. The Education Issue: Stephen Burt, Poetry’s Cross-Dressing Kingmaker 2012-09-16T00:17:27Z

In the Instagram age, there’s still an allure to putting your obsessions on paper. Review | In the galleries: Depicting nature’s vital, ephemeral connections 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

We have distorted our history to fit the Myth of the Lost Cause and it is thishistory which explains our obsession with the Civil War. Lies I learned as a Southerner: Racism, the Confederate flag and why so many white Southerners revere a symbol of hatred 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z

Aside from being a symptom of society’s corrosive obsession with thinness, which I haven’t got time to go into right now because I am really busy thinking about chairs, this is stupid. When weddings attack: adventures of a modern bride 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z

Certainly, it’s worthwhile to consider our collective obsession with the lives of affluent, beautiful people and how this obscures other kinds of compelling narratives. War at home: how Big Little Lies deftly dissects domestic violence 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z

It's fitting, however, that a book that dissects the modern obsession with connectivity and information leaves your circuits a bit overloaded. The Brain Is Wider than the Sky by Bryan Appleyard - review 2012-11-13T16:51:01Z

He relished hip-hop’s creativity and the way that its earliest fans treated their attire with pride and a near obsession for fresh-from-the-box crispness. Hip-hop was poised to conquer fashion. Why did it stop short? 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

While Early defines himself as the quintessential millennial, he has the Generation X obsession with a romanticized version of the culture of the 1970s. John Early Brings a Deliriously Over-the-Top Sensibility to Stand-Up 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z

Now, in 2016, drones are giving social media users access to mesmerising, swooping shots from the sky that provide new perspectives at a time of an obsession with photographing, and documenting, the world. High times: why drone photography offers a different view of travel 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z

The Kindergarten Teacher” In his tough, weird knockout, the Israeli director Nadav Lapid spins the story of a teacher’s obsession with a child poet to create a savage portrait of fanaticism and its costs. The Best Movies of 2015 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z

Yes, I'm aware that my math is flawed and that my obsession with the wholesale retailer is over-the-top, but that's pretty much how it feels. 15 edible gifts from Costco that we want to eat right now 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z

And now, in a new vision of that world that gives millions of moviegoers a chance to fetishize their childhood obsessions, he’s still a grownup, his dignity refreshingly intact. The Problem With That Major Force Awakens Scene 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z

It's worth asking where it comes from -- and what the obsession with repeating and embellishing it reveals. Assange: Bond villain -- or Bourne? 2010-12-03T16:04:00Z

Expect stellar, rare fruits not typically found in supermarkets in the U.S., and a friend with a newfound soursop obsession. Here are 11 hostess gift options as summer gatherings return 2021-07-18T04:00:00Z

My instinct tells me my sister-in-law’s obsession with my niece is abusive. Ask Amy: Inmate worries about romance with distant cousin

“Crush,” “girl crush,” “obsession,” and other terms of longing pop up frequently in tweets, blog titles, and hashtags, along with “fangirl” and “fandom.” We never escape teenage crushes: The Beatles, One Direction and what our early obsessions teach us about love 2015-02-07T05:00:00Z

Cold War obsessions led Washington to overthrow democratic governments, connive in assassination, make common cause with corrupt dictators and turn a blind eye to genocidal violence. Goodbye, age of great expectations: We know how America got here, but where does it go now? 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z

Ms. Smith is clearly game for anything, and chasing her obsessions, which are mostly literary, she winds up in curious places. Patti Smith, Survivor 2015-10-03T04:00:00Z

He said that he preferred to make a distinction between obsession and professionalism, but added, “My idea of professionalism is probably a lot of people’s idea of obsessive.” Arts & Leisure: David Fincher Directs ?Girl With the Dragon Tattoo? 2011-12-07T13:42:28Z

Bay seems to have an obsession with towering, alien robots walking the earth, battling each other to catastrophic ends in, essentially, plain sight. The new “Transformers” trailer shows us Optimus Prime’s face — and I wish it didn’t 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z

Increasingly, our obsession with the “best” was replaced by contentment with the very good, wines from regions like those above, with a bit less cachet but also a lot less guilt. When it comes to wine, weird is the new normal — and that’s for the better 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z

Which then leads to an obsession with control and permission, demanding he authorize every social invitation and financial decision, while criticizing my dreams of writing as being “too farfetched.” Men aren't volatile riddles for women to solve 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z

Clearly, my mother’s death is like my obsession. Cheryl Strayed: “Tackle love” 2012-07-08T01:00:00Z

Is the American obsession with security itself cowardly, leading us to shelter in place too readily, to surrender privacies to the NSA, to lead the world in incarceration? Boston Marathon bombing, one year later: Were the Tsarnaevs really cowards? 2014-04-14T23:00:00Z

Anecdotal evidence suggests that the current national obsession with disinfecting and social distancing comes as a relief to those who already had those policies stringently enforced in their own lives. America’s germaphobes were ready for this — and have been for too long 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z

He grew up in a part of Stockport called Reddish, and the book's obsession with the place is so relentless that one begins to wonder whether it is meant to be self-parody. The North (And Almost Everything In it) by Paul Morley – review 2013-06-13T09:01:01Z

It is instead a rather cultish obsession of British walkers, who follow in the steps of Alfred Wainwright, a mid-century walking enthusiast. So, you’re hiking across rural Britain? Walking the walk is the easy part. 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

The rest of the live action, starring Charles Crumb’s boyhood obsession Bobby Driscoll as the typical towheaded Disney lad, is more hit-or-miss, especially when Baskett is off screen. The kids are all wrong 2012-05-29T15:20:00Z

This is basically a parody of another TV show: MacGyver, the 1980s action series made legendary by Marge Simpson's sisters' obsession. Film review: MacGruber 2010-06-17T22:20:00Z

The public’s obsession with confessionals risks lowering our standards for storytelling and making us largely blind to language. Too real for reality TV — or even memoir: The new novels that dare use fiction to reveal secret truths 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z

Earlier this year, Fast Company first reported that orthorexia — an unhealthy obsession with food believed healthy — was under consideration for entry into the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Nigella Lawson nails the smug #CleanEating trend: “People are using certain diets as a way to hide an eating disorder” 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

The obsession with the detritus of American life, Gibbons says, gave the band their real voice: finally, they weren't imitators or copyists. ZZ Top: Dalís of the Delta 2012-11-08T19:00:00Z

There may be nothing heroic about an obsession with death, but when it produces high-caliber art the issue is effectively closed. Sally Mann’s Haunted South 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z

Which is a setup for her to get over her longstanding obsession with beating Rupert on the pitch. ‘Ted Lasso,’ Season 3, Episode 10 Recap: The Rich Are Different 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z

Interest in his Yeezy sneakers may not be what it once was, but tiny sunglasses did become, for a time, omnipresent, part of fashion’s continued obsession with recreating nostalgic looks with near surgical precision. 2018: The Year in Stuff 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z

The online hysteria over this show is just another instance of our modern obsession with true crime stories and miscarriages of justice. Making a Murderer: another blow to our confidence in America's police 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z

The “Frasier” revival acknowledges its therapists’ part in our modern obsession with fame and fortune. "Frasier" ended perfectly. Why go back? 2023-10-13T04:00:00Z

Like so many of the greatest comics, she surgically tapped into the ruling obsession of her time. The Cathartic Value of Dame Edna’s Extravaganzas of Ego 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z

The least I could do was diversify my feed and, ultimately, the suppliers who were benefitting from my obsession. All Knit Up in Sweater Instagram 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z

Now he’s taking his obsession with the sound system to the screen. The Week in Arts: Idris Elba, Taking on War and José González 2019-03-16T04:00:00Z

But it was also everything my experience actually was: the intricacies of female friendship, obsession, lust, nightgowns, underwear, bodily fluids, hilarity and tragedy somehow enmeshed. Why Judy Blume's Forever is … for ever 2013-06-14T12:13:55Z

It was a smart call: America’s obsession with Halloween as a cultural event was just starting to spike, and even in a stagnant economy, the growth shows few signs of slowing. At Universal Orlando, Halloween Fright Is a Full-Time Job 2011-10-25T17:25:57Z

Dora is literate, articulate and often acid tongued, with an obsession for women who have cross-dressed their way into military battle. Theater Review: ‘Airswimming’ at the Irish Repertory Theater 2013-01-27T21:15:33Z

Only hardy perennial Titchmarshus has survived the harsh winters of television's obsession with youth. Love Your Garden: TV review 2013-06-26T06:00:10Z

Those who don’t meet this social status receive a neural sense of reward just by looking at popular people, hence our obsessions with red carpet looks and celebrities in general. Aziz Ansari’s best actor nod: What the Golden Globes tell us about biology, popularity and its rewards 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

Although his obsession with grand, cyclical thinking bears noting, none of those cycles were genuinely novel. A Long Party of Concerts to Celebrate Anton Bruckner 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z

One of my earliest obsessions was Jane Goodall. "Little Bird": The terrifying possibility of what a Christian nationalist America could look like 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z

As a Black American who’s developed a near obsession with the African diaspora, I’ll admit that I would have asked her the same question had we met under different circumstances. A Journey Through Black Nova Scotia 2022-09-12T04:00:00Z

I wanted to create a roundtable discussion about our culture's obsession with celebrity. "$ellebrity" explores paparazzi influence in fame game 2013-01-11T18:32:27Z

J.R. is far more successful on this front, of course, and Cliff’s haplessness provides regular moments of levity in the form of his unearned bravado and obsession with takeout Chinese food. Comfort Viewing: 3 Reasons I Love ‘Dallas’ 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z

"It seemed our whole generation was moving. Leaving home. Leaving town. And while Jane was fond of wandering, for me it was an obsession." Gary Ferguson shoulders grief's burden in 'The Carry Home' 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z

It’s precisely the kind of gruesome story of a seemingly idyllic American family that inspires prime time news specials and true crime obsessions. ‘American Murder: The Family Next Door’ Review: Tragedy Reconstructed 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z

“Pop culture really equals nostalgia, and it takes us back to our childhood,” Ms. Eckstein said, citing the current obsession with Pokémon Go as an example. Comic-Con Makes a Fashion Statement 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z

He voices alarm at the South’s “conflating Scripture with secular knowledge and legislative process” and fears the Southern evangelical’s “KKKristian” obsession with “End Times.” Books of The Times: ‘Better Off Without ’Em,’ by Chuck Thompson 2012-08-21T22:05:37Z

As I grew older and started to identify the elaborate tracery of mixed African and European blood in my own family, I began to glimpse the obsession that lay beneath white loathing. Notes on the Exotic 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z

And he developed a real-life obsession with Foster, stalking her and writing to her that he had shot Reagan to impress her. ‘He is a psychopath’: has the 2019 Joker gone too far? 2019-09-28T04:00:00Z

At one point the Green Bay Packers had a Catan obsession. Perspective | In a world of Monopoly and Risk, the maker of Catan settled for more 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z

McNamara spent years working out her obsession with the Golden State Killer and hunting for his identity, which filled the manuscript of her “I’ll Be Gone in the Dark.” New HBO series looks at lives disrupted by a serial killer 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z

Derek’s elaborate obsession with LuPone, like many of the gay cultural touchstones in “Mister Miss America,” is not exactly original territory. ‘Mister Miss America’ Review: A Fight for the Crown 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z

Maybe “Filthy” is a head fake, or maybe it’s the final chapter of Mr. Timberlake’s long-running R&B obsession before returning to his roots. The Playlist: Justin Timberlake Stays Funky (for Now), and 9 More New Songs 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z

Orthorexia, disordered eating influenced by an obsession with “healthy” foods, is one symptom of the larger problem diet culture was born from. Am I happier because I'm thinner, or thinner because I'm happier? 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z

The striking British avant-R&B singer FKA Twigs harnessed minimalism both sonically and visually, moving in tight motions in key moments as she sang about desperation and obsession. Coachella fest outdoes itself as a rollicking Sim City 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z

The dreamthinkspeak company presents this promenade production inspired mainly by Leonardo Da Vinci's drawing A Cloudburst of Material Possessions, an image of man's obsession with the material and mass-produced over the spiritual. This week's new theatre 2013-01-26T06:00:15Z

The “Foucauldian” left, he writes in “Achieving Our Country,” “represents an unfortunate regression to the Marxist obsession with scientific rigor.” Richard Rorty’s Philosophical Argument for National Pride 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z

My shows were about sexual politics and obsession. Emily Woof 2010-03-21T00:08:00Z

“My aunts started making their own movies — I was the main character most of the times — and I think I grew an obsession with cinema from that.” For ‘The Lincoln Lawyer,’ Manuel Garcia-Rulfo Climbs in the Front Seat 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z

Did you want to satirize a current obsession with artisanal food? This Week in Fiction: J. Robert Lennon 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z

"Ah, you should make hot sauce with them," one of my friends, who also grew up in Texas and has an obsession with making salsas and hot sauces, responded. Help! I'm drowning in hot sauce, because my habaneros are growing so fast 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z

For a different kind of ruthless obsession, see David Fincher’s thriller about a team of San Francisco journalists who hunted the infamous California serial murderer known as the Zodiac killer. What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘Baskets’ and ‘Drunk History’ 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z

Her mother, obsessed with thinness, was oblivious to that obsession’s effects on her daughter. Review | Melissa Broder’s ‘Milk Fed’ is a delectable exploration of physical and emotional hunger 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z

The new “24” is making a more nuanced argument: now the United States’ vulnerability stems from its very obsession with security. '24': Drones On 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z

The trailer quickly became a communal classroom obsession, the line “wanton sex goddess with a very bad man between her thighs – mum, hi!” quickly deposing childish Simpsons catchphrases, because pre-teen girls are ardent perverts. My favourite film aged 12: Bridget Jones's Diary 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z

Related to that public consumption of personal tragedy, do you have thoughts on true crime as a pop culture obsession? "Dear Damage" author on when your family's tragedy makes headlines 2022-04-16T04:00:00Z

You know, Paul and Hannah have like an obsession with dying malls. Bridget Everett on finding herself in "Somebody Somewhere": "This experience is changing my life" 2022-02-20T05:00:00Z

Ms. Prada, wearing a checked shirt and calling it “my obsession,” said the starting point of the set was a still life of the bourgeoisie — a subject of constant fascination for the designer. At Prada, Check Out the Bourgeoisie 2013-01-13T18:43:55Z

Pachinko, a modified version of pinball, is a fading national obsession, with about 12,000 parlors nation-wide and one in thirteen people playing the game. Facing decline, Japan's pachinko industry tries offering a clean, well-lighted place 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z

And for good reason: Sim was reportedly born in his grandmother's loo, and turned his obsession with toilets into a successful campaign in the 1980s to dramatically improve South Korea's public conveniences. South Korea's toilet museum: a place for contemplation 2012-11-09T15:07:46Z

They talk of their work and their families in a slightly anxious litany of everyday obsessions. Theater Review: ?A Slow Air,? by David Harrower, at 59E59 Theaters 2012-04-13T22:51:33Z

Discovery just wrapped up its most popular yearly marathon of programming, Shark Week, an event that makes the media's ongoing obsession with the finned predators official, and hangs a label on it. Why we're fascinated by animal attacks 2010-08-18T11:01:00Z

The obsession with Amanda Knox's character and story, as she writes in her Twitter thread, speak to a greater issue of how we deny women agency in society. Amanda Knox calls out new Matt Damon movie "inspired" by her story: “Does my name belong to me?” 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z

Enthusiastic to the point of obsession, they text or tweet while they watch and are seen as an important marketing group because they are "early adopters" who use new technology and embrace new TV shows. The Apprentice and Strictly Come Dancing finals to deliver record BBC1 audiences 2010-12-19T00:07:36Z

A related installation at the Institute of Contemporary Art Los Angeles re-creates a 1974 project in which Szeemann paid homage to his deceased grandfather — a show that speaks to “meticulous, exhaustive obsession.” Essential Arts & Culture: Pondering the Pritzker, dancing with Joffrey and touring with TMZ (and living to tell) 2018-03-10T05:00:00Z

It’s also a longtime focus of cultural obsession, across many historical periods and on every continent, from the poetry of Catullus to the woodblock prints of 19th-century Japan. Male grooming: The movie 2012-05-18T23:15:00Z

“This led them to Marcel Duchamp, who became a passionate intellectual focus. Like all great collectors, this focus became an all-encompassing interest bordering on obsession.” Washington couple donates personal Duchamp collection to the Hirshhorn 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z

For evidence of O’Reilly’s obsession with being seen as a man of principle look no further than the interview he conducted with Barack Obama for the Super Bowl in 2014. “Do you think I’m being unfair to you?”: When the halftime whistle blows at Super Bowl 51 Bill O’Reilly will grill a new POTUS. Or will he? 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z

And yet I fear her photo obsession may hasten her self-consciousness to a degree that's no longer constructive. Motherlode Blog: Why We Should Take Fewer Pictures of Our Children 2012-10-12T15:55:46Z

Meyer, who made a career of his obsession with women with large breasts, collaborated with Ebert on Beyond the Valley of the Dolls. Will Ferrell slated to play Russ Meyer in Russ and Roger Go Beyond 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z

America's obsession with dogs is — like all other uniquely American obsessions — a preoccupation with celebrity and the all-consuming power of media. The changing face of “America’s dog” — and what it says about us 2021-07-04T04:00:00Z

A few years ago, an “obsession with ceramics” led AL_A to experiment with creating a simple, slim-legged ceramic table. A British Architect Finds Her Solo Voice 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z

Artificial intelligence has long been an obsession of speculative fiction, but there is a big change now: Reality is catching up. Five Science Fiction Movies to Stream Now 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z

It came at a fortuitous time for Feiffer, who was looking, as he put it, for "a major new obsession." Kids' books keep filling Jules Feiffer's radar screen 2010-06-25T22:27:00Z

His obsession won't be his downfall, other factors will, such as his lack of honesty and compassion. Immigration Inquiry Draws Protest at Tom Cat Bakery 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z

Gen Z’s style obsession with the 1990s and ’00s is well documented. Gen Z Channels the 1990s 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z

"The American obsession with ice is relatively to completely unique on the global stage," explains Amy Brady, author of "Ice: From Mixed Drinks to Skating Rinks – A Cool History of a Hot Commodity." Will record heat make Europe embrace the American ice cube? 2023-09-02T04:00:00Z

Part of the obsession was driven by xenophobia: Nativists feared that the sudden influx of immigrants from southern and Eastern Europe would make thin gruel of hearty American stock. Review: Adam Cohen’s ‘Imbeciles’, on the Supreme Court and Justice Not for All 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z

Enough with mining her Instagram, enough with trying to understand what made her more viral than lots of other more talented people, enough with the week of obsession. Perspective | The messiness and meaning of Caroline Calloway 2019-09-13T04:00:00Z

To further our current cultures new obsession with joy? Why I won't stop writing about "trauma" to focus on joy 2021-07-31T04:00:00Z

In his freshman year, Stelter channeled his cable news obsession into a blog that tracked the industry’s ratings wars and personnel changes. Brian Stelter has been training for this moment his entire life 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z

People bond over listings on Discord servers, group chats and “Zillow Twitter,” and their obsession has made many strange and obscure listings go viral. Zillow Surfing Is the Escape We All Need Right Now 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z

"The Assassination of Gianni Versace" sought to view America's fraught relationship with queer culture through a lens of obsession, with each portraying the media as complicit in perpetuating bigotry through editorial choices and coverage. FX's "Impeachment" doesn't acquit itself well, despite a humanizing portrayal by Beanie Feldstein 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z

His current obsession is photographing flowers in microscopic detail; the samples in his office are radiantly beautiful, resembling richly colored abstract paintings. Joel Grey, a Broadway Eminence, Comes of Age at 83 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z

The obsession with mechanics needs to change too, Mr. O’Donnell said. Once Top Musicians, Organists See Loss of Relevance 2014-04-25T19:57:41Z

As his voluminous notebooks show, he possessed a Leonardo da Vinci-like breadth of interests and one central obsession: How does the mind work? Review | On the 250th anniversary of Wordsworth’s birth, a celebration of verse 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z

“Magic” Chili Chicken, available only on weekends, is my most recent obsession: succulent broiled chicken, hacked to pieces and served with red chilies beneath a green carpet of chopped scallions. Dolan Uyghur review: Where East meets Middle East, noodles meet kebabs 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z

Design details that serve no utilitarian purpose but help lift spirits can become obsessions for craftspeople and authors. 5 Design Books That Are Easy on the Eyes 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z

I’ve followed the hotel industry for years, and, like many guests, I’ve become disillusioned with our collective and often thoughtless obsession with loyalty. Travel Wise | This is the secret to getting a hotel-room upgrade 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z

Garrone said it wasn't his goal to judge society's obsession with celebrity. Reality TV, celebrity obsession hit Cannes screens 2012-05-18T11:27:19Z

It is Borgesian in tone — that is, it’s mostly cool and cerebral — and in its obsessions. Books of The Times: ‘All Men Are Liars,’ a Novel by Alberto Manguel 2012-06-21T21:51:49Z

No wonder, perhaps, that the internal affairs guys think Lund has gone mad; no wonder her son, mum and boyfriend think they've lost her to her obsession with solving the case. The Killing: in cold blood 2011-03-31T07:00:00Z

From performance art to fan art, there are manifold ways to turn a fandom obsession into a lucrative endeavour. Fan art, cosplay and geek belly dancing: turning fandom into money 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z

A spate of recent stuffed-stocking sculptures carries on Ms. Lucas’s bodily abstractions and obsessions, generally continuing in the same vein as before. Is Sarah Lucas Right for the #MeToo Moment? 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z

The kidnapping and hoarding of children — an obsession with youthfulness; a sense of violence passed through generations — is one of Schwarz’s themes. At Bayreuth, the Work on Wagner’s Operas Is Never Done 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z

One of his first obsessions was White Sonora wheat. One Baker’s Quest to Make Bread That Blurs Borders 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z

She wards off loneliness through peculiar obsessions, particularly a fantasy TV series called “Purgatory” and the horse she once owned, which she visits frequently enough to annoy its new owner and stablemen. ‘Horse Girl’ Review: Facing an Emotionally Taxing World 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z

I couldn't ignore that in the hope of not creating an obsession. Motherlode Blog: An Interview with Dara-Lynn Weiss, Who Put Her 7-Year-Old on a Diet, and Wrote a Book About It. 2013-01-15T14:07:08Z

The charade presents many opportunities for laughs, some involving broad physical comedy quite a bit of which is centered around the Los Angeles obsession with plastic surgery others actual wit with words. Just Go With It? Jennifer Aniston Runs Away With It 2011-02-11T00:40:00Z

We were playing before in different projects, but this was different, an obsession, it was an indication that we were meant to be in a band together. Capsula's Bowie obsession pays off 2013-10-31T14:12:32Z

There’s still time to save our ultimate story of 12/13/14 obsession. On 12/13/14 one last chance to indulge in sequential date frenzy — this century, anyway 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z

But that was before he caught up with that desire -- before this rock star outgrew his obsessions. Outsider no more, Jack White brings 'Lazaretto' to the Fonda Theatre 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z

Sure that our obsession with cleanliness is bad for his skin, Hamblin takes the extreme measure of quitting showers to let his biome bloom. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z

You can take Bill Simmons out of the sports network, but you cannot, apparently, take the sports obsession out of Bill Simmons. Bill Simmons as TV Host: Heavy on Sports and Cursing 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

Still, Jimmy's obsession with the band is credible: their hit My Generation became the ultimate mod anthem on its release in 1965. Quadrophenia: Back when Britain's youngsters ran riot 2011-08-18T11:24:48Z

It’s also too bad that McNamara’s fellow “citizen detectives,” the bloggers and amateur investigators who share her obsession with unsolved crimes, don’t get more sustained attention. Review: A Killer, a Writer, and the Questions Both Left Behind 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z

She paints doll-like women with pouty mouths and perfect porcelain skin; yet their eyes are empty, hinting at the superficiality of their beauty and the artist’s reflection on her generation’s obsession with appearance and consumption. 2010-01-05T06:10:00Z

Art Garfunkel plays an American psychiatrist who has conceived an obsession with a beautiful American woman played by Theresa Russell. Nicolas Roeg: a daring film-maker of passionate and visceral brilliance 2018-11-24T05:00:00Z

It was true to the five seasons that preceded it, true to Walter White’s obsessions and pride, and true to what Breaking Bad is at heart: a Western. Breaking Bad Watch: Say Hello to My Little Friend 2013-09-30T04:37:59Z

This isn’t a city that was built on baby steps or obsessions with politely recasting the past. Marc Jacobs and the Monumental Dream of New York 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z

Opening in U.S. movie theaters on Friday, "Antiviral" was written and directed by the 33-year-old Cronenberg and satirizes society's obsession with celebrity with a horrific twist. Like father like son? Brandon Cronenberg debuts with 'Antiviral' 2013-04-12T21:38:08Z

I’m not the first to notice that romantic comedies sometimes hinge on stalker-ish obsession. What Boxing Taught Me About Love 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z

We are sheltering in place with devices designed to amplify diversions and exploit obsessions. The Unending Anxiety of Coronavirus Content 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z

It is here that Leda makes a bold decision, almost unimaginable for a woman of her time: She will dress in Dante’s clothes, pass herself off as a man and pursue this musical obsession. ‘The Gods of Tango’: A gender-bending tale of music and love 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z

Mr. Lagerfeld combined two opposing obsessions: a corseted, feminine form and comfort. Couture Reveals Its Lighter Side at Paris Fashion Shows 2014-01-22T21:12:17Z

The events have put Benko near the center of a media obsession that she said she has tried to mostly ignore, instead choosing to focus on the opportunity for the role of a lifetime. Julie Benko Was the ‘Funny Girl’ No One Had Heard of, Until Now 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z

What fewer people know about is Dickens's obsession with drama. Charles Dickens the dramatist: why it should've been an actor's life for Boz 2012-02-08T16:53:08Z

The clotheslines that extended from balconies in Stepanakert showed an extraordinary degree of precision, if not obsession. A Warm Welcome in the Caucasus Mountains 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z

As their affair intensifies, his passion escalates into a desperate obsession to which she responds with a push-me-pull-you ambivalence. Film: Yvan Attal at Rendez-Vous With French Cinema 2010-03-11T05:31:00Z

Men who made my legs Topics: , , , , , Prosthetic Limbs, Editor's Picks, "Body Issues" is a personal essay series about obsessions with our own appearance. Men who made my legs 2012-12-03T02:00:00Z

“First Man” stars Gosling as Armstrong and recounts the astronaut’s obsession with landing on the moon and the years it took to achieve the goal. “First Man” first look: Damien Chazelle and Ryan Gosling bring space drama to Oscar season 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z

And to prove television's increasing obsession with the thing you’re reading this very piece on, behold: a brief evolution of the on-screen computer. A brief history of computers on TV, from Star Trek to Silicon Valley 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z

How these people deal with this conflict—as individuals and as religious institutions—determines the variously entertaining or tragic manifestations of sexual obsession in religion. God is not a prude: This is why religion remains so sex-obsessed, why we pretend Jesus was born of a virgin 2016-02-07T05:00:00Z

When I was 10, I was a real expert on Greek mythology, which for a while was a true obsession for me. Why Olga Tokarczuk Likes to Read T.S. Eliot in Translation 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z

For me Wuthering Heights is a story of violent obsession, and a tortuous unfulfilled relationship. BBC Radio 3's Wuthering Heights to turn the airwaves blue 2011-03-22T10:47:06Z

When the film's producer, Mark Burg, moved next door to one of his bandmates and was told of the singer's obsession, he was invited to appear in the trap. Linkin Park's Chester Bennington trapped in "Saw 3D" 2010-10-27T19:42:00Z

The most successful “Objects of Desire” pieces tackle the obsession with objects from other cultures, with the two-panel “Maps” being a high-voltage case in point. Review: ‘Sarah Charlesworth: Doubleworld’ Studies Perceptions Shaped by Photography 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

Caroline Horton's Mess, about eating disorders and obsession, very much divided audiences and critics in Edinburgh but you can make up your own mind at Lincoln Drill Hall next week. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2013-04-12T12:06:57Z

Despite her obsession, Nancy didn’t show a single outward sign of not being entirely in control. ‘I was living a secret life’: the agonising rise of female gamblers 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z

Christianity has, indeed, begun to look like Brenton's late, great obsession – a cohesive theme at last, or at least a hint that his Methodist upbringing is staging a surprise comeback. Howard Brenton 2010-07-09T23:05:00Z

He began taking acting classes as a diversion, originally, but the hobby quickly turned into an obsession and eventually a new career. Liam Cunningham on Sunday's Sad 'Game of Thrones' Moment 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z

The orchestra traced a course from evanescence to anger, providing the perfect summation of our national obsession with the weather. National Youth Orchestra – review 2013-01-07T18:25:30Z

Billie's delighted until Cooper's obsession with Brad gets out of hand in the usual repressed suburban rich white people ways. "Sex/Life": Netflix's best worst raunchy ride of this summer is 50 shades of oy vey 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z

Nathan Fielder’s career to this point has been defined by an obsession with the way people act when they are being filmed. ‘The Curse’ Series Premiere Recap: The Cameras Are Rolling 2023-11-10T05:00:00Z

With “Turtles All the Way Down,” Mr. Green tried to bridge the language barrier by bringing readers inside Aza’s consciousness, subjecting them to her anguished obsessions. John Green Opens Up About His Own Struggles 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z

But at the beginning of 2016, Ms. Knight felt their mutual obsession fading. It Was Supposed to Just Be Fun. How Did They End Up Married? 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z

In middle age, he continues to be jailed time after time for his obsession. Holiday Movie Release Schedule 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z

Images of the prototype were splattered on Gizmodo, foiling the company’s well-known obsession with secrecy. 36 Hours in Silicon Valley 2010-09-03T05:01:00Z

“He was very sophisticated in changing the scale of his formal obsessions,” Mr. Boeri added. In Milan, Every Third Year’s the Charm 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z

Different artists will follow different processes and end up with different results that reflect their own approaches, skills and obsessions. Give this AI a few words of description and it produces a stunning image – but is it art? 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z

The slim novel, written from the perspective of multiple characters, is a taut tale of obsession involving an affluent Manhattan couple, their beloved daughter and a disturbed young man. Matthew Weiner takes a break from TV and plunges into fiction with 'Heather, the Totality' 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z

We see her almost exclusively through the lens of Swann's obsession. Reading group: Can you summarise Proust? 2013-02-12T14:58:22Z

“If you’ve known me for five minutes, which y’all have, it’s time for me to tell you I have a true obsession with red wine,” she said, introducing “Hide the Wine.” ‘Radio tour is not for the weak’: Inside the first step to country music stardom 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z

The translations arriving this year reveal the dizzying strangeness of Sorokin’s work, and reflect his obsession with the horrors of Russia’s past and his anxiety over where the country is headed. He Envisioned a Nightmarish, Dystopian Russia. Now He Fears Living in One. 2022-04-16T04:00:00Z

Much of what appears "natural" today dates from the 1980s: the obsession with wealth creation, the cult of privatisation and the private sector, the growing disparities of rich and poor. Tony Judt: A manifesto for a new politics 2010-03-20T00:07:00Z

True, there are just enough oddities on the dinner menu — the marvelous chicken soup and the fresh Bavarian-style pretzels, both clear products of Strausmanian obsessions — to tell you that this is no normal Italian restaurant. One Chef, One Roof, Many Menus 2021-07-20T04:00:00Z

His heightened realism propels actors into symbolic settings with totemic objects, recurring obsessions, and operatic violence. Like Sundance in Brooklyn, Except Better 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

In his book, Thiel takes on capitalism’s obsession with competition—he prefers monopolies, defined as finding an untapped market. Silicon Valley provocateur Thiel takes on 'many-sided mediocrity' 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

Have you seen any frightening examples of “Arrested” obsession? ArtsBeat: David Cross on the Return of ‘Arrested Development’ 2013-05-23T18:41:11Z

He linked sexual obsession with a sense of spiritual yearning, drawing comparisons with one of his early musical models, Marvin Gaye. Prince, mysterious, inventive chameleon of music, dies at 57 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

And I think in a lot of ways, there's similarities with Gary there, in really trying to understand his past — and then this understanding of his past ultimately becoming quite an obsession for him. "The Most Dangerous Animal of All" asks what if your dad was the Zodiac Killer? 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z

Jeremy, a clerk at the video store, is reluctantly tugged into the search for the provenance of these altered films, a quest that becomes an unhealthy obsession for the store owner. Mountain Goats founder John Darnielle returns with a second powerful novel 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z

The three-month romance between the "Thor" actor and U.S. pop star Swift became a celebrity media obsession last year, cataloged in paparazzi shots on beaches and at restaurants. Tom Hiddleston says Taylor Swift shirt a joke, romance 'was real' 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z

Last year's national obsession with mixing up quick breads and sourdough may have waned, but the delicate, bright theme of "GBBO" still floods the system with serotonin like a sturdy feel-good treat should. The seasonal joy of "The Great British Baking Show" 2021-10-16T04:00:00Z

In an act of creative desperation, AJ realizes that the key to Nia’s heart is her obsession with young adult vampire fiction. Graphic Novels to Give Kids Chills and Thrills 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z

In my harshest moments I think, doesn’t the obsession with genetics underlie some of our worst human catastrophes? Motherlode Blog: Why I Won't Adopt 2012-02-23T16:25:44Z

Both are responses to Britain’s enduringly ambivalent obsession with its aristocracy and royal family. ‘King Charles III’ and ‘The Ruling Class’ in London 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z

Better still, the object of the obsession has powerful things to say about sisterhood, storytelling, adolescence and female autonomy. Frozen-mania: how Elsa, Anna and Olaf conquered the world 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z

As one young woman Hammond interviews in the opening minutes of his documentary puts it, “It’s an obsession, really.” McDonald’s comes for sriracha: Assimilation, customization and the fast-food American Dream 2016-07-04T04:00:00Z

He then compares his blogging habits to an obsession to gambling and reading. John Mayer is still gross 2012-06-06T18:50:00Z

Ranging in age from 10 to 19 — and with varying levels of obsession, talent and household income — the film’s subjects, and their often worn-out parents, expound on the sacrifices required to follow a dream. | 'Jig': Young Lords and Ladies of the Dance 2011-06-16T23:57:32Z

That goes double for its title character, an alcoholic therapist whose license should probably be revoked, and for at least two other addled souls in this bonkers brew of memory and erotic obsession. ‘Sibyl’ Review: Diagnosing Problems, and Creating More 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z

On the other hand, neuroscientists who have been able to study the brains of people with debilitatingly compulsive obsessions with sex witness similar responses to those they have observed in drug addiction cases. Constant cravings: is addiction on the rise? 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z

The conversation provided revealing glimpses into the Wilsons’ past, beginning with life in a Marine Corps family and the discovery of the Beatles, whose music became an obsession. Heart plays an acoustic evening at Benaroya Hall | Concert review 2013-04-10T18:29:17Z

It’s not a successful vacation unless you come home with an obsession over some kind of sauce. The smartest route to Pittsburgh: The one with no shortcuts 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

I didn’t see it upon release – I was five at the time – but as it tore its way to the small screen, it became an early object of obsession. The War of the Roses at 30: still one of the nastiest comedies of all time 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z

Hitchcock’s masterfully constructed suspense classics contain many levels, but we already knew they documented an intense and partly hostile obsession with a certain variety of unavailable, unfaithful and untrustworthy woman. How do we watch Woody’s movies now? 2014-02-08T17:00:00Z

Blunk illuminates the influences and obsessions of the ecstatic, troubled Wright and reveals him to be a lot like his poems: brilliant, intense and equally likely to soar or faceplant. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

It also gives Mr. Baldassano a healthy outlet for his obsession. The Winemaker of Avenue C 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z

And Fassbinder’s unresolved themes and obsessions — sex and identity, suffering and power, victims and victimizers — seem ponderous and pat. Theater Review: ‘In a Year With 13 Moons,’ Directed by Robert Woodruff 2013-05-09T21:08:43Z

Dorner’s obsession with reclaiming his name made me go back and re-read James Baldwin’s signature essay “Nobody Knows My Name,” from the eponymous book. Christopher Dorner was not a monster 2013-02-14T23:26:00Z

That's why I feel strongly about spicing things up with fresh formats, more access for television and an overall re-evaluation of the obsession with stars over the actual quality of the 'product' every week. Tiger, The Tour And Inside The U.S. Open 2010-06-15T22:00:00Z

His menu at Silo reflects what he describes as an obsession with abundance. Waste not want not: the art of trash cooking 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z

If anything is surprising about the classical obsession in 18th-century three-dimensional portraits, it is the incongruous association of extreme naturalism with Ancient Roman garb that so often verges on caricature. Art Review: At the Louvre, Vivid and Varied Imaginings of Antiquity 2010-12-03T16:11:00Z

"We all have the same level of obsession about the show," she said, "and we like any excuse to dress up." Pass the tea and the remote: It's party time for 'Downton Abbey' 2012-01-20T02:19:11Z

He also referred to Trump’s obsession with getting friendly questions and responding childishly when given anything tougher. Late-night hosts on Trump's disastrous press conference: 'We elected a mess' 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z

For all of pop music's obsession with youth, major labels typically reward experience and consistency. Interscope CEO John Janick looks ahead 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z

The little world with Jack Keenan at its center grows ever more strange and dark while his constant drawing turns into an obsession that threatens to destroy him. Peter Straub reviews ‘The Boy Who Drew Monsters,’ by Keith Donohue

Some viewed the tuna-sandwich scene as an especially brazen example of the American art house film’s obsession with flouting commonly accepted boundaries of taste — and it’s not hard to see why. Todd Solondz, patron saint of pessimism 2010-07-23T19:01:00Z

The result is a vivid picture of a curious man, with his obsessions – from utopian urban-planning to scientific discoveries of molecular structures – all brought to life through his personal ephemera and correspondence. Louis Kahn: the brick whisperer 2013-02-26T21:00:02Z

When I was in high school, in the early throes of my “Rent” obsession, I made my aunt see the show. A ‘Rent’ Reunion Measures 25 Years of Love and Loss 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z

As the westernmost spit of land in Europe, it was a place of mystical obsession long before an errant hermit found St. James’s sepulcher. Hiking Through History, With Your Daughters 2013-04-17T16:26:43Z

It's the first major examination of Warhol to explore the artist's obsession and use of news headlines for a large part of his career. Andy Warhol's art takes stage on National Mall 2011-09-22T17:25:09Z

But the one subject these chatty characters never touch is class, despite their obvious obsession with it. ‘Almost Love’ Review: Schooled in Romance, but Missing Class 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z

Video games have been an obsession of Shadows for a few years. Avenged Sevenfold brings 'Deathbat' to life in video game 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z

Here are my obsessions, in no particular order: torture, the camps, the Jewish experience during the Holocaust, the singularity of that experience in the larger context of deportation. Jorge Sempr?n, Author Who Blurred Line Between Novel and Memoir, Is Dead at 87 2011-06-10T20:37:18Z

It’s a sendup of true-crime obsession in the vein of “Only Murders in the Building,” but relocated to Southern California and more aggressively morbid in its humor. 30 Shows to Watch This Summer 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z

But as the series continues, it becomes clear that Edward isn't the only one who has an obsession. "The Girl Before" ending explained: What happens to Jane? 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z

Her first play, The Sugar Syndrome, was a shrewd study of phobia and obsession. The Effect; The Seagull; The Trojan Women – review 2012-11-18T00:06:26Z

Speaking for myself, it's clear the obsession started with my mother's questionable '80s parenting and seeing those autopsy photographs. Why Jack the Ripper and other serial killer narratives endure 2021-07-10T04:00:00Z

His obsession with motion-capture technology, in particular, hasn’t served him well. Review: With Allied, the Old-School Wartime Melodrama Enters the Modern Age 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z

A disproportionate number of these directors work in horror films, for reasons that probably have to do with the genre’s openness to obsession and high tolerance for the incoherent. Video: Five Cult Horror Films by Jean Rollin, Remastered for DVD 2012-01-29T04:38:09Z

Arendt’s central obsessions — war, totalitarianism, genocide, mass migration and displacement, and the ambiguous nature of human rights — are at least as relevant as ever. Is Donald Trump a new Hitler? Hannah Arendt might argue that they’re closer than you think 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z

The show also parodies the great obsession with true crime content. For Kristen Bell it's always wine o'clock in new psychological thriller spoof "Woman in the House" 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z

Galoup’s downfall is brought on by his jealousy and obsession with and a beautiful young man in his unit; his suicide seems imminent. ‘Beau Travail’ Finds the Rhythm of Life (and Dances Away the Pain) 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z

Those obsessions should have made him a typical Turinese: The city was the birthplace of Italy’s motor and film industries and its first flying club, as well a notorious center of the “dark arts.” Design: The 'Diabolic' Carlo Mollino, Reanimated 2011-09-23T18:30:08Z

Any passion or obsession that forces him to put aside his describing self? 'This wretched church' 2010-04-19T07:00:00Z

He expressed his obsessions with cities, public transportation, books and power of all kinds in richly worked, sometimes oppressive fusions of drawing, collage and painting. ‘Willem van Genk: Mind Traffic’ and ‘Ralph Fasanella: Lest We Forget’ 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

Plunged in their own turmoil or diverted by their current obsession, they are engaged in that common pursuit known as getting through the day. 'different words' reveals promising playwright in Kimber Lee 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z

The last decade’s obsession with process and abstract photography is one explanation. Review: Barbara Kasten’s ‘Set Motion’ at Bortolami 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

We had made the trip because almost from birth Jacob had displayed an obsession with racecars. Dirt-Track Racing at New Egypt Speedway in New Jersey 2011-09-01T23:09:31Z

“The court concluded that he developed a very unhealthy obsession with the Royal House and in particular Princess Amalia,” Van Vuure added in a statement posted on the court’s website. Man convicted of sending death threats to Dutch princess 2020-11-03T05:00:00Z

First up is "Rebecca," Alfred Hitchcock's only film to win the Academy Award for best picture, and a wonderfully brooding tale of obsession and loss. 'Twin Peaks Festival Film Night' heads special film features 2011-07-28T19:30:08Z

Her obsession with servants is present and correct. Shedunnit – how Agatha Christie became cinema hot property 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z

“Hitchcock” deals with the food, the obsessions and the financial risks Hitchcock took on “Psycho.” ‘Hitchcock’ and ‘The Girl’ Remember Alma Reville 2012-11-18T04:13:01Z

More concerning is this continuing focus or rather obsession in society on race … from my perspective, the Grammys’ has a fairly good record of recognizing black artists and talent going back to the 60’s. Grammy Nominations 2018: Jay-Z and Kendrick Lamar Lead the Way 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z

“Big Night,” an exuberant celebration of culinary obsession, helped put him on the map in Hollywood. Stanley Tucci: Actor, Writer, Family Cook 2012-10-02T20:25:00Z

His emails to Bailey reflect his dedication to the biography, to the point of obsession, and his awareness of time and mortality. Blake Bailey’s 880-page Philip Roth bio to arrive in April 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z

In her 1963 book, “Black Sheep, White Lamb,” she wrote of a woman who “pecked over her obsessions like a crow at a corpse.” Dorothy Salisbury Davis, Suspense Novelist, Dies at 98 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z

“It just hit me: The burger obsession comes from Fox News coverage of the Green New Deal,” wrote climate reporter Rebecca Leber of Mother Jones, on Twitter, “aka ‘they’re coming after your favorite things.’ We watched all 7 hours of CNN’s climate town hall so you didn’t have to 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z

Former pastry chef Elizabeth Golay's take on southern Indian food is the stuff of obsession. Portland à la cart: the city's brilliant street food scene 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z

On the phone from Sweden, Goransson’s mother, Maria, recalled another of his youthful obsessions — time. How Ludwig Goransson Became Directors’ Secret Musical Weapon 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z

While the rest of Britain continues it's obsession with Scandinavian crime fiction, I am exploring the world of Scandinavian fiction, plain and simple. Tips, links and suggestions: What you are reading? 2012-07-10T13:46:36Z

It seems to be like an obsession and it feels like a compliment now, the way you phrase it. Adrian Tomine’s bittersweet Gen X vision: “This is the book of mine so far that I feel is the least judgmental of humanity” 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z

Thus, at the end of the pilot, a worldwide obsession with Baby Yoda, officially known as The Child, was born. A new hope for "Star Wars" in "The Mandalorian" season finale 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z

Autistic people do hyper-focus, but they mistook my obsession as a sign I was unstable. Mothers with autism: ‘I mothered my children in a very different way’ 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z

They aren’t much different from any group of young traders—cracking jokes and checking out women at the bar—except for their obsession for minimizing taxes. Puerto Rico: Tropical Tax Haven for America's Super-Rich 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z

If Davies' work is the cinema of passion, Greenaway's is one of preoccupation, and Zed is a summary of his obsessions: death, sex, light and Dutch golden-age painting. Distant Voices, Still Lives and A Zed and Two Noughts: watch the double bill 2012-11-16T10:00:00Z

It also takes the public obsession with the prewar and the posh into entirely new terrain. BBC looks to steal Downton ratings with two helpings of PG Wodehouse 2012-12-29T22:35:29Z

The writers are likely skewering fans' obsession with Jon's stature by writing in these recurring quips. Jon Snow's Height Is the Best Running Joke on 'Game of Thrones' Season 7 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z

But Amanda’s obsession with the rescue distance doesn’t ease her fears. A haunting story by one of the best young Spanish-language writers 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z

By the late 2000s, our collective obsession with affluent teenagers was still in full swing. How the Clique Books Taught Me to Hate Other Girls and Myself 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z

Suddenly Eliot, until then only a name in my favorite song, became an obsession, a way of understanding my own specialness, a mark of difference from my friends and family and immediate world. Our Favorite Dylan Lyrics 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

Nowadays, the surest signs that you’ve reached maturity are an obsession with property magazines and a fascination with the quality of your sleep. Good sleep hygiene is the new wellness goal. Try telling that to an eight-month-old baby 2020-03-14T04:00:00Z

“Basketball and Bauhaus,” said the designer backstage about his inspirations, recalling his games as a teenager and his long obsession with the “less is more” era of Mies van der Rohe’s 1930s architecture. Fashion Review: Givenchy: Basketball and Bauhaus 2014-01-17T14:54:36Z

Golf, now a more occasional hobby than the everyday obsession it was when he was a young boy in Allentown, Pa., helps. Movie Star Dane DeHaan: He Broods. He Pouts. He ... Golfs? 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z

And while obsession may be a scary condition, it is also extremely useful — and probably mandatory — for becoming someone like Josephine Baker. Review: ‘Josephine and I,’ a Tribute Show by Cush Jumbo 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z

The strength of this slim book is the vibrant, heartbreaking character Mr Greenwell creates in Mitko: object of the unnamed narrator’s desire, fear, obsession and, ultimately, pity. Come as you are 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z

Writing the line from Little Red Cap "I clung till dawn to his thrashing fur" on my homework diary signalled the apotheosis of my teenage obsession with Tom Selleck. The sexy A-level set texts scandalising our teenagers' morals 2013-06-07T15:58:30Z

This stance has occasionally made me feel mature, worldly, wised up, like a Gauloise-smoking European rolling his eyes at America’s hang-up with moral purity, its obsession with what has lately been called “virtue signaling.” Perspective | Great art isn’t always made by good people, but this is getting ridiculous 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z

Early reviews found the film charming but disappointing, a traditional star vehicle or melodrama more than a classic Herzog exploration of madness or obsession. ‘Queen of the Desert’ Debuts in Berlin 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z

With children’s technical obsessions starting at ever-younger ages — even kindergartners will play side by side on laptops during play dates — their brains may eventually be rewired and those skills will fade further, some researchers believe. How Does Technology Affect Kids? Friendships? 2010-04-30T20:05:00Z

His first novel is the story of a botanical obsession. T Magazine: The Aesthetes 2014-04-11T18:32:15Z

The world’s molecular obsession with Burgundy does not permit that. 12 Top-Tier (but Undervalued) Burgundy Producers 2019-09-12T04:00:00Z

The Twitter hashtags associated with the event were largely ignored by users of the influential social network and given the current obsession with online reaction, this must rank as disappointing. The risky business of using a live broadcast to plug a product 2013-06-19T10:51:51Z

If a director's obsessions connect with the ideal material, the effect is beyond logic, beyond rational experience — and certainly beyond whatever was on the page. 'Biutiful': Melodrama and tension get top billing 2011-01-26T20:23:02Z

Class is really interesting to me, maybe because I'm from England where there is a pretty hideous, deep-rooted obsession with class. Andrew Haigh's 'Looking' characters search for love 2015-01-10T05:00:00Z

At the Wadsworth, the accidents of history and the obsessions of its directors are plainly visible. Temple of delight 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z

Aside from the main character's name and his obsession with Australia, the movie actually bears little resemblance to Viorst's book. For indie's Miguel Arteta an excellent, good move to make kids' film 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z

Mayer writes of the early lives of the key players, the origin of their fortunes, their personal obsessions and quirks, and the role the operation was able to carve out. ‘Dark Money,’ by Jane Mayer 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z

It’s narrated by a woman whose mother dies giving birth to her and death is the book’s obsession. The Book That Terrified Neil Gaiman. And Carmen Maria Machado. And Dan Simmons. 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z

For Sarah O’Holla, 29, a librarian at the Village Community School in Manhattan, “my British obsession started last year when I woke up at 4 a.m. to watch the royal wedding,” she said. ?Downton Abbey? Inspires Themed Viewing Parties 2012-01-18T22:56:54Z

Lately that ethos has taken on a sophisticated sheen, as chefs apply Vermont’s longtime obsession with local ingredients in exciting new directions. 36 Hours in Burlington, Vermont 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z

Read enough of Machado's stories in succession and you will soon conclude that the most dominant among these is an obsession with time and its destructive passing. A brief survey of the short story part 47: Machado 2013-03-01T15:28:24Z

Barber researched the London project for a year, and his creative obsession with transforming waste verges on mad genius territory. One simple dish changed the course of this visionary chef’s life: Scrambled eggs 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z

This is who you want leading the resistance, someone who won't crack under pressure but his character had that secret kennel of obsession too, never as straight-laced as he first appeared. From "The Wire" to "John Wick," we trusted Lance Reddick as a voice of authority, empathy and comedy 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z

“We are slasher fiction and an updated version of a Victorian classic, so that in itself plays into the world of fan obsession,” he ponders. The return of Sherlock: ‘Being a hero isn’t about being bigger, richer, more powerful' 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z

So there’s Aaron Sorkin, obsessed with perfection in his script about a man obsessed with perfection, all the while worried that his daughter’s obsession with his subject’s products is causing her to cease to exist. Aaron Sorkin on the cult of Steve Jobs: ‘I hadn't seen anything like it since John Lennon was killed’ 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z

She removes Laurent from the school and announces, with the lucidity of obsession, "I will make you forget her." Postcards from Venice: 10 for the Show 2011-09-09T02:50:00Z

Ms. Bell’s obsessions — with high-design 1970s building intercoms, for example — are contagious, and her captions are generous with context and architectural history. Five Artists to Follow on Instagram Now 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z

I’m not hiding my obsessions from you just to be enigmatic, it really is early. New York Film Festival: A 'Genius' Grant Winner and His Unblinking Camera 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z

I used to think it was self-indulgent or shameful to write about my private passions, but then I realized that as a reader I loved learning about other writers’ obsessions. Golf Balls! Pencils! Whales! What Makes an Author’s Obsession a Thrill, Not a Bore? 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z

I think that satisfies an obsession because I was athletic as a kid. Q&A: Actor David Duchovny 2010-04-16T08:50:00Z

It was an obsession and often a torment. Wittgenstein’s ‘Private Notebooks’ Shed Some Light on an Enigmatic Genius 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z

I started my Bravo obsession under the guise of research. "It's a pro move": What Leslie Bibb learned from acting vets, from Robert De Niro to Carol Burnett 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z

She counts skateboarding and punk rock among her early passions, but clothes were an obsession. Liz Goldwyn, Hollywood Royal Family Member, Takes to Filmmaking 2014-01-12T02:48:43Z

E.A Hanks writes that it’s a further sign of Hollywood’s obsession with expanded universes. What You Should Watch This Week: British Baking (and Our Spring TV Breakups) 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z

For Sarah O'Holla, 29, a librarian at the Village Community School in Manhattan, "my British obsession started last year when I woke up at 4 a.m. to watch the royal wedding," she said. Pass the tea and the remote: It's party time for 'Downton Abbey' 2012-01-20T02:19:11Z

“The 19th century had two dangerous obsessions: one was with ‘progress,’ the other with ‘purity,’ ” Mr. Adams said. Critic?s Notebook: Social Context as Musical Theme 2011-08-22T21:31:56Z

"Our film is going to last forever," says Sebastian as he slides into obsession. 'Even the Rain': A film-within-a-film about conquerors and their legacy 2011-03-03T21:01:06Z

The writing for him was great, circling round his obsession with outdoing Stephen Fry's black cab by securing himself an ambulance. Radio review: No Angel 2010-12-20T08:00:01Z

January 28, 2010 11:17 pm Link I am a big fan of the frugal traveler and so glad that you decided to interview Ben, one of my new favorite travel obsessions. 2010-01-30T05:29:00Z

But they show 20th-century art’s obsession with merging sight and sound, text and image and, ultimately, time and space. Review: In William Larson's ‘Fireflies,’ Fax Transmissions as Art 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

Sticking to its signature egg obsession, Goop is selling the luxurious Atelier Stone I for $65. Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop holiday gift guide includes $43G earrings, BDSM kit 2019-11-16T05:00:00Z

While he and girlfriend Kristen Stewart, his co-star in the Twilight movies, became paparazzi and fan obsessions overnight, you sense that he has yet to make peace with his fame. Robert Pattinson: 'I want to strangle whoever invented that R-Patz thing' 2012-06-08T23:05:10Z

I wanted to extrapolate that a little bit and tell this crime story about a young girl and give her a lot of my obsessions. Comics writer Ed Brubaker on how his art form conquered the entertainment industry 2018-10-21T04:00:00Z

The book’s organizing principle is Hale’s obsession with animals, and she leans into her roles as both victim and predator. Bully or the Bullied? Kathleen Hale Is Both 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z

In the last few years, it has turned into an obsession. Ralph Fiennes's full-metal Coriolanus 2010-05-06T21:00:00Z

The admission, with its implication that he very much tried, is telling, given Johns’s obsession with replicating everything, and his evident fascination with the paradoxes at the heart of sameness and difference. Review | Seeing Jasper Johns: A seminal artist’s career is celebrated and illuminated in two cities 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z

So we opt for certain luxuries when we can, like airline or hotel room upgrades, typically attained through points or miles — a mutual obsession. A Kindred Spirit to Share the Road 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z

He is an architect, a profession that requires such work, but his obsession is personal. An Artist’s Obsession with the Ruins of His Homeland 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z

They will start that whole obsession almost immediately. Is America hooked on food? 2012-11-28T23:02:00Z

“I was obsessed with the future, an obsession that manifested as an inability to conceive of there being any kind of future at all,” he writes. ‘Notes From an Apocalypse’ Is a Timely Tour of Preparing for the Worst 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z

Drinking heavily and scribbling in a notebook when everyone’s asleep, spying on the family while concealing his long obsession with Sinclair, Liam gains a trust he doesn’t deserve. ‘The Lesson’ Review: Carefully Taut 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z

Emerging forms tend to attract the young, and that combination of youth, novelty and obsession threatens the status quo. How video games suck you in: “Our sense of time becomes yoked, not to the ticking of the clock, but to the pattern of our interactions” 2016-08-13T04:00:00Z

The book ends with an image of toy soldiers and plastic pistols from van Agtmael’s own boyhood bedroom, where he first cultivated his obsession with war. Peter van Agtmael’s Decoding of American Violence 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

“About eight years ago love turned into obsession.” ?God Save My Shoes,? a Documentary About High Heels 2012-03-25T01:23:02Z

My obsession with Gaby Hoffmann’s bush caused me to abandon journalistic decorum during a press junket for the third season of “Transparent.” Gaby Hoffmann’s radical bush: Let’s chat about pubic hair with the cast of “Transparent” 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

In its wake, Magritte, who lived until 1967, returned often to earlier ideas and obsessions. Review | This is not the Magritte we know 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

These issues are the obsessions driving my work. David Simon, J. Cole, Patricia Lockwood and Others on Social Issues as Manifested in Art 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z

Martin Scorsese spoke of Lucas’s many obsessions — cars, movies about cars, education, music — and then introduced the orchestra, which played a medley of music from those films as scenes were screened. Less pomp, more art for 2015 Kennedy Center Honors 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z

Rowland's intrinsic sense of style is at one with his emotionally charged lyrics, and his songs about true love, obsession and heartache. Kevin Rowland: 'My motto is "never not shopping"' 2012-07-10T15:23:00Z

The Winter’s Tale Shakespeare’s tragicomedy about court intrigue, romance and obsession, reimagined as a fairytale. L.A. theater openings, Jan. 1-8: 'Rent' and more 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z

Girls’ past is, in the end, another way for Remy to challenge what she calls “the overculture” and its obsession with novelty and planned obsolescence. Pop Is Obsessed With What’s Next. So U.S. Girls Revisited Her Past. 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z

His obsession with Michelangelo’s “Night,” a sculpture at the Medici Chapel in Florence, resulted in the marvelous “Large Seated Nude.” Art in Review: ?MATISSE AND THE MODEL? 2011-11-17T22:17:35Z

There have been many depictions of teen girls in crisis in pop culture and Patty’s character simply isn’t unique enough to successfully satirize our societal obsession with pretty young women. Insatiable: has Netflix's controversial 'fat-shaming' show fixed itself? 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z

Casta paintings are a decidedly weird territory, displaying an obsession with the races and the ways in which they mix — Spanish with Indian, Indian with Moorish, black with Indian and so on. Casta paintings were weird racial documents that broke stereotypes 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z

In his stage shows, he combines the scatological obsessions of a four-year-old with the stories of an adult who has experienced several decades of hard living. Comedy gold: Brendon Burns's So I Suppose This Is Offensive Now? 2012-11-22T17:43:08Z

His wife, cultured and prissy, is Taylor, with an Upper East Side pedigree and an obsession for planning, meticulous packing and five-star accommodations. An Italian vacation is not what two couples hoped in Delia Ephron's 'Siracusa' 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z

Momentary obsessions: The local food movement and sporting clays. | Sara Rotman 2010-10-20T15:28:00Z

The classification of these actors as “black” is itself a relic of the “one drop” rule and the US’s historical obsession with “racial integrity”. When it comes to interracial romances, the movies need to catch up 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

This deeply playful novel is about the passion and obsession of collecting, the nature of storytelling, the value of objects, and the complicated bonds of family. Review: Novels by Alexandra Kleeman, Edward St. Aubyn and More 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z

His abject obsession with all things related to Fusun escalates, as each object enables him to relive their moments together and brings temporary relief from the torture of her loss. | Orhan Pamuk 2012-10-04T15:00:21Z

“I have a ship’s bed,” she said, “which totally plays to my obsession of, if I were not an actress, I would be a pirate.” Zosia Mamet Is Still Getting Used to Being Your New Best Friend 2013-01-06T15:24:17Z

Both followed in the footsteps, literally and figuratively, of the great Garry Winogrand, for whom shooting on the streets of New York was not so much a vocation as a frantic obsession. Right Here, Right Now: photography snatched off the streets 2011-03-08T17:21:14Z

“So, ultimately, everything I do is rooted in a deep place of love, an overwhelming obsession with love.” Aja Monet, a Musical Poet of Love 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z

The fallen bombshell as objet d’art is nothing new. That obsession likely dates back to Eve and her apple. Buxom and Doomed: The Odd Marriage of Opera and Anna Nicole 2013-09-27T14:09:14Z

Stephen King’s superb new stay-up-all-night thriller, “Finders Keepers,” is a sly, often poignant tale of literary obsession that recalls the themes of his classic 1987 novel “Misery.” Book World: ‘Finders Keepers’ by Stephen King 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z

More than mere biographical detail, this remote island and its troubled, often violent history is one of his obsessions. Richard Flanagan’s Way With Intimacy 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z

Maybe it's my complete obsession with making sure that the eggs are perfectly cooked. A hands-off, splatter-free way to cook bacon 2022-04-24T04:00:00Z

Visiting this show can seem stepping inside a grand, laser-sharp obsession. Review: Robert Gober Conjures America 2023-10-04T04:00:00Z

Ms. Thomson, an English art historian, dwells on the artist’s obsession with his image. Gauguin, Obsessive Chameleon 2010-10-01T14:33:00Z

The protagonist follows object of obsession to a gig, where he cannot help but hear her. Readers recommend: songs about eavesdropping ? results 2011-07-14T12:18:29Z

“I’ve spent a lifetime trying to reconcile my obsession with luxury beauty products with my commitment to a healthy, sustainable lifestyle,” says Demerson, founder of . T Magazine: The Locavores 2011-08-16T19:05:08Z

He hated the market’s obsession with famous names. The Artist Beneath the Art Forger 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z

Early in the novel, before her obsessions saturate her life, the narrator, Francie, holds a managerial position at a framing store. Aimee Bender’s Latest Is a Proustian Reverie 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z

"I think there was a certain kind of element of obsession with Dylan that she found frightening and off-putting," he said. Bob Dylan's lyrical muse Suze Rotolo dies at 67 2011-03-01T22:12:08Z

Just the two of us, in the hot Greek sun, no one and nothing to invade the bubble of our mutual obsession. Unhappy Valentines: romantic holiday disasters 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z

Now, however, I've discovered I can service this minor obsession from the comfort of my desk. The Book Depository map: a boon for book voyeurs 2010-07-29T10:57:00Z

This dreamy, visually inventive Iranian drama functions on so many levels of reality and obsession that it almost ceases to entertain. 'Chicken with Plums': Strings begin to loosen on violinist's life 2012-10-04T20:01:10Z

As the opera progresses, Dee’s obsession with learning deepens; he immerses himself in books, separating himself from the events taking place around him. Music Review: An Alchemist Reaches Out Across Centuries 2011-07-03T19:14:09Z

The language around Covid-19 — “the obsession with the number of people that are passing away, the graphs and the death tolls” — is very triggering of that time for him, he says. Mark Bradford Reveals New Paintings Quarantined in a Grain Tower 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z

“I knew once I started, my obsession with beauty was so strong, it would really spread,” she says. Beauty Blogging in Dubai 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z

Passalaqua and Lackey both say one of the best things about "Royally Mad" was meeting others who share their obsession. Royal-crazy Yanks in London in BBC's 'Royally Mad' 2011-04-06T13:29:14Z

In the album’s obsession with permutation, you might hear shades of electronic music. Lonely Voyage of Player,Piano and Audience 2011-07-02T04:00:25Z

And amid all the speculation following their every move, maybe the two stars are playing into our obsession? Beyonce and Jay Z: Why we are obsessed with their marriage 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z

She left her dream dance company — her obsession since she was 4 — to pursue photography and filmmaking. She landed a job most dancers would kill for. Then she made an unthinkable pivot. 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z

Rather, it is a more excursive record of a lifelong pilgrim, illustrated by Smith’s own black-and-white photographs, filled with mementos mori and personal accounts of her travels, her artistic obsessions and inspirations. In her memoir ‘M Train,’ Patti Smith opens up about her life and loves 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z

Both he and his 6-year-old brother have developed a deep love, bordering on obsession, with the show — which they haven’t even seen. “Hamilton” is the new “Star Wars”: My sons’ epic love for Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Founding Fathers musical 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z

Emsworth's obsession – the word is hardly too strong – with Empress of Blandings is analogous at all points with Wodehouse's devotion to his craft. Will PG Wodehouse's Blandings work on TV? 2013-01-12T15:58:12Z

A childhood obsession with musicals like “Summer Stock” and “A Star Is Born” led to his first solo show at Feinstein’s/54 Below, which mixed Ms. Garland’s greatest hits with Mr. Sikes’s life story. Seth Sikes Channels Judy Garland in Cabaret Act 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z

For better or worse, it’s a bit of a wonder that mainstream horror hasn’t more heavily used the online world as a springboard for stories of obsession and fear. ‘Influencer’ Review: Reading Between the Likes 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z

His newspaper job is scuttled by a soured office romance, the basis of later obsessions. It All Started in Omaha 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z

It validates a limitation of the freedom of women, by persisting with an obsession with a victim’s movements rather than the vile actions of the perpetrator, while simultaneously creating a “canary down the mine” scenario. The monster myth: What I learned from seeing my wife’s killer in court 2014-04-28T23:00:00Z

The fears and obsessions of our adolescence don’t disappear when we become adults. Mary Grimm on the Rituals and Stories of Summer 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z

In the video, she begins in the persona of a dumbbell-bunny, before quickly caving: “Just kidding, if you know me at all I don’t really subscribe to that obsession.” 'The people’s yogi': how Adriene Mishler became a YouTube phenomenon 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z

There’s such an obsession with gender that it becomes limiting in many ways and exploitative in others. I started the 'gender reveal party' trend. And I regret it 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z

“A radical design had been born through Leo’s obsession with practicality,” author Ian S. Port writes; for Fender, form followed function as naturally as morning followed night. Review | A look at the two men who turned up the volume on rock music 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z

Busy with her new obsession, she moved her deadline for her new book “The Biggest Bluff,” which she had intended to finish over the summer but now plans to complete early next year. Researching Your Book? Hit the Casino 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z

That artistic choice was the start of Mr. Hammett's lifelong obsession with horror memorabilia. ArtsBeat: Movies, Memorabilia and Metallica 2012-11-27T14:00:59Z

Ryder’s meteoric rise to A-list status in her teens and twenties and tabloid-fueled fall shortly thereafter made her a national obsession. 90s Icon Winona Ryder Is Making Her Comeback 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z

Thus arises the mother’s obsession for those children who get lost along the way, while traveling with her own children looking at them, imagining what would happen if they were them. Luiselli’s prize-winning novel responds to migratory crisis 2021-06-07T04:00:00Z

Photo: PR Almodóvar's silky skills and supreme confidence tempt respectable audiences into an elegantly twisted tale of surgical obsession that few others could pull off. This week's new films 2011-08-26T23:06:05Z

Metaphysical platitude, repetition, obsession, incoherence, "a car crash of cliché" – all are permissible because this is how grief is, the thing itself. Too much grief 2011-08-19T21:55:11Z

We read about young men who play with such obsession that they literally die mid-game, and we hear about the sexist rage that fueled Gamergate. How video games suck you in: “Our sense of time becomes yoked, not to the ticking of the clock, but to the pattern of our interactions” 2016-08-13T04:00:00Z

“Students of history know only too well the ghastly results of those two obsessions.” Critic?s Notebook: Social Context as Musical Theme 2011-08-22T21:31:56Z

Alam doesn’t dwell in the specificity of apocalypse, which has been the obsession of writers since the Flood. What Happens When a Vacation Goes Wrong — and Not in a Funny Way? 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z

How do the rest of the band get on with my cat obsession? 'Best Coast's greatest inspiration? My cats' 2010-07-29T13:11:00Z

As the parents’ obsession with Crystal Academy grows more manic, the benefits of Holsinger’s deliberate pace become more apparent. Review | Parents will stop at nothing to get their kids into a prestigious school 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z

I am particularly fond of drawing animals, and my obsession with them goes back to my childhood. Peter de Sève’s “Dog Days of Summer” 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z

The power of celebrity, this obsession with Instagram — it’s driven by personality and lifestyle. Jimmy Iovine Knows Music and Tech. Here’s Why He’s Worried. 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z

Capitalizing on the country’s newest obsession, she wrote a monthly letter to newspapers describing the diamond jewelry worn by Hollywood actresses. How Americans Learned to Love Diamonds 2013-05-03T20:08:21Z

He observes, instead, that Kennedy's 1960 campaign saw the first nasty stirrings of much of what is loathed about politics today: the buying of votes, the obsession with image and the manipulation of the media. American Dream 2010-11-20T06:45:00Z

For decades his playing seemed to pass through preconceived dimensions or studentlike obsessions. Masabumi Kikuchi Finds New Direction With ?Sunrise? 2012-03-25T01:43:04Z

The seemingly benign packet of nutrition plans that Sarah receives in health class begins an obsession with which foods are good and which are bad — an obsession her mother encourages. Body Language in Middle Grade Lit 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z

Bergman describes Sharon as a “pyromaniac,” and his obsession with killing Yasser Arafat, the chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, as verging on monomaniacal. ‘Rise and Kill First’ Shines Light on Israel’s Hidden Assassinations 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z

She revised the novel "Little Bird of Heaven," a characteristic story of obsession and violence, and gave it a "more elegiac and `poetic' voice - more retrospective." Joyce Carol Oates writes memoir of grief 2011-02-11T13:01:04Z

Tinkering also emanates from a place of passion or obsession. “The Tinkerers”: How corporations kill creativity 2012-12-30T17:00:00Z

The obsession with superheroes ... is near-religious in its fervor, and any perceived slight against the genre ... results in days of collective, aggrieved fuming. The labor laws of the superhero universe amount to disturbing propaganda 2022-05-14T04:00:00Z

“It’s absurd, but it’s true,” she says, clarifying the extent of her Lynchian obsession. 'David Lynch, the Musical'? Not quite, but close, in 'Artaud in the Black Lodge' 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z

In some ways, the obsession with economics – both inside and outside the arts – is driven by economics itself. Steal this album: What happens if no one pays for music? 2012-06-20T11:45:00Z

The older couple appear happy enough, but their obsession with Marie suggests fault lines. Review: Pathos Times Two: A Double Dose of Inge, in Close Quarters 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z

However, like Solms, she is concerned that many academics suffer from an obsession with "all this neurotechnology ... with the machines themselves" and lack a clinical perspective. 'In the Mind Fields' and the renewed emphasis on a mindful approach to mental illness 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z

At the lower end is a thunderous growl, at once heroic and ominous, that transforms his signature song, “The Impossible Dream,” from sentimental kitsch to an anthem of demonic obsession. Music Review: Brian Stokes Mitchell?s Broadway Songbook at Town Hall 2010-04-18T22:13:00Z

Bocion was obsessed with capturing the elusive beauty of light on water, and his obsession is our reward. An Art-Filled Swiss Idyll in Lausanne and the Joux Valley 2023-07-10T04:00:00Z

They seem intended to make the mirrored rooms the ultimate expressions of her vision, her repetitive motifs and her obsession with infinity, which she also likens to obliteration, or a form of death. Into the Land of Polka Dots and Mirrors, With Yayoi Kusama 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z

The main difference in our cat obsession is that hers are worth nearly $100 million. Of course even Taylor Swift’s cats are capitalists 2023-01-14T05:00:00Z

The book trains its gaze on his technical and philosophical obsessions. What Made Leonardo Such a Great Artist? Science, Says a New Book 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z