| 单词 | obsessive |
| 例句 | Both obsessive observers of the natural world, Darwin and Mendel made their crucial leaps by asking variants of the same question: How does “nature” come into being? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z From obsessive reading online, the politics, history, and geography of the two Koreas, China, Southeast Asia, Europe, and the United States would all become familiar. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z More than that, she was worried that his interest in chess was becoming obsessive. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Chacko studied his treatise on “The Peaceful Transition to Communism” with an adolescent’s obsessive diligence and an ardent fan’s unquestioning approval. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The obsessive watchfulness and abhorrent vigilance with money. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z But she began to see his desperate and relentless focus on her as something closer to obsessive need than love. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Schizophrenia, schizoaffective, bipolar I, bipolar II, major depression, psychotic depression, obsessive/compulsive, and on and on. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z But though I can digress with the best of them, I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “Yeah. I can see what you bring out in him. You don’t know this because you’ve never experienced it, but Four without you is a much different person. He’s... obsessive, explosive, insecure ...” “Obsessive?” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z I said to him: “Harry, please pick up a bottle of wine on your way over. But don’t be obsessive about it. ” Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I was obsessive about my fears, once, in the same way, always trying to make sense of them, over and over again. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Although Washington was not, like Adams or Jefferson, a prodigious reader of books, he was an obsessive reader of newspapers. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z If Anna is collecting evidence that I am vindictive and obsessive, this could be a key piece in her dossier. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z While hardly an earthshaking question, it had symbolic significance because of the obsessive American suspicion of monarchy, which haunted all conversations about the powers of the presidency under the recently ratified Constitution. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Why they are so obsessive about time, and why they think it is like a cake you can divide into pieces, why? The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z Plus Bess with her obsessive cleaning is impossible to be around. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z The answer will not be heartening to obsessive parents: in this case, school choice barely mattered at all. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z God, no wonder Stella was so obsessive about staying alive. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z The obsessive cleanliness of the room was the only positive sign of volition from Estha. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought she was obsessive before the results came back. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z Galen’s extraordinary logorrhoea—his surviving works amount to 3 million words, and represent perhaps a third of what he wrote—is the consequence of his obsessive and futile effort to overcome this insuperable obstacle. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He was a reader and recognized his habit of reading as obsessive and neurotic, and told himself that if he read something less frivolous than newspapers and magazines he might indeed be better off. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Following this, Travis had driven us, and the fair organizers, mad with his obsessive checking and rechecking that Bunny was entered in the rabbit/fur competition and not the rabbit/meat competition. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Any obsessive ritual to keep your own heart beating. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Readers of black newspapers around the country followed the exploits of the Tuskegee airmen with an intensity that bordered on the obsessive. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z They are gracefully wrought, each one worked with the same intricate, almost obsessive detail, from hilt to crossbar to minutely etched blade. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Peoples, why are they so compelsive, no, what is the word, propulsive, no, obsessive, yes obsessive! The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z I planned to trail off quietly, by cutting back my obsessive practices, not giving recitals. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z One solitary obsessive, feebly armed with an apostrophe on a stick, will never have the nerve to demonstrate outside Warner Brothers on the issue of Two Weeks Notice. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z The reason I’ve never dreamed about him was that he belonged already to the world of dreams: discontinuous, irrational, obsessive. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Which seems silly now, and obsessive, but that’s what I did. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z What we need is more crowding, more unrestrained and obsessive communication, more open channels, even more noise, and a bit more luck. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z And it's working out because Cheddar is sort of obsessed with me, or at least very interested, which in the world of felines counts as obsessive behavior. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Even my mother, who was obsessive about order and neatness in her house, chose to let the photographs of the two families get commingled and confused. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z That's the way I remember relationships starting in college—those obsessive marathon beginnings. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Only the most obsessive surveillance could prevent this. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z There is a recurrent scene from those dinners that surfaces again and again, like an obsessive undercurrent in a dream. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Beautiful and well, Yolanda muses, that's what she had wanted with Clive, all things beautiful and well, instead of their obsessive, consuming passion that left her—each time Clive left her—exhausted and distraught. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z One patch of new ground that made us particularly proud emerged from David Cay Johnston’s obsessive mining of tax records and other government statistics. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z The passage of time has not altered my father's obsessive attention to my sisters' weight and appearance. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z I feel like I can see that obsessive streak Amar was referring to. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z You don’t have to believe in obsessive parenting to think that the second boy doesn’t stand a chance and that the first boy has it made. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “Today he was laid back. Usually he’s more obsessive/compulsive.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Noisy, active, obsessive, eccentric—with a dervishlike mind that spiraled from one scientific question to the next—Thomas Morgan was a professor of zoology at Columbia University. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z I don’t think this is too strictly enforced except when the place is run by an obsessive martinet like Amadeus von Linden. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z I learned a lesson from all this: that kind of obsessive storybook love was not for me. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z My life revolves around an obsessive regimen and percentages, and given that I was just in surgery, the risk never seems to go down. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z He says it casually, but I know from the frantic scribbling on maps that his interest isn’t casual—it’s obsessive. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z With the obsessive attention to detail that characterized his brand of dogged genius, Rosellini purged his life of all but the most primitive tools, which he fashioned from native materials with his own hands. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Teller’s obsessive personality created a managerial dilemma for Norris Bradbury, the able Berkeley-trained physicist who had succeeded Oppenheimer as Los Alamos director. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Theirs is a gesture of love, surely, but also a gesture of what might be called obsessive parenting. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z But sometimes Jinjoo wished her mother’s obsessive adoration of their father would not shut her children out. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z But I have only played against a computer, and not often, because chess is one of those things that can become obsessive. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z I’m a naturally competitive person, but I wasn’t so obsessive that I had to know what my ranking was going to be every single second of every single day. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z He took obsessive zeal in recording captured goods and would defend them at all costs. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z I panicked a bit over your future wife comment because my last relationship just felt very obsessive and I don’t like who I became during it or how I felt after. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z The path was well maintained and just steep enough to feel like healthful exercise rather than some kind of obsessive torture. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z I went upstairs to get ready for bed, and a new obsessive slogan started running through my mind. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z A week into my initiation, Amar—worried that I was becoming increasingly isolated and obsessive—invited me to join some of the older Dauntless for a game of Dare. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Perhaps as a legacy of his childhood, Jesse remained an obsessive reader. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z We were, as most new parents are, obsessive and a little boring, and nothing made us happier. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Maybe she’s met kids like me before—other students who have obsessive routines and patterns. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z No self-respecting parent, obsessive or otherwise, is ready to believe that. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Newton was an obsessive character who threw himself body and soul into whatever project was at hand. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z She had that deadly obsessive look in her eyes that girls got when they knew what they wanted and were going to do anything to get it. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z In short, we are unattractive know-all obsessives who get things out of proportion and are in continual peril of being disowned by our exasperated families. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z I had effectively mastered the tones and accent by obsessive listening at night to audio lessons designed for state department employees. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z No to-do list, no suffocating hospital, no obsessive regimen, no one else to worry about. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z Such a lack of obsessive behavior might tempt Poirot to send her home. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z “And every single one of the guys developed a massive crush on her, including Jim; She was actually the one who gave him the nickname Anorak,’ a British slang term for an obsessive geek. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I can already feel her getting all obsessive like she does sometimes. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z There were many portraits that had to be taken from Gresham College to Crane Court, and this was overseen by the obsessive stickler for detail Sir Isaac Newton. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Antara’s obsessive attention leads her to maintain a vast flowchart of her mother’s bodily functions, which both repulse and fascinate her, which was my reaction, too. Review | ‘Burnt Sugar,’ a challenging Booker Prize finalist, is hard to take, but harder to shake off 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z Like, for example, an obsessive interest in the particularities of mid-19th-century woolens. Theater Review: ‘Row After Row’ Explores Civil War Re-Enactors 2014-01-24T03:01:02Z Mr. Weidman does his best to add some darker dimensions to this fabled American hero: his obsessive need to write his name in the sky becomes almost pathological. | 'Take Flight': Musical About Early Aviators at McCarter Theater 2010-05-23T22:45:00Z Will it even work as a movie, and will anyone other than its most obsessive fans want to see it? ‘Veronica Mars’ Fans Are Happy to Finance a Reunion 2014-03-05T14:58:23Z Like the alcoholism of the supposedly sane DJ, the patients' self-harming and obsessive cleaning are symptoms of life experiences. Takin' Over the Asylum – review 2013-02-19T17:55:51Z That’s this new nine-part series, which takes that same obsessive chef worship and lusty cinematography and focuses it on street food. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z Books about mourning have doubled as obsessive studies of Virginia Woolf, mushroom-gathering, training a young hawk. Grief and Geology Both Take Time in ‘The Book of Unconformities’ 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z At 14 he gave up ballet for music, channelling his obsessive energies into “hours and hours” of practising drums. 'It's fine not to do it their way': Bret McKenzie on home, Hollywood and the oddness of fame 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z Davis has always been obsessive about her work; in the past, whole nights were spent in front of the computer, agonising over every tiny detail. Dark star: Julia Davis 2010-04-10T23:10:00Z An obsessive naturalist who wades in alkaline pools for imagined proto-organisms. A Debut Novel. A Tiny Press. A Pulitzer Finalist. 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z Available both as a single-disk compilation and as a six-CD “deluxe edition,” it is both more and less than what Dylan obsessives have been tiresomely clamoring for. Bob Dylan’s Masterpiece Is Still Hard to Find 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z Dustin Hoffman plays Columbia grad student and running obsessive Thomas "Babe" Levy, who is hounded by Laurence Olivier's sinister Dr Christian Szell over a briefcase of missing diamonds. Ten of the best running movies 2013-02-18T13:18:00Z The way she goes from harried, unconcerned indifference to harried, obsessive concern is something only O'Hara could do. "Home Alone" itself shows why a Disney+ reboot Is a bad idea 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z Take, for example, our mongrel Mitty, whose fondness for chasing sticks was obsessive. Traveling through the pandemic in the company of dogs 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z In a 1997 Associated Press interview, he said his drive to invent was more than mercantile; it was a bit obsessive. Ron Popeil, inventor and king of TV pitchmen, dies at 86 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z “That obsessive compulsive person is awesome up to a point,” said Dr. Judy L. Van Raalte, a Springfield University sports psychologist who works with college and professional athletes. Do Olympians get OCD? 2012-08-02T17:20:00Z The original season was almost deliberately haphazard, a slow burn fanned by obsessives on the internet. Serial tackles Bowe Bergdahl: our expert panel gives its verdict 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z His hapless, bored and obsessive characters, natural liars and fantasists all, may require the insularity of a small, isolated, self-mythologizing world to flourish and self-destruct credibly. Theater Review | 'A Behanding in Spokane': Packing Heat, and a Grudge 2010-03-05T04:55:00Z You’ve spoken in the past about having an obsessive streak with your work. Damien Chazelle: ‘I liked doing something that was the polar opposite of La La Land’ 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z Maybe you think your obsessive need to find out everything about everything via your personal device is a delightful reflection of the boundlessness of your curiosity and the suppleness of your intellect. The Multiverse Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up to Be in ‘Come With Me’ 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z Then the devil makes his presence known in the obsessive, ever-shifting and fiendishly appealing finale. Are Bruckner Symphonies Now the Proving Ground for Conductors? 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z Simon, now 57, understands the obsessive levels of interest in his father’s story. 'She said the boat's been found and he's not on it': Donald Crowhurst's final voyage, by his son 2018-02-03T05:00:00Z In a witty solo section, he mimicked the sounds of a 1980s drum machine in obsessive detail, miming its knobs, pads and faders, while producing every authentic, snap, crackle, whoosh and reverse sample swoop. The Magnets ? review 2010-12-16T22:30:03Z Then, an obsessive historian named Sam Stephenson discovered a vault of photos and audiotapes of Monk rehearsing what would be his legendary 1959 big band concert at New York’s Town Hall. This Kennedy Center director is making performance art out of jazz. Can he bring fans along? 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z Many prominent people attend the opera occasionally, but Justice Ginsburg was almost an obsessive. Ruth Bader Ginsburg Loved Opera, and Opera Loved Her Back 2020-09-19T04:00:00Z Both of them agree that to be a good street photographer you need to be, as Stuart puts it, "incredibly patient and dedicated to the point of obsessive". Moment of truth 2010-04-17T23:05:00Z Almond has become a friend, but in his teens Hegarty was the obsessive fan. Antony Hegarty: 'We need more oestrogen-based thinking' 2012-05-19T23:04:35Z I'm kind of an impulsive obsessive, I don't know if there's a category like that. Kenny Rogers 2013-06-27T12:01:01Z "I got good. I'm sort of obsessive. I tend to get myopic and get into one thing. And really get into it. And then get bored and switch to something else." Ben Affleck on blackjack story: It 'took place' but wasn't that bad 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z “Rust: The Longest War,” Waldman’s first book, is as obsessive as it is informative. Jonathan Waldman’s ‘Rust’ shows the substance’s corrosive power 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z Actually, for the past few months, the Empress had been sending out Lose Cannons to some Invite winners who’d already won multiple Inkin’ Memorials, while awarding the last of the Abes to the less obsessive. Style Invitational Week 1247: Script tease 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z Only cartoonish control freaks are obsessive about turning their children into scientists or senators and nothing else. Memo to Parents: Back Off, and Children Learn More 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z Alone with Fredrik at last, she drops the role of the worldly seductress and carefree flirt that she assumed in order to play Fredrik’s renewed infatuation against her young lover’s obsessive devotion. Peters and Stritch in ?A Little Night Music? 2010-08-02T01:58:00Z I am learning a number of things about being on a pilgrimage route: one is that you become superstitious, even obsessive. Walking the other way: the Portuguese Camino 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z In the real world, too, the show has enjoyed an uncanny second life, lauded by an obsessive new generation of fans, despite having barely graced terrestrial screens since 1992. Twin Peaks at 20 2010-10-22T13:41:00Z While dispatching the technical challenges easily, Mr. Hadelich revealed the musical ingenuity of a work that evolves in daringly disjointed phrases and obsessive sequences, until toward the end there is a hint of a dance. Music Review: Augustin Hadelich and Charles Owen at Frick Collection 2013-12-09T21:56:59Z Their obsessive attention to where they fall in the status hierarchies. Southern values revived 2012-07-01T22:00:00Z Neil Gibbons We weren't Partridge obsessives but we obviously knew the character. Alan Partridge: a look inside his mind 2013-07-27T05:00:00Z So unless you're exactly the kind of obsessive who already knew you had to catch this before you started reading, don't bother. "I Spit on Your Grave": Bogus feminist torture porn lives! 2010-10-07T18:30:00Z But the book is also, like grief itself, infuriating and, sometimes, rebarbative: deep in her mourning, O'Rourke is petulant, needy, and obsessive. The Long Goodbye: A Memoir of Grief by Meghan O'Rourke ? review 2011-08-12T11:15:01Z It embraces its oddball subjects — con artists, Craigslist obsessives, exhibitionists, even dogs — and the city that, for all its demands, gives them the space to be who they are. How Three Quirky Sitcoms Capture the New York Hustle 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z Certain thru-hikers, referred to as “purists,” take this emphasis on continuity to obsessive lengths. Why the Most Popular Hiking Memoirs Don’t Go the Distance 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z Then he launches into a monologue about his struggle with obsessive compulsive disorder. Jonathan Bernstein's Aerial View of American TV 2010-08-20T23:09:00Z The drama is noticeable for its obsessive attention to detail. Downton Abbey fans should prepare to be shell-shocked 2011-07-29T19:24:50Z In a video posted this summer, he discussed how difficult it is to talk about his experience of obsessive compulsive disorder, in part because language so often fails to capture abstract feelings. John Green Opens Up About His Own Struggles 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z But there are thousands of obsessives like Pipkin for whom PredictIt can be more than just a hobby or even a job, it can be a lifestyle. This site bet big on political gambling. Regulators want it shut down. 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z Today, Mathis remembers him as “sensitive and obsessive. He felt things on his heart very deeply.” The untold story of lost star River Phoenix – 25 years after his death 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z Mr. Green was about 6 years old when he first became aware of his obsessive thought patterns. John Green Opens Up About His Own Struggles 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z Whatever he delivers, audiences can trust it’ll be meticulously crafted and engineered to perfection – Greenwood earned a reputation as an obsessive studio tinkerer from his earliest Radiohead days. Solo performance: who should score Star Wars once John Williams quits? 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z People like to see crime in dark places, where people who are obsessive about solving such crimes can become very magnetic. Branagh: Knighthood is 'surreal' 2012-06-18T14:03:34Z You could even say that the show’s star is not so much the isolated, obsessive Seurat as it is his eyes. Review: ‘Sunday in the Park With George,’ a Living Painting to Make You See 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z For many of the ramen obsessives — myself included — it was all, I suspected, about the hunt. 2010-01-30T05:09:00Z From “the soporifics of normalcy” to “the numbing raptures of the Web,” “Zero K” captures us “trapped in our own obsessive clamor.” Don DeLillo’s novel ‘Zero K’ captures the swelling fears of our age 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z She is aware, however, that some of her fans can verge on the obsessive. Joan Armatrading: Saint Joan 2010-04-07T20:30:00Z Because there's so many detective stories about obsessive people who are brilliant detectives because of their obsessiveness and my experience with obsessiveness has been more or less the complete opposite. John Green on Mental Illness and Writing a Book That Mirrors His Own Life 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z An obsessive love poem about oneself from the point of view of a fictional fan would change the meaning of "Celebritist Manifesto," even if it was line-for-line the same. Nic Rad's "Celebritist Manifesto": James Franco fan art becomes actual art-art 2011-02-22T14:12:00Z His obsessive–compulsive disorder and numerous phobias are also at all time highs. Adrian Monk returns in “Mr. Monk's Last Case: A Monk Movie”: Watch the trailer 2023-11-08T05:00:00Z Many of us are mining the moment for laughs, skewering those self-care obsessives still mourning canceled SoulCycle classes, ballooning hips and visible roots. FOMO Is Over. Give In to the Joy of Letting Go. 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z The background to this obsessive junior logophilia is that at home a catastrophe has occurred: Worser’s mother has had a stroke. The Language of Love 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z A buzzing tarantella-like section, with an obsessive triplet motif, showed off her agile left hand. Music review: Bella Hristova 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z Later, the instruments broke into cascading, manic arpeggios and obsessive swirls of hyper-fast notes. Review: The Composer Tristan Perich’s Proudly Lo-Fi Electronic Sounds 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z “I get very obsessive about people,” he said. Sia and Charli XCX Cover Bleachers on a Women-Led Version of 'Strange Desire' 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z “My biggest concern about juice cleanses is that they fuel obsessive thinking,” she said. The Juice Cleanse: A Strange and Green Journey 2010-10-27T21:21:00Z Jenkins’ obsessive fealty to these words, presented almost verbatim on screen, is admirable, given how rare it is to see Baldwin on the big screen, but it creates a peculiar distance for the viewer. If Beale Street Could Talk: Barry Jenkins shows that more is less 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z But longtime customers say that Mr. Klein’s instincts and obsessive attention to detail are what makes the Sunset Tower special. From Masthead to Maître D’: Gabé Doppelt at Tower Bar 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z Jaws was the first movie I was obsessive about, and it remained so for my entire life: I’ve seen it more than 100 times. Jaws, 40 years on: ‘One of the truly great and lasting classics of American cinema’ 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z “BoJack” and “Succession” share a thrilling attention to detail — production design meant for obsessive pausing and screenshotting, with a particular knack for tickers at the bottom of inane cable-news shows. Miss ‘Succession’ Already? Here’s What to Watch Next 2023-05-29T04:00:00Z Photograph: Reuters The mole is the creature most often brought to mind by obsessive scholarship. Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan by William Dalrymple – review 2013-01-23T09:01:01Z Mr. Korff’s obsessive personality is also evident in his collection of vintage steel bikes from the 1970s and ’80s — he owns 10 — which he rides exclusively. An Obsessive Collector Who’s Drawn Royalty to Brooklyn 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z Salter’s nameless narrator spends the autumn photographing the town for some vague future project that grows increasingly obsessive and immense. James Salter’s ‘Blue, Indolent’ Corner of Burgundy 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z A lone man, an outsider — in this case a retired Chicago cop — is drawn into an obsessive quest to find a young person who has disappeared in a small Irish mountain town. Best thriller and mystery books of 2020 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z Ben Daniels also stars, as the obsessive older priest, in a series based on the 1973 film. A Chill in the Air? Stay Inside and Watch TV 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z As a writer, he brought obsessive sneaker culture to the mainstream media. What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘Rock Rubber 45s’ and ‘Drunk History’ 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z The binge was lovely and absorbing, and I felt glad that I’d waited: “Girls” was a different, better, funnier show than its obsessive and often airless coverage had made it out to be. On Finally Watching “Girls,” a Different and Better Show Than I’d Been Led to Imagine 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z When one obsessive writes about another, it sometimes means you get obsession squared. Review: ‘The Vanishing Velázquez’ Tells of Art Obsession 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z She gets terrific support from Chris Ryan, playing an obsessive fan who suddenly finds himself metaphorically in the limelight and – in the show's lushest visual moment – literally bringing dazzling light into the darkness. Meow Meow's Little Match Girl – review 2012-12-20T13:10:26Z At a young age, Rue was diagnosed with obsessive compulsive disorder, attention deficit disorder and general anxiety disorder. ‘Euphoria’ Is Back. Here’s Where It Left Off. 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z Cuckor's output of the past several decades initially looks like the obsessive video diaries of an eccentric outsider artist. Berlin Biennale 2010: where art imitates real life 2010-06-15T11:57:00Z In hindsight, maybe "Yellowjackets" obsessives focused too much on trying to figure out who was the main dish in the premiere's stomach-turning barbecue. "Yellowjackets" boss on the killer ending revelation "that will blow a lot of people's minds" 2022-01-17T05:00:00Z Shaw's obsessive project might be seasoned by technical perversity and back-street humour, but when his images work they are wonderful. This week's new exhibitions 2011-02-19T00:05:56Z If the somewhat static rewards of this literary approach are your cup of tea, along with the requisite obsessive attention to details of period production design, all may be fine. ‘The Crown’ Review: Tempus Horribilis 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z The book becomes a record of obsessive love without any outlet, dead ends, yearning — themes central to Twombly, whose paintings are full of references to doomed lovers, Hero and Leander, Achilles and Patroclus. ‘Chalk: The Art and Erasure of Cy Twombly’ Hunts for Big — and Elusive — Game 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z The book is — you may want to read on before refreshing Twitter — about finding balance in an age of obsessive indulgence. The Best-Seller List Welcomes Oprah’s Latest Pick and an Eyebrow-Raising Gadget 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z “Horse Crazy” comes into focus when Nir, a New York Times reporter, trains her journalistic lens on her fellow obsessives. Birds and Horses and Eels, Oh My! New Books About Animals 2020-08-14T04:00:00Z At the time, that aesthetic was brighter and crisper than the sound of My Bloody Valentine, perhaps the most prominent name in shoegaze, which combined pummeling rhythms, searing walls of distortion and obsessive studio trickery. Shoegaze, the Sound of Protest Shrouded in Guitar Fuzz, Returns Again 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z Our resident obsessives are following Rachel Lindsay’s love journey while daydreaming of a casual summer Saturday at a Madison, Wis., farmers’ market. Commitment Issues and Fraught Hometown Visits as ‘Bachelorette’ Nears End 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z You are less likely to feel they are capable of obsessive, transformative passion. ‘West Side Story’ Review: Sharks vs. Jets vs. Video 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z Roth quickly and likably departs from any such rational scheme in favour of the more chaotic and obsessive, hopelessly self-absorbed stuff of his life. The Scientists: A Family Romance - review 2013-01-14T07:00:01Z The wall text — best read after going through the piece — explains everything, which turns out to be completely in keeping with Mr. Cuoghi’s strange, obsessive sensibility. Aural Installations Take Over New Museum 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z “Ring” cycles tend to draw Wagner fans from around the world, who can be as obsessive as Deadheads. A Soprano Survived a Vocal Crisis. The Met Found Its Brünnhilde. 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z People who string words together for a living—generally a difficult, obsessive, detail-niggling tribe—tend to take inordinate delight in new slang, much in the way that people who study beetles love new bugs. An Epic Takedown 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z Ali, a 25-year-old whose pen name is Eaten Fish, has chronicled his three-year detention on Manus Island as he struggles with obsessive compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder and debilitating panic attacks. Iranian refugee detained in Papua New Guinea wins cartooning award 2016-08-27T04:00:00Z Now that I am on PrEP, the obsessive thoughts about HIV have disappeared. 'Honestly, it’s a revolution. It's so great taking control' 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z The mother is a singular star to her baby, whose gaze follows her around the room with the watchfulness of an obsessive fan. Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher, a Mother-Daughter Act for the Ages 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z Lewis how poorly I’d been prepared for some of the challenges of early middle age by my obsessive childhood rereading of the Chronicles of Narnia. Lev Grossman: My depression helped inspire the Magicians trilogy 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z “Uproot,” his first book, is grounded in thrilling accounts from his world travels as a DJ, journalist and obsessive music collector. In 'Uproot,' Jace Clayton takes a worldwide tour of the digital underground 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z At this stage it was common for the employers to be whimsical and often obsessive in the demands made on their staff. Servants: A Downstairs View of Twentieth-Century Britain by Lucy Lethbridge – review 2013-03-25T08:00:09Z The outcome is a strange, obsessive exhibition, which is dense with information, playful in parts, and unfailingly intriguing. At a Tokyo Museum, the Design Is in the Details 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z I was a pretty obsessive kid and when I held it in my hands for the first time, I was away. BBC Sound Of 2015: James Bay 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z T. Coraghessan Boyle loves to write about people in extremis: people who are odd, obsessive, strangely gifted, bizarrely damaged or just plain mad. 2010-02-11T22:46:00Z Contributors to obsessive Web sites, including projectneon.tumblr.com and roadsidenut.wordpress.com, report news of installations and losses. Antiques: Vintage Neon Signs and the Neon Museum in Las Vegas 2012-10-18T22:11:06Z The long-running investigations into their alleged crimes were the stuff of equally obsessive coverage. Bad girls and gone girls: Why the media tired of ‘missing white women’ 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z Parliament less so nowadays but I watch tons of quiz shows and I'm a little bit of a Come Dine With Me obsessive. Daniel Radcliffe: 'I'm not a one-trick pony' 2013-06-02T18:00:01Z Bright little dots drift across nocturnal colors in a series of recent oils and watercolors by Ofili; in two paintings from 2018, he applies the same palette to towers of dreamy, obsessive little triangles. Two Critics, 13 Favorite Booths at The Armory Show 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z It was a musically enthusiastic, even obsessive, bunch. The ‘Campers’ of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra 2012-07-15T06:43:04Z We call them super reviewers, not obsessive reviewers, because they are largely held in a positive light by the public. For online 'super reviewers' rewards go offline 2010-07-08T23:12:00Z These exercises in cultivated obsessive–compulsive disorder shape and stabilise the world about us. Great literature should stay on all reading lists 2012-10-07T18:30:01Z More than the first True Grit, the new one emphasises Mattie's precocious, almost obsessive preoccupation with the law. True Grit: Rooster to the rescue 2011-02-06T21:31:00Z Certainly the poor dinosaurs didn’t, though for their more obsessive present-day human fans the fact that this movie is called “65” — as in million years ago — might count as a spoiler. ‘65’ Review: What on Earth? 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z For the obsessive viewer, “Slayers & Vampires” is a new primary text to pore over, with plenty of behind-the-scenes tidbits about who hated whom and how TV shows are made. A New Bible for Obsessive Fans of ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z In later life, Gould's obsessive need for control, sadly, turned into hypochondria and paranoia. 'Genius Within': A personal view of eccentric Canadian pianist Glenn Gould 2010-10-14T20:41:00Z To try to answer that question, Kun ventured outside the library walls, into the obsessive and peculiar world of private menu collectors. Chronicling Los Angeles History, Menu by Menu 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z Margot maintains a tentative hold on sanity, sublimating her anxieties into obsessive household chores. Three Married Couples and a Cryptic Headmistress Fuel the Suburban Satire of ‘The Pessimists’ 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z Mr. Morris has been preoccupied with obsessive personalities throughout his career, and here he scrutinizes the obsessive elements of Ms. McKinney’s story, including the media hysteria surrounding it. Weathering a Scandal and Now a Movie 2011-07-09T03:53:02Z But if you are just like, obsessive, I’m going to be on you. Lil Baby Might Be Rap’s Most Reluctant New Star 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z What is it about this crimson-colored book, its hue as recognizable to graduates as the coloration of a red-crested cardinal to a dedicated birder, that prompts such obsessive perusal? After Harvard, Dispatches of Adulthood 2012-04-13T22:21:53Z LENOX, Mass. — Richard Wagner put an obsessive amount of effort into portraying the natural world in the “Ring,” both in his music and how he wanted it staged. Review: ‘Die Walküre’ Brings the Thunder to Tanglewood 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z Those familiar foodstuffs are vehicles for Mr. Chang’s cranky, obsessive pursuit of questions about tradition and innovation, authenticity and migratory mash-ups, the racist roots of attitudes toward food, and Americans’ unslaked appetite for Italian cooking. Review: David Chang in the Comfort Food Zone on Netflix 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z When Nate loses interest in her, Cassie enters an obsessive spiral: her days are punctuated by compulsive beauty rituals, with their harmful nature emphasized in the repetitive montage. How "Euphoria" challenges viewers’ expectations of what a television show should be 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z REED: I have to admit, I was pretty obsessive. 20 years later, ‘Bring It On’ still gets the cheers 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z Last year the obsessive Arsenal supporter got into hot water with Liverpool fans when he criticised their team for not playing on the anniversary of the Hillsborough tragedy. Alan Davies interview: 'I'm like a fine wine. I'm maturing' 2013-01-20T18:57:01Z He sells out stadiums, does world tours, has his share of obsessive fans and struts the stage with guitar in hand. Bill Bailey: Bill's excellent adventure 2013-04-19T14:00:00Z As a lifelong music obsessive and secular Congregationalist, I have ferocious holiday-music opinions—if it’s too craven, cloying, or pious, it can go jump in a lake. Twelve Feel-Good Seasonal Pop Classics, with and Without Christmas 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z Likewise if she wants to talk about her other family members, when it becomes boring and obsessive and seems to be dragging down your friendship, gently draw her interest to things outside her family. My BFF’s family is nuts! 2012-11-08T01:00:00Z The film carefully skirts the issue around whether Stokes was an eccentric visionary – an archivist of a medium that has come to define our lives – or an obsessive hoarder. 'Ahead of her time': the woman who recorded the news for 30 years 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z I don't spend money on the details somewhat, but I like the food and the wine we're obsessive about. Will Joe Beef survive the apocalypse? 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z Fans, however, cared for “The Dark Crystal” in that tenderly obsessive way that only the truest fans will. ‘The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance’: There’s no better use of Netflix’s fortunes than this perfect revival - The Washington Post 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z After a childhood diagnosis of obsessive compulsive disorder, he became conscious of the need to invite entropy into his life. Caleb Landry Jones Can Do This 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z In “Jackie,” Kennedy’s body — the object of obsessive inquiries — is replaced by hers in a kind of symbolic transfiguration as she assumes the role of his dignified representative, the guardian of a shining legacy. ‘Jackie’: Under the Widow’s Weeds, a Myth Marketer 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z British newspapers have run bemused accounts of Cumberbatch's obsessive fans, mostly young women, flying in from as far away as Japan and Taiwan to see their hero play Shakespeare's flawed one. There's no method to fan madness over Benedict Cumberbatch in 'Hamlet' 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z 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 Until recently, Henry and June Weldon’s Park Avenue apartment reflected a kind of passionate, obsessive collecting of a bygone era. Weldon Collection of Paintings to Be Sold at Sotheby’s 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z While it can be hard to stand out, everyone described the world of miniature selling and buying as quite collaborative and joyful, and there are many reasons people have become obsessive collectors and makers. Inside the Big World of Small Objects 2023-05-13T04:00:00Z Sam Peckinpah’s classic western is lovingly picked over in this obsessive treatment of its making and reception. New & Noteworthy 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z It’s not healthy to be this obsessive and passionate and hard-working . Why this chef plans to avoid lemons and olive oil 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z As followers of Broadway news and obsessive watchers of the box office are well aware, there’s a new crew member aboard “The Last Ship.” In ‘Last Ship,’ Sting Tries to Not Steal the Spotlight 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z He thoughtfully managed each touch, phrase and transition to meaningful ends, whether fiery, tender or obsessive. Music Review: Piano by Jacob Greenberg and Reinier van Houdt at Spectrum 2014-03-26T20:59:42Z His method was textbook obsessive — at least by the standards of the 1970s, way before the Internet turned everyone into an expert on, well, everything. My dad was a perfectionist in the kitchen, so I had to outdo him 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z It is important to keep in mind that the sheer fact of our obsessive repetition of Manson lore is a big part of the story I am after here. Why we won’t let Charles Manson die 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z On Feb. 27, Oscar night, Natalie Portman will likely be proclaimed the year's best actress for her performance as the obsessive ballerina in . No Strings Attached Review: The Thawing of Natalie Portman 2011-01-21T16:35:00Z “I get a bit obsessive,” Mr. Lish, 43, said earlier this week about his writing habits. Atticus Lish’s Long Route to 'Preparation for the Next Life' 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z “George Kennedy is powerfully obsessive as the top dog who handles things his way as effectively and finally as destructively as does the warden or the guards,” Bosley Crowther wrote in The New York Times. George Kennedy, Versatile Actor Who Won an Oscar for ‘Cool Hand Luke,’ Dies at 91 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z In "Zeroville," Franco portrays a film obsessive "so enamored with movies that they become religion to him," he explained to the Associated Press. A bald James Franco melds reality and fantasy at Venice Film Festival 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z For news obsessives, such talk might conjure images of the wildly viral Vatican shots after Pope Francis’s election, which made the rounds last year. A Defining Question in an iPhone Age: Live for the Moment or Record It? 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z His manic doggedness, always teetering on the brink of hysteria, went straight into her depiction of the obsessive Victor Frankenstein. The Mother of Frankenstein 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z The stand-alone new miniatures were sometimes quite elaborate, like Augusta Read Thomas’s four-minute “Morse Code Fantasy,” full of pointillist runs and obsessive repeated notes to evoke Morse code. Review: David Kaplan Riffs on Schumann’s Spirit 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z This self-portrait of the artist as an obsessive lyricist is about a dynamic, unending process; it’s about finishing, not having finished. Books of The Times: Sondheim?s Rhymes and Reasons 2010-10-21T17:45:00Z Like the creep in real life, the creepy critic is an imitator of good habits, trying to channel his obsessive interests or his raw enjoyment into refined, intellectually respectable forms. The Age of Creepiness 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z I’m thrilled you are so happy together, but what would happen if your husband decided to trek across Antarctica or became a golf obsessive? I dread a baby coming between me and my husband | Mariella Frostrup 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z Contrary to that find, most of his mammal “gets” were far from easy, and Ellis admits he became a bit obsessive about his quest, especially late last fall. Whidbey Island nature lover enriches travels with a Mammal Big Year 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z Mr. Salonen’s obsessive attention to sound also found expression in two unusual placements: the one designed for greater blend, the other for disruption. Review: Under Salonen, the Philharmonia Orchestra Shines 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z And she is especially good at capturing its longings, those in this novel being at once obsessive and inchoate, and in one way or another about transformation. A Japanese Literary Star Joins Her Peers on Western Bookshelves 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z There is evidence that the incidence of various forms of obsessive love is increasing Mendoza then followed her across America and planted bottles of hydrochloric acid in her car. The problem with ‘unfriending’ 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z Long before Hitchcock’s “Vertigo” and David Lynch’s “Mulholland Drive,” “Die Tote Stadt” tapped into the dramatic potential of a protagonist who mourns a prior lover by styling the next one in an obsessive fashion. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z In doing so, they’ve created an enormous, living body of work ripe for scholarship and obsessive fandom. How much more is there to know about the Grateful Dead? 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z He has the artist's demanding perfectionism, an obsessive need to "get things right". Quentin Blake at 80: the illustrator's magical art 2012-12-14T22:55:10Z Serving as a hub for the obsessives means weathering the occasional scorn of veterans as well as educating the neophytes. Missed the Latest Supreme Drop? Head to Grailed 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z Characters aside, the book is lifted by French’s nervy, almost obsessive prose. Stephen King Reviews Tana French’s ‘Extraordinary’ New Novel 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z Her obsessive work ethic is justifiably famous, she is the utmost professional— never, ever appearing disheveled or out of control — and she stays away from trouble, avoiding tabloid scandals. Author explores the early years of Motown in ‘The Art of Grace’ 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z He made the mistake of giving me his email address because I just spammed him about 10-15 different versions of this thing—doing this obsessive thing that I do. Riz Ahmed on the Surprising Character Who Inspired His 'Rogue One' Performance 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z Since the 19th century, scholars and armchair obsessives alike have pored over every aspect of the Gettysburg Address, from the meaning of its soaring rhetoric to the kind of paper Lincoln drafted it on. A Lingering Gettysburg Battle: Where Did Lincoln Stand? 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z This was a one-time joke designed to irk our most gullible and obsessive readers. Style Invitational Week 1470: Your add here 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z The conductor’s velocity contributed to the urgency and anticipation when Isolde is waiting impatiently for Tristan and underlined the obsessive, consuming drive of their love. Review | National Symphony Orchestra’s ‘Tristan’ was lacking in D.C. They made up for it in New York. 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z Mr. Friedman had a new job this year, one seemingly perfect for a musical-theater obsessive. ‘Brilliant,’ 41 and Lost to AIDS: The Theater World Asks Why 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z Despite his dismissive barbs about “fake news” and “the failing New York Times,” the president maintains an obsessive affection for his hometown paper. ‘He doesn’t like bullies’: The story of the 37-year-old who took over the New York Times and is taking on Trump 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z The best way to understand the cult following of David Berman would be to talk to one of his obsessive fans, which is to say — talk to any one of his fans. Perspective | If a human being was capable of feeling it, David Berman could write it and render it profound 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z You've been on lots of hit shows, shows that really took off and garnered obsessive fan followings. 'iZombie': David Anders says villain Blaine is part-Spike, part-James Spader 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z Vivekananda argued that an obsessive focus on the body distracts from the true practice of yoga: meditation. Yoga isn’t timeless: it’s changing to meet contemporary needs 2018-06-23T04:00:00Z His obsessive search for the truth, in story after story, feels at once timeless and profoundly relevant to this moment in our history. Perspective | New versions of Hercule Poirot keep coming, and that’s a good thing 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z Posnanski is a true sports fan, in that obsessive, hard-core, manner that only devotees of losing sports teams can be. Ten Minutes With Sportswriter Joe Posnanski 2010-03-24T02:30:00Z Like Jiro, each episode will follow a single chef in his or her obsessive pursuit of culinary perfection. Watch the Trailer for 'Jiro Dreams of Sushi' Director's New Netflix Show 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z But Eilon Paz’s “Dust & Grooves: Adventures in Record Collecting” makes clear that collectors of vinyl can be just as eccentric and obsessive. ‘Do Not Sell at Any Price’ and ‘Dust & Grooves’ 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z But Fistful’s legacy lives on: not only in its sequels, For a Few Dollars More and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, but also in spaghetti’s enduring influence via obsessives of the Tarantino persuasion. The best English-language remakes – ranked! 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z Her career took off while she was still in graduate school at CalArts with a highly obsessive investigation into the life of a stranger, a playboy neighbor of her parents known as “Larry.” In Her Last Works, Kaari Upson Explores Vanity and Decay 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z After all, he was jealous, irritable and obsessive to a fault; he pursued foolish things and people without regard to their probable outcomes. Dad always fell for the wrong women 2011-04-25T15:21:00Z Still, this practice sometimes comes across as obsessive. Review | Beloved, patriotic, sentimental: A look at the life and poetry of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z My mind travels back to those self-satisfied film obsessives marveling at male genius, and how they would have praised both Tarantino for his commitment to artistic realism and Thurman for gamely playing along. Twenty years after "Kill Bill" came out, The Bride's bloody rampage cuts differently 2023-10-29T04:00:00Z She describes herself as having been “obsessive” about being thin. ‘I thought it was a miracle. Then I started shaking’: the danger of buying diet pills online 2018-11-03T04:00:00Z And it goes beyond not only the rarefied realm of musical theater obsessives, but also partisan use. ‘Hamilton’ Makes a Curious Cameo in Trump Impeachment Trial 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z I just like to get obsessive about it. | Grimes 2012-10-18T17:03:38Z Interviewed by The Paris Review in 1990, Vargas Llosa ascribed his "obsessive desire to write" to his time at military school. Mario Vargas Llosa: Nobel Prize in Literature Goes with a Well-Known Name 2010-10-07T16:10:00Z He despised the war in Iraq, had abused drugs and had a highly obsessive personality. Michael Hastings’s Widow Discusses ‘The Last Magazine’ 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z If you love film, and you’re obsessive about it, you start to learn: “Oh, look how she said that!” Tom Ford, Ben Mankiewicz and a Fashion-Film Vortex 2016-11-19T05:00:00Z “I became obsessive about the future — we now have six shows at various states of development.” Julie Crosby Is All Business at Women?s Project 2010-05-22T06:44:00Z Invariably produced in obsessive, multiyear series, with inscrutable and number-heavy labels, Mr. Ruff’s images are as quizzical as they are conceptually serious. Passport Photos and Online Porn: The Dizzying World of Thomas Ruff 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z Consider Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe, an obsessive worshiper of the knife and fork who is described by Archie Goodwin, his dedicated assistant, as weighing “a seventh of a ton.” Mystery Writers Combine Murder and Mealtime 2012-07-17T20:22:43Z Genji is a playboy prince, but a neurotic one, a Don Juan with more than a touch of Hamlet, capable of remorse, guilt and depression and a kind of obsessive self-pity. ‘The Tale of Genji’ and the Art It Inspired 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z Megan Abbott’s novel “You Will Know Me” takes readers deep into the obsessive, highly structured world of young female gymnasts and the families who help push these athletes to victory. ‘You Will Know Me’: Mean girls, tiger moms, Olympic dreams — and murder 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z In it, Jake calls Amir out for his weirdly obsessive and self-hating behavior on the online community, while Amir responds with a string of whining nonsense. “Lonely and Horny” and Little Comedy 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z Ms. Kim is wryly funny as Cornelia, but her long speech about her mother’s obsessive cooking, which for a child without enthusiasm for food was a trial, drags on. Review: ‘Aubergine,’ a Stew of Regret and Impending Loss 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z For a certain kind of obsessive magazine nerd, each one is spell book or codex, a key to the deep grammar of the craft. In William Maxwell’s Fiction, a Vivid, Varied Tableau of Midwestern Life 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z I think it appeals to my obsessive nature. Q&A with Washington native Amanda Coplin, author of 'The Orchardist' 2012-08-20T00:07:04Z “This is a guy who is not comfortable in his own skin, and who was very obsessive about things that went wrong.” A Posthumous Memoir Reveals Paul Newman in His Own Words 2022-10-16T04:00:00Z Isherwood revered Forster, and deprecated the obsessive American habit of ranking reputations, ubiquitous since Hemingway claimed so unconvincingly not to consider writing a competitive sport. Adam Mars-Jones: my lunch at the Dorchester with Gore Vidal 2012-08-03T07:00:37Z Yet in the weeks that followed, Adams’s attention turned obsessive and emotionally abusive, Bridgers said. Ryan Adams Dangled Success. Women Say They Paid a Price. 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z He's an obsessive Tweeter and user of social media, seeing himself as "a soldier for my culture, the voice of my generation". A new age, a new outlook 2011-02-13T00:02:00Z And his novels are littered with an obsessive cineaste’s catalog of obscure references. Paul Thomas Anderson Films ‘Inherent Vice’ 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z I’m an obsessive reader and always make sure I educate myself on anything I’m interested in. Carrying On a Legacy of Early-American Collecting 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z It can’t be soon enough for the singer’s legions of fans and chroniclers, many of whom border on the obsessive. A billionaire’s quirky quest to create a mecca for Bob Dylan fans. In Tulsa, Oklahoma. 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z It shows the sad progression of a brilliant, garrulous musician with a fiercely original artistic vision as he becomes increasingly obsessive and isolated. For Glenn Gould, Form Followed Fingers 2010-09-25T21:04:00Z Perhaps, after all, this suggests the dark, obsessive side to Colman's Pollyanna-ish personality the journalist needs, instead of all this useless positivity. Olivia Colman: 'It's slightly scary … it could all go wrong' 2013-07-07T17:30:00Z Or I was too consumed with obsessive grief to notice. Quinceañera with baby fever 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z Over the course of two hours, we were taken from the throes of her romance to Malcolm Foxworth to the shattering of her dreams as her husband revealed the obsessive, controlling monster he truly is. "Flowers in the Attic: The Origin" part 1 ending explained: Olivia’s plan 2022-07-16T04:00:00Z White is obsessive about color and meticulous in his attention to detail. Jack White Is the Coolest, Weirdest, Savviest Rock Star of Our Time 2012-04-07T00:27:22Z And while Martin Scorsese might bemoan this development, on the bright side, it does means my fellow obsessives can indulge in our most compulsive behaviour, rewinding and rewatching scenes, as much as we like. Forget Cats: in a close-run field, Marriage Story was the musical highlight of my holiday 2020-01-04T05:00:00Z The building has been the subject of his photographs and obsessive documentation for the past year, indeed, something closer to a fetish object, as well as a symbol of economic distress here and everywhere. How a French Artist Turned a Stay in North Carolina Into Conceptual Art 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z Even the finale of “Succession,” a big deal among my affinity group of TV junkies and media obsessives, felt like a trickle next to the big tweetwatches of the 2010s. The Twitter Watch Party Is Over 2023-07-10T04:00:00Z His obsessive drive combined with the sheer number of his collaborations produced a two-dimensional record of his shaggy life, rendered in varying styles by numerous illustrators. The Unfinished Tale of an Unlikely Hero 2010-09-01T19:09:00Z The fears you are gripped by may appear selfish and slightly obsessive, but there’s also a degree of realism there. I dread a baby coming between me and my husband | Mariella Frostrup 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z You want to be in those rooms with those people because every detail is correct, and I am obsessive and crazy down to the shoes. "Gossip Girl" boss: "It's class warfare with one dictator … I could write this show every 15 years" 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z How at any young pizzeria, what appears as the dinner rush is in fact someone’s obsessive, repetitive and never-ending odyssey to establish and maintain house style. Perfecting Neapolitan Pizza in Los Angeles, With Help From Tokyo 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z Some seasons, that endless ticket line, with its gaggle of obsessive characters delivering advice and trading war stories — stealthily eyeing one another’s Bouchon Bakery bags the whole time — can be drama enough. Still Life: Shakespeare in the Park, Delacorte Theater, a Summer Ritual 2012-08-14T17:47:21Z The new novel’s log line: Caitlin is an obsessive, home-schooled Christian teenager. What is Paul Rudnick Doing Writing Young Adult Fiction? 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z Performing as Katie Neil, she says, she was urged to keep an obsessive watch on the Billboard singles chart and take cues from whatever was currently hot. 'Breaking Through' shows seamy side of stoking the star-making machinery 2015-10-31T04:00:00Z To people like Dawn and me, people who are obsessive to begin with, the Fitbit is a digital trainer, perpetually egging us on. David Sedaris: Living the Fitbit Life 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z Only the obsessives, the truly driven, can persevere. I love-hate football! 2014-02-02T16:30:00Z A gleaming, upbeat confection about obsessive affection that finds a middle ground between Maurice Starr’s production for New Kids on the Block and the synthetic ecstasy of PC Music. The Playlist: An Indie-Rock Supergroup Is Born, and 9 More New Songs 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z Storytelling, she added, is a central part of Native American life, and, inevitably an obsessive part of hers. Louise Erdrich on Her New Novel, ‘LaRose,’ and the Psychic Territory of Native Americans 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z But Howard's also essential to running Oliver's production of "Death Rattle," the showbiz obsessive's momentarily doomed return to Broadway. Like a good neighbor, Howard Morris is there for us on "Only Murders in the Building" 2023-08-16T04:00:00Z Its protagonist is an obsessive fan called David who is on the verge of becoming a teenager, and is terrified at the prospect. The Diary of a Dr Who Addict by Paul Magrs 2010-05-21T23:07:00Z “I’ve always been pretty obsessive about going after what I want,” she says. Aubrey Plaza: from 'sarcastic, eye-rolling weirdo’ to lustful zombie 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z Grace is judged in the film — as she really would be in our society of obsessive mother blamers — but not by it. Movie Review: ?Girl in Progress? With Eva Mendes and Cierra Ramirez 2012-05-10T21:10:33Z He was always obsessive and self-defeating about his genius and his work. ‘Like He Was Going to Live Forever’: Making Jerome Robbins’s Last Ballet 2023-05-06T04:00:00Z But in Los Angeles, Sriracha remains a homegrown product with humble immigrant roots and a huge following that combines pride with obsessive loyalty. In Los Angeles, Sriracha fans line up for the hottest tour in town 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z I suppose I must, spuriously, sketch the genesis of my freaky habits and obsessive ways. Russell Kane's ordered life 2010-10-23T23:05:00Z But rarely does a traditional reviewer cause as much excitement as Atlanta has seen with the recent visit of Keith Lee, a food obsessive with a vast army of 14 million followers on TikTok. Atlanta’s Dining Scene Feels ‘the Keith Lee Effect’ 2023-11-01T04:00:00Z Michaela’s expressions of loss, at first dark but rational, become obsessive and crazed: “The first duty of the widow is to join her husband.” Review | Joyce Carol Oates captures the wobbly reality of widowhood in ‘Breathe’ 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z Charney talks about his firing with obsessive fury, raging about how his business was “stolen from” him. American Apparel founder Dov Charney: ‘Sleeping with people you work with is unavoidable’ 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z I am a lifelong Kate Bush obsessive, and suddenly all these young people are discovering her for the first time because her song was used in “Stranger Things.” Podcasts About Marvel’s ‘X-Men’ Resonate With L.G.B.T.Q. Fans 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z Mailer’s is a bellowing rant and outburst of obsessive lust, bringing together his two great loves: Monroe and the sound of his own voice. T Magazine: Hello Again, Norma Jeane 2011-03-01T18:40:52Z They are handsome and charming, quick-witted and exuberant, observant, obsessive, and, of course, neurotic. What It’s Like to Make It in Showbiz With Your Best Friend 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z “Exposure” showed that it was possible to turn the technical, obsessive process of recording jazz into a public spectacle. For Women in Jazz, a Year of Reckoning and Recognition 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z It may seem cruel, then, to follow “Iolanta” with a performance of “Bluebeard’s Castle,” Bartok’s chilling psycho-thriller about the annihilating power of love taken to obsessive extremes. Mariusz Trelinski Brings ‘Iolanta’ and ‘Bluebeard’s Castle’ to the Met 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z After all, being obsessive about healthy eating isn’t actually all that healthy. Green is the new black: the unstoppable rise of the healthy-eating guru 2015-06-27T04:00:00Z Wordle has ensnared the numbers people and the word people, the Scrabble obsessives and the Sudoku fans. Wordle is our new drug 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z This shouldn't be stunning news, but it may comforting to know that Penn Badgley has little in common with Joe Goldberg, the obsessive serial killer he brings to life in Netflix's "You." "You" star Penn Badgley thinks his killer Joe has "too many sides .. and he needs to die" 2023-02-19T05:00:00Z Now the publisher is also promoting it as a cliffhanging beach read about an “exclusive and shadowy world” populated by “obsessive archivists, oddball collectors, forgers and thieves.” Antiques: Antiques Beach Reading (Yep, That?s Right) 2010-06-24T20:42:00Z “Fargo” was the example the show’s creators — novelists and longtime King obsessives who previously collaborated on the underrated atomic drama “Manhattan” — used when they pitched “Castle Rock” to Mr. Abrams. ‘Castle Rock’ Is a Stephen King Story That Isn’t Really a Stephen King Story 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z But she admits the truth is probably just that the books appeal to the same audience: obsessive, rabid collectors. 33⅓ book series celebrates records -- and its 10th anniversary 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z Amy Lin’s obsessive abstract drawings evoke the biological, the chemical, the mechanical and, at times, the purely imaginary. Spring Arts Preview: In the galleries 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z He left behind, in his sixth-floor walkup apartment on East Twelfth Street, a cache of mostly unreleased music, the result of obsessive, endless tinkering, along with piles of notebooks, letters, and written scores. The Word-of-Mouth Resurgence of Arthur Russell 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z Sous vide obsessives talk a big game about steak, but for me, salmon changed everything. Sous Vide is a busy person’s best friend 2017-05-20T04:00:00Z His work was as calm as it was obsessive, as perverse as it was innocent. The Outsider Fair Made Art ‘Big’ Again 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z Transcendence was his obsessive theme and his lifelong project. An Ecstatic, Troubled Poet Comes to Life in a New Biography 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z He undertakes the quest after the suspicious death of his sister, Laura, a journalist turned police officer whose life is wrecked by her obsessive investigation of the sex ring. Review | A child’s murder sets off a sprawling tale of politics, war and family 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z How can I break her of this obsessive habit of running in circles? Animal Doctor: Dirt-eating dog might need nutritional help for diet deficiency 2017-06-26T04:00:00Z Male stars with absent mothers are a magnet to devoted, middle-aged fixers—Nureyev had surrogate stage mothers in every city he frequented—and I hated the thought that I’d become one of those meddling obsessives. Sergei Polunin’s Dance Mom 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z In the following decades, Welles obsessives, of whom I am one, experienced fleeting excitement whenever plans to release “The Other Side of the Wind” were announced, only to see the prospect slip back into limbo. How Orson Welles’s “The Other Side of the Wind” Was Rescued from Oblivion 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z Their obsessive train-spotting recorded the cost of brakes, the death tolls at accident scenes and the scrapping of aged cars. Antiques: Robert Megna?s Medical Device Collection Goes to Auction 2011-08-25T22:28:50Z By 2014, she was in the grip of an obsessive eating disorder. ‘Knowing it could kill you isn’t a deterrent’: the deadly trade in diet pills 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z As a cherry pie obsessive, I must point out how difficult it is to find fresh sour cherries. Another ‘Twin Peaks’ Puzzle: How to Make That Cherry Pie 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z Best of all was the “Funeral of Amenhotep III” from Mr. Glass’s 1983 opera “Akhnaten,” performed by nine players, including two percussionists, music that in its obsessive figurations seems at once terrifying and exuberant. Philip Glass and Steve Reich Reunite at BAM 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z Here, then, are 10 books for our fellow obsessives, from an expansive Native American history to a slim novel about a son’s suicide to a memoir of obesity and weight loss, and more. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z Here be spoilers, and analysis that probably qualifies as obsessive, in a clinical sense. ArtsBeat: ‘Game of Thrones’ Recap: What a Wonderful Wedding 2014-04-14T02:00:12Z The Dunkirk director is a soft and unhurried speaker, but his enthusiasm for colour grading, film stocks and projection equipment is borderline obsessive. Christopher Nolan at Cannes: 'I want the young to sit in awe at 2001: A Space Odyssey' 2018-05-12T04:00:00Z It’s about love — crazy, confusing love, an artist’s obsessive love for his art: “a combination of duty and destiny,” he calls it. Review | He was one of the world’s greatest ballet stars. Then he crashed. 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z His immersion in the thinking and logic of the Nazis is so obsessive that he loses his bearings and begins to see the world in their zero-sum terms. When the Holocaust Becomes an Obsession 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z As a Kinks obsessive, I thought I knew all there was to know about him. The Kinks: They really got me 2010-12-20T21:59:01Z “There was a kind of obsessive focus,” Mintz, who is also the curator of Jewish art at the library of the Jewish Theological Seminary, said. Oldest Nearly Complete Hebrew Bible Heads to Auction 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z Your extremely compelling book, Because We Are Bad, details your life with obsessive compulsive disorder. Lily Bailey on living with OCD: 'My brain was filled with weird, uncomfortable thoughts' 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z He attended Harvard and bummed around Europe as what he calls “an inchoate food obsessive.” Books of The Times: ‘Steal the Menu,’ by Raymond Sokolov 2013-05-09T21:24:23Z Mr. Stone, who founded the Allan Stone Gallery 50 years ago, was an obsessive collector whose house in Purchase, N.Y., and Manhattan gallery were filled with art and objects. Inside Art: Sotheby?s Strategy: One Offer for Two Sales 2011-03-31T22:50:36Z And, of course, the creepily obsessive odes to the art form: “Dancing the role of Odette is the only thing worth living for; without being a ballerina I am NOTHING. The ’70s were amazing!” Review | James Whiteside isn’t a typical ballet star, and his memoir isn’t a typical ballet story 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z Proud Grampa: You don’t say that your wife was an obsessive or overwhelming parent to your daughter when she was young, so I’m assuming that this is new for her. Perspective | Ask Amy: First-time grandma oversteps with her demands 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z I’m not like a Marvel or DC obsessive — I’ll watch everything. Florence Welch Thrives on Horror. And She Still Wants to Smell You. 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z She was scared, she said — and she got a little obsessive. Lily James Experiences Beaches a Little Differently Now 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z "And obsessive genius Tolkien is blocked, terrified of finishing The Fellowship of the Ring, for fear of the strange, psychotic visions which torture him." Theological JRR Tolkein biopic secures Expendables 2 director 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z There's a strain of mathematical nerdiness to all one-liner specialists, of course; the remorseless wordplay, the dismantling of linguistic certainties brick by brick, suggests an obsessive personality. Milton Jones – review 2013-02-10T16:55:06Z And Luke Treadaway is brilliant in the part, a thoroughly convincing weirdo psychotic obsessive. TV review: Ruth Rendell's Thirteen Steps Down; The Riots; Escape from Colditz 2012-08-13T21:35:01Z However, over weeks the pursuit has become obsessive, even urgent, as I came to appreciate it as a corrective to self-pity, and a testament to the relentless churn of time. In London, looking backward to move forward 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z Part of this resolve to bring choruses back together extends quite naturally from a long, proud, inbuilt American tradition of obsessive show-must-go-on-ism. Perspective | Scattered and silenced by the pandemic, choral groups are trying to find their voice 2020-11-06T05:00:00Z When he first appears, the driven Kendall—a role Mr. Strong carries off impressively—is in the midst of an obsessive effort to acquire a digital media business, and failing. ‘Succession’ Review: A Family at War 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z He patrols his domain constantly, guarding against intruders with an obsessive’s single-mindedness. Review | ‘The Hush’: Murder, madness, magic, betrayal and obsessive love 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z Chua shows how a combination of racism and obsessive anti-communism made for terrible strategy in Vietnam, where Americans underestimated Vietnamese nationalism, including resentment of an economically dominant Chinese minority. American Blindness, Abroad and at Home 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z Few would dispute that the city’s culture is a car-dominated one, with an obsessive focus on driving routes, smog alerts and the best times of day to avoid traffic. In Los Angeles, Ditching the Car for an Eco-Friendly Trip 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z As usual, Sendak said it best: “Children surviving childhood,” he observed in an interview, “is my obsessive theme and my life’s concern.” Digging to the Roots of Maurice Sendak’s Vision 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z How could they have let him hang around their children when his obsessive interest in Jan was so obvious that even her two younger sisters could see it? 'He was a master manipulator’: Abducted in Plain Sight and the truth about abuse 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z Deconstructing my obsessive relationships in a memoir about heartache, I begged my earliest ex to meet. A spy in the house of my first love 2021-05-01T04:00:00Z The Fallon designer Dana Lorenz, whose current collection is filled with ancient Egyptian iconography, admits to an obsessive addiction to the television series “Lost,” which she regards as “deeply embedded with Egyptian symbolism and hieroglyphs.” Fine Points: Baubles and Bangles Inspired by Ancient Egypt 2010-05-12T19:02:00Z I used to be something of a casual clotheshorse, an obsessive buyer of T-shirts, baseball caps, socks and Adidas sneakers. ‘Worn Stories’ Treats Clothing as the Fabric of Memory. I Can Relate. 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z After all, Stalker, like each of its director's films, was the work of a man whose interest in Japanese culture fell somewhere between keen and obsessive. The powerful resonances of Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker 2011-04-08T11:03:40Z Except for a few cranks and obsessives, almost nobody can even explain how it works, let alone develop an informed opinion about the policies that emerge from it. Ben Bernanke’s ‘The Courage to Act’ 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z She considered some women’s obsessive dislike of their arms and offers blessed alternatives to the ubiquitous sheath dress. Can a faded fashion house reclaim its 1970s glory? Inside the effort to save Anne Klein. 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z Both options represent a decision, at least, where the absence of one creates the void into which obsessive worry expands. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: She refuses to mask or get vaccinated. Can their friendship survive? 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z The simplicity of Mr. Willems’s lines and stories is the result of strictly methodical, even obsessive, work. Mo Willems and the Art of the Children’s Book 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z "When I got on the internet for the first time I realised its potential," says the self-professed music obsessive. Behind the music: An interview with Pitchfork founder Ryan Schreiber 2010-10-21T16:03:00Z Both tell of obsessive athletes who strive for perfection to the detriment of their physical health and mental well-being. Black Swan set to soar 2011-01-14T09:51:08Z As such, it takes time to absorb, and invites repeated, obsessive watching. Review: ‘Wormwood’ Confirms That Errol Morris Is Our Great Cinematic Sleuth 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z The group’s popularity and longevity has been built on subtle, soft, sing- and cry-along anthems, a magnetic attraction for music obsessives. The genius of Elbow, the band Coldplay wishes it could be 2017-06-03T04:00:00Z And according to her brother Ian, Smith finds it “virtually impossible to eat lunch, that to do so would make her physically ill,” which he attributes to her “obsessive reclusiveness ” and not personal rejection. ‘Maggie Smith’ review: The person behind the ‘Downton Abbey’ star 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z But Vasari's compelling murder mystery says a lot about the obsessive rivalries of the Renaissance, so it remains artistically true. The art of illusion 2011-04-06T16:36:37Z Last time Metallica made a film, the result was Some Kind of Monster, a timeless warts-and-all documentary about a band trying to find direction and the dangers of obsessive self-analysis. Metallica Through the Never trailer: end of the road for humanity? 2013-06-04T11:23:23Z I tried to prevent her from this obsessive behavior by putting down lava rocks and some pavers along the fence, but she continues to run in circles. Animal Doctor: Dirt-eating dog might need nutritional help for diet deficiency 2017-06-26T04:00:00Z And instead of thinking about the victims' suffering we focused on Wallander's obsessive crime solving. TV review: Wallander; Shakespeare Uncovered; Henry IV Part 1 2012-07-08T21:35:01Z But not often — most trivia writers are obsessive about doing their homework. Q: Their job is to stump you. Who are they? A: Trivia writers, of course. 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z Slowly, though, the chirpy, fragmented phrases evolve into obsessive cyclic figures, while fanciful bits slip into the creaking music. Review: Ensemble LPR Plays, With Central Park as an Inspiration 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z But nearly everyone in this book is mad in some way, from the merely obsessive to the completely delusional. Books of The Times: Michael Byers?s Novel ?Percival?s Planet? 2010-08-22T23:51:00Z He’s a media obsessive, almost morbidly well informed. QAnon and the Fear and Loathing of an American Conspiracy Theory 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z Seattle artist Mark Meyer's paintings, drawings and digital prints are smaller, fussier, more obsessive. You'll see emptiness inhabited in Susan Bennerstrom's captivating interiors 2010-11-19T05:01:00Z "The history of literature is full of obsessive collections of objects," he writes. In 'Confessions of a Young Novelist,' Umberto Eco offers his secret formula for a bestselling novel 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z “What the obsessive man still wanted, when he wasn’t blissfully muttering in bed, was an apology,” Bailey writes in “Philip Roth.” In ‘Philip Roth,’ a Life of the Literary Master as Aggrieved Playboy 2021-03-29T04:00:00Z In general, the exhibition could have taken a more critical look at “Japonisme,” the West’s obsessive fascination with Japanese art and design objects, as de Waal does in his book. A Hare and an Inheritance, Once Hidden, at the Jewish Museum 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z A chill was felt on the strange, slightly obsessive corner of social media known as film Twitter. Why has Tarantino turned The Hateful Eight into a Netflix miniseries? 2019-04-27T04:00:00Z An obsessive oddball, he occupies “the same rung of the social ladder as beggars.” Newly Released Books 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z The resulting financial freedom allowed Robbins to continue his obsessive, ongoing pursuit of crazy wisdom and ecstatic liberation. ‘Tibetan Peach Pie: A True Account of an Imaginative Life,’ by Tom Robbins Williams investigates character, with an almost obsessive psychological interest, through the manipulation of language. Diane Williams is at her unconventional best in 'Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine' 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z Some years later, Malik Bendjelloul, a documentarist making films on rock musicians for Swedish television, met the South African questors in Cape Town and determined to make a film of their obsessive pursuit. Searching for Sugar Man – review 2012-07-28T23:05:46Z In the summer of 1860 the murder of a three-year-old boy at his home in Wiltshire had created a national frenzy of suspicion and anxiety, an obsessive curiosity that Wilkie Collins dubbed "detective fever". Guardian book club: Kate Summerscale on The Suspicions of Mr Whicher 2013-01-11T20:00:11Z At 16, the two music obsessives were writing songs and recording demos in the modest house where Ridgeley lived with his parents. Review | Andrew Ridgeley reminisces about George Michael and the meteoric rise of Wham! 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z Her Edinburgh debut is a meeting of the spoof book group Bookworms United, inspired, she says, by obsessive Potter fans. Jessie Cave: Bookworm – Edinburgh festival review 2012-08-09T15:17:59Z Paradoxically, she was obsessive about her computer’s privacy. Anonymous strikes back 2012-06-03T13:00:00Z And yet it’s a peculiar sort of detail — too much for casual viewers, and not nearly enough for obsessives. | 'Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage': On VH-1, Prog-Rock Wizards Onstage, Maybe Angels Off 2010-06-26T00:47:00Z “I think a lot of bloggers are obsessive in their ways.” An Eye for Detail, and Plenty of Pop 2010-12-09T00:09:00Z A highlight is bound to be Beryl Sokoloff's film celebration of the House of Mirrors, built in 1960s Woodstock by the wonderfully obsessive Clarence Schmidt. Exhibitions picks of the week 2010-05-28T23:06:00Z As a child, she was a diligent student with an obsessive streak: her first passion was dancing; later, she would become skilled in the sport of fencing. Greta Gerwig: 'I'm at peak shock and happiness' 2018-02-04T05:00:00Z By now the Strokes are used to the obsessive interest in their band dynamic, and self-correct for it. Music: Different Strokes 2011-03-09T17:40:59Z I’ve not suffered the kind of grief he implies, but I understand a father’s infinite, obsessive love for a child — and the ways in which that love leaves you vulnerable. P.O.V.: You’re Geppetto, Missing Your Wooden Son From Inside the Belly of a Fish 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z He was obsessive about his diet and insisted on making himself a plain risotto flavoured with just a single basil leaf instead of letting Greer cook for him. Germaine Greer breaks cover on tryst with Federico Fellini 2010-04-11T19:47:00Z Frankie decides to put her obsessive tendencies to good use: She joins a group of ordinary people who try to solve cold missing-person cases. Review | Five new thrillers offer guilt-free distraction 2021-01-14T05:00:00Z “I get obsessive that way,” she says, “whereas Giovanni, though he has a taste for beautiful things, will say, ‘You handle the details.’ T Magazine: Portrait of a Lady 2014-02-15T00:16:46Z Most of Kubrick’s 13 features have been analyzed exhaustively already, and “Kubrick by Kubrick” doesn’t offer much that will surprise even mild obsessives. ‘Kubrick by Kubrick’ Review: Stanley Plays Himself 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z But the friend-free Andrew will have other uses for his obsessive videophilia: to give meaning to his life by filming it, maybe to objective the other kids at school as fantasy villains and vixens. Chronicle: It's Carrie Plus X-Men, With Found Footage 2012-02-02T16:41:05Z Confidential,” an obsessive amnesiac in “Memento” and a villain in “Iron Man 3.” Watch List: Hero on the Page Moves Doggedly to the Screen 2013-07-21T22:08:20Z But Kinney argues that Dylan may have more in common with his obsessive fans than he might think. Bob Dylan, Fanboy 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z Back then, to a certain breed of obsessive fan, those words had some resonance. An Obsessive Listen to a Twenty-Five-Year-Old Album 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z Some people think I’m obsessive, and I suppose I am. My Prison Cell: A Place Kept Compulsively Clean 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z An expert in his narrow field, Mr. Durham is the archetype of the bookstore obsessive. A Book Lover?s San Francisco 2010-12-04T05:00:00Z But now, she says: “It’s been more obsessive — 24/7. For me, it’s helping. The more information I know, the more power I have to share that information with people who aren’t watching the news.” Did they make a difference? One year later, Women’s March attendees look back. 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z Fincher, long renowned for his obsessive exactitude, found in Oldman a highly detailed actor of deep research capable of subtly manipulating his performance. Gary Oldman on finding the frequency of ‘Mank’ 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z He suffered from persecution mania and what we would now term obsessive compulsive disorder. Shooting Victoria by Paul Thomas Murphy – review 2013-01-11T10:00:01Z She cites Josef Beuys and Yves Klein among her inspirations and, to a degree, she has a similar kind of charisma, inspiring a devotion that borders on the obsessive from her legions of fans. Marina Abramovic 2010-10-02T23:04:00Z The nameless narrator and his fellow obsessive, James, pride themselves on their reverent appreciation of vintage pop tunes. Review | The unbearable burden of superior taste in music 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z Mr. Jacobs would hardly be the first designer to have watched “The Night Porter” or to allude to the obsessive and ultimately objectifying nature of high fashion. | Fashion Review: Exit Paris, Winking 2011-03-10T23:42:03Z Some might consider the level of detail obsessive. Play It Again by Alan Rusbridger – review 2013-01-20T06:00:01Z “Do I think that someone is going to tweet that this is cultural appropriation? Yes,” Mr. Mayer, an internet obsessive, said. John Mayer Knows He Messed Up. He Wants Another Chance. 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z Although Richard was violent towards Sally early on in their relationship, his abuse mostly manifested itself in the obsessive control he took over almost every aspect of her existence – money, social life, self-perception. ‘Intimate terrorism’: how an abusive relationship led a young woman to kill her partner 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z Her choices are safe but interesting, with enough of a story and a variety to keep fashion obsessives engrossed. First Lady and Fashion Are No Longer So Combustible 2013-01-22T00:39:32Z I especially loved being in India with him, because it was his obsessive subject. Memories of V. S. Naipaul 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z “You’ve got into an obsessive thing. I don’t think this is about her, I think it’s about you.” I’ve fallen in love with a colleague – but I’m married with children 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z The obsessive and controlling artist pitted against the vulnerable and naive muse with a sinister, Mrs Danvers-esque antagonist thrown in for good measure. Why Phantom Thread should win the 2018 best picture Oscar 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z Eventually, food obsessives demanded that the gustatory treats be stripped of pomp and made readily available at any time, served from food trucks, at night markets, on white counters accompanied with craft brews. In demand and pricier than ever, lobster rolls have become the cupcakes of the sea 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z Its tune repeats like an obsessive thought, maddening and relentless. Poem of the week: The Seventh Art in the Sanatorium by Heather Hartley 2010-11-22T13:27:00Z With the important exception of Scrat — the obsessive rodent whose Sisyphean pursuit of an acorn is one of the great love stories of our time — the “Ice Age” movies go in the opposite direction. Review: ‘Ice Age: Continental Drift,’ With Ray Romano 2012-07-12T13:54:00Z Their brisk steps become more obsessive as they converge into packs. Review: Ballet BC Touches All the Bases, but One Yearns for More 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z Giuseppe Filianoti brought to Tito obsessive eyes, nervous intensity and a limber, pinging lyric tenor stressed only occasionally by its labors. Music Review: Mozart’s ‘Clemenza di Tito’ at the Metropolitan Opera 2012-11-19T23:09:15Z My maternal grandfather, Don Rose, was an obsessive journal-keeper when he was young. Critic?s Notebook: Reality TV Debate - Critic?s Notebook 2011-10-07T21:28:36Z I remember how Bernstein’s whole body shook every time he cued one of the slashing chords that irregularly pummel this obsessive dance. How I Spent My Summer: With Bernstein and Stravinsky 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z Given Tolman’s obsessive approach to drawing, it’s only natural that he depicts regimentation. In the galleries: Few hard edges in sight 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z I’ve lived with a general buzz of anxiety for most of my life, and in times of stress my obsessive mind tends to focus on my health. Living with Exploding Head Syndrome: This is what it feels like to hear gunshots in your mind 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z But the band has retained a large and obsessive following decades after Morrison's 1971 death. Manzarek, founding member of The Doors, dies at 74 2013-05-21T14:23:11Z He completes the novel for her, then manages to use the typewriter in a less orthodox, much more violent way to pay back his obsessive “No. 1 fan.” Physically Disabled. Menaced by Evil. Up for a Fight. 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z While not essential to casual filmgoers, the study helpfully dissects, for Hitchcock obsessives, this most calculatingly self-conscious director’s methods and compulsions. Review | In ‘The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock,’ it’s the contradictions that made the man 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z Along the way, the characters grapple with timely topics like code switching, obsessive compulsive disorder, panic attacks and hormone blockers. What's new on Netflix in December from "Big Mouth" & Chadwick Boseman to a bearded George Clooney 2020-12-05T05:00:00Z The 17 Million Mile Man Hoarding millions of frequent flyer miles is not obsessive behavior. On The Road 2011-02-02T23:00:00Z Like members of any fan group who stay in touch mostly online, they are a little obsessive. How Blue Turned to Green: Blue Man Group at 25 Years 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z In a supporting role, Lola Kirke charms as Luce’s obsessive, motormouth friend Penn. Without multiple lifetimes of exposition weighing on her performance, Ms. Kirke is free to relax into playing a teenager. Review: In ‘Fallen,’ Girl Meets Angel Boy (Eternity Looms) 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z “Black Edge,” which at times reads like a thriller, is a fascinating look at Cohen, whom Kolhatkar portrays as an obsessive and ruthless investor. An Insider-Trading Tale That Reads Like a Thriller 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z In its early stages, nostalgia manifested as a general melancholy accompanied by obsessive thoughts and recurrent images of one’s homeland. The lost promise of nostalgia: What modern pop culture gets wrong 2014-03-16T20:00:00Z Each of the seven dancers is willfully idiosyncratic, defined by an obsessive tick. Jonathan Royse Windham’s ‘Creatures of Habit’ at Dixon Place 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z Saddled with anxiety and prone to panic attacks on top of his obsessive attention to sonic detail, Mr. Granduciel nearly destroyed himself on the way to his musical breakthrough. The War on Drugs Is Still Playing Rock the Old-Fashioned Way 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z Both activities also suit an obsessive, single-minded temperament. Tom Ford: ‘I wore a suit on set. It's a uniform… I feel weak in trainers’ 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z The community of nerds Bushfield has built is obsessive, devoted and competitive. The coolest, weirdest Internet community you’ll never be able to join Many works in the show exhibit that quality of focused industry commonly but usually inaccurately called obsessive. 2010-02-06T06:34:00Z To show, for example, that their obsessive interest in monetarism or the A-Team is understandable because they're 30 and, therefore, a child of the 80s. An Edinburgh comedy judge's diary: has porn changed comedy tastes? 2010-08-18T13:31:00Z It takes a while to enter into the obsessive concentration that suffuses these works, with their shifting textures, newsprint scraps and other small objects, all embalmed in cast metal. Art Review: Sculpture in High Relief 2011-05-19T22:00:20Z The book also perfectly illuminates DeLillo’s obsessive theme: how people in closed rooms, convinced of others plotting against them, design their own counterplots, thereby turning the world into the very conspiratorial place they imagine. What We're Reading: DeLillo, 'The Examined Life,' 'Olive Kitteridge' 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z But the mood in this, his ninth feature, is for the most part affectionate rather than obsessive. ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Review: We Lost It at the Movies 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z He speaks of reconnecting with his mother as a form of “healing his dreams” but shrugs off the suggestion that a more traditional, or at least less obsessive, form of therapy might have helped him. In ‘Lion,’ Dev Patel brings the incredible true story of Saroo Brierley to life 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z True obsessives could even sign up for text message updates of the latest developments. Charlie Brooker's 10 years of watching Big Brother 2010-08-20T23:06:00Z "Dating you is like dating a StairMaster," she says, tired of his obsessive behavior. 'The Social Network': Tale clicks as it follows drama behind Facebook's creation 2010-09-29T23:53:00Z But as millennials join the ranks of home buyers, with their obsessive interest in self-care, mindfulness and the Internet, the idea of design as escapism is expanding. Craft corners, yoga rooms and more: How the self-care craze has seeped into home design 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z As an older gentleman myself and a lifelong, inveterate reader, I always succumb to book chat essays like Gottlieb’s about the sort of books other obsessive readers prefer. Personal Canons, Foster Care and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z At a time when many collectors are buying art as an asset class, the pair fall into the category of those intense — indeed obsessive — owners who deliberate over every purchase. Glenstone, a Private Art Xanadu, Invests $200 Million in a Public Vision 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z Among fellow comedians, Mr. Noah became known for his obsessive attention to his work and his extreme ambition. For Trevor Noah, a Comic Sensibility Shaped by the Scars of Apartheid 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z But I’m as impatient with critics who embrace self-serving auteurist fundamentalism or aesthetic formalism as I am with those belligerent fan boys who insist that only a comic-book obsessive can review a superhero movie. Hollywood on the Brink 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z In a world whose ecology is changing so fast, only a special kind of obsessive would concern himself with saving endangered plant species. New & Noteworthy 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z Great Wotans do not come along often: Wagnerites, among the most obsessive of opera buffs, await their appearances much as astronomers look forward to rare comets, or baseball fans long for record-breaking home-run sluggers. Michael Volle’s Opera Profile Is Rising 2014-03-26T14:04:25Z Rudd's kind smile and gentle nuggets of wisdom disguise his obsessive greed and predatory mind games. "The Shrink Next Door" is a compelling stranger-than-fiction anchored by Paul Rudd and Will Ferrell 2021-11-13T05:00:00Z Williams took us along for the ride of her year of obsessive, indifferent baking. Salon Food's top 10 recipes of 2020 all have one thing in common: comfort 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z Plus, your mom is already needy and obsessive about Steve’s approval rating among her kids. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: In the grand scheme of things, a patriarchal annoyance is minor 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z He picks up a paperback of JA Baker’s obsessive birding diary The Peregrine, which he bought on his way to the cafe. Forrest Goodluck: the Native American actor ripping up the rulebook 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z What he did have was an obsessive love of television. Rob McElhenney: 'I was fuelled by privilege, ignorance and testosterone' 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z A few of his early cutouts look like the art of an outsider-style obsessive. ‘Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs,’ a Victory Lap at MoMA 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z Theater actors are so obsessive that repetition doesn’t bore them at all. Director Maria Aitken, keeping Coward’s blithe spirit alive And I will be paying attention like an obsessive, trying to sear the details inside myself forever, hungrily, thirstily, consuming these moments, knowing I am not promised more. In my mother's kitchen, Diwali came early this year 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z Ives said Polanski's attention to detail on "Venus" sometimes bordered on obsessive. For 'Venus in Fur' author, working with Roman Polanski was 'heaven' 2014-06-28T04:00:00Z If a former believer says that Christianity made him depressed, obsessive, or post-traumatic, he is likely to be dismissed as an exaggerator. The crazy-making in Christianity: Religion’s cycle of self-doubt and self-punishment 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z “Destroyer’s” script jumps back and forth between Bell the undercover rookie and, decades later, Bell the broken obsessive. Karyn Kusama has been through ‘dark times’ in Hollywood. But her movies are even darker. 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z Their castoff scraps can be worth money, not to mention the obsessive attentions of future scholars. Inside Jonathan Lethem’s Oddball Trove 2017-01-01T05:00:00Z This is obsessive devotion channelled into an outsider art that knowingly echoes all its influences, both kitsch and sublime. Images from the outer limits 2013-06-01T23:05:40Z If you have made it this far into the article and are not already an obsessive fan of reality TV, you may be thinking: Who cares what these people say about coronavirus? Watch What Happens When Real Housewives Don’t Wear Masks 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z Few filmmakers are as precise or obsessive as Mr. Hong in finding variations on a theme. ArtsBeat: Cannes Film Festival: A Return Visit for a Director Fond of Repetition 2012-05-23T18:10:16Z Some of us get all obsessive and anxious for a while. I stalk my kids on Facebook 2012-09-23T18:00:00Z There’s not more of a possessive or obsessive word in the English vocabulary. The Song Is You … for the Rest of Your Life 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z As the Royal Academy's forthcoming exhibition Dennis Hopper: The Lost Album shows, the mercurial actor took to photography in his own instinctive and utterly obsessive way. Dennis Hopper's Lost Album: life both sides of the lens 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z Even as she revisits the passions of her young, obsessive love, Bird doesn't seem to regret its ending or chafe against her circumstances. Noy Holland's novel 'Bird' slips between past and present, lover and life 2015-12-24T05:00:00Z But obsessive looking is full of complication in Hitchcock, White argues; it is almost always punished. The Many Selves of Alfred Hitchcock, Phobias, Fetishes and All 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z The title is meant to be a little funny, leaning into the feelings of grandeur that accompany obsessive heartbreak. Conan Gray, a Budding Pop Singer Who Feels It All 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z In the first few episodes, especially, the major characters seemed either very introverted or very extroverted, and they were prone to obsessive behavior and explosive fits of temper. How "Treme" untangles the lessons of trauma 2011-04-25T13:26:00Z A trio of high school girls — an eccentric animator, a popular model and a business obsessive — form an anime club, a part-time diversion that soon grows, like a radioactive monster, into an all-consuming obsession. Best TV Shows of 2020 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z What emerges is a surprisingly suspenseful portrait of a kind yet obsessive artist driven to exhausting extremes. ‘Persistence of Vision’: Documenting mystery of unfinished masterpiece 2013-08-15T19:25:55Z I was obsessive about the size of things and how long the hallways and doors were. Steven Shainberg on directing Noomi Rapace in the claustrophobic thriller “Rupture”: “It’s a dream, a nightmare and a sexual fantasy” 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z Autism, characterized by obsessive, inward-turned interests and, in Owen’s case, an ability to watch the same movie hundreds of times, is similarly problematic. ‘Life, Animated,’ by Ron Suskind 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z I was obsessive and controlling, an utter megalomaniac. ArtsBeat: Q. and A.: Claire Vaye Watkins on 'Battleborn,' a Story Collection 2012-09-05T15:11:47Z Next week, Anthony Tommasini, the chief classical music critic for The Times, will write about the pieces that turned him into an obsessive. ArtsBeat: What inspired you to work in classical music? 2013-07-12T16:09:05Z Harry, the youngest, still exists in a bubble of childhood – an obsessive hoarder, endlessly capable of treasuring moments of pure delight from a day at the fair, or the discovery of a shark's egg. First fiction – reviews 2012-09-28T21:45:03Z I also took up fly-fishing with an almost obsessive passion, wetting a line everywhere from Wyoming and Idaho to the Bahamas and Belize. Fly-Fishing in Montana, Where a River Still Runs Through It 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z It’s not their bodies but their souls that their movies reveal, even if that revelation is discernible only to a smaller coterie of obsessives. Review: “Personal Shopper” and the Misunderstood Art of Kristen Stewart 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z Likewise, in “Running,” the obsessive, scattered repetition of the vocal samples echoes the idea Mr. Scott-Heron gets at in his spoken recitation of a compulsive need to escape. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-02-22T00:00:27Z The first Joe Beef cookbook is one of my favorite food books of all time—a weird, obsessive scrapbook of high-end gluttonous ephemera, wrapped around recipes that would be deranged if they weren’t so ingenius. The Best Food Books of 2018 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z The point about Lorca's play is that it is rooted in Spanish life: obsessive concern with honour, female subservience and religious oppression. The House of Bilquis Bibi 2010-07-27T01:01:00Z The quest for the missing gold — a quest that will involve many of the central figures and will assume obsessive proportions — dominates that story. Review | James Ellroy continues his examination of the corrupt and powerful with ‘This Storm’ 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z Crucially, though, while Draper will most likely cheat, become obsessive about his work and drink himself into oblivion, Grey is utterly devoted to Anastasia. Riff: What Don Draper and Christian Grey Have in Common 2012-06-22T21:48:00Z It is a darkly fascinating and obsessive work that lodges in the mind. Masahisa Fukase's Ravens: the best photobook of the past 25 years? 2010-05-24T12:14:00Z “I’m too insecure, obsessive and paranoid for that.” Harvey Pekar, ?American Splendor? Creator, Dies at 70 2010-07-13T00:45:00Z So that may be more "obsessive" than "organised". George Saunders: My desktop 2013-04-22T11:56:00Z Wood is both an obsessive and a maverick and, though often described reductively as a street photographer, his work does not sit easily in any tradition. Tom Wood: the people's maverick photographer 2012-10-12T15:29:36Z The boys’ narrow world is peopled with lost and obsessive men who project — as so many men do — visions of their own redemption onto the raw potential of young athletes. Aravind Adiga’s Novel Is About the Game of Cricket — and Sexual Awakening 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z “Hung Up,” a more recent song that was originally catchy enough for a phone commercial, was reworked as something ominous and obsessive. In Newest Spectacle, Madonna Morphs but Refuses to Give In 2012-08-29T10:57:00Z The heart of the series, Dom’s a world-weary, Corona-drinking street racer and car hijacker with an obsessive devotion to his family and a fraught relationship to the law. Wait, Who’s Fast, Who’s Furious? 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z He can be obsessive, thin-skinned, insecure, melancholy and unforgiving — especially when he walks into one of his restaurants and all is not as he wishes. Tough on Others, Tougher on Himself: The Perfectionist Behind the Milos Restaurants 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z Ms. Truscott is often on her own, aurally isolated by headphones as she zips about the elegantly bare black theater, moving through angled and idiosyncratic phrases with a dogged, even obsessive persistence. Dance Review: Adrienne Truscott’s ‘ Too Freedom ’ at the Kitchen 2012-12-10T22:48:09Z But watch it especially for Chris Cooper, who won an Oscar playing an orchid obsessive. What’s on TV Friday: ‘Son of Sam: The Killer Speaks’ and ‘Atypical’ 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z Although obsessive folks such as Roberts are likely to be on many Audubon walks, group knowledge runs the gamut and complete newbies are welcome. Pick a park for an Eastside bird-watching walk, from Bellevue to Issaquah 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z The list is so particular and obsessive that it takes on a life of its own, conjuring a kind of shadowy ghost mural consisting of all the artist’s second thoughts and regrets. 1. Make List; 2. Do Stuff 2011-06-02T22:04:11Z Despite the obsessive, strenuous detail of Zappa’s arrangements, the music wasn’t frozen. The Year in Boxed Sets, From David Bowie to Weird Al 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z Riding the wave of an obsessive interest in all forms of fried chicken, crispy chicken skins are the base for nachos at pop-ups, and sauced and spiced as appetizers in restaurants. How Will We Eat in 2023? Here Are 10 Predictions. 2022-12-27T05:00:00Z And so it goes: One of the major American novelists most associated with obsessive research doesn’t really use his research to tell his stories. How Richard Price does it: New York dialogue, only better 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z Now, in The Machine, he turns an essentially static, six-match chess series, staged in New York in 1997, into lively theatre by dwelling on the obsessive nature of the participants. The Machine/The Masque of Anarchy – review 2013-07-14T15:30:00Z He was less a television star than a television creator: an obsessive film buff, he crafted each episode of “Parts Unknown” like a feature film, plotting every shot, every music cue, every visual flourish. Anthony Bourdain and the Power of Telling the Truth 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z The cliché about Hitchcock is that the quality of the work was achieved through obsessive control freakery, but consider this: he never gave himself sole writing credit on any of his films. Alfred Hitchcock: from silent film director to inventor of modern horror 2012-06-15T21:55:07Z Thirty years of admiration bordering on the obsessive, then a date, then dumped. Big mouth strikes (once) again 2010-09-03T20:30:00Z Andrew, Margaret learns, is endlessly curious, even obsessive, about astronomy, scientific theories and certain political subjects. Books of The Times: In Jane Smiley?s ?Private Life,? a Marriage With No Sparks 2010-05-24T21:21:00Z “Big Inner,” his first album under his own name on his own label, Spacebomb, is a whole different thing, a dramatic pop-gospel record that hits extremes of the mood spectrum: very easygoing and very obsessive. Playlist : New CDs: Josh Berman, Guardian Alien, Rodrigo Campos 2012-08-17T19:49:57Z At home, however, he leads an austere life alone and suffers from obsessive compulsive disorder and insomnia. Denzel Washington sharpens tools to exact justice in 'Equalizer' 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z But she said she had learned some of the romantic pitfalls to avoid, including obsessive privacy. Taylor Swift aims at Jake Gyllenhaal on new album? 2012-01-18T00:06:09Z But he is beginning to show signs of personality disorder, grumpiness and obsessive behaviour. TV review: Living With Brucie, Dragons' Den and My Pet Shame 2010-07-15T07:00:00Z "The desperate and slightly obsessive aspect maybe, but also how people can change inside of a relationship – for better or worse." New band of the day: Tokolosh (No 1,487) 2013-04-08T16:06:47Z When I read Shadow and Bone a year ago it completely took both my breath and my heart, along with all of my completely obsessive tendencies. Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo - why should you read it? 2013-06-20T14:22:12Z Mr. Truaxe seemed consumed by the idea that those around him had committed financial crimes, and had an obsessive interest in and affinity for President Trump. He Built, Then Nearly Broke, a Successful Beauty Start-Up. Can It Go on Without Him? 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z Thus far, however, every claim of a Voynich solution — including both of last year's — has been either ignored or debunked by other experts, media outlets, and Voynich obsessives. The strange quest to crack the Voynich code 2020-02-16T05:00:00Z Having spent most of his working life portraying wiseguys, the latter actor was most likely a boon for the heist film’s obsessive fixation on verisimilitude. The Sopranos at 20: how the hit show changed the gangster genre 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z As conceived by Tolstoy, Pozdynyshev is an obsessive self-lacerating polemicist whose account of his deteriorating relationship with his wife becomes a galloping tract against the very act of sex. Theater Review: ?The Kreutzer Sonata,? Based on Tolstoy, at La MaMa 2012-03-12T02:00:00Z I think IT does attract a few obsessive, slightly odd personalities, definitely. The real IT Crowd: how true is the C4 sitcom? 2010-07-09T08:00:00Z Memories of Mork and Aladdin evaporated when he played a serial killer in Insomnia and a blank, obsessive stalker in One Hour Photo. Hounds of Love: why do comedians make such chilling villains? 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z On the contrary, if they have anything in common with generations before them, it seems to be this obsessive interaction with each other. So girls are not all as nice as pie. And your point is? 2011-01-02T00:07:17Z This starred Theresa Russell and the singer Art Garfunkel as two Americans in an obsessive relationship. Nicolas Roeg obituary 2018-11-25T05:00:00Z Hitler, in his obsessive pursuit of Lebensraum, had his troops invade Russia in summer uniforms expecting a swift victory, but they were swallowed up in the vastness of the Russian steppes and another cruel winter. ‘On Grand Strategy’ Review: The War Against Decline and Fall 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z Our resident obsessives are following Rachel Lindsay’s love journey while forgoing our own rooms to spend an unforgettable evening in the Fantasy Suite. What Happens When Reality Enters the ‘Reality’ of ‘The Bachelorette’? 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z But the object of their obsessive hunt is even more elusive than the Zodiac Killer: They desperately want to write “One Hit Song.” Review: ‘A Commercial Jingle for Regina Comet’ Is Missing a Few Notes 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z There’s a lot of media and aviation obsessives. My 17-hour Qantas odyssey in kangaroo pyjamas 2018-03-25T04:00:00Z Maybe he went double-dog obsessive on that cinnamon toast as he got older? My dad was a perfectionist in the kitchen, so I had to outdo him 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z In short, he embodied contradictions that haunt many of his films, in which criticism can sometimes be confused with reverence, or obsessive detail with tasteless excess. Visconti’s Operatic Autopsy of German History, Restored Anew 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z In The Unnamed by Joshua Ferris – a novel in which the protagonist destroys himself and his family by his obsessive outings – walking is not only the subject and the theme, it is also the metaphor. Zbinden's Progress by Christoph Simon – review 2012-08-17T21:55:06Z Of course, fan films are first and foremost a way for obsessives to participate in the life of their favourite films. The new wave of fan films 2010-05-13T15:10:00Z The rows of metallic measuring tape nailed to panel provide a busy, obsessive surface that plays off nicely against the simple shapes of the pieces. Humaira Abid’s ‘Self Portrait’ speaks bluntly about gender inequality 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z It is at once very funny, deeply serious, manically obsessive and, not least of all, a sensuous delight for the ear. Baltimore Symphony Orchestra concludes centennial season with energy and style 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z This is yet another example of Apple’s obsessive attention to detail,” he wrote. We are all addicts now 2013-05-11T23:00:00Z He is not obsessive with work, he doesn’t rattle off numbers. | At Berluti, Antoine Arnault Puts Business Before Pleasure 2013-09-12T08:00:08Z The obsessive dots and squiggles that give his animals their texture, meanwhile, are safely contained by razor-sharp edges. Independent 20th Century’s Artists in a Cozy New Fair Spinoff 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z I mentioned all of this to some smart friends whose Avengers knowledge borders on obsessive. Perspective | I watched 21 Marvel movies this month — and witnessed a decade of progress for women 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z His current album, “Beauty Behind the Madness,” teamed him up with expert Top 10 producers and tempered the hypnotic, obsessive, sometimes murky tracks of his previous albums with pop succinctness and extra hooks. Review: The Weeknd Tiptoes Toward Intimacy, Then Retreats 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z He continues the family tradition of being an obsessive bookworm, sharing book reviews on his surprisingly popular Instagram account. Our family's "Dark Waters" story: How my son's first film role and my father's cancer are connected 2019-12-21T05:00:00Z One of these was McArthur—who was “very, very jealous and very, very obsessive and controlling,” Walker says. “Uncover: The Village”: A Serial Killer, Toronto’s Gay Community, and a Podcast That Transcends True Crime 2019-05-03T04:00:00Z The price for the show is $12 for two cups, and worth the splurge for caffeine obsessives. Oval Room review: Under a new chef, it tastes as vibrant as ever 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z Saying Norsigian is on an "obsessive quest," Turnage said he's consulting lawyers about possibly suing him for using a copyright name for commercial purposes. $45 garage-sale find worth $200M: Ansel negatives 2010-07-28T05:38:00Z Under cross examination, Ms Larke denied being "emotional, obsessive, paranoid and volatile." Comic 'pushed lover into traffic' 2012-09-27T17:01:17Z The style matches the content of “Gregory Church,” an obsessive tale of an obsessive man and one of the jewels of this year’s Under the Radar Festival. | 'The Interminable Suicide of Gregory Church': Prolific Communication From an Isolated Man 2011-01-12T23:00:51Z Many people making clay heads of Lionel, inside his head, will raise awareness about obsessive behaviour, and help take the power out of it – like Lenny Bruce using the "N" word. Kickstarter campaign bids to bring Lionel Richie's Head to Bestival 2013-06-06T15:34:56Z In The Solitude of Ravens, Fukase found a subject that reflected his darkening vision, and he pursued it with obsessive relentlessness. Masahisa Fukase's Ravens: the best photobook of the past 25 years? 2010-05-24T12:14:00Z “A Wilderness of Error,” which will be released Tuesday by Penguin Press, is a reinvestigation of a case that many thought they knew, written by an obsessive who never leaves well enough alone. Errol Morris Takes on MacDonald Murder Case 2012-08-29T12:00:21Z Ford powerfully captures the complicated mix of meanness, frustration and obsessive mothering familiar to so many Black daughters. Ashley C. Ford’s Memoir Recalls Life With a Single Mom and a Jailed Dad 2021-05-30T04:00:00Z Radiohead’s obsessive listeners perked up their collective ears for a fresh project in January, after the band created a new independent company, as it did before its previous two albums. Radiohead’s New Album Is Coming in Two Days 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z Kit is an 18-year-old boy who is somewhere on "a spectrum that stretches from 'highly gifted' at one end to 'nutter' at the other"; the words "obsessive compulsive behaviour" and "Asperger's" are bandied about. The Quarry by Iain Banks – review 2013-06-14T06:28:54Z I have had obsessive thoughts of all kinds in the past. 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 He has worked alone, without editorial feedback or financial backup, working “like an obsessive,” as he described it himself. Capturing a 21st-Century War With 19th-Century Technology 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z The truth is there must be tens of thousands of romance novels containing similar themes and biases to Meyer's series: weak heroines, strong heroes, submission and surrender, a central plot involving obsessive love. Stephenie Meyer on Twilight, feminism and true love 2013-03-11T06:00:03Z It examines literary history from a single, obsessive point of view. Martin Amis: saviour of modern literature? 2010-04-20T13:33:00Z I asked Cuarón why he had been so obsessive in recreating every last detail of even his house, when very few people would have known the difference. Mexico City as the Director of ‘Roma’ Remembers It (and Hears It) 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z He was sort of obsessive about connecting people. Allen Ginsberg, Howl and the voice of the Beats 2011-02-23T20:30:00Z For some mid-90s New York rap obsessives, the ne plus ultra collaboration is “The What,” by the Notorious B.I.G. and Method Man. How Pop and Jazz Wrapped Up the Past in 16 Boxed Sets 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z The movie is so inattentive to its main characters that it never thinks to have these obsessive creators of space-themed comic books ask Paul what it's like where he comes from. Paul Review: E.T. With a Potty Mouth 2011-03-17T16:05:00Z As well as sharing some of the same artists and oddball inventors and obsessives, both exhibitions focus on personal cosmologies, and the extreme strategies people undertake to hold themselves together. Far-out show celebrates world of outsiders 2013-06-10T17:26:04Z There is something feverish in this pursuit of perfection; Plath is obsessive, driven — ambitious, almost — toward domestic happiness. Sylvia Plath’s Last Letters Show Her Struggling to Imagine Life Without Ted Hughes 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z Like any good Dylan obsessive, I’ve seen many of those performances. Bob Dylan’s First Day with “Tangled Up in Blue” 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z His favorites include those that reveal something about their proprietors, such as an obsessive personality. Weird Roadside Attractions 2010-11-23T19:00:00Z As these Batsheva performers repeat them, sometimes accelerating as they do so, they look obsessive, driven, racked. Dance Review: Batsheva Dance Company at Brooklyn Academy of Music 2012-03-08T22:36:23Z Certain sections of the book read like a thriller as Mukherjee details researchers' obsessive quest for the elusive scientific breakthroughs that may end up changing the course of medical history. 'The Emperor of All Maladies': A biography of cancer, and hopes for a cure 2010-11-18T00:03:00Z He won the 1990 Grammy for best instrumental pop performance for the number, which was, according to the Allmusic website, “dark, cloying and obsessive — and one of the best scores ever written for television.” Angelo Badalamenti, Composer for ‘Twin Peaks,’ Is Dead at 85 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z In a similar vein, Ojeda’s “Jawbone,” which centers on the kidnapping of a young woman by an obsessive teacher, uses horror to explore the anxieties of adolescence and womanhood in modern Ecuador. For Latin American Women, Horror and Fantasy Capture Everyday Struggle 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z Occasionally these odder episodes stray too far from the formula, trying too hard to impress the obsessives, while giving too little to the casual viewer. Sherlock recap: series four, episode one – The Six Thatchers 2017-01-02T05:00:00Z So begins the tale of an obsessive partnership, an act of construction and reconciliation — a bridge across a river and a span across shared grief. Review | ‘Bridge of Clay,’ by ‘Book Thief’ author Markus Zusak, was 20 years in the making 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z Yao is a self-described "cat obsessive," but the inspiration for "Another Cats Show" came from the broader art world, she says. 'Another Cats Show' at 356 Mission is all about fun with felines 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z We experienced the obsessive nature of orchestra musicians and felt their physical pain, self-doubt and, once in a while, supreme confidence. Music: Playing With the Orchestra in Baltimore 2012-07-13T16:19:48Z Another meta-fictional thriller in the mould of The Ghost Writer, this one stars Eva Green as a writer who becomes involved with an obsessive admirer. The most exciting films of 2017: returning auteurs 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z Along the way, he takes in a Korean orphanage in 1953, where June lived and Hector worked as a handyman and the two formed an obsessive triangle with a minister's wife, Sylvie Tanner. The Surrendered by Chang-Rae Lee 2010-05-22T23:05:00Z It’s an obsessive way of how I process things. 'A way for me to honor them': artist Jaime Scholnick on her Gaza images 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z Like many fans, Rubin came to view the experience of deconstructing the show with fellow obsessives as equally meaningful to sitting down for an hour in front of her television once a week. In the Land of Too Much Television, This Nerd Is Queen 2022-10-16T04:00:00Z My reaction, knowing voters as I did, was that we’ll take a hit in the polls — this will be an obsessive story for God knows how long, and people will draw the wrong conclusions. ‘They never saw this coming’: A Q&A with Kellyanne Conway 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z He had always thought of his career as split between the poles of public performance and private, solitary, obsessive songwriting. Jorge Drexler’s Music Connects Genres, Generations and Continents 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z Emmy Thelander, an artist and adjunct professor at City University of New York, said it wasn’t the job’s requirements but their obsessive enumeration that was hardest to swallow. High-Profile Art Couple Offers Worst Job Ever 2023-02-26T05:00:00Z It’s so acceptable these days to be obsessive about celebrities and fashion that nobody thinks twice about it. ArtsBeat: Cannes Film Festival: A ‘Bling Ring’ Star’s Head-Spinning Trip 2013-05-20T13:02:17Z “Awkwardness is associated with striking talent,” he says, because it’s often coupled with obsessive drive. Welcome to the golden age of social awkwardness 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z As an exploration of masculinity and its discontents, “Ad Astra,” set in a credible near future, plays very much like a thematic, somewhat obsessive bookend to “The Lost City of Z.” ‘Ad Astra’ Review: Brad Pitt Orbits the Powers of Darkness 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z Repeatedly the pair locked into obsessive drones, which mixed with the sweltering heat to hypnotic effect. Music Review: Fred Frith Brings a Week’s Worth of Variety to the Stone 2013-08-29T20:38:08Z But this is life with obsessive compulsive disorder. Clenching and counting: how I get through the holidays with OCD 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z I adapted easily to the Twin Oaks mode of life because I’m used to making obsessive schedules and to-do lists. I worked hard for no pay — and I dug it 2013-02-10T23:00:00Z Almost 20 years’ worth of his obsessive artwork, enough to fill a large truck, went into a storage locker, where it remained unseen for years, in danger of being forgotten for good. Rammellzee?s Work and Reputation Re-emerge 2012-02-24T02:36:40Z The psycho-geography of his youth seems to exert an almost obsessive hold on Shaw's adult imagination. George Shaw 2011-02-13T00:05:02Z Of late, Swift — obsessive about memory and even more obsessive about lore — has made revisiting her old work integral to her public presentation. Taylor Swift, Pop’s Maestro of Memory, Returns to the Stage 2023-03-18T04:00:00Z Here, we see Porcellino’s obsessive behavior from the inside; he knows this is impossible, but he can’t bring himself to break the cycle of his thinking anyway. John Porcellino's 'The Hospital Suite' peels back the layers of a life 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z I share his obsessive need to make art, to create something from anything, from everything: He was possessed by a stubborn spirit to compulsively make art, as a form of exorcism. 10 Artists on Picasso’s Enduring, Confounding Influence 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z She criticized our “obsessive technologies” that promote fear and greed. Ursula Le Guin Has Earned a Rare Honor. Just Don’t Call Her a Sci-Fi Writer. 2016-08-28T04:00:00Z Plenty of people badmouth their former employers – indeed, there is a whole industry of journalists making so-called careers out of doing just this, with an obsessive degree of ferocity. A former editor dished the dirt on Vogue – what did we learn? It’s just like any other magazine 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z “Cuisinomane” follows the same form as “balletomane” and “bibliomane,” meaning a person who is an obsessive fan of a certain art form. Hangry? Want a Slice of Piecaken? The Top New Food Words for 2015 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z Bergman, though, did not share Allen’s obsessive interest in younger women. Bergman: why are the great director's women all tragi-sexual goddesses? 2018-02-04T05:00:00Z On a busy Friday at the start of the raucous San Sebastián fiestas, gawkers and partyers slowed me on my way to ChocoBar de Casa Cortés, a new restaurant for chocolate obsessives. The Many Faces of Puerto Rico 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z "He has always been a jazz obsessive," says the flautist Bobbi Humphrey, a friend of Wonder's since they were teenagers, and a guest on his 1976 album Songs in the Key of Life. Stevie Wonder: jammin' with the jazz set 2010-06-17T21:44:00Z It is precision work — obsessive micro-editing goes into the videos — that draws on a forager’s instinct for finding beauty in the ephemeral and mundane. At His Moment of Triumph, Arthur Jafa Is Looking for Trouble 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z I had decided to treat my mom, an obsessive “Game of Thrones” watcher, to an afternoon performance of “Doctor Faustus” at the Duke of York’s Theater, starring the inveterate heartthrob Kit Harington. How to See London Theater on the Cheap 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z “Once inside, it feels like you are stepping into someone’s home — someone with an obsessive collection of surgical ephemera.” Chicago’s creepy cabinet of curiosities 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z Behind the scenes, members of the show’s writing staff were no less obsessive. Meet the ‘Better Call Saul’ Staffers Who Kept Its Story Straight 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z The election-junkie son of Mary Louise O’Brien pointed to a recent story popular among election obsessives detailing how one 19-year-old African American man in Illinois might be skewing its results to the right. Is America addicted to this election? 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z Other obsessives have confined themselves to emails or letters. When readers become stalkers 2013-07-12T07:00:05Z Her relentless forensic counter-testing will give "Making a Murderer" obsessives plenty to debate once again. Smart Watch: “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina” on Netflix, “The Woman in White” and more 2018-10-20T04:00:00Z From shining armor to model ships, watchtowers to war re-enactments, a full plunge into the Knights’ Malta could occupy an obsessive for months. Beneath Malta’s Beauty, a Tangled History 2013-12-06T18:20:39Z I’ve watched “Fleabag” Season 2 so many times now that it’s getting obsessive. Beyond ‘Fleabag’: What Else Will Quench That Quirky Thirst? 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z When he came to write the book, he abandoned attempts at fiction for almost obsessive factual analysis. Javier Cercas: A life in books 2011-04-04T07:00:01Z When cookbook collectors or obsessive readers of food literature want to find obscure gems or culinary heirlooms, they hit up Noe Valley’s Omnivore Books. | T's Picks, Part One 2010-12-10T19:30:00Z Her short, beautifully illustrated meditation on the writer appears at the end of “Microscripts,” a volume of obsessive, taut little texts that Walser wrote in neat code on small slips of paper. Dancing to Robert Walser 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z Scientology is now famous for revenge and the obsessive pursuit of its own righteousness. Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood & the Prison of Belief by Lawrence Wright – review 2013-01-30T12:00:02Z All of these recordings are interesting, at some level, for obsessive fans, but it’s hard to know precisely what they are. Fresh Releases by Pink Floyd and Queen 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z The best gardens tend to be created by obsessive perfectionists. Gardening mistakes are inevitable, even for the experts. Don’t let them mess with your mojo. 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z She told Mr. Walker, as he recalled, “This is the one character I’ve never been able to play,” her wistful confession giving rise to a mutual, and mutually obsessive, fantasy. Front Row: In Tim Walker Fashion Photos, Mermaids Come to Life 2013-12-19T01:18:11Z Lorentzen’s right — Wallace was a study in incongruities: compassionate yet also critical, empathetic and dismissive, obsessive but at times overblown. Will 'The End of the Tour' warp the way we think about David Foster Wallace? 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z Among academics and Mr. McCarthy’s legion of obsessive readers, the essential question about his oeuvre has long been: What’s better, early McCarthy or late? Cormac McCarthy, Novelist of a Darker America, Is Dead at 89 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z Sponsored by the fan site toughpigs.com and the group Secret Formula, it will include a trivia contest for true obsessives. Spare Times: For Children, March 23-29 2012-03-22T22:00:09Z But he meets his match this season in Pedretti’s character, Love Quinn, a woman who is just as obsessive and charming — and just as willing to do whatever it takes to preserve a relationship. That Intense New Character on ‘You’? Victoria Pedretti ‘Had the Tools’ 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z As such, it's hard for all but the most devoted obsessive to keep completely on top of what he's up to, a fact the generally mysterious Oldham is probably only too happy about. This week's new live music 2010-07-30T23:06:00Z That stubbornness says a lot about Marley, whose obsessive drive seems only to have accelerated the more famous he became. Movie Review: A Documentary on Bob Marley From Kevin Macdonald 2012-04-19T21:15:33Z Grohl became Jack Black for an instant, mimicking the riffs on Edgar Winter's"Frankenstein" as he explained how his first encounter with the instrumental hit turned him into a music obsessive in the '70s. SXSW 2013 keynote: Dave Grohl and the importance of 'voice' 2013-03-14T18:17:00Z “I got really obsessive with the script, trying to have it make sense to me,” Ms. Sossamon said, “because the film is so crazy.” Arts & Leisure Preview: Monte Hellman to Release a New Film, ?Road to Nowhere? 2010-05-15T02:25:00Z By comparison, he describes himself as having an "obsessive" nature. Nicholas Hoult: 'The paparazzi don't care about me' 2013-01-26T23:00:00Z It’s an obsessive, ludicrously hefty valentine of a box set to the group’s heyday. Gang of Four changed the way punk sounded and what it could say. A new box set reveals the peak of their power. 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z For cast members like Ms. Enos, who received an Emmy nomination in Season 1 for her performance as the increasingly obsessive Linden, there was not much expectation that “The Killing” would return. Television: ‘The Killing,’ Canceled, Returns to AMC 2013-05-29T12:00:17Z Simpson’s obsessive reporting is the book’s great strength. Terrorists Killed 12 Nepalese Men. Was an American Military Contractor to Blame? 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z Alex said his instincts are a part of a creative process that can skew obsessive. Alex G and the Art of Interesting Choices 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z The director wraps Fischer up very neatly without having an idea that’s big enough, strong enough, dominant enough, obsessive enough to raise that artificial unity to his own personal vision. Bobby Fischer, “Pawn Sacrifice,” and Movies About Geniuses 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z In his new book, The Girl in Alfred Hitchcock's Shower, Graysmith suggests that Kenneth Dean Hunt was a Psycho obsessive who wanted to kill Leigh's body double but got the stand-in by mistake. Secrets of the Psycho shower 2010-03-29T21:00:00Z By the time the new novel begins, his fascination has reached obsessive levels, and the Hush has become both his physical and his spiritual home. Review | ‘The Hush’: Murder, madness, magic, betrayal and obsessive love 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z Fueled by a certain righteous anger, she calls out her cheering female classmates for being hypocrites and finally confronts her obsessive ex-boyfriend Andrew for his controlling behavior. How "Big Mouth" pushes back on the angry teenage girl stereotype 2019-10-13T04:00:00Z It also didn't help matters that it's through Jane's relationship with the architect that we find out Edward has an obsessive need for patterned behavior. "The Girl Before" ending explained: What happens to Jane? 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z Why is Donna with this obsessive dreamer when Hunt, her handsome old flame and her longtime boss, is there for the taking? 'Halt and Catch Fire' Recap: Love, Competition and Glory 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z For obsessive dance-goers, it’s been a while since January in New York felt like January in New York. A Raucous New Festival, With a Friends and Family Vibe 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z Last season, Charlie built his own cabin, cutting trees and assembling logs with a mathematician’s obsessive precision and patience. Perspective | Nothing really happens on ‘The Last Alaskans,’ which is why it’s still the best reality show 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z Williams revives the 80s, only he gives everything a dusty coating, a layer of crackle, that makes you think of obsessive Aussie crate-diggers the Avalanches. New band of the day ? No 940: Star Slinger 2011-01-06T17:18:25Z The broadcast schedule is filled with an evolving roster of Los Angeles DJs and music obsessives. Low end theories: how Dublab became the world's best online radio station 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z Charting events including the war on terror and the Hutton enquiry, the 800-page tome was described in the Guardian as "nasty, brutish and long ... the edited outpouring of an obsessive". Campbell uncut 2010-05-12T13:55:00Z The future auteur realized the actor had an obsessive commitment to every aspect of his work, something he could relate to. When Daniel Giménez Cacho Met the Three Amigos 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z When Taylor Swift removed her back catalog from Spotify this week, the online music streaming platform reacted, poetically enough, like an obsessive ex. Spotify’s bullying economy: Why the streaming service should stop guilt-tripping Taylor Swift 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z Watching erotic material should only be a problem if it becomes truly obsessive and affects one’s ability to function properly or sustain one’s work or relationship. My boyfriend and I watch porn separately. He wants us to stop – but it’s the only way I can orgasm 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z Ascher invited five obsessive viewers to share their divergent observations about Kubrick’s film. ‘Room 237’: Seeing ‘The Shining’ through obsessive eyes 2013-04-04T21:43:14Z There are glimmers, as when Charlotte shows us Branwell’s collection of feathers — obsessive, true to place, touched with poetry. Theater Review: ‘Brontë: A Portrait of Charlotte’ by Alloy Theater 2012-08-05T21:24:31Z Ademeit photographed other supposed sources of the rays, like electric meters, but the collagelike tabletops wreathed in obsessive language are especially compelling. Photography in the Raw 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z Not that there’s likely much overlap between run of the mill oven obsessives and designer label fanatics. From Oprah to Goop, these crazy gift guide suggestions caught Salon's imagination 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z What did the other Peanuts obsessives in Tuned Inland think of the special? The Morning After: A New-Old Peanuts Special, and Other Thanksgiving Leftovers 2011-11-25T15:26:28Z Mr. Stillman is a terrific, sensitive singer and imbues the role of the King with an affecting sense of anguished, obsessive devotion. | 'Sleeping Beauty Wakes': A Fairy Tale, Updated Without Ambien 2011-05-23T21:11:06Z As any self-respecting musical-theater obsessive knows, those are the words Zach shouts again and again in “I Hope I Get It,” the opening number that puts the auditioning dancers through their initial paces. Without Michael Bennett’s choreography, is it still ‘A Chorus Line’? 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z The film explores the world of obsessive sneaker collecting, where shoes aren’t so much worn as stockpiled. Review: In ‘Sneakerheadz,’ an Obsession Over Something More Than Footwear 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z "We don't have casual fans – it's an obsessive, cult audience." The National: gloomy ? with a hint of sunshine 2010-04-22T20:30:00Z Alexander Waugh, who describes himself as an obsessive researcher, acknowledged that his family name probably influenced Jungman's decision to offer him his grandfather's most private letters. Lost Evelyn Waugh letters reveal thwarted love for 'bright young thing' 2013-07-20T23:06:02Z This indictment is ultimately a spiritual one: of obsessive consumption, and freedom defined as escape from restraint rather than self-mastery. How Victory in the Cold War Led to Tragedy in the Years After 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z She wrote the title down in a blank diary — and an obsessive ritual was born. Pamela Paul’s memoir ‘My Life with Bob’ is a love letter to books 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z The restaurant itself reopens in February; expect a menu with an obsessive focus on local ingredients, in the style of Noma. Restaurants: New World Orders: Tables Make the Scene 2011-01-07T19:55:06Z Novelist James Ellroy prides himself on living in the past, and sometimes his obsessive backward gazing pays off. James Ellroy talks up his new L.A. Quartet 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z The mystery man may be anonymous, but he is not alone in the merry old land of Oz obsessives, who are already redoubling their search. Inside the $1m hunt to bring Dorothy's stolen ruby slippers home 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z Savvy enough for theater obsessives, but not so esoteric that casual fans feel left out. The Week in Arts: Glorious Nubian Art in Boston 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z Cabaret of Souls expresses its dislike of everything from warmongers to gourmands to obsessive music fans: indeed, almost everyone seems to get it in the neck, with the notable exception of sixtysomething folk-inspired singer-songwriters. Richard Thompson's Cabaret of Souls 2010-06-13T20:30:00Z The obsessive pursuit of detail is visible everywhere you look. Queen Olivia Colman, an epic budget and a cast of thousands: a year behind the scenes on The Crown 2019-09-07T04:00:00Z Kurzweil, a bestselling novelist and children's book author, is an engaging narrator, notably lighthearted considering the obsessive nature of this book. 'Whipping Boy' digs up childhood bully and a fascinating story 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z Our school district in Virginia offers Naviance, a sort of obsessive database that helps you match your interests and test scores to colleges and universities all over America. Five survival tips for visiting prospective colleges with your high-schooler 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z Delivering his vocal lines with unsnarling warmth of tone, he added complexity to the role, pacing back and forth in obsessive straight lines and suggesting a terrible, bottled-up hatred. Billy Budd; Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra; Idomeneo/ Queen of Spades – review 2012-06-23T23:05:37Z A small but loyal audience deems Mr. Brooks brave, brilliant, obsessive, fanatical and pricelessly funny even when he falls flat. Books of The Times: A Wry Eye on Problems of the Future 2011-05-01T22:22:50Z What can I do, since it looks like obsessive compulsive behavior, and I need the job. Perspective | Ask Amy: Husband’s daily pot use makes wife smolder 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z Exhausting, too, is the obsessive detail of Simon Stone’s production of Cherubini’s “Medée.” Nearly 100, the Salzburg Festival Doesn’t Wait to Celebrate 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z I remember this not because I’m one of those obsessive foodies who documents every meal. Hunting for the Real Pasta all’Amatriciana 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z There is also a handful of obsessives who have chipped away at it, piece by piece, in the course of decades. The Grand Canyon Needs to Be Saved By Every Generation 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z Eccleston’s approach to his work has always been intense and obsessive – not just in how he approaches his characters but in how he picks his roles. Christopher Eccleston: ‘I really felt that I was going to die’ 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z Her haunted, smoky tone was just right for the dreamy, obsessive Leonora, and her phrasing was artful. ‘Il Trovatore’ and ‘Fierrabras’ at Salzburg Festival 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z But now the midterm elections offer the first real challenge to that obsessive focus on all things Trumpian. Tired of Trump books? A new wave of politicians could bring a fresh crop of titles. 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z “Envisioning 2001” shows Kubrick as a director in command of all aspects of filmmaking, and it suggests that he and Clarke were no small obsessives when it came to understanding their subject matter. The Making of ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ Was as Far Out as the Movie 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z Maya and Veer like to joke that in the obsessive early days of their relationship, things were like biryani rice — “wild, with a lot of spices.” Marriage Can Take Many Forms in India 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z It’s another where we laugh at the way men resemble children — in this case, one who’s possessive and obsessive. The real Super Bowl babies: Big commercial moments paint men as infantile doofuses 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z As the two boys learn to shoot and conduct heists in the city’s wealthy neighborhood, their miseducation is bedeviled by erratic pacing and the distracting attentions of an obsessive police officer and her young informant. ‘Mondocane’ Review: Fractured Friendship, Fractured World 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z An obsessive like Errol Morris or Werner Herzog might have pushed beyond pathos and curiosity, deeper into the literal no man’s land that lies between us and our estranged animal relations. | 'Project Nim': Some Humans and the Chimp They Loved and Tormented 2011-07-07T22:30:06Z David Lynch worked around that dilemma by making a prequel, and "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me" tied up loose ends while satiating the curiosity of obsessive fans. 'K Missing Kings' is an anime hot mess 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z By 1823, having fled Javert’s obsessive pursuit, he earns wealth and standing under an assumed name as a factory owner and mayor. Les Misérables: The YouTube Version 2012-12-11T13:00:47Z Avid, obsessive and a binge reader, where the binges were constant. Lydia Millet: By the Book 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z Voracious and obsessive, Joan is addicted to love and its analogues — in particular, the adoration of men who happen to be married to someone else. Battle of the Sexes? For This Voracious Heroine, It’s All-Out War. 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z The 1948 film, directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, is “a wonderful depiction of an artist at work and a fascinating examination of the obsessive drive to create art,” Mr. Scott says. ArtsBeat: Critics' Picks Video: 'The Red Shoes' 2011-03-01T14:07:26Z Russell is also presented as someone who was obsessive, perhaps often to his own detriment as piles of unfinished work would stack up due to his incessant need to tweak things. My streaming gem: why you should watch Wild Combination 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z “And the more that other people wanted to be part of it, the better we felt about being in it ourselves — and the more obsessive we became.” Sweating Through Decades for the Teacher’s Admiring Nod 2012-10-19T21:42:53Z The movement incorporates bits of ballet, gestures ordinary and obsessive, formal invention and flares of drama, the virtuosic and the casual, all treated equally. Dance Review: Tere O’Connor’s ‘Bleed’ Debuts at Brooklyn Academy of Music 2013-12-13T22:05:12Z The powerful Atlantis collection of 2010 was live-streamed by a designer whose obsessive blogging underlined his urge to speak directly to his generation. Exhibition Review: Alexander McQueen in All His Dark Glory 2011-05-02T13:00:52Z It all suggests a state of autism, a consciousness cocooned within its own obsessive compulsions. ‘Sites of Reason’ Underway at Museum of Modern Art 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z In full obsessive mode, I found tangible evidence of what I feared was a dream come true and, boy, was she gorgeous; frankly, as Dolly Parton might say, the full Jolene. My partner wants her ex to stay over, and it makes me worry | Dear Mariella 2021-03-07T05:00:00Z Mr. D’Agata drew laughs when he called it a “thrillingly obsessive, anal document.” ArtsBeat: John D'Agata and Jim Fingal Address the Facts 2012-04-19T23:00:17Z This obsessive, meditative devotion is embedded in her drawings, which create a visceral tension between the sharply delineated texts and their transitory backgrounds. With colored pencils and confessional phrases, Amanda Manitach’s art speaks to many 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z There are chuckles of recognition from the audience at a married couple's spat played out through the husband's obsessive reading of the Guardian. Short Shrifts – review 2012-07-04T17:12:41Z Moreover, they have formed an extremely vocal and articulate fanbase whose obsessive dedication to the written word has effectively forced the film-makers to remain essentially respectful of the source texts. Move over, Luke Skywalker… I'm a Twilight man 2012-11-10T18:00:01Z Indeed David Brion Davis, a leading historian of abolitionism, condescendingly called Lay a mentally deranged, obsessive “little hunchback.” A radical for our time: Benjamin Lay, the Quaker dwarf abolitionist you didn't learn about in class 2017-09-11T04:00:00Z It's the kind of music that could become popular or not, but it's certainly strange and beautiful enough to gain obsessive superfans . Shabazz Palaces enters unconventional partnership with Sub Pop 2010-09-02T15:41:00Z He has a wildly discursive intellect governed by a firm, obsessive focus. Steve Coleman, a Jazz Outlier, Rides a Wave of Acclaim 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z And the finale, which, on the surface, seems a rustic dance, here sounded modern and wild, with the violin fixating on obsessive rhythmic riffs against the swirling orchestra. Review: At New York Philharmonic, a Soloist but Not His Violin 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z There are reasons why comic book sellers are caricatured in pop culture as obsessive, isolated souls. Television: AMC Goes Inside Kevin Smith?s Comic Book Shop 2012-02-05T06:00:09Z Secondly, it encourages the kind of obsessive scrutiny of women’s bodies that I would hope we’re moving away from. Ban the bump-watch: Beyoncé’s belly scrutiny is sexist, invasive and bad for all women 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z It was six minutes long, black and white, and set at a Cinnabon in Omaha, to the delight of “Breaking Bad” obsessives everywhere. A Better Direction for “Better Call Saul” 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z Even considering their obsessive cult following, that felt a little excessive. After 16 years, the Hold Steady is changing the ‘business of being a band’ 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z These shows both reward careful, even obsessive viewing, but they don’t require it. Should I Watch the Prequel to ‘Breaking Bad’ First? 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z Photograph: Graham Turner for the Guardian The pressure group ArtWatch UK keeps a vigilant, some would say obsessive, eye on what it sees as the crimes of art conservators and museums. Swallow your sneering, ArtWatch 2010-06-17T14:36:00Z "It's enthusiastic, it's slightly obsessive in places. And the obsessiveness does suggest that it was probably the work of George III around 1788 or 1789 when he was recovering from his illness." George III drawing is uncovered 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z Mr. Daly provides the answer in the form of his tightly smiling, conscientiously obsessive character. ‘Review,’ a Workaholic’s Slapstick Tragedy Nears Its End 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z I love what I do, but I am aware that it can become obsessive. Andy Serkis: ‘How would I like to be remembered? Not as the guy who played Gollum’ 2017-07-01T04:00:00Z But an evening chasing Evangeline around Europe as she searches for a man to bed her is likely to induce instant jet lag in all but the most obsessive Cole Porter addicts. Theater Review: Cole Porter’s ‘Nymph Errant’ Is Revived 2012-07-13T22:47:11Z The eclectic Dyer turns his obsessive attention to the 1960s World War II film “Where Eagles Dare.” New & Noteworthy 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z But it is precisely her obsessive ruminations, and how they find expression in controlled, stylish prose, that make the book so exciting. “Sight” and The Pleasures of Overthinking Motherhood 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z A self-proclaimed milk and cheese obsessive, he is also certified as a master cheese maker through the University of Wisconsin, specializing in Cheddar, Monterey Jack, mozzarella and provolone. Son, Placed for Adoption, Leads Birth Parents to Altar 36 Years Later 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z But who am I to criticize a great poet for the excess, as I make my way back to a house filled with ample evidence of my own obsessive collecting? In Chile, Where Pablo Neruda Lived and Loved 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z Those serial killers, in turn, have inspired the obsessive interest of crime writers. Hunting Down the Best True-Crime Tales 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z The show’s obsessive attention to style and mood begins to seem hallucinatory and sluggish. Review | ‘Ratched’ is a mighty strong dose of Ryan Murphy, with sometimes sluggish side-effects 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z Three years later, the trio's collaboration finally reaches Broadway after a stop at the La Jolla Playhouse in California last summer and lots of tinkering from a fairly obsessive trio. How Phish's Trey Anastasio wooed Doug Wright 2013-03-14T16:19:10Z Its hallways, map rooms and bedroom nooks are so eerily preserved and smartly presented, even people who aren’t Churchill enthusiasts or World War II obsessives will enjoy themselves. A Mother-Daughter Test: London, Together 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z Yet its ills have been chronicled with almost obsessive attention. Of Barneys’ Bankruptcy, Pride and the Fall 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z It’s troubled and obsessive at heart, not tidy. After Half a Century, ‘The Dark Side of the Moon’ Still Reverberates 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z It sounds a tad obsessive, but it wasn’t hard once I got going. 4 rules for a stress-free vacation home 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z But your caretakers say that ever since that Billy Bush video dropped in October, you’ve become kind of obsessive. Obama’s last turkey pardon is the dad joke the country needs right now 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z An obsessive do-it-yourselfer, Wrigley says it was important that she got “a completely blank slate” to design and decorate the space however she pleased. Meet Penelope: A DIY’d trailer bringing craftiness to a street near you 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z I'm never going to be a gym obsessive, but running on the road by yourself at night is definitely an experience I'd like to repeat. On the Runway Blog: Susie Bubble Thinks Pink 2012-10-15T21:58:21Z Horror is a place where we go with really intense, obsessive concerns about what a body should look like and how it should behave and what makes a body human or inhuman. "We all want to be the final girl": Sady Doyle on true crime, slasher films and surviving patriarchy 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z For the train ticket question, I turned to Mark Smith, who founded the wonderfully obsessive train website Seat61.com. Help! It’s Been More Than 2 Years and I Still Don’t Have the Refund 2022-06-18T04:00:00Z The new series essentially levels the playing field, because even the most obsessive fan won’t know where these stories will go. The future of Star Wars has arrived, and it takes place hundreds of years in the past 2021-02-22T05:00:00Z He also developed a thriving sideline in documentary work that allowed him to indulge what he called his “obsessive interest in rock and roll.” Jonathan Demme, who directed ‘Silence of the Lambs,’ ‘Philadelphia,’ dies at 73 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z Its protagonist, Bach, is a poet who sacrifices all his relationships to the demands of an obsessive imagination, and resists any pressure to be responsible. Howard Barker: a champion of imagination, not 'relevance' 2010-04-29T15:41:00Z She was always a great reader, "pathologically so", she says, and an early, faintly obsessive interest in synchronised swimming was diverted by teachers at her comprehensive, who encouraged her love of writing. Jo Shapcott: the book of life 2011-01-27T08:00:06Z The acclaimed Pop artist was an obsessive photographer as well as a constant subject in front of the camera. New art photo books explore the famous and 'unfamous' among us 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z Aging star with sagging ego, pliable young beauty eager to please, obsessive stage mother willing to facilitate — the tale in "The Last of Robin Hood" is as old as Hollywood itself. Late-in-life Errol Flynn leers in 'The Last of Robin Hood' 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z In a world brimming with “Star Wars” obsessives, Mr. Harrelson would not seem to be one. Woody Harrelson, Rogue Number One 2018-05-26T04:00:00Z Like an obsessive nutjob–which, temporarily, he just may be–he dashes off a letter to the vending company, though his litany of suffering goes far beyond the basic request for a refund. Review: Jake Gyllenhaal Does All the Heavy Lifting in Demolition 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z Through all its spasms of intensity, he revealed the music’s obsessive use of thematic sequences and restless harmonic shifts. Review: A Radiant Revival of ‘Der Rosenkavalier’ 2019-12-15T05:00:00Z In direct contrast, nobody could seriously suggest that Lemmy, an obsessive collector of precisely the sort of bits and pieces with which Rhodes had confronted Jones and James, has any truck with rightwing politics. Galliano's views have nothing to do with Nazi chic 2011-03-02T09:30:00Z “Joyce’s universe is one for the obsessive reader who will find any clues to chart their way through the novel.” A New Look for ‘Ulysses’ 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z "I am obsessive always, even as a child," she says, suddenly serious, and, for the first time, pausing for thought. Marina Abramovic 2010-10-02T23:04:00Z The obsessive focus that these blessed, cursed minds bring to their goal often excludes social peripheral vision. 'The Social Network': A Pie in the Facebook 2010-09-24T18:50:00Z As Frances McDormand put it: “We all share a deeply obsessive, compulsive ordering of our artistic pursuits.” In the Company of Wes Anderson 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z Some of Ms. Rogers’s guests are confirmed food obsessives. Getting Intimate With the Celebrity Regulars of River Cafe 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z He has the air of a contented outsider, someone who is obsessive about what he does but unbothered about its commercial impact. Centre stage 2010-04-17T23:07:00Z “For a while there, it was like obsessive. And I thought, ’This is ridiculous. Leslie Jordan parlays Instagram fame with new book and album 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z That obsessive remodeling of the rotting sub-basement of his home mirrors his internal changes. “Breaking Bad”: Walter faces the abyss 2012-07-23T02:59:00Z Random House Project to Rewrite Shakespeare There is still a rogue faction of literary scholars and obsessive amateurs who claim that Shakespeare’s plays were actually written by Edward de Vere, the 17th earl of Oxford. ArtsBeat: Random House Project to Rewrite Shakespeare 2013-06-27T17:24:05Z Yet, toward the end of the story, it’s her perspective we get and her understanding of where Billy’s obsessive storytelling will take him. David Means on Waiting for the High to Kick in 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z What followed that experience was a lifetime of serious mental health issues that included depression, anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder, addiction, suicidality. "Pray Away" director on conversion therapy: "It's a movement of hurt people, hurting other people" 2021-08-03T04:00:00Z And Richard Bacon – media obsessive, politics junkie, chataholic – is in a bowling alley in Tampa, Florida, taking the pulse of the American nation. Rewind radio: Richard Bacon; Tony Livesey; Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show – review 2012-11-11T00:05:52Z The Springsteen obsessive — I rate myself at about an 8.1 out of a possible 10 — will hunt instead for smaller, juicier nuggets. Books of The Times: ‘Bruce,’ a Springsteen Biography, by Peter Ames Carlin 2012-11-06T13:00:00Z We would have little progress in the humanities or life sciences without the dedicated, some might say obsessive, pursuit that defines a collector. In defense of souvenirs: For travel-lovers stuck at home, even the unlikeliest tchotchkes can spark joy 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z A notoriously obsessive creative, he’s keener to tinker in the privacy of the studio than to bask in the spotlight. The War on Drugs Can’t Stop Searching for Answers in the Music 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z Although she was someone who wasn't really happy just keeping the house, she was obsessive about the house. Michael Cunningham: A life in writing 2011-02-07T08:00:00Z “Snowfall” is partly about the collateral damage of true belief — the destruction wrought when Reed’s obsessive patriotism hooks up with Franklin’s implacable determination to succeed. ‘Snowfall’ Review: To Live, Love and Die in 1980s L.A. 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z My response to the letter was part of a behavioural pattern: an obsessive compulsion to worry about the most trifling of day‑to‑day challenges. ‘Our goal is to halve the male suicide rate’: why no-frills therapy works for men 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z She displays a deep respect for his obsessive attention to the details of his craft, which is not surprising, given the careful agility and precision of her own prose. Three architects who built Jerusalem: How they shaped and fled (and were forgotten by) the conflicted city 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z But generally speaking, there’s little question that an obsessive focus on constantly boosting enrollment is crucial to survival in the for-profit college world. Can’t a capitalist be moral? 2012-06-17T22:00:00Z Success in show business demands an obsessive, even maniacal drive, along with a diva-ish degree of self-regard and a projection of your own will onto the universe. "Conan O'Brien Can't Stop": Backstage with Coco 2011-06-23T00:30:00Z I am a Beatles obsessive, and have made the obligatory visit, though its relevance to anything has always seemed pretty questionable, even to the likes of me. I am a Beatles obsessive. But let's cut the Fabs-worship 2011-01-03T21:00:01Z “I am an obsessive about my work, but I love it,” he said. Orhan Pamuk’s Istanbul 2014-01-31T18:45:16Z Pitt said it was his obsession that introduced him to Pollaro, whom he said embodies the "same mad spirit of the craftsmen of yore, with their obsessive attention to detail." Brad Pitt turns designer for high-end furniture collection 2012-11-05T23:24:05Z Like Jil Sander, the first prominent designer to engage with the brand, all those designers are notably talented but famous largely among fashion insiders and obsessives. Roger Federer Wants to Win a New Game 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z While Pharrell’s breezy tune is steeped in the idioms of American hip-hop and dance culture, the video for “It Girl” comes from the world of Japanese otaku—obsessive fans of anime, manga, and video games. Pharrell Williams’s Lolicon Video 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z Note the obsessive repetition of the word “erase” in these examples: “It's simply wrong to try to erase history.” Princeton Digs Deep Into Its Fraught Racial History 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z “The only way to solve this contradiction is to make sure you are obsessive about the identity of the place.” An Ancient Corner of Italy Finds the World on Its Doorstep 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z Fortunately the South African authorities, like the Nazis, were bureaucratic obsessives and since his release in 1990, a steady trickle has been released. Sue Arnold's audiobook choice 2011-01-22T00:06:19Z Proponents combine fasting with obsessive tracking of vitals including body composition, blood glucose and and ketones – compounds produced when the body raids its own fat stores, rather than relying on ingested carbohydrates, for energy. The Silicon Valley execs who don't eat for days: 'It's not dieting, it's biohacking' 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z So in a self-perpetuating course of illness, the obsessive thoughts would worsen, while interest in one’s own physical well-being and current surroundings would diminish. The lost promise of nostalgia: What modern pop culture gets wrong 2014-03-16T20:00:00Z In the cellist’s mind, these suites match Plath’s “obsessive pacing to and fro, her deep song, her infinite colors, and even her flashes of humor and her sense of form.” Review: ‘The Night Dances,’ With Charlotte Rampling and Sonia Wieder-Atherton 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z Mr. Strycker’s obsessive pursuit had taken him to the ends of the earth, but news of the occupation brought Malheur to mind as the place where he first fell in love with birding. Angry Birders: Standoff at Oregon Refuge Has Riled a Passionate Group 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z If you’re not obsessive about your work, don’t you leave yourself vulnerable to being canned? Critic’s Notebook: Made-for-TV Holiday Movies Are Here Again 2012-11-09T23:37:31Z Even with all that, I have an almost obsessive love for the place that won’t die until I do. “No one knows if New Orleans will live again”: A digital diary of Hurricane Katrina, 10 years later 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z He plays British expat Ken Miles, a man obsessive about cars to the point where you begin to feel sorry for him. Why Ford v Ferrari should win the best picture Oscar 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z Still, within the rushing image stream are historians, curators, dealers and lay obsessives, unearthing forgotten treasures or reassessing celebrated ones; many are pretty good photographers themselves. Five Art Accounts to Follow on Instagram Now 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z Was it obsessive to spend three months working on Seal’s hit “Crazy”? The Buggles’ Song Launched MTV. After 45 Years, They’re Going on Tour. 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z I liken her to a mathematician or a scientist, someone who is obsessive in their thinking, and not versed in humanities in a social way. Juliette Lewis on 'Secrets and Lies' and Scientology: 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z Published last month by Thomas Dunne Books, a Simon & Schuster imprint, “True Crime Addict” is a strange beast—one that embodies every problem that arises when online obsessives are infected with delusions of detective grandeur. “True Crime Addict” and the Problem of Internet Sleuths 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z I imagined a gathering of baseball obsessives and retirees — and a pricey one at that. Frugal Traveler: Scoring a Baseball Bargain at Spring Training 2014-03-11T20:48:06Z And so I decided to embark on my own immersive tour of those Gilded Age vestiges, sallying forth from my East Village apartment to seek the company of its obsessive modern admirers. Regilding the Gilded Age in New York 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z Even if you aren’t a “Star Wars” obsessive who knows all the details of the galaxy far, far away, chances are you won’t be lost in this narrative. ‘Rogue One’ Takeaways: Vader, Droids and a Stunning Planet 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z But fidelity to the past, however obsessive, is ultimately a minor, technical achievement, and “The Northman” is a movie with big — if somewhat obscure — ambitions. ‘The Northman’ Review: Danish Premodern 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z But when you are as obsessive a baker as I am, the quest for novelty and mastery never ends. Apple pie and pumpkin tart, tweaked to perfection for Thanksgiving 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z But it was performed with such showmanship that I’m sure many of the American halftime-show viewers, those who were not paying obsessive attention to the “Formation” video, were none the wiser. Beyoncé Sacks the Super Bowl Halftime Show 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z Label executives maintained collaborative group chats with the rapper’s obsessive fan pages on social media to stoke and magnify their existing grass-roots marketing efforts. How YoungBoy Never Broke Again Hit No. 1 From Jail: Fans Had His Back 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z There is little suggestion of either the scholarly obsessive or the sadness of a man who awakes too late to Eliza's vibrancy. Pygmalion 2010-07-20T21:45:00Z Obliqueness is presented as a matter of course, as in “A New Pack,” four pairs of white cotton briefs spread with obsessive precision across a threadbare rug. 3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z Whether the parental gimmick was aromatherapy or an obsessive quest for perfection, each episode left you glad you weren’t raised that way. Reality TV Parents Need a Timeout 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z Normally an obsessive outliner and reviser, he began writing a screenplay without any clear idea of where it was going. Film: Eastwood Breaks Another Mold 2010-10-14T15:50:00Z A highly divisive band, known best for its obsessive, vagabond following, Phish remains a baffling success in the music industry. Trey Anastasio and the art of improvisation 2011-09-05T20:01:00Z It's no secret that the social media craze — our Twitter cliques, our obsessive Facebooking as our real children pull at our sleeves — is a Band-Aid on the loneliness our culture has created. 'Heft': longing to shatter the shell of loneliness 2012-02-08T22:16:07Z The repeated use of a few flower shapes reflected an obsessive interest in form and ceremony that one associates with Japanese sophistication. On the Runway Blog: Prada's New Flower Power 2012-09-20T19:59:38Z This obsessive ritual of creation and destruction — scraping down oil or acrylic paint, rubbing charcoal away — was geared toward producing “the perfect image that is totally pure, totally powerful, totally true, totally new,” he said. At 91, Frank Auerbach Is Still Searching for the Perfect Image 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z Cinema-goers and Larry Sanders obsessives might have been surprised that the famously puffy cheeks in which Shandling usually keeps his tongue firmly lodged look decidedly less jowly in the film than in years gone by. After 10 years 'Larry Sanders' is back 2010-05-15T23:08:00Z He’s introduced slugging activated-charcoal smoothies, part of a fitness regimen so obsessive we eventually learn regular facelifts help keep him in tip-top shape. Bad Education: is this Hugh Jackman's greatest performance to date? 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z Beyond sporting Spielberg's name as executive producer, the film is directed by Spielberg obsessive J.J. A guide to Spielberg shout-outs in "Super 8" 2011-06-11T18:01:00Z Though he does not name any condition more specific than “anxiety” in conversation with me, Eisenberg has in the past spoken about his treatment for obsessive compulsive disorder. Jesse Eisenberg: ‘Do you look at me and think, God! What an indulgent prick?’ 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z Rather, it's a fresh, increasingly popular application of patriotism, not as an obsessive fetishization of stars and stripes, but a determination to improve the material lives and circumstances of our fellow Americans. How 9/11 helped define this generation’s new brand of patriotism 2021-09-11T04:00:00Z The recreational pastime quickly evolved into what Jose describes as an "obsessive, quasi-neurotic" quest to forge a unique sound and the discovery that band members would dedicate their lives to making music. French indie rockers in pursuit of global break 2012-01-19T11:18:47Z Throughout the series, Bill has displayed the charm, belief and obsessive drive of a born politician — or a dictator, whose ego is rarely clouded by the saving grace of self-doubt. Big Love: Shark-Jumping in Utah 2010-02-22T14:05:00Z But for the past few decades the nostalgic comedy “A Christmas Story” has become a holiday film fix for a group of obsessive fans. ?A Christmas Story: The Musical!? Aims to Become a Franchise 2011-12-05T23:16:05Z “Ford powerfully captures the complicated mix of meanness, frustration and obsessive mothering familiar to so many Black daughters,” Bridgett M. Davis writes in her review. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z She joined an improv troupe at that same Florida high school, which helped liberate her from obsessive, intrusive thoughts, and went on to study theater at the University of Maryland. Natasha Rothwell Used to Be Paid in Beer 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z At heart, “The Unicorn” is about the kind of obsessive self-examination that cripples commitment. ‘The Unicorn’ Review: Two’s Company, Three’s a Comedy 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z The tune is looped, that is, repeated over and over, creating an obsessive and transfixing effect. Music Review: ?Remembering September 11? With Wordless Music Orchestra 2011-09-12T23:25:05Z A romantic intervention in the caff seems to have a temporary effect, until Dru's new love interest proves less a steadying influence than an obsessive loon. TV highlights 26/07/12 2012-07-25T19:00:01Z One bland running joke is Joyce’s obsessive thrift. Movie Review: ‘The Guilt Trip,’ With Barbra Streisand and Seth Rogen 2012-12-18T18:30:08Z Notably, whatever their differences, they engage in an epistemological search that grows progressively obsessive and at times violent. David Fincher, the Unhappiest Auteur 2021-01-01T05:00:00Z Driven by class status, she manipulates people to get what she wants, and her obsessive pursuit of the naive Ann Walker verges on predatory. Review | HBO’s grand ‘Gentleman Jack’ gives a 19th-century lesbian landowner the respect she deserved 2019-04-21T04:00:00Z When a private figure becomes so beloved, the line between diligent professional and obsessive fan can quickly become blurred. Searching for Bill Watterson 2013-04-07T17:00:00Z Since then, the actors have kept their distance, both from each other and from any movies catering to young obsessives. Analysis | From Fred and Ginger to Kate and Leo: When movie couples make fans hope for real-life love 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z From the first movement of the live performance, there’s an obsessive, possessed, ecstatic mood to Coltrane’s playing, a sense of spiritual search and struggle. Seeing Through “A Love Supreme” to Find John Coltrane 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z Barring any bloodshed incited by obsessive television viewers, Ms. Moore will get her award at a Jan. 27 roast, and Mr. Leno will receive his at a Feb. 4 ceremony. ArtsBeat: Award for Jay Leno Opens Old Wounds (Mostly Ours) 2011-01-25T16:04:03Z The paper was a tour guide to the city, and Gold’s reviews were its obsessive culinary map. Jonathan Gold Was Proof That Local Journalism Matters 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z Barker's characters are as driven and obsessive as ever, but the mystery of their motivations is replaced by bathos: what enrages them here are recycling bins. Burley Cross Postbox Theft by Nicola Barker 2010-05-14T23:27:00Z This and some of the odder inventions of “Foundation” reminded me stylistically of last year’s “Raised by Wolves,” the HBO Max drama of obsessive android maternal love. Review: The Math of ‘Foundation’ Doesn’t Add Up 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z Much as Trekkies can speak Klingon, many D&D obsessives will know the text by sight — and will no doubt be taking notes on what it means. A Beginner’s Guide to Dungeons & Dragons 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z Trying to figure out exactly when it turns into something more obsessive, something crazy — I don’t like the word but I don’t have another one — that was really interesting. My mentally ill sister 2012-06-02T00:00:00Z But Mr. Malick’s insistence on freedom does not preclude obsessive fine-tuning: after the shoot, he called her in — by her count, more than 30 times — to record new lines and re-record old ones. Without Ever Showing Up, Malick Is Talk of Cannes 2011-05-16T20:16:10Z Make that two obsessive men: the title character and Mr. Kitson, who, while on a house-hunting expedition in West Yorkshire, England, discovered a vast trove of letters in an attic. | 'The Interminable Suicide of Gregory Church': Prolific Communication From an Isolated Man 2011-01-12T23:00:51Z At one end of the scale you have the total Apple obsessives who exhibit a sort of religious fanaticism that the company does nothing to discourage – it encourages it, in fact. We are all addicts now 2013-05-11T23:00:00Z Mr Browder’s obsessive streak, a fault in other circumstances, has made him a formidable adversary for the regime in Russia. Red sky in the morning 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z As with Madonna or Bowie, Dylan's constant self-reinvention is partially accountable for his obsessive fans, who want to explain him yet are attracted by the mystery of his true identity. Readers' panel: what's the best music biopic? 2012-06-15T11:43:49Z Being a throwback sort of person myself — an old-movie obsessive in a monogamous marriage — I was perfectly happy with this aspect of "Mammals," as well as with the scaldingly good performances and gasp-making plot twists. Women on the verge: Is "Mammals" really about marriage and monogamy after all? 2022-11-20T05:00:00Z The authors, first-rate obsessives, riff on the women who’ve consumed them — bearing out Frank Bidart’s line, “What you love is your fate,” with mischief, feeling and a rare frankness. Deep Cuts: Writers and the Women They Worship 2013-04-17T19:07:02Z Body temperature, particularly of the hands, is important for pianists, but Gould's preoccupation bordered on the obsessive, feeding into his proto-paranoiac fear of physical contact. Reinventing Bach by Paul Elie – review 2013-07-05T17:10:01Z As if to further underline the transition, Cyrus has abandoned her obsessive Twitter habit and is happily in love with her "The Last Song" co-star, Australian newcomer Liam Hemsworth, 20. Miley, less smiley, grows up and into film career 2010-03-25T18:24:00Z When Aaron Rodgers, the Green Bay Packers quarterback and legitimate “Jeopardy!” obsessive took the stage, I eyed him warily. What Should the New ‘Jeopardy!’ Be? Guest Hosts Provide the Clues. 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z At the premiere, Hoffman told Reuters that he connected to Gunther's personality, a man driven by the shame of previous failure into an obsessive pursuit of capturing terrorists by any means necessary. Actor Philip Seymour Hoffman dead of suspected drug overdose 2014-02-03T00:14:00Z The “history obsessive,” as he calls himself, read anything he could find about past restorations, including letters from first ladies ranging from Mary Todd Lincoln to his favorite inspiration, Mrs. Kennedy. Mr. Smith Went to Washington … With Dimmers 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z It begins on a warning note, with a scene in a high school class whose teacher observes, “Passion is harmful when it becomes obsessive, which is most of the time.” Review: ‘Breathe,’ the Story of a Scary Teenage Romance 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z That is a suspect choice, given Dominik’s insistence on recreating the iconography of Monroe’s life in obsessive detail. The Empty Spectacle of Marilyn Monroe’s Fantasy Fetus 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z I don’t own a scale because, well, if it isn’t already clear I’m obsessive, but I am quite sure I lost weight. Body of work: Women writers on disordered eating, writing the body and the book launch diet 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z The Tribeca Film Festival, now in its 13th year, returns to downtown Manhattan tomorrow to host 12 days of obsessive moviegoing and compelling conversation about film. | Raising the Curtain on This Year’s Tribeca Film Festival 2014-04-16T13:00:15Z “Phantom Thread,” Paul Thomas Anderson’s period romance about an obsessive dressmaker, won for costume design. ‘The Shape of Water’ Wins Best Picture as Oscars Project Diversity 2018-03-04T05:00:00Z If an auteur is a director with an obsessive personal vision — or, in simple terms, a man who keeps remaking his own movies — then Polanski is the very auteuriest. 'The Ghost Writer': Polanski Escapes into His Cinema Nightmares 2010-02-20T04:30:00Z In 2008, two events gently pry Helen loose from her obsessive grief. 'February': Life in the wake of a Newfoundland tragedy 2010-04-14T21:28:00Z And, if there's any justice, it will convert ignorants to obsessives. The Strange Powers of Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields 2011-02-16T13:13:52Z The 25-year-old stand-up comedian, writer and animator was diagnosed with obsessive compulsive and bipolar disorders two years ago. A new wave of comedians is exploring the anxieties of our Instagram age 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z That said, the hottest ticket this year was for Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in . . . Hollywood,” which takes viewers on a dreamy, obsessive ride through Hollywood’s sunniest boulevards and most haunted canyons. Perspective | In praise of the messy, misunderstood masterpiece (and in search of the next one) 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z The early days of Covid, as Kipnis recounts from the apartment she shares with her boyfriend in Harlem, were a time of obsessive domestic speculation. ‘Love in the Time of Contagion’ Observes Mutations in Domestic Life 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z Spider revisits the haunts of his childhood and disappears down a rabbit hole of obsessive fears about his past. Ralph Fiennes's 20 best film performances – ranked! 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z “I would love to be a voice in this maelstrom of chaos and obsessive celebrity infatuation that says, ‘Let’s talk about something that matters,’ ” he added. Career Zigzag, Changing Coasts And Galaxies 2010-10-22T08:06:00Z What happens when you put games developers, web designers, open data geeks, music obsessives, journalists, digital storytellers and hacking wizards in a room together for a weekend? Hacks hotting up: Two days to Guardian Hacks SXSW 2011-02-10T13:58:43Z Their courtship involves an elaborate plan to break free of the obsessive cycle of stalking their exes on social media. Review: ‘The Incredible Jessica James’ Is a Bold Woman in Progress 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z “If you haven't already heard, ‘A 24-Decade History of Popular Music’ is ruthlessly punishing, infuriating, alarming, charming, impressive and obsessive like no other music theater,” he writes. Essential Arts & Culture: Our spring arts preview, more silence from MOCA, a feminist 'Shrew' 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z Last year, she offered Edinburgh audiences a 26-part series on soil erosion – a show that told us more about her character's disordered state of mind and obsessive behaviour patterns than it did about physical geography. This week's new live comedy 2012-08-17T23:05:31Z Within the fury, he emphasized Schumann’s repetitive mottoes as obsessive shards that recurred like fenceposts in a nightmare landscape. The Pianist Maurizio Pollini and the Shock of the Old 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z In “Dybbuk,” Robbins and Leonard Bernstein, in a commissioned score, addressed dark, obsessive aspects of their Jewish heritage; “Antique Epigraphs,” to Debussy, is an all-female dance, both introspective and impressionistic. 22 Musicals, Plays, Concerts, Dances and Festivals You Can’t Miss This Spring 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z Foulkes is famous for his obsessive process, reworking paintings over years — even destroying them with hammers and saws so as to rebuild. Maverick Llyn Foulkes is finally inside the art world — at age 79 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z He did this first through his obsessive studies and extreme adventures. The early years of the real Lawrence of Arabia 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z Filming in a series of lateral tracking shots as eerily obsessive as the mind of his protagonist, Toyoda has fashioned a reptile-cool Taxi Driver for his own country and our time. New York Asian Film Festival: A Scalding Wind from the East 2012-07-06T23:42:38Z The idea that an obsessive need to solve crimes — to make sense of an irrational reality — was a way for McNamara to cope with her own traumas is more convincing, but not particularly revealing. Review: A Killer, a Writer, and the Questions Both Left Behind 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z Odd and arresting short stories, translated from Spanish, about obsessive characters. New & Noteworthy, From Philosophy to New York Architecture 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z But love is the subject best suited to his obsessive aphorizing, and in this novel he again shows off his ability to pin our hopes, methods and insecurities to the page. Review: ‘Labor of Love’ and ‘The Course of Love,’ on Finding and Keeping It 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z Wubbels fuses the contemplative, obsessive space of early American Minimalism and the vibrant complexity of the post-World War II European avant-garde; transitions clearly indebted to legacies of jazz-informed improvisation act as soldering material. A Musician’s Turn to Improvisation Bears Fruit 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z Stevens was an obsessive guy, as many directors are. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: Bringing ‘Giant’ to the Big Screen 2018-04-08T04:00:00Z So when she posted a tweet one evening late last month about Ms. Minaj’s recent musical direction, Ms. Thompson hoped only to spark a conversation among the rap obsessives with whom she regularly communes. How One Tweet About Nicki Minaj Spiraled Into Internet Chaos 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z But it transcends gender specifics to become Rattigan's most complete exploration of his obsessive theme: the inequality of passion. The Deep Blue Sea ? review 2011-07-26T17:31:57Z Mr. Green, the author of the best-selling novel “The Fault in Our Stars,” has struggled with severe anxiety and obsessive compulsive disorder for about as long as he can remember. John Green Opens Up About His Own Struggles 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z Pizza obsessives may liken it to a soufflé for its dough, which traps air to form an elevated structure. The Rise of the $38 Pizza, Exclusive and Elusive 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z One clinical psychologist I interviewed theorized that obsessive niche travel — visiting all the capitals of Europe or every wonder of the natural world or, yes, every Disney theme park — fulfills a need to feel superior. What I Discovered by Visiting Every Disney Park 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z He was talked about by fellow scientists as an eccentric, a lone obsessive. The sugar conspiracy | Ian Leslie 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z I move about my kitchen with the obsessive enthusiasm of someone whose first thought in the morning is, “What am I going to make for dinner?” Notes from a trailing spouse: I'll tell you what makes a home 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z He’s a very obsessive person, and when obsessive people get attached to something, into something, we tend to take it way too far,” says Brock. Why this chef plans to avoid lemons and olive oil 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z He became interested in images as a teenager, around the time he began skateboarding, a pursuit that is as predicated on community as it is obsessive about self-documentation. Tyler Mitchell: ‘Black Beauty Is an Act of Justice’ 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z Courting obsessive listeners and not flooding the market, Mr. Marshall said, is a survival tactic. King Krule, a Cult Singer in the Making, Is Setting the Terms Himself 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z Rather worryingly, musically speaking, the queasiest stuff – the discords and the lurching, seasick strings – are reserved for the obsessive music fan, rather than, say, the murderer. Richard Thompson's Cabaret of Souls 2010-06-13T20:30:00Z Rather than perpetuating such false consciousness, Cannadine concludes that historians should adopt a self-denying ordinance and abandon their obsessive concern with such categories – whether national, religious, racial, civilisational, gender or class. The Undivided Past: History Beyond Our Differences by David Cannadine – review 2013-04-11T09:00:01Z Our resident obsessives are following Rachel Lindsay’s love journey while saying farewell to two men the audience could barely tell apart. A Rare Conversation About Class Brings ‘The Bachelorette’ Into the Real World 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z Perhaps it’s time we all got a bit more obsessive about this. Ecuador’s Yasuni park: where oil vies with tourism for the rainforest 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z Owned and run by Rowling herself, it presented itself as an official response to obsessive fan interest in the Potter books, giving users an inside experience of TWWHP. Fantastic riches and where to find them: how to grow a $22bn franchise 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z He profiles some of literature’s most obsessive pedestrians and fluent malcontents, for whom walking was both “spiritual imperative” and psychological torment of a very productive kind — Poe, Ford Madox Ford, Dickens. Watching Writers Pace the Streets, and Seeing Symptoms of Social Ills 2020-11-03T05:00:00Z One is symbolic — perhaps unfairly — of cultural uncoolness, while the other spawns viewing parties and obsessive podcasts from legacy media companies. ‘The Big Bang Theory’ and the Long Goodbye: How Swan Songs Are Changing TV 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z The notebook shows constant, obsessive revision—a sort of perfectionism of disaster. Bob Dylan’s Masterpiece Is Still Hard to Find 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z A psychiatrist, she herself is in need of healing, as she becomes ever more obsessive, worrying about their troubled 8-year-old daughter, Natasha, who suffers from an array of developmental and emotional issues. Review | Gary Shteyngart’s ‘Our Country Friends’ is the darkly brilliant comedy we need right now 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z For eight weeks, our obsessive experts will send you exclusive interviews and explainers, as well as point you to the internet’s best articles on that week’s episode. Lena Headey, Cersei in ‘Game of Thrones,’ Has Her Own Power Moves 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z The obsessive, dizzying manhunt to apprehend him involved a slew of government agencies and ended with a neck-breaking plot twist: double agents and hundreds of thousands of dollars in missing Bitcoin. How the Dark Web’s Dread Pirate Roberts Went Down 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z All of these speculating people, and the obsessives who love who weren’t interviewed, they’re carrying on a conversation with Kubrick, a filmmaker they revere, and by extension, the others who revere him. Room 237: Deconstructing Stanley 2013-03-28T09:45:57Z Kate Moss, the model whose personal style and penchant for dissolute musicians is chronicled with obsessive attention by the British news media, is often described as the heir to Marianne Faithfull, another Stones paramour/muse. Anita Pallenberg Changed How We All Dress, Not Just Keith Richards 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z As obsessive as Mr. Iger is about work, he schedules in some fun. The Slow-Burning Success of Disney’s Bob Iger 2019-09-22T04:00:00Z Chris Cooper won an Oscar for best supporting actor for his role as an orchid obsessive; Ms. Streep and Mr. Cage also received nominations. What’s on TV Friday 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z You can feel its admiration for this man’s obsessive passion. Review: In ‘Saving Brinton,’ an Inveterate Accumulator Finds Treasure 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z But she’s also deeply compassionate toward the saddest of life’s victims, a trait well paired with her obsessive nature as she hunts the killer of an addict and her young daughter. Adam Woog’s best mysteries of 2012 2012-12-07T00:24:05Z A dedicated artist like Gray runs the danger of becoming so fixed on a single obsessive relationship that he forgets that a movie requires at least a few more good ideas. David Denby: “The Immigrant,” “Belle” Reviews 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z "I am gently obsessive," he says, understating the case somewhat. New York City views 2010-07-31T23:04:00Z This is exciting news for alternative comedy obsessives such as me – and for a standup scene sadly bereft of raving leftie outrage. Alexei Sayle: How?Stalin stole my?childhood 2011-08-11T20:00:02Z The genre’s emphasis on potential mass death is obsessive and unimaginative. Review: ‘X-Men: Apocalypse,’ a Sequel 5,000 Years in the Making 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z The double Oscar winner talks about bringing an OCD - or obsessive compulsive disorder - element to the role and why theatre remains his first love. Denzel Washington brings OCD element to The Equalizer 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z You can be a young rapper on the rise without a deep and obsessive knowledge of the hip-hop pantheon. In Jazz, Listen to the Timeless Elders 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z That’s when he became an obsessive cinephile, inhaling so many movies that he quickly exhausted the stock of his local video shop. From Lost Soul in London to Glory Off Broadway 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z Netflix's bloody and erotic psychological thriller "You" has always been a story about one man's obsessive need to, well, obsess about The One. On "You," polyamory done right could have saved a doomed marriage 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z Perhaps mimicking the obsessive nature of his protagonist, Kubrick shot every scene in The Shining multiple times. Let's try that again … the most difficult scenes to film in cinema history 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z According to Entertainment Weekly, the update will include an Iraq War vet an obsessive fan who reads too much Gawker. What diva should star in the "Bodyguard" remake? 2011-02-25T00:50:00Z “Nip/Tuck” follows two plastic surgeons dealing with their clients’ obsessive vanity and their own compulsions; it was a critical hit in the materialistic mid-Bush years. What to stream on Netflix during the long weekend 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z In honor of this rare summer show at the Chocolate Factory — a presentation with Lumberyard — Mr. Schlichting, a Minneapolis choreographer, presents “Period,” a new work that expresses his penchant for obsessive movement. 6 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z His main characters are presented to us as they would undoubtedly like to appear: charmingly obsessive, unwaveringly principled and unfailingly right. The Pandemic Gets the Michael Lewis Treatment, Heroic Technocrats and All 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z In some ways, it was an odd choice, because Space Manatee remains the only thing by Heavenly I own: no matter that I was an obsessive record-buyer, I never became obsessed by Heavenly. In the wake of Heavenly's Space Manatee 2010-05-27T21:30:00Z It stands to reason that the late McNamara’s obsessive search for the Golden State Killer resonated with many of the same people who tune in to cult-favorite true-crime podcast “My Favorite Murder.” The 10 books to read in 2019 based on what you loved in 2018 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z What he found fascinating about “Blue” was the obsessive effort required to replicate Davis’s sound, a feat ultimately no less strenuous than anything else in his portfolio. With Peter Evans on Trumpet, Only the Shape Is Familiar 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z Critic Tony Parsons said: "One of the best things I have ever read about the nature of mad, obsessive love... funny, sad and horribly, painfully true." David Baddiel 2010-03-28T00:10:00Z "I started reading about obsession and obsessive compulsive behaviour," says Washington. Denzel Washington brings OCD element to The Equalizer 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z “I’m more obsessive than I realized,” she said. Jeannette Walls Settles Down Far From the Noise of New York 2017-08-05T04:00:00Z "People don't realize that obsessive behavior is just obsessive behavior, even if it's green," she says. Seen and heard at Sundance 2013-01-24T17:23:08Z Thurman plays an obsessive police officer, while Lee has been cast as a former eminent surgeon with a drink problem who is also suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. Christopher Lee and Uma Thurman attached to 9/11 drama set in Denmark 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z For any Prince obsessive, these are just the tip of the iceberg: individual fans have their own favorite TV performances, concerts, and after-shows, not to mention B-sides, outtakes, and unreleased songs. Let’s Not Go Crazy: The Grammys Missed an Essential Part of Prince 2017-02-13T05:00:00Z What is endlessly fascinating is the way it reflects both talking therapy and an obsessive Facebook culture in which every experience is documented. Life and Times: Episodes 1-5 – review 2013-05-27T16:39:07Z The world family tree is an obsessive – some might say absurd – undertaking. 'It could be huge. It could be a nightmare': attempting the largest family reunion in the world 2018-03-17T04:00:00Z And it has a charismatic hero in Michelle McNamara, the relentless, obsessive amateur detective who got her hooks in the case and never let it go. HBO's "I'll Be Gone in the Dark" is a haunting tribute to Michelle McNamara and meditation on grief 2020-06-28T04:00:00Z She is an obsessive cleaner, always rushing around with the vacuum and wiping fingerprints off the new kitchen cupboards. My wealthy daughter-in-law always treats us very rudely 2017-12-24T05:00:00Z Somehow knowing that there were other people in their kitchens with solitary eggplants made it feel convivial and special, rather than lonely and obsessive. When Eggplant Meets Eggs 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z Music website Allmusic.com said the band's trademark "full-throttle velocity, wildly chaotic guitar solos, and powerful musical chops paint an effectively chilling sonic background for their obsessive chronicling of the dark side." Slayer heavy metal guitarist Jeff Hanneman dead at 49 2013-05-02T23:58:48Z The “Klan Tableau” was a personal, obsessive project but a number of people were involved. In Hale County, Alabama, Two Visions of Place 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z Ms. Forté explored a strangled, obsessive world in which four individuals largely did battle with invisible forces. Dance Review: Kyle Abraham, Samantha Speis and Marjani Fort? at Danspace 2012-03-23T22:04:11Z In its most recent season, though, the show’s ever-present commodity fetishism and obsessive materialism curdled a bit, going from joke to simple fact. Here’s Who Should—and Actually Will—Win Emmys This Year 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z But he's also deceiving himself, allowing his need for love to feed his obsessive quest to recreate that sensation all over again. 5 great movies about deception 2013-01-25T00:33:09Z Like good musicians, good translators are obsessive; and if the listener might not care, or might not realize he cares, about the difference between an eighth note and a sixteenth note, the violinist does. Did He Really Say That? On the Perils and Pitfalls of Translation 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z He favored huge battle scenes — “the epic ones, very detailed,” he said, describing them as “autistic in that kind of very repetitive, obsessive detailing.” Mark Leckey, No Longer Art’s Wunderkind, Is Now Its Wizard 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z The Amazon prequel series “The Rings of Power” has always had to serve two masters: the most obsessive fans, whose intimate knowledge of the J.R.R. ‘The Rings of Power’: The Showrunners Unpack That Twisty Finale 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z It’s the titter of an obsessive who is hoping that you get his viewpoint but, at the very least, pleased to have your ear. Room 237: Deconstructing Stanley 2013-03-28T09:45:57Z Despite being buried in a summer slot on the unheralded USA Network, Mr Robot has proved an unexpected hit in the States, earning critical acclaim and building an obsessive fanbase. Mr Robot: 'Edward Snowden is a huge fan of our show' 2015-10-17T04:00:00Z In luminous prose, the novel maps Evie’s obsessive psyche, demonstrating her hunger to be accepted by the other girls, especially the family’s ringleader, Suzanne. Mean girls 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z Some may display obsessive behaviours, overuse social media, or become withdrawn. 'You will have an emotional reboot': the ultimate guide to stress at every age 2019-02-03T05:00:00Z Ms. Clark is meticulous, both expressive and obsessive in her deep, continuing study of Thai cuisine. At Nari, a Thai Chef Revitalizes Fine Dining 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z Fat jokes Sarah Millican's normally tip-top set is marred by too many obsessive references to being overweight. The Edinburgh festival Clap-o-meter: reading three 2010-08-12T16:54:00Z Various events — tentative brass fanfares; short, rhythmic riffs in the percussion and piano; obsessive spiraling figures — try to get going but soon blend into the subdued overall hum of the piece. Music Review: The Cleveland Orchestra at Carnegie Hall 2012-05-25T23:35:51Z Or it might seem complete in its semidetached, casually obsessive relationship with all of them. Review: Holly Herndon, With Laptops, at the Wick 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z The author suffers from obsessive compulsive disorder as well as anxiety, and he shared with readers that press tours were particularly stressful for him. John Green to publish his first book since 'The Fault in Our Stars' 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z Articulate, seedy and obsessive, his films, his art books and installations, even his one-man show This Filthy World have incited acclaim and disgust in equal measure across the world. Still Waters 2010-12-04T00:03:00Z Soon the film plunges us into an exotic world of glamorous obsessives, scrutinizing every detail: Men dabbing on makeup and gelling their hair, noses inches from the mirror. ‘Ballet 422’: A young choreographer’s nervous rise at New York City Ballet 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z In the annals of French art history, the superfan par excellence is Edgar Degas: the most Parisian of all the Impressionists, and an obsessive of the first magnitude over the opera and ballet. Degas: A Superfan at the Opera, Where Art Tips Into Obsession 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z "We were both obsessive about new music and the station but because it was illegal you couldn't talk about it and we wanted to change that," she says. Rinse FM pirate radio station goes legit 2010-10-10T18:18:00Z A person I’d been briefly acquainted with many years ago found me in a Facebook group for a common interest, and began harassing me with obsessive messages. Why I purged my Facebook friends list 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z Adults, Ms. Stevenson said, tend to be pickier and a little more obsessive about their candy. Sweet and Squishy as Ever, the Gummy Universe Keeps Expanding 2022-04-25T04:00:00Z He was a loner, an obsessive, and a neurotic. Newton: The Last Magician and The Security Man – review 2013-04-13T06:00:50Z But if you care for any of those things, and even if that concern borders on the obsessive, you will benefit from Lawrence’s investigations. When Rent Was Cheap and Dance Music Reigned 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z Kurt leads a solitary existence, spent reflecting on the mystical transience of life and succumbing to lonely, obsessive jaunts in the online "porniverse". A Great Big Shining Star by Niall Griffiths – review 2013-02-01T15:01:01Z Sue Rainsford’s “Follow Me to Ground” is the story of an obsessive teenage crush. A Mystical Healer, Her Ailing Crush and the Desire That Undoes Them Both 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z But now that I look back, I’m pretty sure those were simple, delicious Bisquick biscuits, which weren’t going to wow a gathering of food obsessives. A tender biscuit easy enough for the non-baker, and perfect for Thanksgiving 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z Will the new Chanel be a source of heartbreak for its legion of obsessives? Perspective | Chanel, what has become of you? Paris Fashion Week ends with a bust and then a bang. 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z In contrast to the saccharine Mersey sound, Davies sang of obsessive teenage love, teetering on madness. The Kinks: They really got me 2010-12-20T21:59:01Z It has been painstaking, often tedious work but exciting as well, allowing Norich to feel, she said, “like a combination of sleuth, explorer, archaeologist and obsessive.” How Yiddish Scholars Are Rescuing Women’s Novels From Obscurity 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z I had just graduated college and gotten my first full-time job, and I was accustomed to obsessive clock-watching, terrified of arriving late and making a bad impression. How I became an adventurous woman 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z At its most compelling, the film explores the legacy of wounded hearts, with sharp glances at obsessive relationships and lonely hookups. Scott, James Cann go head-to-head in "Mercy" 2010-04-14T01:40:00Z Lil Wayne is a wordplay obsessive, and his protégé Drake digs deep within, but typically has blinders on to the rest of the world — a politics of one. Critic?s Notebook: Social-Minded Hip-Hop Makes a Comeback 2011-12-21T19:58:04Z It was not unusual for him to work “for 95 hours at a stretch, neglecting food and sleep in his obsessive quest for ‘life & Phenomenon.’” Excerpt: Up-All-Night Success Stories from The 24-Hour Genius 2013-06-19T14:56:02Z But “All the Single Ladies” is devoid of the hand wringing and obsessive second-guessing that often accompany pieces on singlehood. Is The Atlantic making us stupid? 2012-09-10T16:26:00Z Schubert's sole surviving completed movement for string trio, the Allegro in B flat, nevertheless provided a benign, rippling opener, full of characteristically obsessive figurations from the viola and dying falls from the cello. Leopold String Trio/Osborne – review 2012-07-11T17:00:01Z But facts matter not a second hand to obsessive collectors, almost all of whom are male, in a market where $15,000 models are deemed “middle-class” timepieces. $39,000 for a wristwatch? Collectors don’t blink, and even go for seconds. 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z The cafe, which opened in May, is modeled on the store, to an almost obsessive degree. Restaurant Review: Russ & Daughters Cafe 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z These pieces were ready to be taken around by an obsessive like me ready to devote all their energies to communicating these pieces. Perspective | A star violinist rebels against what she’s supposed to play — or wear. 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z Reinhart’s meaty, throaty growl that made her a favorite on “Idol” years ago paired with a piano and horn section makes for a stunning listen -- you'll forget the lyrics are about a weirdo's obsessive crush. Haley Reinhart's 'Creep' cover with Postmodern Jukebox is worth a listen 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z The other thing I often heard was that Mulaney was a throwback himself, an obsessive student of comedy history, a young man with an old soul. Comedian John Mulaney is the throwback kid 2014-10-04T04:00:00Z We are lucky to live in an area abundant in parks and playgrounds, in a community obsessive about baseball and softball, with multiple leagues to choose from. Why Beyonce's viral fitness campaign is doomed 2011-04-28T15:29:00Z Thanks to what the Met and Beyer Blinder Belle have done to the place, the combination of brashness and obsessive attention to detail central to Breuer's design has snapped sharply back into focus. The restored Met Breuer (formerly the Whitney) has a new energy as well as a lived-in look 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z Harley Quinn is an obsessive beast, which means Ivy's grateful reaction to her romantic scheme isn't enough – she wants to give Ivy the best! The Harley Quinn twisted Valentine's special brings the raunch and romance to our Hallmark holiday 2023-02-09T05:00:00Z It's the kind of sad, obsessive, all too self-conscious situation that Elliott Smith depicted so well, with a tune that keeps dipping back toward resignation. The Playlist: Ed Sheeran Returns With a Foot in the Past and an Eye on the Future 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z World-class criminals, like world-class writers, are natural obsessives. Guns, Drugs and Money: Taking Down the Drug Kingpin Paul Le Roux 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z You might call it a visual fugue, obsessive in its detail, woven from thousands of slices of cyber-information. A nicely orchestrated 'exaggeration of data' 2012-01-05T21:47:04Z Behind Ledgard’s suave mask is a mad scientist, and Vera is the unwilling subject of his obsessive and seemingly endless experiment. The New Season Film: The Breakthrough Performances of the Fall 2011-09-18T00:03:03Z Some are quite cheeky and seem to be inspired by obsessive fan fiction, a clever tweaking of the show’s devotees. Martin Freeman in ‘Sherlock’ — and FX’s upcoming ‘Fargo’ 2014-01-17T19:09:21Z These are boom times for new and old media studies, though you wouldn’t necessarily know that from the entertainment media and its obsessive emphasis on celebrity, the Oscars and the box office. Pauline Kael and Her Legacy 2011-10-15T22:17:20Z And for this obsessive young reader, the author who most consistently embodied whatever that thing might have been was absolutely Joy Williams. The Wild, Rangy, Unclassifiable Delights of Joy Williams’s Fiction 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z For the less obsessive collector, a trimmed version, “The Basement Tapes Raw” will offer 38 of the songs on two CDs or three LPs. Still More Dylan From the Basement 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z And within that group there are people who become life-long obsessives with the passenger pigeon. De-extinction won’t make us better conservationists! 2013-09-06T12:40:00Z Gesine is a news obsessive; everything interests her, and the book seeks to be a comprehensive account of the ’60s, commenting on media coverage of Vietnam, housing segregation in Manhattan, the Prague Spring. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2019 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z Their state of obsessive isolation is disturbed only by the occasional delivery of supplies from "the Organisation", the company that employs them. Thrillers - reviews 2012-10-11T07:00:02Z Jimmy Ray rather mysteriously disappears from the narrative during this interlude, and Josiah’s obsessive need to erase the potential blot on the family escutcheon leads him to an appalling act I shouldn’t divulge. ‘Bright Star’ Is Steve Martin and Edie Brickell’s New Show 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z The techniques evolved as she became more obsessive about botanical accuracy. These larger-than-life sculptures elevate the timeless fern, with obsessive botanical accuracy 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z His obsessive references to guns, home cooking, mama, moonshine, Republicans and small towns support how often he calls himself a redneck. Music Review: Belly up to the bar with Colt Ford 2012-08-06T15:23:12Z Weighing more than a ton, the painting was as dense as a sculptural relief, the product of 12 years of obsessive labor. He Lost Fingers in an Accident. Now It’s Inspiring His Art. 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z A driven, obsessive purist, he was also a magician, creating lyrics and music to such towering shows as “A Little Night Music,” “Into the Woods,” “Company,” “Follies” and “Sunday in the Park with George.” Perfectionist. Genius. Icon. That was Stephen Sondheim 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z She's obsessive about them, giving them a place of honor in her drawer, putting them on reverently, especially the ribbon choker, which draws your eyes instantly in posters for both films. "Orphan: First Kill" horror homages, from the ribbon around the neck to that knowing bird 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z Through an accretion of small, obsessive details, “you” slowly comes into focus as a thoughtful, solitary, troubled man who can no longer bear to be in the world. A Man in a Cafe Asked Julie Otsuka What She Was Reading. They Dated for Two Years. 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z Matty Healy, 29, is exactly the kind of music obsessive who lives to think and talk about this kind of thing. Can a Quote-Unquote Band Drag Rock Into the Future? The 1975 Is Trying Its Hardest 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z The twist has been kept secret, encouraging obsessive scrutiny of the brief, Tweet-like teasers that the BBC releases about future editions and leading impatient aficionados to wonder where WikiLeaks is when you really need it. Archers fans prepare for shock anniversary episode 2010-12-31T14:55:45Z There are no proper nouns, no names, few reference points other than the obsessive weight of the diary itself. Sarah Manguso's 'Ongoingness' preserves life in the pages 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z He stretches pop structures with repetition that grows devotional, obsessive, hypnotic. Review: RY X Stretches Pop Structures on ‘Dawn’ 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z I think that I get very obsessive about parts and projects. Elizabeth Debicki on Hollywood: 'I don’t think I even really dreamed of this' 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z Mr. Murphy was relaxing in his loft on a quickly gentrifying postindustrial street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, that reflects the mind of an obsessive collector eternally on the verge between clubland and adulthood. Music: James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem Talks About Discoveries 2010-05-28T21:35:00Z Does he find that obsessive coverage – our very own way of working towards the Führer – disturbing? A life in writing: Ian Kershaw 2011-08-17T11:00:01Z Mr. Walker grew up in Rockford, Ill., playing punk, jazz and noise-rock before he turned toward the more obsessive traditions and dialects fixed to the acoustic guitar. Review: Ryley Walker Is Unsettled in a Chicago Way on ‘Golden Sings’ 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z And why doesn’t it get that much media attention, despite its obsessive fans? Britain soldiers on, bakes off: “Great British Baking Show” projects a happier image for fans 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z The program exists at the intersection of several recent reality themes — obsessive behavior, hoarding, thrift — all delivered with the punch of a game show. Television Review: Miles of Aisles, Endless Opportunities to Save 2011-04-05T22:21:19Z The excruciating experience of “Marguerite & Julien” need only be endured by viewers with an obsessive interest in the least constructive aesthetic currents in contemporary French cinema. Review: ‘Marguerite & Julien,’ a Tale of Siblings in Love 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z With every year since the breakup of the Soviet Union, it has become harder to find people who love ballet with that kind of obsessive passion. Designated Cheering Spectators Thrive at the Bolshoi Theater 2013-08-14T21:19:18Z Because all her books investigated terrible human behaviour, Sereny was sometimes accused of an obsessive interest in evil. Diana Athill: the Gitta Sereny I knew 2012-06-21T11:00:01Z Their obsessive romance takes place mostly in the desert, and the relationship ends abruptly in a way that alters both of their futures. ‘All the Land to Hold Us’: A west Texas tale of hardship 2013-08-15T19:18:08Z Unlike most of my high school peers, I was a Springsteen obsessive when nihilistic, God-crazed terrorists transformed airliners full of passengers into weapons and flew them into buildings. Springsteen’s “Rising”: How Bruce reclaimed his role as a vital voice for America 2017-07-30T04:00:00Z After years of investigative reporting into these unsolved murders, Ms. McNamara believed she was close to tracking him down, and was working long days and nights, her obsessive determination overwhelming her mounting anxiety. Patton Oswalt: ‘I’ll Never Be at 100 Percent Again’ 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z He’s a lot obsessive in every way; perhaps it’s the residue of a secret-service career. Taken 2: Liam Neeson Proves Age and Body Count Are Just Numbers 2012-10-05T14:00:18Z In his obsessive, melancholy and hungry-making new book, “The Dairy Restaurant,” the writer and illustrator Ben Katchor suggests that orange juice is hardly the primal elixir of the Jewish diaspora. An Illustrated Love Song to Jewish Restaurants of Old 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z There's sort of this obsessive quality to his brain. "There's serious athleticism" to being a professional mermaid 2023-05-28T04:00:00Z And the next movement lists a venerable catalogue of made-up liveries, including "the Worshipful Company of Strivers and Skivers", all to jazzy, obsessive rhythms accompanied by low orchestral sonorities, which keep the words audible. At Sixes and Sevens – review 2013-07-04T17:25:00Z Science fiction and obsessive love converge in these pages with the heat of crossed laser rays. Best graphic novels of 2016 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z Long before I became a film critic, I was a Woody Allen obsessive. Hollywood on the Brink 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z Because even when I was sober, I kept going through these crazy manic periods where I’d have obsessive thoughts and even delusions. Why can’t Hollywood get bipolar disorder right? 2013-02-05T19:20:00Z The filmmakers attempt to milk mirth from Freddie’s obsessive “CSI: New York” fandom, as if a random episode of that undistinguished TV series were not, in fact, miles better than this movie. ‘Corporate Animals’ Review: Trust Falls at the Center of the Earth 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z At nearly eight hours, “Get Back” is built for the Beatles obsessive. You know the Beatles. Here are 16 other important names in the epic ‘Get Back’ series. 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z As an act of obsessive world-building, closely imagined, scholarly, dense, scrupulous, it’s hard to think of anything comparable to it other than J. R. R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth. The Forgotten Novel That Inspired Homesickness for an Imaginary Land 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z It's a fraught time of year packed with impossible expectations, the irrepressible rise of the past, and an obsessive focus on togetherness that is unavailable to so many of us. There's no comfort & joy in Melania Trump's bleak and impersonal Christmas decor 2020-12-12T05:00:00Z Even today, Mr. DeMarco’s every move is parsed online by obsessives. How Mac DeMarco Became the Lovable Laid-Back Prince of Indie Rock 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z Shown on a mirrored runway, with columns covered in tufted ice-blue vinyl, the clothes evoked an obsessive interest in style, one associated with haute couture and Hollywood glamour of the ’30s, but also dominatrix fantasies. | Fashion Review: It?s Good to Know It?s Not All About Posing 2011-02-16T00:45:23Z Photograph: guardian.co.uk Harry Smith's eccentric, obsessive labour of love informed a generation. The rebirth of the compilation album: now that's what I call a surprise! 2013-04-28T18:00:01Z This new true-crime show documents the lives of obsessive individuals who are driven by a need for acceptance or a desire for access. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘The Affair’ and ‘Dying to Belong’ 2018-08-19T04:00:00Z Jungk describes the day that Disney hired the fictional Dantine as the happiest in Dantine's life, but his book then charts his obsessive and thankless efforts to win the praise of his boss. Philip Glass opera shows Walt Disney's fantasy world in a new light 2013-01-06T00:08:29Z I remembered it well, down to particular lines of dialogue and the movements of background players that might go unnoticed by a viewer less obsessive than myself. It’s good to be pretentious! 2012-06-28T00:00:00Z “Jack” is very successful, not least because he’s obsessive about staying off the grid. ‘Ghostman’: a fixer takes on a big, dangerous mess 2013-02-14T22:52:46Z If I silence the obsessive longing that parades like a madcap clown in my mind, he’s the perfect partner for me. How my husband forgot sex 2014-02-13T00:00:00Z These are the tools by which Thomas, with the obsessive focus of an autistic child, summons a single, cataclysmic day of his life into being. | 'Misterman' : Cillian Murphy in ?Misterman? by Enda Walsh - Review 2011-12-05T03:01:06Z Bookended by parallel killings, it was a self-contained chronicle of an obsessive and successful quest for revenge that left no important questions unanswered. Review: Amazon’s ‘Hanna,’ Genetically Modified for Streaming Video 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z Hill: There is no denying that by and large, our society has an obsessive and dysfunctional relationship with food. Should "food diaries" be assigned in schools? Experts point to potential dangers for youth 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z “If you talk to elite athletes, there is obsessive thought around food and weight and intense training, and there’s very little questioning of that.” ‘It cannot be ignored’: Runners spread awareness about eating disorders in their sport 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z Subjects explored in the always thought-provoking, sometimes frightening series include the obsessive rating and photographing of real-life interactions and a virtual reality game gone very, very wrong. 9 Shows and Movies to Stream Over the Holiday Break 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z It’s a broad, crass comic musical pitched at obsessive fans. | 'Silence! The Musical': ?Silence! The Musical? at P.S. 122 - Review 2011-11-23T22:31:43Z An obsessive archivist, Mr. Kelly has kept examples of his work from every decade of his career, studying them continually for inspiration, as a way to move forward. Arts & Leisure: Ellsworth Kelly, Explorer of Shape, Line and Color 2012-01-20T13:01:06Z In the second movement, he followed Tchaikovsky's request for simplicity, dodging the temptation to indulge in distant effects; and he dispatched the obsessive figures at the start of the finale like a well-oiled motor. Philharmonia/Petrenko – review 2013-04-25T17:02:24Z The results became apparent when he was rediscovered by two young jazz obsessives, Orrin Keepnews and Bill Grauer, who ran a jazz magazine called the Record Changer and wanted to move into production. 50 great moments in jazz: The renaissance of Thelonious Monk 2010-04-29T15:28:00Z As a hotel obsessive, I tend to embrace yet another strategy: splurging with points in order to stay somewhere sumptuous, even if it’s just for a few nights. Your Next Vacation, Paid For With Points 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z And if their count of the survivors matches mine, they will wonder why the obsessive Eugene says there are only 12. Review: ‘The Walking Dead’ Goes Even Bigger in Season 6 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z This documentary, made by an award-winning filmmaker, followed a number of fans who, by their own admission, are obsessive about the band. Director defends Channel 4 1D doc 2013-08-22T05:20:31Z The passage is prime Marías, close — bordering on obsessive observation of real physical movement that leads to a keen, and lovely, luminous poetic reveal. Javier Marías' elegant novel 'Thus Bad Begins' is filled with secrets 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z Mr. Bakker’s work endorses that belief, yet he is equally obsessive about fusing each detail into a coherent whole. Design: Keyed to Detail, No Matter How Crazy 2011-11-13T14:02:00Z Mabel becomes a subject of lore, about which slave masters and slave catchers alike become obsessive. Colson Whitehead's 'The Underground Railroad' is timely, necessary and shattering 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z This obsessive clinging to the cherished ways of the past is almost as bad as its opposite. The joy of literary destruction: Writers who broke all the rules 2014-01-19T15:00:00Z If you’ve ever read any of O’Neill’s letters, you know how obsessive he was in his youth about losing himself in romantic relationships, how he couldn’t stand to be alone. Nathan Lane and Laurie Metcalf on Acting in O’Neill 2012-06-14T16:57:18Z Mr. Kawara’s later work lapses into Conceptual obscurantism, but also shows his obsessive penchant for letting information generate more information, more structure. The Guggenheim Shows First On Kawara Retrospective 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z Later, in the early 1980s, he was superbly cast by Martin Scorsese in The King of Comedy, as the late-night talk show host who is kidnapped by an obsessive fan, played by Robert De Niro. Jerry Lewis: a knockabout clown with a dark and melancholy inner life | Peter Bradshaw 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z The obsessive narcissism that formed Hornby’s novel strikes a clunky flat note instead of a sharp, making it difficult for Kravitz to summon a convincing performance that could help bridge the divide. Review | Sampling too much from the past, Hulu’s ‘High Fidelity’ remix fails to find its own groove 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z Or a sympathy that was harder to detect: Characters’ foibles and obsessive bents were unrelenting, like caricatures. Lydia Millet: “If men’s cruel tyranny over women is the matter at hand, there’s a bored disinterest of the liberal literary establishment” 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z It does, however, include MacLachlan's obsessive FBI agent scouring the body of the girl, even probing with tweezers behind her fingernails for clues. From The Archives: Behind the scenes of 'Twin Peaks' 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z While the novel maps Shirley’s obsessive searching within a gray urban grid, its real journey is subterranean, taking the form of peregrinations through her jumbled psyche. Her Lover May Not Exist, but Her Doubts About the Patriarchy Are Real 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z Protests had been teased online, leading to an increased police presence, but on a frosty morning here in Utah, only a small group of the late singer’s die-hard obsessives showed up. 'Secrets will eat you up' – inside the shocking Michael Jackson documentary 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z The obsessive decoding by Gaylors reminded me of a 20th century thinker known mostly in cloistered philosophy circles, but whose ideas are increasingly manifesting in public discourse. How Gaylor Swift conspiracists think like QAnoners 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z But you also understood my almost obsessive need to find answers in a decades-old past, and to tell my grandmother's story. What our German grandmothers who survived World War 2 never talked about 2020-05-16T04:00:00Z Based on a novella by Joseph Conrad, Scott's first film was The Duellists, a costume drama about the obsessive rivalry between two cavalry officers in the Napoleonic wars. Prometheus – review 2012-06-02T23:07:09Z He was also notoriously moody and obsessive, and a daredevil who flew experimental planes, scaled mountains and raced cars. Antiques: Corkscrews for Sale Online, Via ICCAuctions 2012-11-08T22:07:09Z Gerard tells a story that encircles the two damaged lovers by looping repeatedly into their obsessive interactions. Sarah Gerard's debut, 'Binary Star,' radiates beauty 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z How do you think her pregnancy factors into her almost obsessive love for Joe, to the point where she kills Delilah to protect him? That Intense New Character on ‘You’? Victoria Pedretti ‘Had the Tools’ 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z And true obsessives can’t embrace Broadway without dancing with its ghosts a bit. Review: ‘Forbidden Broadway’ Sticks It to the Great Woke Way 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z The Witch plays obsessive, fetishistic games with the children, forcing them to participate in a grotesque doll's tea-party before tying them up and submitting them to depravities which Scarlett leaves to our imagination. Hansel and Gretel – review 2013-05-11T23:06:01Z Unlike most people, though, he’s too obsessive to leave well enough alone. A man becomes impossibly pedantic and gets a reality TV show in 'The One-Eyed Man' by Ron Currie Jr. 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z Mr. Meyer brought the same obsessive attention to detail to the show. In AMC’s Western “The Son,” the Novelist Philipp Meyer Lassoes TV 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z As the memory-haunted widows of "disappeared" dissidents scan the desert floor for the bones of their executed husbands and relatives, Guzmán eloquently weaves their obsessive quest into the film's universal context. 'Nostalgia for the Light': Looking at the cosmos ? and Chile's haunted past 2011-03-31T20:36:09Z “I got a bit obsessive with it,” she admits. A British Interior Designer’s Tricks for Staying Organized 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z The course’s 11 students — three women and eight men, aged 21 to 67 — all said they were long-term Beatles obsessives. A Year in the Life: Who Gets a Master’s Degree in the Beatles? 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z “What Belongs to You,” Mr. Greenwell’s debut novel, is a lyrical look at the frustrating, irrational and obsessive love between an American teacher in Bulgaria and a local hustler. Around Town for July 8-14 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z If a former believer says that Christianity made her depressed, obsessive, or post-traumatic, she is likely to be dismissed as an exaggerator. The sad, twisted truth about conservative Christianity’s effect on the mind 2014-11-01T04:00:00Z Although Becky is at first forthright about the reasons for her visit, as the play slowly unfolds, the deeper layers of unease, guilt and fear that underlie her obsessive need to talk are gradually revealed. Theater Review: ‘Slowgirl,’ by Greg Pierce, at the Claire Tow Theater 2012-06-19T02:00:10Z Because there is a certain futility to the obsessive nature of the women’s endless labor, on which they also thrive, I wondered if Rottenberg was making an analogy to her own creative process. | 'Squeeze' Therapy 2010-11-24T19:57:00Z Then there was his obsessive pursuit of the story. The greatest reporter of our time, and why we should never forget him 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z As well as this more familiar stuff there are also lots of fascinating curios for Hicks obsessives, including footage of a gig from October 1993, just a few months before he succumbed to pancreatic cancer. This week's new comedy 2010-10-01T23:06:00Z Out go the critical faculties, to be replaced by the kind of mindless adoration that the young hero of this musical brings to his obsessive worship of a toy BB gun. Theater Review: ‘A Christmas Story, the Musical,’ at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater 2012-11-20T03:00:10Z Mike’s mother finds her son’s constant reevaluation of his romantic situation obsessive. Review | Bryan Washington’s ‘Memorial’ is a tender look at modern family life 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z But yet, while the ratings were low, those who did watch were obsessive about the programme. Arrested Development: meet the people who brought the Bluths back to life 2013-05-25T05:00:00Z The Belgian painter Luc Tuymans, a friend of Mr. Marshall’s, noted that he is an intensely “deliberate” painter, and that Audubon’s obsessive meticulousness would naturally have appealed. Kerry James Marshall’s Black Birds Take Flight in a New Series 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z I quickly arranged to meet the man behind the excavation, Scott Jordan, who turned out to be one of the great 19th-century obsessives. Regilding the Gilded Age in New York 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z But when it becomes obsessive—and I can say this from experience, because it was with me—then it’s not good. Jane Fonda Is Paying Close Attention 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z A continuation of the "Luther" series that ended in 2019, "Luther: The Fallen Sun" stars Idris Elba, reprising his role as the brilliant, but obsessive and impulsive, London police detective John Luther. From Chris Rock live to a Waco siege docuseries, here's what's new on Netflix in March 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z Whether the above ill-tempered statement is true or not, it shines an uncomfortable spotlight on Grande’s obsessive relationship with her fans -- who are not to be mistaken for her audience. Ariana Grande: A pop star obsessed with her fans 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z White's site goes into obsessive detail and analysis of the episode's constructions and themes. The ultimate TV recap: a superfan's tribute to The West Wing 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z The spookiest aspect of this novel may be that somewhere there’s an obsessive King fan — a la Kathy Bates in “Misery” — struggling to figure out what all these symbols mean. Stephen King and Owen King imagine a world where women aren’t woke 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z But they could nonetheless feel that way to an obsessive young reader in the days before recommendation algorithms. The Wild, Rangy, Unclassifiable Delights of Joy Williams’s Fiction 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z He’s the epitome of both the obsessive Wife Guy and the hubristic Tech Guy, and he makes plain the connection between the two types. Review: In ‘Made for Love,’ She Can’t Get Him Out of Her Head 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z However high-minded, the history of classical music is riddled with worry and an obsessive desire for reinvention. Evolution, revolution, smevolution: The future of classical music 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z Far from being a music-hall villain, he is cool and enigmatic, a self-contained obsessive, focused on revenge. Sweeney Todd 2010-05-26T20:45:00Z Aliens, robots and monsters appear in Kenny Jr.’s work with obsessive frequency. House Proud: Pink Robots at the Gate 2013-08-21T22:22:38Z Geek status used to connote a small subsection of society who took an obsessive interest in stuff the mainstream didn’t and invariably paid the price in terms of social exclusion. The new nerds: how Avengers and Game of Thrones made everyone geek out 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z Born in Wimbledon in 1979, this self-confessed "musical obsessive" was the only musician in his family. Jon Hopkins: the next Brian Eno 2013-06-04T15:52:15Z We need food, though perhaps not as many carbs as new homebound bread obsessives are baking. What’s ‘essential,’ anyway? Roses, guns, manicures, marijuana — it all depends on who’s deciding. 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z Set pieces recounting some of the region’s more horrific encounters are among the highlights of an engrossing, cumulatively disturbing narrative that encompasses murder, madness, magic, betrayal and obsessive, undying love. Review | ‘The Hush’: Murder, madness, magic, betrayal and obsessive love 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z What’s really interesting here is the way in which online connections are increasingly characterized by their pathological, obsessive, and addicting appeal. This is your brain on the Internet 2012-08-10T20:09:00Z Eccentrics, obsessives and big personalities dominate this week’s nonfiction. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z The mystery solved, some obsessives proved fickle and ratings dropped below blockbuster levels. Twin Peaks' final scene: 25 years on, it's as disturbing as ever 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z She is the only child of Professor Sardie, an obsessive, sinister, domineering man who pretends to be a scientist. Alice Hoffman’s novel of freak shows, fires and true love 2014-02-12T20:12:11Z And thanks to the pandemic, there may soon be many new “picklers,” as obsessives proudly call themselves. Is Pickleball the Perfect Pandemic Pastime? 2020-05-30T04:00:00Z The prose in “A Gambler’s Anatomy” is nearly always this good, and Mr. Lethem has a touching sense of the lives of obsessive misfits. Review: In Jonathan Lethem’s ‘A Gambler’s Anatomy,’ a Hustler’s Luck Runs Cold 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z Which means she needed an obsessive, or two, who'd be willing to comb through her boxes to see what treasures they yielded. Untangling the complicated legacy of nanny-photographer Vivian Maier 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z Home video suddenly made it possible for obsessives to pore over every image with relative ease. Stream These Three Great Documentaries 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z The happy result is a gathering of masterpieces that reveals the private personality of the man: generous, reverential, obsessive. Beyond influence 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z Lou Reed's Perfect Day, released in 1972, is variously interpreted as either a song about obsessive lovers, heroin, or getting drunk and going to the zoo. Susan Boyle gets her Perfect Day with permission to cover Lou Reed classic 2010-09-23T10:29:00Z In a quieter, urgent tone Michael added that I should go to therapy because my obsessive harping was making me even more annoying than Jonathan Franzen’s characters. Why a ‘Peanuts’ Collection Has Stuck With Jeremy Denk, Concert Pianist 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z "Its obsessive emphasis on sex and drugs makes it virtually unwatchable," moaned the Hollywood Reporter. Gaspar No?: 'What's the problem?' 2010-09-16T21:29:00Z The kind of people emerging from the resulting accounts may sometimes seem obsessive or disturbed, but they don't tend to be dorkish boobies. Four Lions may roar, but its laughs are hollow 2010-05-10T10:09:00Z The hippo lives at the Louvre, where Anne Dunn-Vaturi, who is something of a Fifty-eight Holes obsessive, previously worked. What We Learn from One of the World’s Oldest Board Games 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z If “Telekinesis” never goes for the outright dance floor abandon of one of his electronic miniatures, like “Dia,” this work’s chiseled, insular quality proves plenty dynamic on its own obsessive terms. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z This is probably the place to say that “My Year Abroad” is among the most obsessive food novels yet written. Chang-rae Lee’s Latest Is Fueled by Harrowing Travel, Witness Protection and Food, Food and More Food 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z Americans can be obsessive in their quest for punishment—every decade sees a new "trial of the century": the Lindbergh kidnapping, O.J., etc. Book Review: Solar: A Novel Without an Ending 2010-03-19T20:15:00Z My son is a Kraftwerk obsessive, and regularly zeroes in on particular segments of their songs and plays them over and over. 'All my life suddenly made sense': how it feels to be diagnosed with autism late in life 2016-11-19T05:00:00Z It was not yet subject to the obsessive tweaking that George Lucas started to do with the special editions two decades later, with their digital polishing, retconned bits of storytelling, and added characters and dialogue. The Empire Strikes Back at 40: did the Star Wars saga peak too early? 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z "I'm like an obsessive Emmylou Harris freak and I'm not ashamed." Emmylou, Mumford & Sons team for 'CMT Crossroads' 2012-09-26T21:50:09Z Dickinson, she said, was an obsessive thinker for whom tasks such as baking and gardening offered relief. Cynthia Nixon’s “Emily Thing” 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z The statement called Gibney’s sources “obsessive, disgruntled former church members” and said the filmmaker refused to speak to 25 people with “firsthand knowledge regarding assertions made in Mr. Wright’s book.” Sundance 2015: Scientology, Cruise, Travolta and a hot premiere 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z Harper is a bit of an outcast with obsessive tendencies, including her penchant for constant snacking. Juliette Lewis on acting: "I'm able to tap into very primal or dark ranges of emotion" 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z The mysterious men of the Bureau, headed by Terence Stamp as Mr. Big, resemble a combination of Fate Management gurus, case officers and "Mad Men" obsessives, who must dive into action and redirect Norris' future. No adjustments needed for 'Bureau' 2011-03-03T14:55:00Z She added that he is a prime example of a “deok-hu” — the Korean slang equivalent of the Japanese word “otaku,” or niche pop culture obsessive — who has brought immeasurable visibility to the “hallyu” industry. When a Track Suit Embodies a Nation 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z “Who are you?,” on the other hand, is an inquiry that plunges this obsessive rationalist — or rational obsessive, if you prefer — down a rabbit hole of indeterminacy. | 'Tabloid': Was It Love? The ?Manacled Mormon? and His Kinky Weekend 2011-07-14T22:11:29Z Both fathers were obsessive and difficult, with a singlemindedness that was hard to square with family life. Graphic novel victory is a coup for the Costas 2013-01-02T19:33:01Z All of these people are obsessives of sorts, but plausibly so, as are the majority of the people Patrick meets in his native Philadelphia suburb. Silver Linings Playbook – review 2012-11-25T00:05:31Z The difficult orchestra part erupts with obsessive accompaniment riffs, swirling inner voices and astringent sustained harmonies. Opera Review: Evening of Comic Opera From the Met and Juilliard 2014-02-12T22:23:45Z She’d gone to Smith, where she majored in English and made obsessive visits to Emily Dickinson’s house. The Books I Loved in 2015 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z While Morf may be wealthier and more implausibly handsome than any critic working today, he’s defined by his obsessive relationship to the work. From Birdman to Buzzsaw: how Hollywood captures critics on screen 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z I might actually be a better critic, for being less obsessive. Judith Mackrell on cultural detoxing 2011-01-05T22:16:01Z The intricate, industrious patterns — involving plaintive lines, obsessive ostinatos, string scratchings and more — exuded adventure and intensity. Review: Kronos Quartet Fosters Contemporary Works for Strings 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z He was as divided as the Ireland that made him, and the embodiment of that nation’s obsessive love and mistrust of language. Recalling the Eloquent Loneliness of the Playwright Brian Friel 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z The Dadaist and Surrealist compatriots Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp were chess players, and Duchamp was something of a chess obsessive who competed in tournaments. Books and Museum Treats for Art Lovers 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z The summer holidays were a time for indulging in obsessive reading in terms of content as well as quantity; for feasting on books by the same author or sharing the same theme. Children's summer book season is open 2010-07-30T15:40:00Z A retired geologist and lawyer, Andrews might be one of the New York’s most obsessive operagoers. Missing the Acts You Love? Spare a Thought for These Superfans 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z He has been a “Star Trek” enthusiast since his teens, and credits its obsessive fans with sustaining the franchise in fallow periods when there were no active series or films. Can ‘Star Trek’ Chart a Way Forward? 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z It would be a lie to claim there wasn’t, initially, an obsessive element to this. I'm still terrible at yoga, 14 years after I started – so what's got me hooked? | Hadley Freeman 2019-01-05T05:00:00Z “He’s a perfectionist, with an obsessive attention to detail.” As Floyd Mayweather Jr. Steps Into Ring, He Turns It Into a Catwalk 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z It is present in Renaissance theory and in the fantastical structures hand-built out of broken china and other debris by untutored obsessives that occur rarely but persistently around the world. The inescapable power of architecture 2012-08-11T23:05:42Z This novel is a paean to slasher films, a devotional about an acolyte written by an obsessive. Review | Stephen Graham Jones’s ‘My Heart Is a Chainsaw’ will delight horror movie fans 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z Maybe it's a bit precious to ponder what constitutes a band's canon, but obsessive nitpicking is at the root of committed rock fandom, so get over it. When bands reassemble on the rock 2011-07-05T22:01:00Z Trusting an algorithm to find something to keep me awake, I downloaded “The Lost City of Z,” David Grann’s gripping tale of the obsessive, swashbuckling Victorian explorer Percy Fawcett. New Audiobooks for Your Summer Road Trip 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z On the one hand, it is devoted to making same-sex weddings seem ordinary, providing the same obsessive attention to floral arrangement and cake design as bridal magazines. When the Bride Takes a Bride 2010-07-16T04:14:00Z Although the various collecting tasks will surely please the mildly obsessive, there's a lot less going on than appearances suggest. Games picks of the week 2010-04-23T23:11:00Z She said that she hoped, through this show, to explore the itchy and obsessive side of the artistic process. The Artist As a Lonely Hunter 2015-08-11T04:00:00Z Pip Carter, as the poet, is both the obsessive note-taker about nature and a haunted figure communing with some unseen spirit. The Dark Earth and the Light Sky – review 2012-11-16T11:57:23Z The prose, as fine as it is, as dense as it is, as obsessive as it is, remains in service to the story. Stephen King Reviews Tana French’s ‘Extraordinary’ New Novel 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z Michael Connelly has spent much of his career writing about Harry Bosch, the brooding detective who has a long, checkered history with the Los Angeles Police Department and an obsessive dedication to his work. Michael Connelly’s New Detective Makes Harry Bosch Look Like a Slouch 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z Small wonder that Mr. Oliver; his sister, Helen; and Louise, the possessive and obsessive mother who shaped their world, tended to keep to themselves. Theater Review: ‘Helen & Edgar,’ Edgar Oliver’s Solo Show, at Theater 80 2012-10-12T22:43:25Z "I'm the one that sits and is obsessive about it before you even get to hear it." Justin Timberlake to return to music after six years 2013-01-11T12:22:21Z The shy kid, the pop-culture obsessive, the relentless analyst: all those parts of his personality could be both protected and challenged by these masks. Let’s Take It to the Page 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z That conditioned me to fall for the one man who would love me with a kind of possessive and obsessive quality to make me feel like he really cared and I really mattered. “What's wrong with being 57?”: Supermodel Paulina Porizkova questions the value of youth in beauty 2022-12-03T05:00:00Z In mountaineering terms, it would be akin to a middle-aged man deciding to climb the Matterhorn – something a few obsessive and foolhardy amateurs do, indeed, attempt, but fraught with peril. Play it again: conquering Chopin's Ballade No 1 2013-01-12T06:30:01Z The election obsessives are in deep, and it’s easy to see why. Is America addicted to this election? 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z The 73-year-old’s work, an obsessive appropriation of everyday objects — from photographs of unmade beds to the front pages of 250 newspapers dated Sept. | Made for More Than Walking 2014-02-09T14:00:18Z The outrage manifests in obsessive fact checking, which is both necessary and, this deep into the quagmire of lies, pointless. Jon Stewart is right: How long will the media play Trump’s game? 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z Rubin has a devoted following of “Groundhog Day” obsessives, who have mined the film for religious meaning and even calculated how long Phil Connors spent trapped in February 2nd. Cultural Clicks: Benjamin Britten, Billie Holiday, and Bill Murray 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z There is no denying that the buildings and gardens that Streisand created constitute a remarkable achievement, the product of an obsessive mind and seemingly unlimited resources — a kind of cozy, homespun San Simeon. T Magazine: Streisand?s Cozy San Simeon 2010-12-02T14:40:00Z Denying the charge, Collins claimed Larke was obsessive, jealous and possessive and would send him a "barrage" of text messages wanting to know where he was and who he was with. Justin Lee Collins found guilty of harassing former partner 2012-10-09T13:36:17Z And obsessive bar owners are intent on cramming a good chunk of it into one space. The Whiskey Bar Is Taking a Step Up 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z He had the face of a monk, the obsessive auto-didacticism of a collector and a habit of speaking in fulsome paragraphs. The ‘Kanye West of Furniture’ Is Now Nesting in the ’Burbs 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z “I take an obsessive approach to all of my interests,” said Lerew, who often drives as far as 200 miles in a day. Inside an Underground Network of Los Angeles Museums 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z Wilson emerges as an obsessive loner looking to make a connection. The Best Half-Hour of Comedy in 2020 Is About … Scaffolding? 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z I look back on those years and can’t even believe I was that person — I was so obsessive. Amy Sedaris Is the Hostess with the Mostess. But Only on Set. 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z "You can become so obsessive that you become almost inactive," he says, "but you could spend years on a film and then not have the final say." Centre stage 2010-04-17T23:07:00Z For some, these assignments can lead to obsessive calorie counting and restrictive eating, both risk factors for developing an eating disorder. Should "food diaries" be assigned in schools? Experts point to potential dangers for youth 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z “I got stuck on death and dying and obsessive thoughts that won’t let up,” this Canadian rock group’s lead vocalist Stefan Babcock sings on their new album, which is aptly titled “Morbid Stuff.” 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z What are TV obsessives going to complain about when we don’t have the Emmys to kick around anymore? What Happened at the 2016 Emmy Awards 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z “Anything is possible in the world of bedbugs, but everyone has to make a decision about just how obsessive they want to be.” How to avoid bringing bedbugs home from vacation 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z In “B & Me,” the hunter has become the hunted: Now it’s Baker’s turn to be on the receiving end of obsessive reader love. ‘B & Me: A True Story of Literary Arousal,’ by J.C. Hallman 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z “Fringe” has a core of obsessive viewers, the kind who write fan fiction and maintain detailed, up-to-date Web sites. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Fringe’ Begins Final Season on Fox 2012-09-27T21:48:01Z “I’m an obsessive collector of objects, of images — scanning the streets,” she added. Lauren Halsey Brings Her Vision of South Central Los Angeles to New York 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z ARDENT, even obsessive, fans of the novelist David Foster Wallace almost rival their idol in the torrents of words they use to detail their devotion. Daniel Fish?s Take on David Foster Wallace 2012-03-17T05:14:54Z “I’m a very obsessive person, so one poster became every poster,” Mr. Kraft said. For a Major Disney Collector, It’s the Magic Hour 2018-08-18T04:00:00Z She added, “We’re seeing a young Black girl go from running from her obsessive next-door neighbor to a young Black girl who fights vampires in the middle of the night to keep the world safe.” In ‘First Kill,’ Hunter and Prey Fall in Love 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z Not surprisingly, the reissues are already the subject of intense debate among Beatles obsessives. Long After Death, Lennon Remains a Powerful Presence 2010-10-08T17:14:00Z But men are stalked, too, and the incidence of various forms of obsessive love might be increasing. The problem with ‘unfriending’ 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z Sayoc, whose attorneys described him as an obsessive Trump follower who is mentally ill, was sentenced last week to 20 years in prison. CNN increasingly sees itself as subject to threats after incidents involving Cuomo, Lemon, Ryan 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z You don’t have to be an obsessive about it, but you should take time and care over presentation. How to make cocktails: follow these 10 golden rules 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z She feels constrained by her father’s obsessive protectiveness and finds herself almost mystically drawn to the sharp objects that have been banished from the kingdom. | 'Sleeping Beauty Wakes': A Fairy Tale, Updated Without Ambien 2011-05-23T21:11:06Z But perhaps because Mr. Oswalt is such an obsessive fan himself, he is savvier about fan culture. Patton Oswalt, Morgan Murphy and Others Have Comedy Specials 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z Bainbridge Island writer Jonathan Evison delivered quite the calling card in 2008 with "All About Lulu," his debut novel about obsessive love, bewildering sibling relations and the world of professional bodybuilding. Jonathan Evison's 'West of Here' spans a century of Olympic Peninsula history 2011-02-10T00:25:03Z With fast-paced prose and an ear for authentic dialogue, Shen brings big emotions and ideas to the hyper-focused world of the obsessive skater. Figuring It Out: Two Novels About Ice Skating and Adolescence 2021-01-16T05:00:00Z The effort Phoenix undertook for the role was obsessive: He shed 50 pounds, broke his longtime rule against watching daily scene clips and studied dance videos to determine how his character, Arthur Fleck, would move. Joaquin Phoenix wins best actor Oscar for ‘Joker’ 2020-02-09T05:00:00Z The fact that Macavity is never there when the various crimes are happening leaves open the very real possibility that he’s innocent and that his accuser is a delusional obsessive. ‘Cats’: Did You See the Movie? Let’s Talk 2019-12-22T05:00:00Z It concerns a starlet and an obsessive fan, with Comic-Con as a backdrop. Sandra Tsing Loh's new play is one of five premieres in SCR season 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z And what a group — an assortment of eccentric, tragic and highly amusing women trying to free themselves from their obsessive, self-destructive pursuit of awful men. The Merman of Her Dreams 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z But he has channeled an obvious and obsessive intrigue with the city. An unforgettable trip through L.A. from its 'Ambassador' 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z But Mr. Isaac, his mother and his sister were all Shakespeare obsessives. Oscar Isaac’s Mom Died. Now He’s Working Out His Grief in ‘Hamlet.’ 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z It's clear by now that Channel 4 has an obsessive compulsion to produce portrayals of disability and neurological disorders. TV highlights 13/02/2013 2013-02-13T07:00:03Z But in a universe of snubs, surprises and also-rans, there is a cottage industry of music obsessives dedicated to parsing who is recognized when — and who continues to be overlooked. Dolly Parton, Eminem and A Tribe Called Quest Are Rock Hall Nominees 2022-02-02T05:00:00Z Snowplow parenting is an even more obsessive form. How Parents Are Robbing Their Children of Adulthood 2019-03-16T04:00:00Z “You just can’t say that about wine or any of these other things that people get really obsessive about.” The Rise of Coffee-Connoisseur Culture 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z Skinner the witch is no benign, all-embracing earth mother but an intemperate obsessive. Theater Review: ‘The Castle,’ by Howard Barker, at Atlantic Stage 2 2013-07-17T21:11:30Z That moving anecdote is one of several that will quicken the pulse of even obsessive Apple watchers. ‘Becoming Steve Jobs,’ by Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z Mark insist that she is actually, at this point, kind of done with robot collecting, that her days of obsessive android accumulation are now behind her. | Mary Ellen Mark and the Robots 2011-10-12T15:41:01Z The poems here are hushed and meditative, and at the same time sprawling, expansive and obsessive. A Poet Maps the Landscapes of Memory 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z A relationship of sorts develops, though despite the obsessive filming, we don’t learn enough about these people to know why they’d be attracted to each other. | 'A Love Affair of Sorts': A Couple United in Self-Absorption 2011-06-23T22:55:06Z To help you navigate the spectacle and understand why the show matters, we offer this guide from the “Bachelor” obsessives of The New York Times and one newcomer to the franchise. A ‘Bachelorette’ Bible 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z It's very close to his story, his journey of being skeptical thinking that she that Philippa was obsessive to the point of believing she was having some sort of breakdown. Steve Coogan on finding "The Lost King": "It's not a journalistic piece. It's a point of view" 2023-03-25T04:00:00Z In “Recall,” a video monitor shows a close-up of Mr. Oppenheim’s mouth as he recalls studying painting as an undergraduate, evoking the obsessive performances and gravelly voiced mumblings of Mr. Acconci, his friend. Dennis Oppenheim, a Pioneer in Earthworks and Conceptual Art, Dies at 72 2011-01-27T04:30:03Z I knew Boynton was working long obsessive hours on this project. Review | Sandra Boynton is tweaking some of her beloved children’s books. But why mess with perfection? 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z You can't root for Fincher's Zuckerberg in any usual way because he's difficult, prickly, complex and has the obsessive, sociopathic quality of the serial killers the director has created in the past. The Social Network should block The King's Speech in Golden Globes clash 2010-12-15T16:56:48Z And those obsessives would likely need to make money in some way in order to fund further cataloging of her work. Untangling the complicated legacy of nanny-photographer Vivian Maier 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z He says his dad’s an obsessive person, and this attention to detail is something he’s taken into Pharmacopeia. PCP to psychedelic fish: uncover the stories behind the world's strangest drugs 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z The Peel part of him, the unpretentious, cult-y music obsessive really only interested in the next great record, the next surprising sound, the latest unexpected hybrid, means that age doesn't really matter. Paul Morley interviews DJ Pete Tong 2010-05-28T12:20:00Z Recently, Noble announced he was done with Nobson and the years of obsessive graft with a hard pencil. Turner prize 2012 exhibition review: is this the best one yet? 2012-10-01T13:08:55Z She's very, well, a lot and her obsessive compulsive tendencies and hypochondria are played at first in "A League of Their Own" as over the top, for cheap-feeling laughs. The best breakout TV performances of the year, from twins and vamps to werewolves and superheroes 2022-12-26T05:00:00Z The author proceeds meanderingly, via assertion, association and obsessive punning, which sometimes leads him to skate over possibly important points. Steve Poole's non-fiction choice 2010-05-07T23:14:00Z Mr. Jerome is a little obsessive about upload time. A Fashion Trailblazer’s Stylish Leap From Touch to Touch Screen 2015-08-15T04:00:00Z "There is an amazing story to be written about punk memorabilia, with a truly astonishing cast of crooks, obsessives, celebrities, fashionistas, academics, general hangers-on, victims, museum directors, auction houses, and so on." Malcolm McLaren's widow fears Met will get punk fashion show all wrong 2013-02-16T14:13:15Z “It takes an obsessive personality to do this kind of work,” she said in an interview. James Jebusa Shannon’s Portraits Rescued From Obscurity 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z Regrettably, the price for conservative Christianity’s obsessive obstructionism largely gets paid, not by old white men with a death grip on tradition, but by young brown women and their children. “11-year-olds shouldn’t get IUDs!”: Fox News creates mythical preteen IUD seeker, ignoring the success of school-based reproductive healthcare clinics 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z She was a prolific if not obsessive maker of art — sculpture, drawings and especially prints. Louise Bourgeois: Imagination Unfolds in All Dimensions 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z A solo trumpet, acting like an obsessive cosmic force, does the insisting over and over. Can two sensations make revolutionary music? Conductor Dudamel and pianist Trifonov try to find a spark 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z But unlike Bantjes’s unapologetic obsessive displays, I will rein in the hyperbole … After this. | Marian Bantjes, Illuminated 2010-12-01T18:45:00Z Our resident obsessives will be following Rachel Lindsay’s love journey, starting with unpacking all the cultural signals jammed into Monday night’s premiere. Fraught Racial Dynamics in the ‘Bachelorette’ Premiere 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z How much can we assume that everything in these movies — made, after all, by a Hitchcock-style obsessive control freak — is the result of calculation rather than accident? “The Dark Knight Rises”: Does Christopher Nolan’s “Batman” hold up? 2012-07-14T19:00:00Z Directors she's worked with, including "The Fighter" and "American Hustle's" David O. Russell and "The Master's" Paul Thomas Anderson, describe her as obsessive and a worrier. Amy Adams, you worry too much! It's only 40 ... 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z A life in musical theater leads to, as your washed up counselor could tell you, "waitressing jobs and bitterness and the obsessive, pointless collecting of out-of-print original cast albums." 'Smore, 'smore, 'smore: Cinema's greatest summer camps 2011-07-01T14:01:00Z In this collection, Sittenfeld occasionally swerves from the female point of view to the male who, elsewhere in her fiction, is usually the object of so much obsessive rumination. The Heroines in Curtis Sittenfeld’s First Story Collection Are All Grown Up 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z But what he’s venting is the accumulation of a passionate and obsessive life in the theater, a place that was both his refuge and his torture chamber. Theater Review: Amanda Plummer and Brad Dourif in Tennessee Williams Rarity 2013-06-21T20:53:00Z But the, to my mind, obsessive desire to answer the question has always seemed misguided. In "Blade Runner," who are the androids and what do they dream of? 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z The rules were typical for these trying times, but the number of signs was obsessive. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Duh, think before you throw bombs in your own neighborhood 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z It reclaimed the drone and repetition of 1960s psychedelia and Minimalism and forged songs that were obsessive and loud. | Pop: Global Groove and a Throwback 2014-04-11T21:15:01Z If you are a certain kind of “Mad Men” obsessive, like many readers posting comments on nytimes.com, you lost a good deal of your Monday evaluating this question. Critic?s Notebook: Freud on Madison Avenue, Where Biology Appears as Destiny 2010-10-18T22:40:00Z The city’s Wagnerites, a passionate, sometimes obsessive lot, began to look on jealously as she sang elsewhere, recalled Nathalie D. Wagner, the president of the Wagner Society of New York. Nina Stemme Takes On Her Biggest Met Opera Assignment Yet 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z As the production grew in scale — to a state of grandiosity conveyed by the French word “Hollywoodien” — Clouzot grew more demanding, more obsessive and harder to work with. | 'Henri-Georges Clouzot?s Inferno': A Film About Clouzot?s Unrealized Film ?L?Enfer? 2010-07-15T21:29:00Z But it’s not only the true obsessives who are touched by addiction, according to Ben. We are all addicts now 2013-05-11T23:00:00Z I consider myself a winter obsessive enamored with the transformative effects of snow on the land and the distinct joys of sports that involve sliding on snow and ice. The Quiet Thrill of Winter Wildlife Viewing 2022-12-03T05:00:00Z For this story I embedded myself with New York City’s birders — people who are obsessive about tracking birds, while the rest of us just go about our lives. How We Saw the Arts This Year 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z But dark, obsessive, even violent motifs and rhythmic spans keep threatening. Music Review: ‘City Noir,’ by John Adams, at Lincoln Center Festival 2012-07-13T21:21:56Z He was obsessive about trying to find a shorter way. Fragment of lost novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald found 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z “I had existential dilemmas as young as seven, obsessive questions about my place in the world. Where did we come from? Why am I here?” Marion Cotillard: ‘Before my family, everything was dedicated to the character’ 2014-08-02T04:00:00Z But for a poetry obsessive like me, the Stevens walk was the main attraction. Footsteps: For the Poet Wallace Stevens, Hartford Was an Unlikely Muse 2012-02-23T17:40:00Z In the same breath, I can’t deny that I charged through seven hours of “Sharp Objects” with an obsessive appreciation for the overall effort, propelled mostly by Adams’s effectively morose and complicated portrayal of Camille. Review | HBO’s ‘Sharp Objects’ certainly looks like the best show of the summer, but is it? 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z It would take a secret agent with an obsessive interest in film music to settle, for good, the authorship question dogging one of the most indelible themes known to cinema. 'Bond' theme writer John Barry dead at 77 2011-01-31T19:16:00Z Long since convinced of that, we would rather be left alone to delight in all the animated, independent particulars, such as the obsessive removal of HA-HAs, architectural ornaments that entwine Henry’s and Anne Boleyn’s initials. Crashing Henry VIII’s Court One Last Time With Hilary Mantel 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z You might never have cracked Herman Melville’s “Moby-Dick” and still use the phrase “great white whale” to mean an obsessive but elusive goal. Bright Young Things, Revisited: War Clouds a Childhood Idyll 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z There's nothing uplifting about the music Jefferson came up with on I've Lost Control: instead, it feels hypnotic, obsessive, deranged. Various artists: Acid Rain: Definitive Original Acid and Deep House 1985-1991 – review 2013-07-11T14:30:01Z Her idea was to make a movie about two teenage girls who developed an obsessive relationship with each other that ended in murder, a true crime story that had gripped New Zealand in the 1950s. Middle-Earth Wizard’s Not-So-Silent Partner 2012-11-30T13:00:00Z Die-hard Venetian obsessives even debate which of the city’s six neighborhoods, or sestieri, is the best to get lost in. The Best Spots to Visit in Venice 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z He worked with a megalomaniac’s obsessive flourish, navigating local politics, appeasing island families, importing his stucco men from Rome. T Magazine: Stone Soul Picnic 2011-05-20T16:28:24Z He had a gift for math and more than a streak of obsessive compulsiveness, which may explain his issues with sports gambling. Perspective | Norm Macdonald was Tolstoy in sweatpants. Even when he texted you in the middle of the night. 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z Her husband of two and a half years, the television producer Dean Johnsen, is an “Apes” obsessive. Summer Movies: For ‘Dawn of the Planet of the Apes,’ Learning Simian Movement 2014-05-01T17:15:35Z But Nishino's obsessive cartography is of a different order: fantastical rather than scientific; imaginative rather than literal. Unreal cities 2011-02-24T11:40:04Z This development was of key importance in abetting the obsessive, destabilising atmosphere his later work would create. A brief survey of the short story part 26: JG Ballard 2010-06-10T15:24:00Z The best part of this festival for comedy obsessives is seeing hours from great comics who don’t perform in New York often. How Can Standup Succeed in a Fragmented Culture? Nurse Blake Has One Answer 2022-11-07T05:00:00Z In these entrancingly delicate, implicitly violent works, life, chance, obsessive art making and an intense artistic psyche descended from Pollock, Rauschenberg and Jack Smith — if not Hercules Segers — flashes before your eyes. Art Review: 2012 Whitney Biennial 2012-03-01T23:59:52Z "The obsessive character and the innocence of her artwork touch me," Jacobs said. New Vuitton-Kusama collection is a frenzy of dots 2012-07-10T16:41:11Z There are those of us who are obsessive, and then there are those who are nauseatingly "chilled". Russell Kane's ordered life 2010-10-23T23:05:00Z Food obsessives plan travel around these restaurants, and the reputations of cities rise with each ranking. How Melbourne Landed the World’s 50 Best Restaurants Awards 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z What’s all the more fascinating about “The Founder” is how it reflects the obsessive focus of Hancock’s own relatively brief career. “The Founder”: A Fast-Food Visionary on Shaky Moral Ground 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z This 1814 novel has never enjoyed the obsessive fandom other Austen books attract. Missing the Theater? Trade Playbills for These Novels 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z In its last and most moving chapter we meet the refugee Max Ferber, a painter whom the narrator watches in a dusty Manchester studio, working and reworking a series of portraits with almost obsessive repetition. The Gloopy Glory of Frank Auerbach’s Portraits 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z Chronicling close to two decades in the bird’s — and its fan club’s — eventful life, “The Legend of ” is a sugary, aggressively anthropomorphized story of one avian interloper and a whole bunch of human obsessives. | 'The Legend of Pale Male': Bird of Prey and His Adoring Fans: A New York Love Story 2010-11-23T23:50:00Z Shown on a mirrored runway, with columns covered in tufted ice-blue vinyl, the clothes evoked an obsessive interest in style, one associated with haute couture and Hollywood glamour of the ’30s, but also dominatrix fantasies.” | Theyskens' Theory Wins! 2011-02-16T03:02:25Z The elusive soundworld, often on the edge of audibility, is instantly recognisable as Sciarrino's, a wonderfully consistent and compellingly obsessive creation that retains the power to shock and surprise. Sciarrino: Macbeth – review 2012-11-28T15:29:01Z We learn of Annie's harrowing life with a kidnapper who seesawed between obsessive attention and sudden violence. New in crime fiction: a brilliant Irish mystery, a new thriller about MI5, and J.A. Jance's latest Arizona-set story 2010-07-07T20:15:00Z Put yourself in Ben Heppner’s shoes — or shoe, more precisely, since his fiery, obsessive Captain Ahab hobbled about on a peg leg for the duration. Music Review: In ?Moby-Dick? in Dallas, Big Role for the Roiling Sea 2010-05-02T22:07:00Z For us schedule obsessives, though, it’s liberating simply to realise there might be another way of thinking about time, so as to help us see when we’re overinvesting in the urge to “use time well”. Members of the Uptighterati hate lateness: are we wrong? | Oliver Burkeman 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z Introducing a technique that Mr. Lang uses throughout, the phrase “Look, daughter” becomes an almost obsessive, cyclic riff, with the word “look” insistently repeated. Music Review: The Crossing in ‘The Little Match Girl Passion,’ at the Met 2012-12-24T22:47:20Z Making the records certainly sounds like quite an obsessive process. Guardian first album award: Rustie 2012-02-09T20:00:04Z Camper English wouldn't consider himself an iced coffee obsessive, by any means. A frozen water expert sheds light on Starbucks' pellet ice transition 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z “When you look at human behavior, and the obsessive nature of chasing that dopamine hit from posting every moment we think is interesting or cool or funny, you realize his theory has merit,” Kutcher said. B.J. Novak Went to Texas Looking for ‘Vengeance’ and Found America 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z Caustic, lonely and obsessive, the novel offers a richly speculative portrait of early Anthropocene resignation. It’s the End of Humanity. Maybe It’s for the Best. 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z His obsessive/disturbing work on the Ku Klux Klan grew into a controversial statement about the horror of racial hatred. After a lifetime of capturing what was, Christenberry faces what is 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z Taken together, the shop evokes the edited yet wide-ranging output of an obsessive, eccentric master craftsman who’s dedicated to hyperlocal production. A Furniture Maker’s Quest: Create Everything From Scratch 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z What surprised and delighted this N.B.A. obsessive is that it dazzles just as much with passes and rebounding. ‘The First Slam Dunk’ Review: Style Points 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z Ms. Ziegler can be a bit obsessive about connecting the dots, a trait that tends to transform the wavering paths of human life into blunt lines. Review: In ‘Boy,’ a Man Deals With Gender Cards He’s Given (Not Born With) 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z She was one of those list makers who are obsessive about crossing off tasks as they were accomplished, and she never threw away her completed lists. 1. Make List; 2. Do Stuff 2011-06-02T22:04:11Z This is a character who navigates his path with an obsessive orderliness, moving according to the rules of some chessboard game of his own invention. The 'Curious Incident' of a young detective set loose to find life's truths 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z That decision distinguishes this movie from the usual genre fodder and dovetails with what emerges as its almost obsessive interest in the devastations of male misogyny and violence. ‘A Walk Among the Tombstones’ Adapts Lawrence Block’s Novel 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z The era’s most enduring heroes were obsessed and often obsessive, given to railing at diner waitresses and their own lovers, robbing banks and waving around guns, screaming at one another and alone in existential solitude. Film: The Dude Plumbs His Weary Soul 2010-02-26T23:03:00Z Instead, in a process he matter-of-factly calls “obsessive,” he chose the exact opposite of real-time studio recording. Jason Pierce Struggled to Make a New Spiritualized Album. And He May Do It Again. 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z Honnold is an eccentric and obsessive visionary, oblivious to the protocols and niceties of social interaction. Do Good Climbers Make Good Capitalists? 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z Harrison’s book recounted her obsessive affair with her once-estranged father, a minister, which commenced when she was 20. A Dive Into the Abyss in the Anonymous ‘Incest Diary’ 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z Mr. O’Malley is a tone obsessive: he gets a warm, rounded, tube-technology sound in his noise and drone, and for an hour he carefully interacted with Mr. Rehberg’s shifting and corroding electronic strafes. Music Review: ‘Drone Activity in Progress,’ at the Knockdown Center 2013-05-03T21:54:26Z Among watch obsessives, the impact of Instagram can hardly be overstated. Instagram Turbocharges the Watch Market 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z But the show clearly wants to be a satire of horror, and society, and the racial attitudes that remain an obsessive concern of Murphy’s. Scream Queens is a Missed Opportunity for Fox, and Ryan Murphy 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z Growing up, he says the Beatles were "always there," having had three older sisters who loved music and one who was a "Beatles obsessive." For second-generation fans like Travis bassist Dougie Payne, the Beatles "become part of your DNA" 2022-12-10T05:00:00Z To those who are not immersed in classical music, the way passionate listeners constantly compare performances and recordings of repertory staples must seem strangely obsessive. Review: Lars Vogt Offers His Intensely Probing Take on Bach 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z A lone man, an outsider, is drawn into an obsessive quest to find a young person who has disappeared. Review | Tana French’s ‘The Searcher’ nods to John Ford’s famous Western with the story of a loner on the hunt for a lost teen 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z One key to his psyche, though, is his nearly obsessive need to paint. The saga of Matt Sesow: How a one-handed artist is seizing D.C.’s art world 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, the union jack-suited royal obsessives and self-styled town criers have been demanding information for their travel plans to the birth. Why have the papers become such crybabies about the royal baby? 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z Rodger had a pointillist, obsessive memory, and he detailed everything from the food at his ninth birthday party to the names of the kids he played hacky-sack with. The Power of #YesAllWomen 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z The first season started as a light, quirky sendup of true crime and its obsessives. Returning to the Scene 2022-06-27T04:00:00Z Though never allowed to explore Houdini's real talent — to remain calm under extreme pressure and to never drop the tiny gadgets that would free him — Brody lends a haunted/obsessive air to the proceedings. Lots of magic — but little illumination — in 'Houdini' 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z Driven and obsessive, drawing on 1970s jazz funk, soul and gospel, Mark-Anthony Turnage's new BBC commission Hammered Out burst noisily upon the world at Thursday's world premiere conducted by David Robertson. BBC Prom 54; La fanciulla del West; Joyce DiDonato; Simon Keenlyside; Kronos Quartet 2010-08-28T23:06:00Z We are obsessives. l've known people to sell their house and their car to buy records. Britain's rarest record – yours for £200,000 2012-11-22T19:30:02Z The giant C.I.A. insignia — a leftover prop — glued to the floor of Mr. Liman’s TriBeCa office marks it as the turf of a self-confessed spy obsessive. Sunny Spies Under Those Sunny Skies 2010-07-10T02:49:00Z They offer the pleasure of personal essays that are more inquisitive and obsessive than self-centered, and they are pitched squarely at readers. A Serious Reader Offers Appealingly Casual Thoughts on Reading, and Life 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z Jonathan Wright Comedian Richardson has always been very neat and exacting but is now wondering if he might actually have obsessive compulsive disorder. TV highlights 24/07/2012 2012-07-23T19:00:02Z They eschewed the filters of the runway or glossy magazines for direct communication, generated obsessive interest via secret product drops and otherwise used rising social technologies to blow a raspberry at the established order. Streetwear Is Dead 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z Our resident obsessives have been following Rachel Lindsay’s love journey all season, right through the tear-streaked three-hour finale on Monday night. A ‘Bachelorette’ Finale, Served With a Dash of Humiliation 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z Germany is sprinkled with innovative early modernist housing projects that will fascinate architecture obsessives. On the Bauhaus Trail in Germany 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z But the same focused devotion — or obsessive compulsion — drives each painter’s art. The stomach-churning, visceral power of Chris Finley's weightlifter portraits 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z The book is also a gold mine for Costello obsessives who have spent decades dissecting and analyzing his every lyrical zinger. Elvis Costello has a new memoir, and it's even better than Bob Dylan and Keith Richards's books 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z In "Araby", a young boy's obsessive love for a young girl is fully sexualised, made more real and dramatic than any other attachment in the book. Joyce's Dublin: city of dreamers and chancers 2012-06-15T21:55:00Z He made films on the basis of his actual life experience, and organized his life around his constant and obsessive efforts to generate the specific experiences that his art needed. Éric Rohmer’s Elusive Life, Revealed in a New Biography 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z But, for art’s sake and an obsessive pursuit of realism, the director was prepared to endanger a stuntman’s life, a new book claims. Stanley Kubrick 'risked stuntman's life' making 2001: A Space Oydssey 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z And yet, how can it be abnormal, given that every business person will tell you that the only way any venture gets off the ground is for you to be completely obsessive about it? Rewind radio: Jon Ronson On… Being Normal; The Funeral of Baroness Thatcher; Jeremy Vine – review 2013-04-20T21:50:01Z One was to respect Mr. Johnson’s obsessive privacy. Art in Review: ?RAY AND BOB BOX? 2011-06-23T21:20:12Z “If you become obsessive about it,” he added, “it’s an imposition versus a choice.” ‘Made in the U.S.A.’ Has a New Meaning 2012-09-15T01:00:36Z I escaped my own obsessive and anxious thoughts by focusing on something transcendent — our organization's mission. The sobering truth about quitting my job: I was addicted to high-stress, nonprofit work 2021-09-04T04:00:00Z Iris Origo, a plain girl who turned herself into a woman of great elegance, was, by all accounts, an obsessive writer. Iris Origo: the author honoured by a music festival 2012-07-06T21:55:22Z They are both obsessive gardeners, Prose said, locked in an ongoing battle with the local chipmunks. ‘I’m Easily Bored by Books,’ Says Writer of 22 Novels 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z One convention that’s normally tiresome is the obsessive gathering and reworking of small objects into a large, often abstract form. Art Review: ?Dead or Alive? at Museum of Arts and Design 2010-04-29T21:13:00Z He's a guy who has some obsessive compulsiveness. Robert de Niro 2012-11-24T17:02:00Z Most of the images, though, were taken by Barrese, an obsessive chronicler of his mother. Sundance Documentaries Expose Truths, Both Glorious and Bitter 2019-02-03T05:00:00Z “It fed into his obsessive side,” said his father, Bruce Parker, a retired United States government oceanographer. Sean Parker Brings Facebook-Style Skills to New York Social Scene 2011-12-17T12:39:01Z An obsessive wrestling fan and the heir to the Howard Foods fortune, he invests his wealth in an extremely ’80s mansion, a butler and a robot that dispenses drugs. What to Remember Before ‘GLOW’ Comes Back for Season 2 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z The characters in this obsessive drama about human suffering and isolation are stop-motion-animated figures, something like the ones in Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox, only a lot less cute and a lot more depressed. Review: In Anomalisa, Puppets Have Problems Too 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z Made as if by an obsessive teenage sci-fi fan, it depicts a towering rocky prominence crawling with pipes, ladders and other kinds of industrial superstructure coming from oil processing installations on the ground level. Art Review: The Uncluttered Look Has Its Day 2011-03-03T23:30:06Z I’m pretty obsessive about having this all mean something.” For Fans of Robert Ellis, Vivid Contrasts in a Stylish CD 2011-07-10T06:00:30Z You might suspect that such success is the product of strategizing and obsessive ambition. Joanna Coles, Editor of Marie Claire, Grabs Fashion?s Spotlight 2012-02-10T23:36:00Z But for the brand’s new Pomellato ’67 collection, a re-issue of several signature designs in sterling silver, those same highly trained hands are treating a less expensive material with just as obsessive detail. In Italy, Standards of Excellence 2012-11-15T06:07:03Z Even its earliest songs found a somber sweet spot amid loss, self-doubt, disillusionment and fading but obsessive romance. The National Gives Its Sound a Jolt on ‘Sleep Well Beast’ 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z Scalpels lead to scruples, though the obsessive brutality and bloodshed continue right up to the corny, predictable surprise ending. Repo Men 2010-04-17T23:08:00Z After all, in Britain no one would think there was anything odd about a football obsessive coughing up £500 on eBay to secure a ticket to see their team battle it out. Can a Christmas pudding ever be worth ?250? 2010-12-05T00:05:00Z And the headlines are: Yorkshire son of a Northern Soul obsessive recovers from surgery and the loss of his two closest friends to pen life-affirming Italo-Motown hybrid! New band of the day: John Newman (No 1,527) 2013-06-06T15:35:44Z Watching the recent documentaries about Britney Spears, Shields recognized some of the same obsessive, prying treatment in early interviews with the pop star. Brooke Shields is just getting started 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z In Galen's obsessive quest for a quieting of his psyche, he apparently will do anything. 'Dirt': A loner's twisted family unravels in David Vann's novel 2012-06-13T20:35:05Z The drawings, which recall the precise pen-and-ink work of the early-20th-century artist Franklin Booth, are stunning in their obsessive detail. Bernie Wrightson, Artist and a Creator of Swamp Thing, Dies at 68 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z First, think about how similar they are; although Logan here seems cavalier while the MiB is obsessive, they both objectify the hosts and brutally mistreat them. ‘Westworld’ Season 1, Episode 9: You Broke My Mind 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z But gradually, through the following collections, his own distinctive musical fingerprints begin to emerge, particularly the intense, sometimes obsessive thematic working, the constant rhythmic fluctuations and instabilities, and fondness for harmonies based on fourths. Scriabin: Travel Preludes – review 2013-07-25T16:30:00Z This may make him sound like an obsessive, but he had other interests, such as music and food. Mick Aston, archaeologist at the heart of Channel 4's Time Team 2013-06-25T16:35:38Z Paul, who is no slouch, said Anthony would study past midnight on a Friday, say, for an exam two or three weeks away, showing a “singular preoccupation with schoolwork that was clearly obsessive.” My brother’s life, unraveled 2013-03-12T11:45:00Z Of course Deerhoof skews things, with sudden silences, sneaky shifts of key and meter and a final minute of obsessive repetition. Björk Insists on Connection, and 11 More New Songs 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z “The very attempt to refuse creepiness and use every possible means to stave it off is precisely what makes the awkward, obsessive man creepy,” Kotsko writes. The Age of Creepiness 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z It led to treatment for a type of obsessive eating I think is pretty common. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Girlfriend’s problems with food are hard to swallow 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z The TV obsessive recently installed a television in every room in her house, so she’s always near the glowing screen that has guided her life. Life's better with Retta: How TV's 'treat yo self' queen conquered comedy 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z Moving to LA, he got into spats with labels and producers and found his obsessive workaholic studio routines frustrated. Tricky: 'I can still be really dark in my mind' 2010-09-18T23:05:00Z And Maya, the main character, is an obsessive, whose relentless search for the al-Qaida leader doesn't include pausing for explanations. Zero Dark Thirty: a bluffer's guide 2013-01-21T12:04:50Z Mr. Louis objected to what he called “the obsessive racism of the police,” which, he felt, made his assailant’s ethnic identity a unique focal point of the inquiry. For the French Author Édouard Louis, His Books Are His Weapon 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z Also positioned along the carpet were fans - the ones that circulate air, not obsessive screams - powered by models pedaling exercise bikes to keep attendees feeling cool. 'Twilight,' 'Vampire Diaries' dominate Teen Choice 2010-08-09T14:15:00Z The guitarist Brian Olive, once of the Soledad Brothers, whose own solo album “Two of Everything” was produced last year by Mr. Auerbach, is part of the same fraternity of backward-looking obsessives. Spring Performance: Music: Dr. John Plays Three Weekends at BAM 2012-02-24T20:50:19Z Like a lot of others with autism, I tend to develop obsessive interests about which I insatiably acquire extensive, detailed knowledge. Bullied, autistic and obsessed with presidents: How the 2000 presidential election changed my life 2021-10-02T04:00:00Z Mr. Lauda, an Austrian, was socially awkward, a little ferrety looking, and obsessive about the mechanical details of racing and the risks, which he endlessly calculated and recalculated. Making a Pit Stop in Formula One With ‘Rush’ 2013-08-28T12:16:47Z What it got instead was an impromptu piano performance of songs that will cause Dylan obsessives to salivate. How Dylan rocked our morning 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z Guns are ubiquitous and obsessive safety lectures are often forgone in favor of a “watch and learn” mindset. My Civil War: Re-enacting in the days of 9/11 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z And she has spawned her own obsessive, fashion-centric group of acolytes. The Gangs of Fashion 2022-03-06T05:00:00Z The show’s narrator is obsessive, whiny, triumphant, analytical, bellicose, despondent — all the stages of fandom. Dudes on Ice: A Play About Hockey Tackles Masculinity, Too 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z This “gospel” was worldwide news — before skeptical papyrologists and grammarians, in one case drawing on the research of an amateur Coptic obsessive working in his Macomb, Mich., basement, showed it to be a complete fake. The Harvard Professor Who Told the World That Jesus Had a Wife 2020-08-11T04:00:00Z It also showcases the company’s continuing importance with newer films like Mélanie Laurent’s “Breathe,” a chronicle of a teenage friendship that turns obsessive and suffocating. Movie Listings for Aug. 26-Sept. 1 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z You seem to be drawn to obsessives as subjects — ambitious individuals on sometimes quixotic quests. Can a chimp be a person? D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus on their latest film 'Unlocking the Cage' 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z Adrian Monk is a defective detective; a phobic, obsessive compulsive, neurotic mess. Six to watch: TV mavericks 2011-03-10T14:09:00Z An obsessive researcher, Kurz began an excavation of ice cream — its history, its chemistry and the forgotten techniques behind it. | Scream Sorbet 2010-10-08T21:30:00Z How else to explain, for example, the anti-rational, superstitious caprice of the obsessive compulsive or the obsessively religious? Did I lock the back door? 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z Or was it when Big Cat Rescue founder Carole Baskin showed up, her head wreathed in flowers, with obsessive husband No. 3 nipping so closely at her heels that she voices her annoyance with him? "Tiger King" and the schadenfreude of seeing privileged insanity run wild 2020-04-04T04:00:00Z Then there are the songs that have never made it beyond live bootlegs or fevered discussion by Springsteen obsessives. Bruce Springsteen: 'People thought we were gone. Finished' 2010-09-23T20:30:00Z Starting with a whimsical notion, she can systematically spin an obsessive web. Breaking Through Categories and Conventions at BAM 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z “The need to update something and feed it on a daily basis with no financial motivation sort of points to an obsessive tendency,” she said. An Eye for Detail, and Plenty of Pop 2010-12-09T00:09:00Z From that day forward, I became an obsessive seeker of the spell that glues sticky flesh to a lounge chair. Did the Pandemic Change Summer Reading for Good? I Hope So. 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z You once described yourself as “an obsessive and catholic reader.” Jia Tolentino Wants You to Read Children’s Books 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z Just as junk food puts our taste buds into overdrive, so too Facebook puts our social needs into overdrive, making us compulsive, obsessive and self-destructive. Facebook's greatest weapon: endless comparison of ourselves to others 2018-01-20T05:00:00Z I’m kind of obsessive about finishing books, even if it takes me a while. Questlove: By the Book 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z He also described himself as a "guy who lives with worry anyway" and disclosed his own mental health struggles with obsessive compulsive disorder and depression. Howie Mandel says he's "just really afraid" to perform onstage following attack on Dave Chappelle 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z “I spent a lot of my childhood consumed with obsessive worry and dread,” he said, adding that he hoped the novel would “help people who struggle with that terror to feel less alone.” John Green Opens Up About His Own Struggles 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z So I did not walk into the Apollo Theatre on tourist-inundated Shaftesbury Avenue brimming with hope for the tale of a bullied teenager who develops an obsessive crush on a bloodsucker. In London, stages are set for pleasure “I knew Linus would understand the obsessive nature of this character,” said Davis. Manson Family Vacation: a lo-fi, low-budget labor of love 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z For all we know, they are whom they play: the love-struck obsessive and his imperious seductress. Submarine: From Teen Angst to Pure Delight 2011-06-03T10:05:00Z Fincher and Walker eschew the fantastical exaggerations of franchises like “John Wick” and “The Mechanic” in favor of plainer costumes, weapons and scenarios, intending to capture this hired gunman’s exhaustingly obsessive nature. The Best Movies and TV Shows Coming to Netflix in November 2023-11-03T04:00:00Z Everyone is single-minded and obsessive to the point a viewer can all but predict lines and attitudes before a scene begins. "Dark Stranger" a serviceable Woody Allen comedy 2010-05-17T04:43:00Z Trichotillomania is a disorder characterized by obsessive and repetitive hair pulling. Perspective | Ask Amy: Trauma survivor struggles to cope 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z It would be easy to turn against the obsessive title character in “Doctor Foster,” yet Jones never loses the audience’s sympathy. In ‘Vigil,’ Suranne Jones Sounds the Murky Depths, as Always 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z But otherwise they’re as goofy, self-conscious, nervous, sloppy and obsessive as we civilians are. London Theater Journal: A Hellish Vacation 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z He was an obsessive Red Sox fan of 30 years, but had never taken his children to a game. Books of The Times: With No Father Around, a Youth and His Fists Fend for Themselves 2011-02-22T18:14:55Z Her art can appear eccentric or obsessive while also bearing Surrealism’s sophisticated symbolism. Cologne Museum Dives Into German Artist’s Once-Lost Fantastical World 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z Around the agreeable leads is an ersatz family of misfits and music obsessives who trade banter and Replacements bootlegs. Review: ‘Roadies,’ Building Each Night’s Stairway to Heaven 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z Though, as an obsessive, I dug this episode. ArtsBeat: Talking ‘Mad Men’: In the Echo Chamber 2013-06-17T13:43:56Z In Lasky's poem, Penelope's very thoughts are an obsessive weaving and unweaving, yet the narrative always moves forward on its own small odyssey. Poem of the week: The Bed That Is a Tree by Kim Lasky 2012-05-28T10:54:50Z Plenty of viewers grasped what Badgley sought to convey in his portrayal of a book obsessive whose pathology leads him to hunt women, one lover at a time. New year, new "You": Netflix's stalker drama seeks romantic nirvana in a twisted Season 2 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z Like Reeves, Mr. Harrison is a map obsessive with a passion for New York City and a longing for things lost, or soon to be. Colin Harrison Is Mad About Maps. So Is His Latest Character. 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z Jam bands cherish the spontaneity of the live moment, even though, paradoxically, their fans tend to be obsessive archivists. Music: Today and Yesterday Sing Harmony as Bonnaroo Closes 2010-06-13T22:48:00Z The obsessive collector appreciates the butterfly’s beauty by killing it and pinning it to a board. Why dissecting the brain only gives us half its story | Daniel Glaser 2017-03-26T04:00:00Z Social media is filled with obsessives of these entries: Obsessed with Wikipedia ‘personal life’ entries? You’re not alone. 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z It’s a desperate need, an almost obsessive need to take over this person’s life. Patricia Clarkson: ‘Sharp Objects’ Included ‘Some of the Toughest Scenes I’ve Played’ 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z The degree of obsessive analysis and theorising on the fan forum Bocpages.org/wiki would shame a Talmudic scholar. Boards of Canada: Tomorrow's Harvest – review 2013-06-06T20:15:01Z The same bristling ambivalence that kept the films from winning over their original audiences ensured decades of obsessive cult veneration. Five Sci-Fi Classics, One Summer: How 1982 Shaped Our Present 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z |
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