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It's obsessions on top of obsessions on top of more obsessions.
It just taps into all our obsessions, or at least men's obsessions.
As a writer, I know that my obsessions are built on the back of other people's obsessions.
Other obsessions include unwanted thoughts, a fear of harming oneself and religious obsessions, all of which I've struggled with at one point or another.
Jon Hershfield, a psychotherapist and the director of The OCD and Anxiety Center of Greater Baltimore, tells me hyperawareness or sensorimotor obsessions are obsessions of attention.
BYRDSTOWN, Tennessee — Republicans running statewide in Trump country are hugging the president close, making his obsessions their obsessions and happily turning their elections into referendums on the president.
That's because the macrobiotic restaurant has Last Dodo status, and its demise hits upon a few key New York obsessions: real estate, food and people's obsessions with their bodies.
Technical modernisation has been one of Russia's obsessions for centuries.
Even celebrities have no shame about their Property Brothers obsessions.
Ours is a land of particular obsessions: food, war, success.
Think of all the Netflix obsessions you've had since then.
Where do your obsessions with architecture and interiors come from?
In a city with so many food obsessions, why ramen?
In the film, shibari represents the characters forming mental obsessions.
Not all of Ms. Mar's obsessions strike me as wise.
His two abiding obsessions were violent anti-Semitism and Lebensraum .
Tusk dismissed the accusations as "purely about emotions and obsessions".
It's not just Bosnians who were saved by Holbrooke's obsessions.
Since 2007, O'Donnell has remained one of Trump's trademark obsessions.
Read on to discover the star's latest beauty obsessions, below.
I wanted to end the pain, the obsessions, the agitation.
But you have obsessions outside of economics, including video games.
"Like every collection, this one is about obsessions," Hergott says.
His Twitter obsessions are a manifestation of a deeper disorder.
Every year brings its own set of pop culture obsessions.
One of my pet peeves, one of my obsessions, is littering.
In both, we see the destructive qualities that their obsessions generate.
"Haunts of the Black Masseur" came out of these twin obsessions.
One of his latest obsessions is fake review spam on Maps.
" Plus, it's easier to stomach than more complicated obsessions like "Fortnite.
Being murdered by animals is one of Australia's top national obsessions.
The medications also reduced obsessions and compulsions related to the disorder.
In Japan, highlighting and red lips are the latest beauty obsessions.
A scroll through his Twitter feed reveals his longtime ratings obsessions.
Few Wall Street obsessions surpass the pursuit of an investment edge.
Bruner, 35, cheerfully acknowledges never having put aside his childhood obsessions.
Alas, no fact will persuade Mr. Trump to surrender his obsessions.
"Star Trek, Disneyland, and NASA," he says, ticking off his obsessions.
I'll just focus on the two categories that are my enduring obsessions.
And she says her "current obsessions" is the Myers-Briggs personality test.
Communities evolved, and with it so did the obsessions of its users.
Tortorella said that these obsessions track with their past addiction to alcohol.
"Hygge seemed like a perfect distillation of popular lifestyle obsessions," Higgins writes.
The people featured, including myself, shared obsessions that once gripped their lives.
In addition to the eating rituals, my other obsessions got much worse.
When the web became a household thing, fans took their obsessions online.
With Tywin, Cersei appeals to his legacy obsessions (agreeing to marry Loras).
We experience his world, we feel his fears and share his obsessions.
To say he is an artist of peculiar obsessions is an understatement.
Root out gravity while you're at it; writerly obsessions are deeply ingrained.
It's Genet and Anger's obsessions and desires brought to their carnal extreme.
But privacy and anonymity are particular obsessions this summer in Hong Kong.
They're more expressions of Trump's idiosyncratic obsessions rather than any broader ideology.
BROADLY: The film covers multiple obsessions: with wealth, with youth, with success.
But Trump's personal obsessions don't seem to be dictating policy in this area.
As far as obsessions go, this is by far the coolest we've seen.
As season two plays out, Preacher shows the ugliness of Jesse's religious obsessions.
"Harald Szeemann: Museum of Obsessions" is showing at Kunsthalle Bern until September 2nd.
Being a teenager is a terrible, uncomfortable combination of sweatiness and weird obsessions.
"I wasn't overly morbid, but we all struggle with our obsessions," she says.
This new location was isolating, and left plenty of time for Albright's obsessions.
Deep emotional issues often come to the surface, and obsessions reach critical points.
Indulge your geeky obsessions or those of your friends with some comic swag.
The developmental disorder has led him to develop strongly-held obsessions, he said.
During her Vogue interview, Kardashian West also discussed her beauty obsessions — and regrets!
His obsessions include Minecraft and Legos, and he's a huge "Star Wars" fan.
Obsessions about car sickness began weeks ago, when I first booked the rental.
Michelle pushes her adoring girlfriend aside for a series of young, androgynous obsessions.
And finally, remember that people with OCD are much more than their obsessions.
It is funny, perplexing, consistent and unusual, with all the characteristic Mathews obsessions.
The country was now suffering the terrible fallout from his fantasies and obsessions.
" Other obsessions are less delightful: "I have to control myself to be welcome.
Medical issues and data have long been obsessions of co-founder Larry Page.
Maisel, the Golden Globes was preparing you for the next wave of television obsessions.
His twisted twin obsessions are his plot to rule the worldAnd his employees' health.
Oh, and Jerry Horne shifting his gourmet obsessions over to pot-gourmet business ventures.
Dan Leaf has two obsessions — riding Harleys and talking about peace with North Korea.
Each of Porowski's T-shirts are a lens into his cultural obsessions and personality.
"It's almost like his shady obsessions could land him in a 100% metaphorical prison."
But before then, Frankie talked to Mashable about all of her current obsessions. 1.
Screenshots via BloombergWe all have obsessions that manifest in ways we're not aware of.
Photography was a natural outgrowth of Wright's obsessions; she'd always been fascinated by food.
Cookie butter has been one our most intense food obsessions for a long time.
I will be back to my old demons and my dark obsessions for sure.
The image of Edwards dotted with materialized ideas suggests the nature of her obsessions.
A quick look at the menu tells you the direction her kitchen obsessions take.
These five products are our current obsessions — and they're going to be yours too.
There can often be an uncomfortable, reality-TV feel to these kinds of obsessions.
That produces a lot of other obsessions like: What if this drives me crazy?
My OCD diagnosis was mainly determined by my various contamination and health-related obsessions.
Is she thinking about them now, just like I'm thinking about my own obsessions?
And the behaviors are rarely the result of the specific obsessions that characterize OCD.
It casts rogue grievances as legitimate obsessions and gives prejudices the shimmer of ideals.
Here, as elsewhere in Tanizaki's oeuvre, there are recognizable sexual obsessions and female types.
She's still grappling with obsessions, betrayals, sexuality, memories and self-revelation. 4AD. Sept. 29.
But her daily personal and business obsessions have nothing to do with national politics.
But critics assert that for many, subjective age simply reflects cultural obsessions with youth.
Bruning is at his best when he delves into the pilots' anguish and obsessions.
For his critics, Trump's obsessions with McCain and other foes are not just unseemly.
We see the brain in action as he cheerfully puts his obsessions on display.
This has fueled misplaced obsessions over tactical details, while mostly ignoring the big picture.
She laughs, taken aback by the power of her obsessions and her life's voyage.
The similarities suggested just how much Ledeen's long-standing obsessions had melded into Flynn's.
It's playing into long-running obsessions and themes that have inspired Musk for years.
The custom kitchen is where his obsessions with design, art making and food converge.
While in Western Australia, police put together two global obsessions to get the message across.
Like you I had these very vivd memories and obsessions with Stefani from the 228s.
From Trolls to Harry Potter palettes, they also let you express your pop culture obsessions.
But these decisions, from the adoption of Woods's nerd culture obsessions to the trio's playful
Beware the Slenderman only briefly discusses the connection between internet-fueled obsessions and mental illness.
It simply provides a brief history of how he became one of the right's obsessions.
On the phone from Sweden, Goransson's mother, Maria, recalled another of his youthful obsessions — time.
For example: One of my obsessions has to do with food safety and refrigerator temperatures.
Did you have to downplay Fleabag's sexual obsessions to make her more "relatable" for TV?
Those people can grow in numbers, whereas all the fives were just short-term obsessions.
Villanelle doesn't seem picky about her bedmates, but her romantic obsessions are exclusive to women.
Dreams — or to put it less romantically, obsessions — have fascinated Ms. Groff for a while.
Corn obsessions aside, the people of Iowa are extremely conscientious about their being-first responsibilities.
Their mischief-making alternates with sometimes grisly scenes in which Dahmer contends with emerging obsessions.
As my obsessions accumulated, the dread throbbed more insistently, and my rituals became more complex.
His newspaper job is scuttled by a soured office romance, the basis of later obsessions.
This time out, he's in the big chair, feeding the celebrity obsessions of Arthur Fleck.
Education is one of Schultz's obsessions: He built a philanthropic foundation to improve childhood literacy.
After my suicide attempt—immediately after—I lost my obsessions and began to enjoy life.
The masks are also a metaphor for another one of Lennox's obsessions: Self-perpetuated myths.
One of Highsmith's obsessions as a writer is what characters' occupations tell us about them.
The result was a chaotic mix of these GeoCitizens' thoughts, obsessions, and favorite rotating skull gifs.
These days, many Instagram accounts all over the world have turned Nowruz traditions into cult obsessions.
But it gives you a sense of how much he was obsessed with his own obsessions.
Some inmates lose the ability to maintain a state of alertness, while others develop crippling obsessions.
Your guilty pleasures and weird obsessions have apparently not escaped the notice of Spotify's number crunchers.
We were attached at the hip throughout high school, bonding over boy obsessions and SAT prep.
I felt that my video game obsessions had been validated, which made me want to continue.
Hyperchess is a tale of two obsessions: one with chess, and the other with Star Trek.
If one of these obsessions is more vital than the other, it would be Star Trek.
"I call them symptoms," Mr. Creed said of his obsessions, and of his works as well.
How will the world receive this catalog of her obsessions, memories, deepest convictions, shames and ecstasies?
In his greatest stand-up special, "Werewolves and Lollipops" (2007), his fanboy obsessions are a theme.
All the new malls may do nothing for the miserable fate of dissidents with democratic obsessions.
On this episode of American Obsessions, VICE dives into the inclusive world of Sailor Moon fandom.
But few take their obsessions to the level of the country's Vespa gembel, or Vespa drifters.
I mean, we can pretend that we're beyond watching our former obsessions appear on reality television.
We tracked down the 17 weirdest celebrity obsessions and they're as funny as they are surprising.
We meticulously go through all my phobias, obsessions, and rituals and rate them on a hierarchy.
Traditionally meat-focused chef obsessions — offal, dry aging, whole animal cookery — are here applied to seafood.
Below, some of the most entertaining descriptions and stories about how these obsessions came to be.
But obsessions are by nature difficult to tame and the show is all over the place.
Sometimes those negative feelings dissipate over time, but other times they fester and become toxic obsessions.
But the obsessions of the most intense partisans have not fully resonated with the broader electorate.
But in the modern world, we make our own rituals, and they easily shade into obsessions.
Many live highly functional lives—and some parlay their obsessions and psychoses into profoundly creative avenues.
None of these programs looked a thing like ER or Cheers, yet they became collective obsessions.
Sometimes, food obsessions last even longer than the days spent agonizing over the turkey pre-Thanksgiving.
It's entertainment by design, the blueprint of our reality obsessions today for better or for worse.
Host Bridget Lancaster delves into food trends and obsessions — like, why are grain bowls suddenly so popular?
While Tumblr thrives on strangers coming together around shared obsessions, Cabana is designed around people you know.
More specifically, we'll hear about their unlikely food obsessions, controversial food beliefs, and weird food hang-ups.
I wanted this to be John Leal's own cult, and arise more organically from John Leal's obsessions.
These problems—the big walls humanity builds itself to climb over—have always been my narrative obsessions.
It was an ambitious and captivating survey of his obsessions and personal history with architecture and film.
Coffee lovers and beer snobs no longer have to choose between their two obsessions when visiting Starbucks.
I could loosen up sooner or later, and shake off some obsessions and even add some gags.
" A: "Love is your own obsessions not being satisfied, the clashing of other people's troubles with yours.
The sartorial obsessions that continue to preoccupy French culture were well­ established by the late 18th century.
Mr. McInerney writes well enough that he could have long since shed these ancient affectations and obsessions.
Meanwhile, Vladimir Putin makes clear one of his obsessions during that joint press conference with President Trump.
You have not been a transformative leader, instead quietly going along with longtime obsessions of your party.
With every set of obsessions and compulsions being different, each patient must find what's right for them.
And as she's been saying for years, one of those obsessions is Keeping Up with the Kardashians.
In 2019, a central obsession of American culture is the reassessment of all of its previous obsessions.
The clan of six is both close-knit and dissociated by the privacy of their individual obsessions.
Cole is a novelist, art historian, and photographer, and his essays run the gamut of his obsessions.
He's a Gen-X sensibility trapped in a millennial body, with the tastes and obsessions to match.
After Fidel Castro banned professional sports in 1962, Cubans embraced baseball, boxing and chess as national obsessions.
"Everything Is Imaginable" showcases five queer dancers whose early obsessions come to life in carefully crafted solos.
This isn't a city that was built on baby steps or obsessions with politely recasting the past.
When it came to childhood obsessions, Silly Putty was probably up there with Furbies, Pogs, and Tamagotchis.
Pay attention to obsessions with firearms Many shooters in mass school shootings are obsessed with firearm arsenals.
As with so many obsessions, Dick's participation isn't really necessary—the text barrels forward, picking up speed.
I have an obsessions with triangles and pyramids and I like the symmetry of them on my face.
Why it matters: Spam content often reflects society's emotions and obsessions — like diet pill scams and celebrity gossip.
For a man whose obsessions are violence and victimization, Ngo comes across in person as gentle, even vulnerable.
Omitting certain foods or food groups just heightens cravings, food obsessions, and worsens your chaotic relationship with food.
These royals are less constrained by the traditions and obsessions of the past, notably the question of Palestine.
In that [writing] exercise, every day I would try to put one of my obsessions or interests in.
But what if those same fans were stuck on a road trip with the object of their obsessions?
Throughout my life, the intensity of OCD has ebbed and flowed, as I developed new obsessions and compulsions.
Our emotions (and obsessions) lead us astray constantly and this is part of the whole mystery, isn't it?
Future episodes will tackle obsessions with the perfect booty, looking like a Snapchat filter and avenging revenge porn.
Many days are spent searching for a new iteration of the obsessions that I can't seem to escape.
Internet obsessions like the techno-fetishes for devices and cats appear in these servers, amongst other digital artifacts.
At a press conference, smaller outlets, outlets with diverse regional or substantive interests or obsessions, are also represented.
Traditionally local appetites can in the blink of a bureaucrat's eye suddenly become worldwide fads, even global obsessions.
"Motorcars and Wagner were his obsessions," said Gus Christie, grandson of John Christie and executive chairman of Glyndebourne.
But people are often shaped by their obsessions, and in Sando's case the similarities are hard to miss.
Basically a modern obsession, because most obsessions are 80s stuff, so I updated the obsession a little bit.
Most attention on Trump has focused on his policy obsessions: immigration, trade, and renegotiating deals of all kinds.
I wasn't diagnosed until I was 26, and, through therapy, am still gaining new insights into my obsessions.
Such obsessions and experiences have followed me into adulthood, only growing more intense after I became sexually active.
The idea is that he engages with his obsessions so often that it becomes the norm for him.
How do our food obsessions affect those who make it, regularly consume it or grew up with it?
But before he did, one wonders what previously unnoticed patterns — obsessions; questions — he found in his own existence.
Bannon's twin obsessions seemed to be keeping campaign promises and, particularly in recent weeks, the rise of China.
Notions of broader uplift and protecting the poor were being stigmatized as the hopeless obsessions of deluded lefties.
Rewind The director's first solo feature pokes fun at the fantasies and obsessions that fuel the entertainment industry.
We're so grateful for people who let their obsessions flow and really dive deep into something they love.
The Web, he saw, allowed everyone everywhere to develop the same otaku obsessions—with television, coffee, sneakers, guns.
I'd like to be able to show fashion and art obsessions of mine on one even playing field.
But America's Dairyland is more than just cheddar—beer and football are also primary obsessions and statewide pastimes.
Miller has allowed his personal obsessions and predilections to overwhelm what made them work in the first place.
As Mr Torres sees things, apocalyptic obsessions can be both a result and a cause of real-world violence.
Many of the characters have moved on in life, getting new jobs, forming families, or taking up new obsessions.
I use it to poke fun at society and its ridiculous obsessions—which are also mine, in a way.
But for all Young's obsessions with instinct, he has also long possessed an equally mystic attention to technical detail.
And I would spend so much mental energy on these obsessions, wishing that they were real and what not.
The question of which kind of catapult to use on aircraft carriers is, weirdly enough, one of Trump's obsessions.
I tell her about how I have OCD, and one of my obsessions leads to hyperawareness of my body.
Earlier this month, we got to the bottom of our adult obsessions with unicorns, mermaids, and other mythical beings.
The careers of some followed the arc of the tech world's obsessions and idiosyncrasies over the last 20 years.
The least logical of the recurring Trump obsessions is the demand that China reduce the U.S. bilateral trade deficit.
But we've clearly made the format far too accessible, and too many people have caught on to our obsessions.
There are more than 200 countries at the Rio Games, and each has its own Olympic heroes and obsessions.
Does he fit the criteria for borderline personality disorder, which can include outbursts, obsessions and a primitive ego structure?
It's a mix of different, nerdy musical obsessions and discoveries that have come out of the previous few decades.
On Friday, realities surface about being in control of money as the sun meets Pluto, planet of dark obsessions.
These sessions made me feel better, and I do think my obsessions diminished a little bit as a result.
But musical imagery like earworms can also develop into obsessions or hallucinations that disrupt daily life for some people.
"Because I'm a student of the major obsessions of our time: food, finance, fashion and frenzied love," he replies.
"The Spirit of Science Fiction" serves as a key to Bolaño's later work, unlocking clues to his abiding obsessions.
But these days, the store known for inciting parental panic is also home to a dizzying array of obsessions.
Obsessions, meanwhile, are inseparable from our peculiarities as people — we come to love things for often strange, perverse reasons.
Scott's stories often explore the personal lives of driven eccentrics whose scientific obsessions leave no room for loved ones.
In therapy, I learned how to separate myself from my obsessions, ignore my compulsions and refocus my attention elsewhere.
Of course, we don't make films for continents or countries — filmmakers create films for their personal dreams and obsessions.
No furies in his brain, no fires in his gut, just an unquenchable curiosity about people and their obsessions.
When Tech Is a Problem Child How parents fight back against their children's obsessions with smartphones and social media.
The trends and aesthetic obsessions of a decade usually reach a fever pitch of nonsense right before it ends.
But there's another faction whose obsessions and refusal to face reality have also done a great deal of harm.
Zhang said that their deep obsessions with dancing combined with the country's explosion in smartphone usage have driven Tangdou's success.
We know that search histories stored across devices catalog everything from mundane queries to intensely private obsessions, anxieties, and moods.
Don't let a lack of credentials keep you from your obsessions or your search for a different sort of truth.
It's About Time (2014–17) features collages of high-end watch advertisements, highlighting current obsessions with time, status, and luxury.
Just as we might connect with our BFFs over shared passions, we've been known to bond over our beauty obsessions.
Great Big Story dives deep into what may be one of the most unlikeliest — and charming — obsessions you'll ever see.
Unlike other apps in this category, it doesn't take itself too seriously, or go over the top with celebrity obsessions.
Minor Obsessions premieres at the Theatre at Ace Hotel in Los Angeles for one night only on Sunday March 5.
Milani Cosmetics has blessed us with the presence of a does-it-all palette deserving of the name Bold Obsessions.
Powell's speech may also have had an unexpected impact on another of his obsessions: Britain's relationship with the European Union.
While the momager coos at inanimate objects and bemoans her own shopping obsessions, Scott quietly shops for a mystery woman.
Both the timing of the operations and the specific points of attack chosen reflected the Trump campaign's needs and obsessions.
Instead of feeling ashamed of our fixation, let's treat it the same way psychologists recommend we treat all our obsessions.
" The new franchise -- dubbed "True Life/Now" -- will tackle obsessions in several directions ... starting with "Obsessed with Being a Kardashian.
Tokyo is a city of obsessions and obsessives, and none is more visible or pervasive than the preoccupation with food.
" This pleasure had its price, though: "I was the center of her life,— / and therefore, / of her fears and obsessions.
But Trump's tweets are most valuable as a record of his inner life: his obsessions, his rages, his guilty conscience.
All are outpourings from Mr. Creed's psyche, a delicate but highly tuned instrument beset by odd compulsions and Freudian obsessions.
Aside from our deep obsessions with cookies and ice cream, what else do we spend our free moments pining over?
Your friends' hashtag campaigns and GIF obsessions—and fan trailers—are more likely to end up touching your life anyway.
Somehow it's good to be in your own universe, to focus on your obsessions and develop your aesthetic and taste.
While the internet has finally seemed to move beyond Frozen, kids are still deep in their Elsa and Anna obsessions.
They were stories about ordinary people who were in the grip of powerful sexual obsessions that got them into trouble.
She would talk openly about the food habits and exercise obsessions that allowed her to look the way she did.
And that reflects the internet's power to cast rogue grievances as legitimate obsessions and give prejudices the shimmer of ideals.
"The obsession I had with Kelly just morphed into obsessions with many other artists, television shows and films," he says.
Lawrence may be an Oscar-winning actress and America's sweetheart, but just like us, she fangirls out over her obsessions.
Cornell worked mostly in series, spinning obsessions with Renaissance portraitists and film stars into microcosms of Victorian anachronism and eccentricity.
But both Pinault and Bizzarri were impressed by Michele's instinct to transplant his own quirks and obsessions into the brand.
Trader Joe's, Costco, and Target are some of people's biggest obsessions online, so naturally they are also huge on Instagram.
Some of his patients have mild forms of psychosis, some inhabit the borderlands of mania, and some have intense obsessions.
The president's obsessions with physical border barriers and immigrant street gangs are better suited to 21992 than to 20173, anyway.
The Getty exhibition originated in the museum's acquisition of Szeemann's archives — which he dubbed the "Museum of Obsessions" — in 2011.
Hundreds of longtime favorite beauty products – and we're talking serious cult obsessions – are all discounted 15% off right now on Nordstrom.com.
Every team has their odd little mannerisms and fascinations, their delightful obsessions that keep players and fans fighting through the season.
"The content of the obsessions is the most clinically correct way to differentiate between the two," she told me over email.
The story that Bryant wants to tell is broadly about Kobe Bryant, and his vision of the obsessions that made him.
YEAR AFTER YEAR Arwa Alneami's pictures of women at an amusement park captured the obsessions of Saudi Arabia's killjoy religious police.
That's alright—instead, watch the latest episode of American Obsessions, "How 'Sailor Moon' Fandom Became a Refuge for 90s Queer Kids."
But her reserved social media presence doesn't mean that she doesn't feel deeply involved in internet culture and its celebrity obsessions.
The image of Gomez, donning a yellow dress in a suburban neighborhood with grocery bags, is juxtaposed with her sinister obsessions.
Its world of indistinguishable mudpits becomes much more intricate and engaging in the presence of simulated rivalries, resentments, obsessions, and affections.
These obsessions not only give city buskers easy access to loonies and toonies, but also a quite lucrative children's entertainment business.
Two years in, Alessandro has only grown more confident in expressing the full spectrum of his personal obsessions and design ethos.
As if your obsessions with pumpkin and the Hamilton cast recording hadn't already peaked, the two can now seamlessly come together.
"His obsessions were coming to the United States twice a year for the NRA and the National Prayer Breakfast," said Erickson.
It's important to me to incorporate my obsessions into my work, and making felt food is such an addiction for me.
There is truly no telling where people with too much disposable income will stop when it comes to their celebrity obsessions.
Now several years later, Josh has a handle on his obsessions, and he's coming to terms with what he went through.
Abloh is a man of obsessions, but tailoring of the Diana school—simple, precise, and comfortable—is not one of them.
"Americans worship their obsessions in violent ways— / they write them down," Diaz writes, even as she counts herself among their number.
Vladimir Nabokov gave me a taste for endnotes and butterflies (though some of his other obsessions might be better left unexplored).
There were two obsessions I had as a child that were pretty instrumental to the path I ultimately ended up taking.
What do they show about the way people in different countries express their emotions, cultural pride and shame, obsessions and biases?
Like those Renaissance nobles and the tales they concoct, we are still bound and chained by the same drives and obsessions.
I'm lucky enough that my job involves taking obsessions like this and digging into them in deeper and more interesting ways.
It is a museum of his life: all his obsessions, all his reading, all his thinking, all accumulated in these rooms.
What has me thinking is a couple of other Apple rumors that are custom-designed to appeal to my particular obsessions.
The novel explores themes of honesty and understanding by showing the impact that obsessions—grief, rapacity—can have on a marriage.
Both are satires featuring underemployed, middle-aged New York Jewish protagonists with abandoned artistic dreams, cheating wives and snack-food obsessions.
Toward the end, you compare the adrenaline of your own obsession with work with the obsessions of the subjects you document.
This has freed me from obsessions and other distractions, and instead I have the happiness of trying to help people. 12.
Her kindergartner, Jonah, struggles with a battery of obsessions and fears that his school can't quite figure out how to handle.
His filmography is a catalog of his interests and obsessions and neuroses about relationships and self-image and right and wrong.
Harald Szeemann: Museum of Obsessions continues at the Getty Research Institute (1200 Getty Center Dr #1100, Los Angeles) through May 6. 
Take one of the chief obsessions of today: the projected rise of self-driving cars and the presumed decline of driver jobs.
We write about addiction treatment, healthcare, and medical controversies, existential physics, cult movies, nature, monsters, subcultures, obsessions, power, myth, and online communities.
While the guidelines are very thorough in some respects, they are also a bit bizarre, full of obsessions, biases, and blind spots.
Turns out, Eminem (government name: Marshall Mathers) has a few obsessions of his own, particularly Netflix's Marvel Cinematic Universe drama The Punisher.
With all the exit scams, weird meat obsessions, and cantankerous fan-boy culture, the world of cryptocurrency is kind of a drag.
Hutcherson is likable as Josh, but even the show's protagonist is a featureless conduit for his creators' narrative needs and personal obsessions.
First in a panoply of thematic obsessions is sex, a subject nobody's sung about more seductively, more maniacally, with so much relish.
Given all his other thematic obsessions, given the music he played, given his place in history, this insistence isn't silly at all.
Two Dog never shows his face online (this is as close as it gets), but some of his teas are cult obsessions.
And as tech billionaires continue to indulge their obsessions with space travel, we look at the sketchy economics of moving off-world.
Like deep space and dark matter in the instance of this album, do you develop obsessions in other parts of your life?
There's no equivalent category to "teenybopper" for boys, no specific language of derision for what are perceived as more masculine music obsessions.
The "Avolatte," as the breakthrough beverage is called, has drawn some ribbing from those who find Millennial obsessions to be tiresomely trendy.
Green wrote of the 2008 Clinton campaign's internal emails: The anger and toxic obsessions overwhelmed even the most reserved Beltway wise men.
From a gingham-print top to statement shades, click through to see their current obsessions (and what will soon be yours, too).
So, we are going to explore this question over the coming weeks, as one of our newest obsessions here at Extra Crunch.
Both men are raging narcissists and blondes, both are media obsessions, both loathe detail — for what has that to do with them?
At least the first two obsessions get a workout in their new movie, "Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping" (due Friday, June 3).
She's been programmed to give fairly natural-sounding responses to typical British obsessions — the weather, the commute, football scores, proper-sized pints.
The long hours, the uncertainties, the obsessions, the beating upon the wall for truth, as W.B. Yeats characterized William Blake's artistic quest.
What you love today — what expresses your attitudes and obsessions at this political and social moment — you may find excruciatingly embarrassing tomorrow.
The AIDS crisis fueled delusions and obsessions in the 1990s, whereas before it might have been tuberculosis that was doing the same.
Arman and I are still exploring our obsessions from last year, including 5G deployments, China tech geopolitics, next-gen semiconductors, and GPS.
Our president has been compared to Ahab, a deranged captain steering the ship of state by the lights of his own obsessions.
The OC tapped into those obsessions with bands and movies and trends and brought them into a narrative you really cared about.
Once they realized we weren't trying to have them sign a petition, they opened up about their nightlife philosophies and current obsessions.
Some obsessions are darker, harder to talk about, less common, and can remain undiagnosed for years, even if a person seeks help.
I knew that those were an issue, and it was easier to differentiate those obsessions from me—my "rational" brain and thoughts.
There are other people who feel that true recovery is possible, that it's possible to live a life free of these obsessions.
It's very 'we've talked about this at least one thousand times!' but Westbrook's obsessions with a meaningless statistical benchmark knows no bounds.
"This is not a matter of legal or political nature, it is purely about emotions and obsessions," he said in emailed comments.
" For Büchel, writes Walker, "Americans, by electing Mr. Trump, allowed his obsessions to be given form that qualifies as an artistic statement.
What they offer instead is nearly claustrophobic access to another consciousness, working out psychological obsessions with verve, intelligence and often comical deflection.
So the party became defined by what was left: its resentments and suspicions, its antagonisms and obsessions, its anger and its differences.
He is consumed by a hunger for affirmation, but, demented by his own obsessions, he can't think more than one step ahead.
Unable to escape the tentacles of the racial obsessions that carried him to the White House, Mr. Trump drowned all around him.
The former, On Repeat, will deliver your current obsessions — that is, the tracks you've played the most over the past 30 days.
Here, five former child actors from beloved holiday movies reveal what it's like to be part of your annual living-room obsessions.
Psychologists, sociologists and journalists have spent more than a decade diagnosing and critiquing the habits of "helicopter parents" and their school obsessions.
Cultish workouts like spinning and boxing start off as flings, bloom into obsessions, and then become relegated to private conversations between participants.
And they've created loads of in-game obsessions around things, and some of them were purposeful and some of them totally weren't.
And there was a Dutch magazine called Twin in the '60s, actually, that was my model, which is one of my obsessions.
It wasn't for any moral reasons that I finally quit engaging in casual sex, sexting, and the cultivation of crushes and romantic obsessions.
But it also looks suspiciously like the product of a personal fever dream, a synthesis of Coker's many obsessions, woven into one narrative.
Weather is one of our big obsessions here at Mashable (just take a look at our Science page if you don't believe us).
It's almost entirely fictional — Angelica was married when she met Hamilton — but it's one that gets at the core of Hamilton's thematic obsessions.
Blunt clubs, pointed daggers, and spiked bats alongside a frightening set of ritualistic masks fill the gallery as Shapiro's works titled Urban Obsessions.
Frames of Mind, by Alberto Lucas López for National Geographic, analyzes and charts Pablo Picasso's obsessions, in the style of the painter himself.
As bits of batter left behind from the To Pimp a Butterfly sessions, untitled's sketches share many of the album's moods and obsessions.
Investors, therefore, should base their strategies on the prospect that the EUMED will ignore German austerity obsessions and its stubborn will to command.
Self-made, self-styled, and independent, she's earned the freedom to pursue new skills and obsessions whenever she wants — with no expiration date.
Macron said he disagreed with those who branded Germany selfish and against reform, but it was time Berlin let go of old obsessions.
The Bean Counter comes in two types: the hermit, who holes up with his obsessions, and the hostile, who inflicts them on others.
The actor, 34, sat down with PeopleTV's Chatter on Thursday evening in which he discussed his latest obsessions, which includes costar Hemsworth, 28.
He is researching whether they are opting for sexual and romantic alternatives such as prostitutes, romantic video games, celebrity obsessions, pornography or pets.
The process of binding mortal flesh, a Japanese art form known as shibari, represents dark obsessions in the new science fiction film, Sculpt.
Clothes, music, boys: Shallow obsessions, says Albertine's mother, but they are what builds this girl and offers her excitement, escape, and self-discovery.
There's the love triangle I mentioned, and you have to have patience for destructive obsessions with bad dudes and doing blow in bathrooms.
Only the courage of this series' second season to follow its artistic convictions-cum-obsessions as far as they'll go ties them together.
She just describes her obsessions the way they are, not the way they should be, or in a way that might be palatable.
CoD:WW2 isn't quite a World War 2 game about World War 23 games, but it reflects the obsessions and tics of its medium.
Dench and Blanchett are deft at slowly revealing the depth of their characters' building anguish, as their twin obsessions bind them closer together.
A spate of recent stuffed-stocking sculptures carries on Ms. Lucas's bodily abstractions and obsessions, generally continuing in the same vein as before.
People detailed their interests and obsessions on Facebook and Google, generating a river of data that could be collected and harnessed for advertising.
The event is part of our new event series, "B-Sides," which explores some of our journalists' interests and obsessions beyond the newsroom.
I've returned many times, for instance, to the outskirts of the Kentucky Derby, an unexpected confluence of many of my interests and obsessions.
The "twenty-­first-century socialism" that Chavismo seeks to build has relied on electoral democracy; opinion polling and elections qualify as national obsessions.
We'll see how often his angry tweets and behind-the-scenes obsessions cash out, and how often they're just a way of venting.
This event is part of the New York Times Subscriber Events "B-Sides" series, exploring our journalists' interests and obsessions beyond the newsroom.
The presidential contest almost certainly was tipped by email obsessions, but it should not have been close enough for such factors to be decisive.
I also grew up on video games—the Sega Master System in particular—and the desire to mix my two obsessions was always there.
"I know our mother's and grandmother's obsessions with food going bad, or as they called it 'spoilage,' haunts me to this day," she says.
But now his intuitions, grudges, impulses, and obsessions are backed by the full force of the executive branch and everyone who works for it.
We are getting his anger, his resentment, his grievances, his obsessions, and his fears, channeled by an increasingly embittered circle of loyalists and hacks.
All this energy will feel welcome, especially after the tricky power struggles, jealousies, and obsessions that surfaced on August 15 when Venus opposed Pluto.
She's always questioning her perceptions, knowing that her obsessions make no "real" sense, but also aware that she can only control them so much.
Joe's manipulative tendencies are, if not necessary for his big-picture obsessions with new, open forms of communication, at least an unfortunate side effect.
But to me, her work says so much more about her life, her obsessions, and her bravery than either of those things ever could.
Characters in this show tend to have food obsessions (never forget "damn good coffee"), and I'm glad these two have taken on the mantle.
Eating food that is highly satisfying, and in a way that feels highly satisfying is correlated with healthier eating patterns and fewer food obsessions!
Great for advertisers on the platform to try to guide footfall and nifty for customers who want to cash in on their Swarm obsessions.
And another of Trump's obsessions came up this morning, as he continued the Russia conversation, this time by debunking the accuracy of the dossier.
"With obsessions and compulsions, people can feel driven to perform them so much so that they're not in charge of life anymore," she says.
But it's precisely here that Manila in the Claws of Lights proves most uncompromising: intense, somber Julio loses his footing as his obsessions escalate.
From the perspective out here, are you watching the kind of crazy American obsessions right now, or are you busy with your own problems?
One of the thing's we're asking attendees at Code Media this week is about their addictions, compulsions, obsessions to their tech devices and apps.
It's the newest film from Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa, famous for exploring his obsessions with technology and death in films like Pulse and Cure.
Chief among these new rom com obsessions is To All the Boys I've Loved Before, a Netflix movie starring Lana Candor and Noah Centineo.
I excitedly thought that by the end of the trial, I wouldn't have obsessions anymore, and that I'd regain complete control over my thoughts.
Throughout those dark times, and like many afflicted with severe bipolar II disorder, I experienced crushing depressions, delusional thoughts, morbid obsessions, and memory problems.
Hershfield agrees, saying that the first hurdle he faces with his clients with these obsessions, when they find him, is their sense of isolation.
The moon opposes Pluto at 10:25 AM, asking us to look at our shadow selves and our envy, obsessions, and other tricky emotions.
Huda Beauty Nude Obsessions Eyeshadow Palette, $29Sometimes, finding the right shade of neutral eyeshadows that works with your skin tone can be a hassle.
They created a company called Unique Obsessions to sell the Pop It Pal, and it got a $73,000 investment from Shark Tank's Kevin O'Leary.
Many of the same visual tropes were employed in that production, yet its episodic, pageantlike structure proved a better counterweight to Kentridge's thematic obsessions.
Formerly inhabited by a single aristocratic family, Halard's early 18th-century hôtel particulier has become a living record of his own tastes and obsessions.
Amazon is swooping in with the best Tile deals since Black Friday to make sure we don't lose track of all our new obsessions.
These are among the rarefied obsessions of the collectors I have interviewed in eight years as the Antiques columnist for The New York Times.
Stapinski's story, like all obsessions, can be maddeningly repetitive and self-absorbed (we hear far too much about her dark hair and clear skin).
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But there was another number released Friday that he didn't crow about, which was remarkable for a man with an obsessions about trade deficits.
This is the Paris where Radio Nova has been broadcasting Arabic music for over thirty years, where Arabic popstars have become country-wide obsessions.
Since 2008, Pluto, the planet of obsessions, has been in work-obsessed Capricorn, and in your house of work, daily routines, and physical health.
I think very quickly the tentacles of the Republicans in Congress with all their ideological obsessions and infighting have got hold of the administration.
Advanced Squad Leader is an almost comically detailed wargaming system, and to be an ASL player is generally to embrace a lot of weird obsessions.
Wasn't there something about the game's look and feel that tapped into the western obsessions with kawaii — Japanese cuteness — and the traditions of Japanese art?
And it gets its strongest character work by significantly deepening the character of Halliday, the tragic games designer whose obsessions define protagonist Wade Watt's world.
While I don't think a diet obsession is all bad, as far as obsessions go I realize I'm at risk of taking it too far.
Over the next eight years, Crews would publish seven more books reflecting his different obsessions, among them learning karate, training hawks, and rounding up rattlesnakes.
According to the Mental Health America, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) sufferers have recurrent unwanted thoughts (obsessions) or rituals (compulsions), which they feel they cannot control.
Between Beyoncé's exclusive content, Kylie Jenner's fashion obsessions, and Lorde's Q&A's, it's safe to say you need to bookmark all of these pages stat.
If Trump's tweets are fair game in the Mueller investigation, they should provide a huge amount of fodder for insight into Trump's motivations and obsessions.
Watch out at 4:23 PM when the Moon clashes with the lord of the underworld, Pluto, stirring up intense emotions, obsessions, and shady behavior.
The pair has blended their shared obsessions into something that seems like a well of movie cliches and personal tragedies playing out side by side.
Trump's Twitter feed again betrays his current obsessions -- he has tweeted about his trade deal with Xi seven times in just the last 36 hours.
One of Game of Thrones' obsessions concerns the impossibility of just leadership, because we are all limited by our human passions, intelligence, and blind spots.
He's not without his obsessions—he takes and retakes notes and focuses on every small procedure, like printing lecture slides and correctly formatting his assignments.
"The obsessions can take on so much importance that if I'm driving I'll focus on these thoughts instead of focusing on the road," he adds.
But after we put 'em through their first few wears, the question becomes, how can we turn these instant obsessions into lasting closet front-runners?
"The rituals and obsessions of most every other television news organization, including our own CBS News organization, did not matter so much," Mr. Fager wrote.
One of Hutchinson's obsessions is what our minds do under the stresses of performance and how we can trick them to shave seconds off times.
It's really not all that different from the many of us who grow up awkwardly, often confusing our own closeted obsessions for permits of ownership.
He doesn't have the architectonic obsessions of Daniel Barenboim, and doesn't seem to be concerned with any kind of tradition at all, unlike Christian Thielemann.
Occasionally the songs' lyrics overlap, returning to insoluble obsessions; they wander among observation, parable, reminiscence and incantation, sometimes infusing the most commonplace sentiments with mystery.
And by Monday morning it was clear that Trump will continue with his obsessions and free wheeling commentary no matter who the communications boss is.
This "Faust" is a monument to the Castorf era and says far more about the director, his singular approach and his obsessions than anything else.
He is the last punk, one whose work can today feel predictive in its obsessions and transgressions, and to which contemporary fashion owes a debt.
Mr. Wilson's creations develop out of personal obsessions that lead to years of reading and research trips before he even sets foot in the studio.
Prosecutors are continuing to investigate people who may have helped Epstein acquire a steady stream of girls and women to satisfy his compulsive sexual obsessions.
Right now, almost all successful digital publications are partially built on internet best practices and partially built on that publication's particular obsessions, ideas, and attitude.
But, the work of an artist is rarely confined to what is found on the canvas: It is the sum of his experience and obsessions.
As it turns out, one of Bowie's obsessions was with Memphis Design, a form of architecture and design founded by Ettore Sottsass in the early 1980s.
The Victorian era obsessions with the country, and the subsequent proliferation of gentleman Egyptologists meant that Egypt's history subsumed that of the rest of the continent.
When we speak—their voices crackling over the phone line from Paris—they tell me how their electronic obsessions have redefined the way they view songwriting.
This year, our obsessions weren't limited to the buzziest new gadgets (we recommend LAST year's iPhone, and the Facebook Portal is conspicuously absent from this list).
What are the current obsessions for traders who, now that September is here, are routinely swinging the equity market over one percent on a daily basis?
Several of its contributors argue that the shower scene is the ultimate distillation of Hitchcock's obsessions, and the most searing demonstration of his film-making genius.
When you release yourself, you're able to let go of your obsessions and see things that matter to you in a more clear and positive light.
We pay for 5 or even 10 GB of data and live in fear of our Snapchat and Facebook Live obsessions costing us dearly every month.
Air fryers are only one of the latest obsessions in the realm of kitchen appliances — alongside the likes of Instant Pots, soda makers, and personal blenders.
He was an understated sort, so his personality, his obsessions and his quirks really came through in the messy, idiosyncratic mixture of songs he'd patch together.
Obsessions, verging on bigotry, with Muslim rituals in a monument of world cultural heritage are incomprehensible and reveal a lack of respect and connection with reality.
Murnane has abandoned writing before, in the 1990s, when he despaired at the world's indifference to the private obsessions that form the backbone of his books.
But unlike other television chefs, they are invited to examine their obsessions, plumb their memories, and pass through old haunts like ghosts of their former selves.
In the past, they might have suffered alone, but the internet has allowed like-minded people to easily share their obsessions with strangers around the country.
The disciplinary fetish and political pretenses and facile accountability theater are the default obsessions of a certain type of sour old man, and long have been.
Most concertgoers are familiar with Hector Berlioz's "Symphonie Fantastique," that psychedelic, orchestral odyssey of unrequited love not-so-loosely based on the composer's own creepy obsessions.
For a while I both hoped and feared that writing about my obsessions would make them go away, like a writer's form of the talking cure.
Sometimes these obsessions do come out and I need to bleach everything, throw a lot of my "dirty" belongings away, or hire extremely expensive cleaning services.
Instead, he said, MAGA endorses the concept that Americans, by electing Mr. Trump, allowed his obsessions to be given form that qualifies as an artistic statement.
And that was exciting because I had lots of opinions and thoughts about how fame worked, and it was one of my kind of intellectual obsessions.
With "Turtles All the Way Down," Mr. Green tried to bridge the language barrier by bringing readers inside Aza's consciousness, subjecting them to her anguished obsessions.
The longtime anti-Communist obsessions of the Republican senator Joe McCarthy had succeeded in infusing the country with a toxic brew of fear, mistrust and paranoia.
Instead, he seems to have fascinations, or obsessions: stretches of working through the same basic set of materials or ideas over the course of several years.
At this recurring event, the "Jeopardy!" runner-up Raj Sivaraman invites comedians and storytellers to share their obsessions, and the more banal the topic the better.
He has now been about seven times, but each time, "you come home and start your old patterns and old addictions and old obsessions," he said.
Almost four years and 300 episodes later, the show has grown and changed, developing obsessions and themes that I never would've guessed back at the launch.
It is to surrender to some orthodoxy that will overthrow the superficial obsessions of the self and put one's life in contact with a transcendent ideal.
You can understand why his friends grow a tad weary listening to his very long and increasingly self-pitying accounts of erotic obsessions and misfired dates.
The effect is like stepping into a painting that leaps to life around us while the characters stay frozen, locked in their particular hungers or obsessions.
Nerd Soup and New Rockstars cover other pop culture obsessions, such as the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the Star Wars franchise, and will continue doing so.
But his obsessions with how "crooked" Hillary is and how the system is "rigged" to favor her may actually be more relevant here, and more dangerous.
I have obsessions and rituals around cleanliness, eating, health, and lastly, perfectionism—which leads to worries that others are watching and judging me for doing these behaviors.
The most monstrous work in the show, it combines his multiple obsessions: guy tied to tree, torture, martyrdom, creative poses, anatomical exactitude, and tranquility joined with pain.
I think all writers have this Platonic ideal of the book they're going to write next, and then you realize that you're hamstringed by your own obsessions.
That might sound like the ravings of an addict, but look at the headlines in every morning's newspaper and the obsessions of every evening's cable news broadcast.
His conspiracy theories, his thin skin, his strange obsessions, his impulsive behavior, his poor management, his bizarre tweets — all of it was present in his campaign too.
The title refers to another of Szeemann's phrases: he used "Museum of Obsessions" to describe not simply his archive and library, but exhibitions both realised and unrealised.
"The diagnostic criteria of OCD is that you have obsessions and compulsions that are time consuming, that take more than an hour a day," Dr. Chansky says.
At least that's the origin story the Oxford Dictionary gives for "stan"—a word many of us now use to declare our unchill obsessions on social media.
Known/Unknown: Private Obsessions and Hidden Desire in Outsider Art illustrates the scope of human desire in mediums ranging from crude drawings to elaborately carved ostrich eggs.
The FBI said last week that Betts had a history of violent obsessions and had mused about committing mass murder before his rampage in Dayton's historic downtown.
Nor have I ever witnessed unhealthier obsessions over so-called "trade imbalances," when we'd be better off focusing sharply on job growth, high wages and technological innovation.
Is there a way to make room for the reactionary mind in our intellectual life, though, without making room for racialist obsessions and fantasies of enlightened despotism?
Its wanderings in and out of forms signal its wary approach to some important obsessions—home and childhood, Boston and the wilderness around it, accident and insight.
" Susan Morley, a parenting coach in Atlanta, says parents know that when it comes to childhood obsessions, their kids could do a lot worse than "Baby Shark.
"We are living through an extraordinary time in American life, one eerily well suited to New York's strengths and obsessions," he said in a statement on Wednesday.
The thing with OCD is that talking about your obsessions can feel really good — like really, really good — because that is the compulsion: the act of relief.
Always in private, always in front of the mirror, as I analyzed the flawed body that, after years of diets and obsessions, I'd actually grown to love.
What makes NFL games so stuffy and stilted and inert, when they're bad, is when those obsessions overtake the game itself and slow it to a crawl.
It never would have crossed my mind that other people obsess about swallowing, and then I found it was in the top three most common sensorimotor obsessions.
In a season that gave us Briemund and other new obsessions, the person with the smallest role and the shortest stature might well have been our favorite.
It's been sensationalized by news cycle obsessions and minimized in quality by nearly-universal corporate ownership that results in huge financial interests divorced from quality news reporting.
Even though he didn't own a camera, Dyer still embarked on "The Ongoing Moment," a 2005 book organized around common photographic obsessions: benches, barber shops, blind accordionists.
One of his obsessions was the harrowing effect of global warming, something that eventually got scrubbed from "Coast to Coast" as the show became more nakedly partisan.
In the absence of gun reform, these political obsessions with surveillance through healthcare are a disservice to gun safety conversations and a disservice to a marginalized community.
It's an engrossing, often moving movie about masculinity as well as the risks, challenges, and obsessions that go along with trying to be the greatest at something.
"This playfully difficult, gem-choked puzzle of a book ... serves as a key to Bolaño's later work, unlocking clues to his abiding obsessions," Liesl Schillinger wrote here.
There were also nods to 1970s-era craft obsessions: thickly crocheted knits, leather pants and belts and a couple of dresses that looked more like American quilts.
Mobility, battery-tech and manufacturing remain obsessions for Tarpenning, given the years he spent making electric cars that would be as appealing as other top sports cars.
Among Mr. Sultan's obsessions are toy boats — some of which he keeps in his house in Sag Harbor, N.Y. — as well as pocketknives, shoehorns, watches and teacups.
Yet now, summoning his strength and gathering his obsessions together like old friends, he brings forth "Pain and Glory," one of his richest and most sombre films.
Instagram, in its obsessions with selfies, pictures of food and drinks, and pets, rather than politics, will be helpful for Facebook as it goes through this period.
At my company, we value transparency, so the solution I found to avoid salary obsessions and burnout was obvious, but difficult: Share my own personal salary diary!
If it has not been a season punctuated by shocks and standouts in London, it has been one in which designers doubled down on their personal obsessions.
"There were two obsessions I had as a child that were pretty instrumental to the path I ultimately ended up taking," Hoffman recently told the New York Times.
One of his earliest musical obsessions came courtesy of his mom, who bought a copy of Daft Punk's Discovery at a gas station on a family road trip.
The politics were sharper and harder, with speakers dwelling on the obsessions of the far right in 2018: immigration, Islam and an alleged threat to white Christian identity.
A combination of Stranger Things 80s nostalgia and Westworld futurism, "San Junipero" was a cocktail of 2016's biggest TV obsessions rolled into one beautiful queer love story.
In his post, Zuckerberg says private, encrypted messaging tools will also create room for new business tools — especially ones around payments and commerce, the company's current pet obsessions.
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If the tech obsessions seems confusing, it's helpful to remember that Future Sex wasn't merely a product of the tech fueled Bay Area, but also peak AIDS crisis.
I wanted to highlight how not just the sea, but perils at sea have been one of the lingering obsessions of a number of artists going back centuries.
This new moon also squares off with Pluto, the planet of taboo, allowing you to get in touch with deep obsessions that drive you to control your legacy.
"In his life, my brother has only two obsessions: winning the Goncourt Prize and annihilating me," his brother wrote in an open letter for the newspaper Le Parisien.
He does not seem to have expensive obsessions or dramatic tastes and despite being one of the richest people on earth, he attempts to lead an average life.
In his book, Hecht recalls the local-journalism obsessions in the nineteen-tens and twenties—spectacular crimes and municipal frauds, a general atmosphere of license, exploitation, and swindle.
Paris doesn't happen, thanks to poverty, rebelliousness, and obsessions with girls—his masturbation habits are recounted with Portnovian zest—but mid-century New York provides its own inspiration.
But in the wake of Epstein's death, conspiratorial corners of the internet have noticed that the violent depictions in Space Relations somewhat echo his crimes and dark obsessions.
Below, our five editors talk about the obsessions, neuroses, and secret habits that led them to their perfect pair, and how you can cop one for yourself, too.
One of his earliest musical obsessions came courtesy of his mom, who bought a copy of Daft Punk's Discovery at a gas station on a family road trip.
Still, some forms of OCD are more challenging to diagnose, and the content of the obsessions are so taboo that people suffer without finding the help they need.
Any extreme version of perfectionism, if it's rooted in obsessions and then compulsions—like avoidance—could be considered OCD, if it's extreme enough to cause distress or disfunction.
She thinks, in a way, she was lucky to deal with OCD as a child because otherwise she may never have realized the homosexualty obsessions could be treated.
For more than 40 years, Minter has tackled cultural appetites in the open, holding up a mirror to modern obsessions and re-rendering them with biting, colorful glitz.
Wednesday's concert is made up of two current obsessions for Nelsons and the orchestra: Shostakovich, represented by his Symphony No. 4, and Bernstein, with his Symphony No. 2.
There have been phases of self-help books and rigorous exercise, early-morning meditation and smoldering sticks of palo santo, obsessions with buying houseplants and rearranging apartment décor.
Its overdeveloped thematic superstructure includes not only the Sabines, whose leader, Hersilia, makes occasional spectral appearances, but also Grace's obsessions with abandoned mines, perpetual fires and hunky firemen.
Hatched a plan to impose a musical score on the beeps in subway stations, and pursued obsessions in other fields, investing in a natural wine bar in Brooklyn.
Reddit, which has 430 million monthly users, is known for its tight-knit communities known as subreddits, where people gather to talk about their curiosities, interests, and obsessions.
But beyond the swirl of numbers, and political point-scoring, the returns released by New York Democrats also offer a look into their interests and, occasionally, their obsessions.
The shoot, for the 16th episode of the third season — "Heroes Rise: These Delicate and Dark Obsessions," on Monday, May 1 — was unusual in a couple of ways.
We know, your counters are full with all the latest obsessions like air fryers and Instant Pots, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't have the OG, a microwave.
From noise to orchestral composition, from the Melvins to the MOMA, Thirlwell has done, well, exactly what he likes, encompassing all—influences and obsessions both—that he likes.
Frames and walls, then, are formal devices in this novel as well as thematic obsessions, and are the chief metaphors on either end of a 300-year hiatus.
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These obsessions we develop with celebrities and their public (or private) dating lives are often, according to some researchers, a naïve symptom of our expectations for our own relationships.
He was a devoted scientist who helped push humanity to the stars, but he pursued strange obsessions and died in a home lab explosion at the age of 37.
Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively have been married for three years, and in that time, Reynolds has learned that it's okay not to share all of his wife's obsessions.
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But he also wants to demystify the heroic accounts of some of its evangelists, who have imagined it as a delivery system for their own aesthetic or spiritual obsessions.
I am talking about those popular obsessions, what we called "memes" before meme meant intentionally misspelled words over a picture of a cat, that inspire the madness of crowds.
The company has maintained a strong brick-and-mortar presence as a haven for fandom and niche obsessions, even amid the retail apocalypse and an increase in mall vacancies.
Gus's cranky obsessions are catnip to Mr. Jones, who makes a meal of the character's belief in the omnipotence of Alexander the Great and the curative powers of Windex.
These are the sorts of obsessions that come from prolonged solitude, staring at a snotty handkerchief and wondering about its implications, worrying about the color of your own urine.
For example, there's little doubt that punching a time clock once an hour or the task of finding a vacant lot in which to defecate could become daily obsessions.
When we chat a few weeks later in New York, the young model is bursting with enthusiasms and obsessions: cosplay, fashion, the environment, and most of all, transgender activism.
But over the course of the film, that arrangement, which has served them well for so many years, starts to crumble under the weight of new emotions and obsessions.
Too often, metalheads drag the genre's history around with them, refusing to give up their obsessions with musicians who are long past the wild days about which we fantasize.
" He blamed Trump's troubled administration on the "ideological obsessions" of Republicans in Congress: "That's clearly what went wrong with the health care thing and he should just ignore them.
Its members seize on hyperbolic advertising claims and try-hard YouTube "beauty gurus," and mock the obsessions of beauty communities within Reddit itself, like /r/SkincareAddiction and /r/PaleMUA.
Yet its description of a society seized by its worst impulses, enacting the repressed hatreds and nightmarish obsessions of its inhabitants, felt more familiar the more I considered it.
Prosecutors said his abuse was abetted by a number of unidentified conspirators who helped provide him with a stream of young girls and women to satisfy his sexual obsessions.
Her obsessions, which were not mine, were Washington, D.C., presidential politics, and Catholicism, and I was just lucky that Haiti in the late 1980s touched on two of these.
Those obsessions informed Battlestar's atmosphere, but it was Moore's prioritization of soul over special effects that helped the show entrance both fans and critics over its four-season run.
Eade plunges into correspondence and unpublished family papers to explore the writer's obsessions with social status and Catholicism, his jackknife turns from affection to contempt, and his torturous ambition.
He has always been a wry observer of the intensity of feelings, although in the past, that skill was put to use skewering (and celebrating) his own cultural obsessions.
"I'll never be able to relate to this character's urges or his obsessions, but what I can relate to is his obsessive nature," Haley told Variety of the role.
As rap music blares, the training provides its own soundtrack: Fists thump heavy bags, floors squeak, participants grunt as they put their bodies through the strain of rhythmic obsessions.
Highlighting the subjects of some of her most infamous reviews, both positive and scathing, the Quad has curated a collection of movies that reflect Kael's obsessions and pet peeves.
A perfect place, where Halloween is taken one step darker and metal's modern gravitas is laughed at and traded for its original obsessions with monsters, witchcraft, and the party.
One of the recent prolonged obsessions of Donald Trump is the text messages exchanged in 2016 between FBI agent Peter Strzok and his then-lover, FBI lawyer Lisa Page.
Please resist the almost uncontrollable urge you have to publicly rant about whatever obsessions are rattling around in your own mind about yourself, your self-image or your self-importance.
It can include obsessions — such as cleanliness or a desire for symmetry — and compulsions, or rigid behaviors that must be performed, like washing your hands dozens of times a day.
Here's the high-level overview from reporters Michael H. Keller and Gabriel J.X. Dance: Pictures of child sexual abuse have long been produced and shared to satisfy twisted adult obsessions.
In November, we will have four Accel partners on stage to discuss the firm's investment thesis, each partner's current obsessions and their collective thoughts on the startup scene in Europe.
Mayer writes of the early lives of the key players, the origin of their fortunes, their personal obsessions and quirks, and the role the operation was able to carve out.
This clearly needs its own section, in order of awfulness: Our premium subscription service continues to churn out some awesome long-reads as a channel for our staff's niche obsessions.
Even he could not make a case for 9/11 as the confluence of vast global currents, as some inevitable culmination of the obsessions and the degradations of American society.
Among YouTube's endless rabbit hole of niche communities and strange obsessions is an oddity that stems from a piece of mainstream nostalgia: the BBC's long-running use of test cards.
And given that East Asian cultures are historically (and still) obsessed with notions of family and honor, it only follows that those obsessions would trickle over into their cultural products.
Truth is, we repeat and display the same obsessions over a lifetime—it's something inherent to being an artist, I believe—but we can find new ways to express them.
Speed has long been one of Google's obsessions, and over the course of the last few months, the company also introduced AMP, which makes sites load even faster on mobile.
It is a struggle over the sort of voter who simply yawns at grunting caveman obsessions about who is part of the tribe; about who belongs and who does not.
Absolutely. Or maybe, like me, you just love holidays, stationery, and hand-written notes, and the yearly holiday card tradition is the perfect way to combine several of your obsessions.
Vine, one of the internet's most creative social platforms, shuts down today, leaving behind a legacy of comedy, magic, music, vulgarity and the inherent frailty of our social media obsessions.
It's safe to say that my wife and my female friends, many of whom share plenty of my geeky pop culture obsessions, do not feel quite so wildly accounted for.
Treatment center Ketamine Clinics of Los Angeles began administering the drug for OCD after patients who experienced obsessions and compulsions alongside other conditions found it worked on these symptoms too.
The organization is dedicated to filling the often insurmountable gap between individual practitioners and large institutions, offering services that tackle one of design's enduring obsessions: how to grow to scale.
Essay Among my obsessions I include cows, pencils and all things Greek, and I count myself lucky to have been able to write for publication about two of these things.
Mr. Oz follows her sexual obsessions, which seem to emerge from a need to be seen — creating a sort of "Madame Bovary" set against the backdrop of white Jerusalem stone.
When I think of our modernist history through the 20th century, and I think of maybe Giacometti, and I think of Joseph Beuys — I think their obsessions are very macho.
He had been held since his arrest without bail in the Manhattan Correctional Center after Berman ruled that he represented a danger to women if released given his sexual obsessions.
Scorsese has oft been criticized (both fairly and unfairly) for the mostly masculine obsessions of his work, but this warm, lived-in depiction of a single mother shouldn't go overlooked.
It veers from the Gothic to the satirical and seamlessly interweaves social commentary on everything from gender to the cultural hegemony to our obsessions with social media and future tech.
The oil firm Burisma sits at the center of the Venn diagram of two of the Kremlin's hacking obsessions: It's in Ukraine, Russia's favorite playground for all manner of cyberattacks.
But his personality perfumes the whole production and his contradictions, obsessions and idiosyncrasies tell an ornate story about America that's deeper, stranger and darker than maybe even "S-Town" knew.
Two national obsessions blended together, and when the hostages were taken by bus from Newburgh to West Point, some among the throngs lining the route held signs alluding to the game.
The list of cruises catering to relatively niche obsessions — not just Star Wars, but stuff like jam bands, public broadcasting, craft beer, The Walking Dead, Golden Girls, and veganism — is dizzying.
Thanks to its characters and careful world-building, it's swiftly becoming a show that earns its audiences obsessions and theories about what it all means — without sacrificing its own dramatic quality.
Obsessions would form; things that were not skill-based enough to be considered hobbies but time-consuming enough to qualify as something, like elaborate nail art or maintaining weird Tumblr accounts.
Several much-ridiculed (but also secretly enjoyed) hipster obsessions have collided in the hallowed halls of the brand new Williamsburg Whole Foods: The recently constructed artisanal grocery store on Bedford Ave.
After "Combine Harvester" came out in 1976, Britain went head over heels for novelty songs; combining the joint British obsessions of terrible things and not-quite-ironically loving those terrible things.
Given the singer's frostiness in our interview, I'd unusually requested that they return to the dressing room after they'd mimed the single "Obsessions," to get something—anything—from Brett worth printing.
I used to think it was self-indulgent or shameful to write about my private passions, but then I realized that as a reader I loved learning about other writers' obsessions.
The show shares the trappings of Araki's earlier work — alleyway hookups, three-ways with Antifa protesters, alien lizards — but his trademark obsessions are especially timely in this politically charged cultural climate.
On Thursday, the country's sports secretary said it wanted the national cricket team's upcoming matches to be played in empty stadiums - an unheard-of occurrence for one of India's national obsessions.
For those of us upset by current art-world obsessions with fluctuating financial values and with artists' public personas, Moyle's book is a chastening reminder that these are not new concerns.
Chatty Mercury connects with your ruling planet Saturn, bringing you encouragement as you imagine the future—but don't get sucked into any paranoias or obsessions as the sun clashes with Pluto.
Before we fully free ourselves from the last decade, let us not forget all of the fleeting obsessions, challenges, crazes and movements that, for better or for worse, defined an era.
She traces the roots of De Quincey's obsessions — opium, his idol Wordsworth and even dead young girls — and how they helped influence some of the strangest writing from the Romantic era.
What I miss is this man, with this unique sensibility, these foibles and blind spots, this particular mix of literary and cultural references, moral obsessions and undeniable brilliance as a prose stylist.
Instead of engaging in normal banter with her famous guests, many of her questions revolved around Rosie's own obsessions: All My Children, Ally McBeal, Ring Dings, decoupage, Tom Cruise, and Barbra Streisand.
A person is typically diagnosed when their obsessions and compulsions disrupt their ability to go to school or work, cause major distress, and take more than one hour each day to complete.
The title track, "Magic Hour," evokes the reverberant chamber-pop obsessions of someone like Daniel Rossen of Grizzly Bear; "Porch Light," a ballad, leans more toward the lush austerity of Alison Krauss.
I've long been skeptical, given how accustomed the left has become to dismissing Clinton scandals as small beer and papering over the larger Libya fiasco amid snickers at the right's Benghazi obsessions.
My obsessions while in China were the shopping app Taobao and the food delivery app Meituan, which gets you midnight snacks for a 2 to 3 RMB service fee ($0.29 to $0.44).
But it takes the protagonist's vast limitations and weirdo obsessions entirely seriously, and finds a solemn joy in his quest to re-create his favorite show with a cadre of new friends.
After a tumultuous week in which the GOP failed to pass their "skinny repeal" of the Affordable Care Act, Trump added to one of his latest Senate obsessions: the 60-vote rule.
For example, I recently invited a few of my close friends over to hang out, talk about our latest Netflix obsessions, and make thank-you cards for important people in our lives.
Crucially, those who deal with OCD experience these obsessions and compulsions all the time: Their symptoms last at least an hour a day and truly interfere with their daily lives, notes NAMI.
While Dr. Van Kirk says clients who are experiencing limerence often casually refer to their obsessions as "love sickness," the side effects of limerence can be serious and interfere with everyday life.
It's still serving up cautionary tales about how people interact with media, the culture, communications, and technology, and how our obsessions and behaviors today might logically extend into horrors in the future.
Although the cult favorite ABC series originated modern TV's obsessions with peeking into a single character's past throughout a single episode, Orange Is The New Black raised the bar on the technique.
This brand of realism—Guadagnino's use of the camera as a kind of nervous system, susceptible to human obsessions, vanities, and contradictions—illuminates, among other things, his mature approach to the erotic.
One of Milford's strengths is her faith in her readers' ability to figure stuff out, and her obsessions with history, folklore and mechanical contraptions give her brainiac fans plenty to chew on.
Investigating outsider traditions and his own obsessions, he meticulously re-creates the works of earlier artists: Emily Dickinson's back-of-envelope poems, the paintings of a former Alabama slave named Bill Traylor.
These are Bannon's obsessions, made clear in every word about him that burbles from Washington, in every years-old unearthed interview, in the narratives of his documentaries that play like histrionic cartoons.
A vacant lot, a hen, used tea bags and masturbating twice on Saturday — these are the obsessions of Rodrigo, a 27-year-old loafer who drifts around Mexico City with autistic detachment.
The accompanying physical compulsions are things "an individual engages in to attempt to get rid of the obsessions and/or decrease his or her distress," which for me are slightly less present.
Instead, there's an endless parade of highly slick stories which are never your own but reflect WWE's obsessions with its own history: recreate Shawn Michaels vs The Undertaker, relive John Cena's career.
O.C.D. takes many forms, and Ms. Fuchs's obsessions and compulsions pertain to contamination, and fighters are constantly exposed to opponents' sweat, saliva and blood, and the rot of damp headgear and gloves.
She wards off loneliness through peculiar obsessions, particularly a fantasy TV series called "Purgatory" and the horse she once owned, which she visits frequently enough to annoy its new owner and stablemen.
Trump also showed his indifference, or rude disregard for the political plights of allied leaders, indulged his willingness to trade in falsehoods, and betrayed his obsessions with his predecessor President Barack Obama.
So we here at Vox Culture — where our current obsessions include the return of a classic Marvel comic, the second season of Top of the Lake, and the Jennifer Lawrence–starring Mother!
Like-minded people sharing their obsessions were the soil in which the larger Internet once grew; those transactions, commercialized and monetized, remade the world, with infinite ramifications downstream, some miraculous, some horrible.
The yesteryear Marvel "Kingpin" shared a likened DNA, uniting the Capone-mobster obsessions of the 60s—Bald head, white suit, cigar in hand—with the superhero exploits of both Spiderman and the Daredevil.
But over the last 20 years, as the options for pop culture consumption have proliferated, those shared obsessions have become rare events rather than commonplace rituals — lone unicorns instead of herds of cattle.
The generous read is that A Cure for Wellness is very much interested in delusion, and the lies we tell ourselves to justify our obsessions — professional ones, romantic ones, or those in between.
Because it's one of my pet obsessions; I've long been curious how the rise of new entertainment tech (Netflix, Amazon, YouTube, Pokémon Go) will impact movies, our oldest and most storied cultural commons.
Servitude to its generals and their strategic obsessions has produced a weak democracy, abysmal governance and an economic performance that makes Bangladesh—once one of Pakistan's poorest parts—look like an Asian Tiger.
It could have been dry and overwhelming but "Museum of Obsessions" captivates, moving between Szeemann as the archetype of the global curator and Szeemann the individual attuned to creativity in many different forms.
That's a lot to keep track of after more than a year, especially when you take into account all the other shows that have turned into national obsessions since the summer of 2016.
And as a narrative device, the Arkangel technology could have provided significant leverage to discuss other parental obsessions — particularly the way people often try to re-experience their own youth through their kids.
After talking to Anderson, I remembered that Leo's current obsessions might have nothing or everything to do with his future self, and that trying to connect the dots was a pretty useless endeavor.
We all have intrusive thoughts (like panicking that you left your hair straightener on), but to have legitimate OCD means you have obsessions and compulsions that are impairing your functioning, Dr. Simpson says.
While not all of them are explicitly dinosaurian—indeed, there is a fantastic amount of robot biodiversity in this world—the game definitely leverages nascent paleontological obsessions to great effect in the game.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Talbot's pioneering images—which the University of Oxford's Bodleian Library is currently in the process of digitizing—are a window into his obsessions, both alchemical and aesthetic.
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If the filmmakers have any towering ambitions to match Lee's, any parallel to his longtime story obsessions and determination to create something outsized and memorable, there's no sign of it in the film.
The character is a Roseanne Roseannadanna for modern times, lovingly parodying our generation's tackiest obsessions while still reserving affection for creativity, imagination, and the simple bravery of being a weird girl in public.
And at their best, those songs skewer not only Rebecca's delusions but the viewers', too: that love will heal us, that our obsessions are selfless, and that our self-loathing makes us interesting.
" Intelligently, Jaron's psychology-based essay fruitfully turns to the earlier book by Gilles Deleuze, Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation which questions the implications of the artist's habitual compulsive obsessions with "the wound.
The plot reflects the era's obsessions: trainers force the Handmaids to watch porn, as a lesson about how men treat women; Offred remembers throwing kink magazines into the flames with her feminist mother.
Hanawalt explores her anxieties and obsessions with candor and imaginative humor, pointing out the fantastical elements of everyday life, and injecting some magic (or, more likely, a weird pervy energy) into the mundane.
At the same time, I can imagine Rooney—who recalls having "nursed intense romantic obsessions for droll counterfactuals"—noting the unoriginality of invoking her collegiate debating record as evidence of her verbal precocity.
" The main opposition party, the center-right New Democracy, on the other hand, attributed the Council's intervention to the government's "ideological obsessions," saying that these "undermine building activity in the country's largest port.
So much of my obsessions are directly related to the fact that I'm living in the United States in the 21st century having experienced the last two decades of political life and discourse.
One of the alleged shooter's obsessions on social media was HIAS, the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, a Jewish organization originally founded in the late 1800s to resettle Jews fleeing pogroms in Eastern Europe.
It is only when you see it as a whole that you are at last able to recognize the patterns — the obsessions; the questions — that you wove into its weft, sometimes only semiconsciously.
But his fiercely independent streak has led to a more indulgent performer constantly doubling down, returning to old obsessions, courting controversy and then exploiting it in his shows to play the beleaguered star.
Chang's autobiography, released in Hong Kong in the late 218s, offered a glimpse into the beliefs, motivations and obsessions of Mao at a time when the mainland was almost totally inaccessible to outsiders.
"The Sport of Kings" is indebted to "Moby-Dick," and shares many of its obsessions: with origins, identity, class, status, work, the problem of evil, and the special dispensation, if any, of America.
Both of these stories perfectly tell you the obsessions of the political elite bad faith blame games masked as a real struggle over who gets to pull the levers of our American oligarchy.
The hallway, which bears a striking resemblance to the interior of the ill-fated spaceship in "291: A Space Odyssey," stands as a testament to Kojima's twin obsessions of film and outer space.
It's a feature of the show that Pizzolatto's detectives are broken people, because of either defining incidents from their past or their obsessions with the one big case that got away from them.
Trump's health care tweets came in the midst of a furious early morning tweetstorm that covered a range of the president's obsessions: Hillary Clinton, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, "fake news," the Russia investigation.
Judging by their habits on the Netflix show, you'd think the Stranger Things kids only had time for Dungeons & Dragons, bike-riding, saving their town from a Demogorgon, and feeding their peculiar Eggo obsessions.
The Whitney's wall labels suggest that we should understand Rogers's works as manifestations of her personal obsessions, and as the results of a childhood spent bathed in the glow of TV and computer screens.
It's a story about an imagined pantheon of American-bred gods and goddesses, who soak up our admiration and feed off our obsessions, and who find themselves obsolete as the world around them changes.
She largely engaged with pop culture via the internet, which is how she solidified one of her earliest and most crucial obsessions: Andrew Lloyd Webber's schmaltz-lacquered stage hit The Phantom of the Opera.
Unlikely. But the failure of "Love Island" to land stateside does remind us that Britain and America are still two very different nations, especially when it comes to our big obsessions: class and competition.
Shareholders may also fear a controlling family pursuing its private obsessions, while neglecting the business: an early Wallenberg, for instance, campaigned assiduously for a single global currency, based on gold and the French franc.
I'd say that the book and the account are derived from the same obsessions as my poetry: sex, death, filling our existential holes, but I allow myself a bit more commercial or capitalist influences.
After all, isn't it a testament to the man's power of vision that yoga and clean-eating obsessions have become a major mode of spirituality in the post-Christian consumer societies of North America?
Spiotta's precision pacing keeps all of these questions and more in the frame, and keeps them fundamentally unanswerable by linking them to such real-life obsessions as sex, attractiveness, childbearing, child-rearing and money.
The trappings of the gentleman were played with and ultimately used in service of a character that was able to traverse Cohen's thematic obsessions with ease of slipping in and out of a suit.
Author Philip Roth, who was both hailed and derided for laying bare the neuroses and obsessions that haunted the modern Jewish-American experience, died on Tuesday at the age of 85, his agent said.
Now 35 and the co-founder of the boutique fragrance brand Régime des Fleurs, Woods has found two new ways to combine his obsessions: He makes edible scents and he cooks with edible flowers.
Waiting to begin her self-guided study into botanical toxins, Nell begins writing a personal account of her abject situation, her romantic and toxic obsessions, addressed as an invocation to their true source: Joan.
They offer a sampling of the pleasures of seeing Arbus becoming Arbus, following her obsessions and gaining the conviction that ultimately kept her working in the face of all aesthetic barriers and moral qualms.
Artists' obsessions with technology are not new, but in the late aughts, the work tended to focus on the possibility of the medium, treating technology like a new tool rather than a sociopolitical framework.
Daisy Jones Sure, most of us have a fairly sizable internet addiction, but Japanese artist Rina Sawayama takes her digital obsessions to the extreme by making it completely central to her sound and aesthetic.
If Museum of Obsessions can only offer rough sketches and highlights of his career, a just-closed exhibition across town took a deeper dive into one of his more unusual and deeply personal endeavors.
The result was a Facebook experience that felt anything but human; for all the information I fed it, the algorithm never really knew me and made clumsy choices, mistaking all passing fancies for deep obsessions.
Electric Wizard were, from the outset, a product of their peculiar surroundings—of being a band that channelled Oborn's obsessions while being steeped in the ancient occult folklore and anarchic eccentricities of rural British life.
Most notably, Captain America: Civil War transformed a lopsided debate with a clear right side (Captain America) and wrong side (Iron Man) into a more nuanced argument based in the heroes' histories and personal obsessions.
However, to welcome the afflicted, and for newcomers and those Americans and Europeans with longer roots to all prosper together, we must set aside our hateful obsessions with sins past and fight less among ourselves.
Starting in his student years, the exhibits include furniture, architectural plans and models, textiles, drawings, those forlorn paintings of unbuilt houses, and three staircases (one of his obsessions) which until now had never been built.
Washington's "fellow citizens" later gave way to specific obsessions, including Truman's comments about "free nations," delivered in 1951 at the height of the Korean War, and Woodrow Wilson's frequent mentions of "interstate commerce" in 1916.
Finally, I've recently discovered Zoe Fraade-Blanar and Aaron M. Glazer's Superfandom: How our Obsessions are Changing What We Buy and Who We Are, which is proving to be a fascinating read about online behavior.
Lana Condor and Noah Centineo still star in the movie, but this time Lara Jean's obsessions with boys and the five letters she keeps hidden in her closet now remind her of her previously kills.
The Twittersphere's obsessions often come from random places (a celebrity's Instagram account, a presidential debate, a music video), but it's latest meme craze appears to be straight out of the pages of the Preliminary SAT.
Thousands of young men returning in body bags and a national revulsion in Russia for the Kremlin's obsessions with Afghanistan were important contributors to the end of communism and the breakup of the Soviet Union.
An exception is The Piano Teacher, which is less the story of a universal condition than of a grown woman trapped living with her oppressive mother, violently resentful of her students, and harboring secret obsessions.
Of the two great makers of nonsense, Carroll rightly has received more attention, because of his twists and quirks, because of his photography and the ghost of pedophilia falsely supposed to cling to his obsessions.
Being surrounded by people who share two of my obsessions right now, Juggalos and gaming, was the major draw of the event, and the more people I met the more it began to make sense.
Those obsessions, along with a potent activism (she's a founder of the Time's Up movement) and an allegiance to her Mexican-American heritage, drive Longoria's producing efforts, which have tackled the history of Roe v.
I think the trick to exploiting your obsessions is to find a way to bring readers along, trusting that even if they don't share the obsession, they can share in the experience of being obsessed.
It betrays a lot of stylistic tics and obsessions that sometimes make me worry that Remedy are too quick to settle for the winking metatextual flourish instead of sticking the landing on a story beat.
Besides his evocation of Japanese forms and materials, it is precisely all the modern obsessions that he ignores — sleek designs, a privileging of style over function — that signify what is traditionally "Japanese" in his architecture.
In addition to that project and co-curating the exhibition Harald Szeemann: Museum of Obsessions, Rigolo has also catalogued the archives of Barbara T. Smith, Maurice Tuchman, Juan Fassio, and of the Margo Leavin Gallery.
He subtitled the album "A Simple Story," but "Juarez" metastasized into paintings, prose and songs — a hat rack on which Terry hung his obsessions with violence, Southwestern history, racial conflict, personal freedom and doomed romance.
And yet, before the prurient self-regard of our present time, with its interlinked obsessions with reality TV, social media and auto-fiction, here was a man who understood the power of the projected self.
Unfortunately, the sheer size of ARMY also means there's a high potential for toxic drama, unhealthy obsessions and online abuse between members, as well as intense animosity toward anyone who dare speak ill of BTS.
Penultimate episode "Fire And Reign" did seem to ask: Why wrap up a single major plot line so close to the end when you can pointlessly toy around with one of history's most tantalizing obsessions instead?
Directly opposite the Picasso show is Tate Modern's Modigliani exhibition, where yet more stylized sensual nudes spill over the walls and merchandise; another artist whose subjectification of women served his own dual artistic and virile obsessions.
Unless a company is willing to keep up with the cutthroat business of tracking fleeting teenage obsessions (like Five Below) — or can offer an aspirational lifestyle like Brandy Melville — it's going to have some problems. (Fortune)
His lifelong thematic obsessions — the flagellation of the body, the conflation of the scatological and the divine — are expressed on the page with all the rancor and destructive force that eluded him in his theatrical productions.
"Blind Willie McTell" (1983) Initially left off 1983's Infidels, "Blind Willie McTell" updates two of Dylan's long-running obsessions — Christianity and the roots of American music — and marries them to the thorny topic of slavery.
As indicated in the title, the film is a mashup of two pop culture obsessions: Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, and zombies – an undertaking that required the cast to convincingly flip the classic tale's romantic script.
All of my obsessions and the things from my childhood that really scared me or bugged me were in there, and suddenly it's like a part of my subconscious is taking shape into this strange creature.
But it simultaneously captures the strange blend of fear and scorn with which Mr Selmayr is regarded in Brussels, and the obsessions of a sometimes-parochial town with a Eurocrat who is barely known outside it.
The finished product, which will easily earn a half-million views, is likely the only YouTube clip to ever jam together discussion of "textual metaphors" with footage from Mac and Me. Among Ellis' filmic obsessions: Transformers.
In the strange new world of "carbon" obsessions, expensive power is a benefit because it crowds out the costs of cheaper power, and environmental effects are assumed rather than analyzed in the light of actual evidence.
But in her recent story, Love explains that her OCD has also manifested in more rare or misunderstood obsessions, like a fixation on bodily functions like swallowing, or the need to always be seen as perfect.
As president, Trump has routinely sought the counsel of various Fox News personalities, mulling over his various paranoid obsessions with Sean Hannity in near-nightly phone calls and patching Lou Dobbs into White House staff meetings.
"You know artists from the look of their work, from a world they create and a set of obsessions that they have," David Remnick, the editor of The New Yorker, said in an interview on Wednesday.
Quartz, as a small startup that had to pick its spots, proudly let its staff focus on "obsessions" with given topics that would change with the news cycle rather than be pinned down to specific beats.
Ignorance has become a form of weaponized refusal to acknowledge the violence of the past, and revels in a culture of media spectacles in which public concerns are translated into private obsessions, consumerism and fatuous entertainment.
Mr. Kristof also brings up the "misogynist and lecherous musings" in Mr. Allen's writing over the past 40 years, but someone could just as easily note his obsessions with death, Ingmar Bergman or the Marx Brothers.
To amplify the eyes, she layered on a silvery green shadow from the Huda Beauty Obsessions Eyeshadow Palette in Emerald ($27), but dampened the shadow with makeup-setting spray to transform it to a slick finish.
It's probably not a coincidence that Stuart Vevers, the creative director of Coach and a Brit, shares many of the same American obsessions as Mr. Simons, especially when it comes to the Badlands and biker dressing.
"Teorema" (on Friday, Saturday and Wednesday), with Terence Stamp as an ethereal outsider who seduces the residents of a bourgeois household from the maid on up, might come the closest to an encapsulation of Pasolini's obsessions.
With a title like "Cuisine & Confessions," you'd be forgiven for thinking that this production at the Skirball Center was a satire of our culture's twin obsessions with food and oversharing — the first show about Instagram, maybe?
" In his journal, Schwartz wrote, "Trump stands for many of the things I abhor: his willingness to run over people, the gaudy, tacky, gigantic obsessions, the absolute lack of interest in anything beyond power and money.
As far as quasi-religious national obsessions go for large portions of a country's population, the German aversion to speed limits on the autobahn is up there with gun control in America and whaling in Japan.
It's chock-full of footnotes and allusions to modern-day right-wing obsessions over everything from how "the Republican party continues to alienate their conservative base" to NSA spying and the threat of a nationalized police force.
In the video for "1950," she sports a little drawn-on mustache like that of Dorian Electra, a songwriter and performance artist whose own drag-tastic video for "Career Boy" has been among my obsessions this summer.
"Social media can encourage certain patients to have unrealistic and unhealthy obsessions," Dr. Patrick Byrne, director of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and an AAFPRS board member, told BuzzFeed News.
It's unclear what she sees in him — I mean, with John Boyega on the screen, the attraction is much more understandable, but in the book, he's a sort of vague ideal that she maps her obsessions onto.
But while it's clear that both Camille and Eve are haunted by the transgressive violence of the killers they pursue, viewers are only given small glimpses into their interior lives that contextualize the darkness of their obsessions.
In both, there are elaborate, bizarre explanations for how the girls developed such fervent obsessions with violence — necessary backstory, sure — but not a whisper of why social media became so important that it took over their lives.
We also have a mini-screed on why the book-to-film adaptations Inferno and Jack Reacher: Never Go Back are doing so poorly at the multiplex and some thoughts on our other current pop culture obsessions.
My favorite song after several months of obsessive listening is "Rich Sex", a forlorn ballad about fucking with your jewelry on that literally combines hip-hop's dual sex and money obsessions — the perfect recipe for materialist paradise!
The caption of the video posted by Truman Café says, "Combing two of Melbourne's obsessions - lattes and avo," but it's followed by a crying laughing emoji, which gave us hope that this item is just a joke.
Gertz goes on to show how having a "superfan in the White House" has given the network the ability to drive news cycles and national policy—and how Fox has used this power to elevate its obsessions.
According to Kennedy, neighborhood gang violence, which accounts for most of the shootings in Savannah, is driven not only by small-group dynamics, the availability of weapons, and obsessions with vendettas but also by alienation from authorities.
He had pleaded not guilty in the case, in which prosecutors had claimed his abuse was abetted by unidentified conspirators who helped provide him with a stream of young girls and women to satisfy his sexual obsessions.
For now, he's lost interest in standup as a means of channeling his "obsessions," and is absorbed with the idea of directing and eager to reach a point where he can finally make his first feature film.
J.P. Recording as serpentwithfeet, the songwriter Josiah Wise has forged a private, idiosyncratic mysticism from gospel imagery, personal obsessions, androgynous vocals and productions that turn the studio into church, fun house and asylum at the same time.
"They advertised it as being accurate to within 10 seconds a month, which is good enough for the average Joe's schedule," said Mr. Schneider, who rolls his eyes at obsessions with knowing time down to the second.
Here's the bottom line: If the Trump administration wants to hold on to any credibility at all, the president needs to back off of Sessions and find another way to lash out at everyone's Russia-based obsessions.
The journalist Brantley Hargrove's first book, "The Man Who Caught the Storm," recounts the obsessions and the unlikely achievements of Samaras while also detailing the history of scientists' often slow pace in understanding this corner of meteorology.
While the exhibition professes to be about the future, in many ways it's about the present — even the recent past — dealing with our current obsessions, worries and hopes, from medical science to the fate of the earth.
I also love the wildness of the characters — their jealousies, pains, passions and obsessions — as well as the unabashed antisocialism of the world contained at Wuthering Heights and the love story at the heart of the book.
Canny insight and hindsight help illuminate the '80s obsessions with mass media, pop culture, photography and a return to painting in works by famous artists like Cindy Sherman, Sherrie Levine, Cady Noland, Christopher Wool and Richard Prince.
"It's the digital equivalent of moving to an isolated and tight-knit community, using its own language quirks and catering to its obsessions, running for mayor, and then using that position to influence national politics," the authors write.
Plus, her charming, constantly vaping love interest (played by Straight Outta Compton's O'Shea Jackson Jr.) is irrationally invested in Batman, giving the film space to lampoon boys' pop culture obsessions right alongside its centralized, stereotypically feminine subject matter.
Macpherson shared all of her beauty tricks and obsessions (sunscreen is her "best friend", smudging Bobbi Brown's shadow pencils make for the best smoky eyes, and Lucas' Pawpaw is her go-to for chapped lips and cuticles) with
We run it a few times a week, it rarely gets stuck, and while it occasionally forms strange obsessions with certain hyperspecific locations in our bedroom, like a deranged Ouija planchette, most often it gets the job done.
For a more traditional theater experience, choreographer and artistic director of Helios Dance Theater, Laura Gorenstein Miller created Minor Obsessions, a suite of 10 duets and eight-piece finale, which is having its world premiere at — where else?
When American Gods premieres on Sunday, it'll be in an ideal position to hit that sweet spot the way its original iteration did—to provide meaningful commentary about America's collective soul, its obsessions, flaws and, hopefully, its survival.
The Gilmore girls are most famous for their uncommonly rapid-fire banter and encyclopedic knowledge of pop culture, their obsessions with coffee, junk food, and loud, inaccurate declarations of their working class identity, and of course, their beauty.
"Fading Frontier," the band's seventh studio album, released last fall, is a strange, brilliant meditation on perseverance through adversity and an ode to Mr. Cox's many tuneful obsessions — and it's fully evocative of his eccentric stage prattle, too.
It started, as many of the more head-scratchy trends often do, at Fashion Week, when editors and bloggers the planet over like to bust out their boldest artifacts and strangest new obsessions for a little road test.
He's always practiced a filmmaking of neurotic compulsion: the doomsday obsessions of Andie MacDowell in "Sex, Lies, and Videotape" and James Spader's complementary erotic fetish; the way Soderbergh essentially color codes his movies in blues, oranges and reds.
As so often, Berio's obsessions, in his "Sequenza VIII," are idiosyncratic, particularly when — after a long, somewhat static buildup — he seizes on a little twittering figure and sets it in manic perpetual motion, finally letting go only reluctantly.
She has very much a technocrat's obsessions — picking fights over things like swaps regulation and an undersecretary of Treasury nomination — but a profound belief in the overarching significance of power rather than technical arguments to carry the day.
Hayes revisits lifelong obsessions — the cage of masculinity, the gulf between fathers and sons — and plays with different registers, returning to lamentation, to annihilating grief for "all the black people I'm tired of losing," as one narrator says.
The Masquerade's weapons of currency and transaction are waves dashing against the rocks of Oriati investment in hospitality and balance, and the meat of "Monster" is an exploration of those differences through fascinating characters and their competing obsessions.
At times she sounds just like any other happily pregnant woman, charting her baby's growth ("You're over seven inches long and you weigh as much as four sticks of butter") and her own insatiable hunger, two familiar obsessions.
If so, how does that event relate to the show's unifying obsessions with empathy, fear, spirituality and how to live a good life in a world that has so deeply disappointed once-optimistic hippies like Greg and Audrey?
With the new rules governing how energy-savings standards are written, Trump's deputies appear to be addressing one of the president's more peculiar obsessions — his view that modern appliances just don't work as well as they used to.
Fandom has never been cohesive, but in a media climate where the niche obsessions of the 2000s are now the default form of entertainment it's easier to perceive the creative and ideological fractures that have always been present.
Written by a former Alabama public-school teacher named Ellen Williams and first published in 2000, the book's obsessions are rooted in "Christian Identity" paranoia, channeling its racist ideologies through fears of a perceived threat to white Christians.
However, by Supreme standards, these are all middling brand obsessions—their followers the fair-weather fans to Supreme's ultras: the kids who wait in line, the adult men who'll pay silly money for vintage Supreme-branded incense sticks.
But this new iteration of shiny, celebrity-endorsed supplements is smack in the middle of the Venn diagram of three huge and utterly modern obsessions: wellness, skin care, and Instagram, helping to drive their popularity like never before.
In came obsessions about creativity, puck possession and skating to the open space, even if that meant not doing what you are supposed to do in hockey, which is score a lot more goals than the other team.
Princess Jellyfish is Akiko Higashimura's manga series about a group of socially awkward and reclusive young women sharing a house in Tokyo, who fear the outside world as much as they adore their individual geeky obsessions, such as jellyfish.
Trump used the occasion to demand a showing of the troops' political support for one of his uninformed but pet obsessions, whether the Navy should redesign ships to go back to steam-powered catapult systems rather than electric-powered.
He's sometimes dinged for making films that are too clinical, light on character development, largely uninterested in female and non-white characters except as props for the protagonists, and marred by their director's private obsessions with time and trickery.
He wed actress Anushka Sharma last year to create a marriage between cricket and Bollywood, India's two biggest obsessions, helping give him a 'family man' image that can appeal to a middle class audience - and harness its spending power.
From generation-defining obsessions, like the Beatles and Twilight, to Silicon Valley's most profitable exports, including Snapchat and Instagram, female "early adopters" predict market movements that ultimately dominate the mainstream — not to mention the ones that make serious money.
"How many preschoolers do you know [who] know all the words to Taylor Swift's Red album?" he asks as a form of praise for "role model" Mindy's mothering, rather than an exasperated lament about his ex's pop cultural obsessions.
But Garland is fascinated by the personal act of self-destruction, and it's easy to see why he shied away from the book's deeper, more dreamlike elements, and focused instead on how it expresses some of his own obsessions.
It's such a naked fantasy of self-satisfaction, of a bullied kid being told that his self-indulgent obsessions are the most important things in the world and that he deserves power, respect, and admiration for having pursued them.
As performed by Al Green, "Take Me to the River" conflates the two great obsessions of the soul singer — "Take me to the river/drop me in the water" portrays a baptism scene as an act of erotic deliverance.
As obsessions go, "I Love Dick" certainly isn't so compelling as to qualify as the next streaming one; still, the show's approach to Chris' plight and its peculiar triangle feels unique enough to make for a reasonably satisfying binge.
The Last Family — a domestic horror story portraying the violent dissolution of a family— forces viewers to ask how much they might share the painter's obsessions, presenting a chilling cautionary tale to warn them away from his violent fate.
Bernstein doesn't transfer such deliberately provocative material to her canvases simply for its shock value; rather, she is offering it as a marker for the obsessions revealed in a reflexive moment by a junior member of the power elite.
LONDON — We've dined in Westeros and supped damn fine coffee in Twin Peaks, so it was perhaps inevitable someone would eventually combine two more of the capital city's obsessions — Star Wars and eating — in a handy pop-up experience.
After riding high in the 20133s as a co-host of MTV's dating show, "Singled Out," only to see his career sputter for the next decade, he decided to embrace his obsessions with zombies, superheroes, video games and tech.
This thread allows Mr. Packard to contemplate another one of his obsessions, Steven Spielberg, and he manages to blend archival footage of Mr. Spielberg directing the 1972 TV movie "Something Evil" into his story line, such as it is.
None of them, however, are raising children or doing productive economic or artistic work during the hours upon hours that they engage in their obsessions—and all are, in their very different ways, searching for relief from life's stresses.
"Each app is like a mini, private Instagram for uberfans, who also use the apps to share their other obsessions, their achievements, and their struggles," the reporter Katharine Schwab wrote in a Fast Company profile of Escapex this year.
"We Found Love" epitomizes many of our musical obsessions in the first half of this decade: EDM, cathartic bass drops, anthemic choruses (easy to memorize, easy to scream at the top of your lungs and mean it), and Rihanna.
"Belle de Jour" is "a really beautiful movie," Renata Adler wrote in The Times, "and somehow, letting the color in — this is Buñuel's first color film — has changed the emotional quality of his obsessions in a completely unpredictable way."
The confluence of Mr. Samson's three obsessions — trains, computers and New York City — evolved into the Amateur New York Subway Riding Committee and a bevy of eager contestants who have periodically sought an even faster circumnavigation of the system.
It isn't merely one of the many obsessions of a president whose personality drives his White House; it is where his rapport with his culture-warrior "base" aligns with the substance of the policies he has pursued in office.
As Jeet Heer noted, "taking" Middle Eastern oil is one of Donald Trump's longstanding obsessions, and one of the focal points of his new campaign ad, which reiterates his promise to "quickly cut the head off ISIS and take their oil."
" Michele, who is a longtime fan of the brand, counts their cuticle cream among her product "obsessions," sharing, "I keep it by my bed at night and I put it on my nails every single night like a crazy person!
It's possible to read all this—the circular self-obsessions, the cretinous sophistication, the various blinkered fixations that make it all so denuded and arch and inhuman—as symptoms of a broader and possibly terminal decadence loose in the culture.
So we here at Vox Culture — where our current obsessions include a new Hamilton music video, RuPaul's Drag Race, and a nifty webcomics archive — have a few suggestions for how to make the best use of your pop culture–consuming time.
So we here at Vox Culture — where our current obsessions include books about TV, TV about small towns, and music about big towns — have a few suggestions for how to make the best use of your pop culture–consuming time.
But what has, in the past, often been a simple matter of pixel density has (though that's been improved as well) shifted more toward the company's recent obsessions with coming as close as humanly possible to an all-screen device.
If talk radio primed listeners for Trump's style and anticipated the US right's current obsessions, the YouTube right is acquainting viewers with a more international message, attuned to a global revival of explicitly race-and-religion-based, blood-and-soil nationalism.
Indeed, Pence has frequently seemed to be running an entirely separate campaign from Trump, focusing on traditional conservative issues instead of Trump's own obsessions and with more of an optimistic tone (paired with, of course, constant attacks on Hillary Clinton).
As he faces the toughest crisis of his campaign -- battling a growing number of stories about harassment of women and fighting a war with his party's leader -- Trump is serving up a brew of the hard right's most enduring obsessions.
Thereafter we can put it behind us, all go back to our usual overriding obsessions about the Federal Reserve's next rate hike, European Central Bank tapering, OPEC tinkering and the not-too-small matter of stretched equity market valuations. Phew!
Life on Earth is becoming increasingly more stupid every day, from the trivial, like sartorial obsessions over bangs and mid-rise jeans, to the critical, like the irreversible decimation of our climate and the United States' decline into total madness.
I'm not saying people should get really into us, I just mean of various musical obsessions I've had in my life, I think you don't really get the songs and the differences between them until you really get into [the band].
The many allegations and subsequent settlements against him for using his position at FOX to sexually harass and pressure female on air staffers and others connected with FOX are frankly not a surprise to me based on his obsessions with looks.
By the end, her father's devotion to heaven doesn't seem any stranger than her own obsessions with stanzas and tweets; her mother's sacrifices for her father's vocation don't seem any less admirable than her own husband's life as an amanuensis.
The bloggersaid the Neon Obsessions Palette — which the brand promotes with photos that show the makeup worn on the eyes, like an eye shadow — contained a secondary warning label advising people not to use the product on or around the eyes.
"On its website, Huda Beauty describes its Neon Obsessions Palettes as "Blend the shadows seamlessly together, using darker shades in the crease, and lighter hues along the brow bone and inner corners of the eye," Huda Beauty's website previously said."
In a warning directed at Mr. Ackman, he said: "Obsessions concerning the value of stocks are the undoing of many investors because they often blind you to the facts, and it becomes impossible to see the forest for the trees."
But the youth it celebrates is not that of the grungy Los Angeles music scene, one of Mr. Slimane's obsessions; it is not youth identified with any particular place or fetish, except for a certain comfort and delight in the body.
His international access as an author, art historian and photographer — one who also teaches and is a photography critic for The New York Times Magazine — shapes not only his obsessions but, in a chicken-and-egg sense, determines his gaze.
One's work must stand on its own merits for it to endure, and yet the peculiarities in the heart of an artist, his or her background, passions, weaknesses and obsessions, can meaningfully enrich our understanding of their work, and their humanity.
Why are they comfortable showing off their obsessions on Twitter, the most public forum of them all, when previous digital generations lurked in the darkest depths of anonymous forums, discussing the raw physical appeal of Fred West with other anonymous avatars?
It's likely that you woke up tired on Monday morning, because you were probing the depths for a long-term solution on Sunday when warrior Mars—gracing you with a strong will—was in contact with planet of obsessions, Pluto.
I've dealt with stereotypical symptoms, like hand-washing compulsions and a fear of germs and sickness, as well as more rare or misunderstood obsessions: a fixation on bodily functions like swallowing, or the need to always be seen as perfect.
One reads Roth knowing (sometimes explicitly, in the case of some of the Nathan Zuckerman books) that the action on the page is taking place in a unique, fevered male imagination, complete with the obsessions and glaring blind spots this entails.
He's about to turn 80 years old, was just inducted​ into the Country Music Hall of Fame, and recently released a new record, Night Hawk, that sees the feisty old-timer embrace one of those more American of obsessions: the cowboy.
He pitched the show, about a competitive friendship between two Miami doctors, as a tribute, in part, to one of his childhood obsessions: the Mike Nichols film " Carnal Knowledge ," which he saw as a love story about two straight men.
Many of the same themes and obsessions haunt both books: Violence is one, whether from the American war in Vietnam (Vuong himself is Vietnamese-American), or from within the family; queerness is another; the body itself; race; ecstasy and joy.
As an adult, I've also obsessed about getting various diseases, from rare autoimmune disorders to MS to bronchitis—when these obsessions would take hold, I used to sit in doctors offices weekly to try and diagnose what I thought I had.
In other cases, the network simply nudged along existing or nascent conspiracy theories: about Hillary Clinton's health, about a Google plan to rig the election for her, about stock conspiracists' obsessions like the Rothschild family, the Bilderberg Group and the Illuminati.
With their dazzling fracturing these rooms are the most literal manifestation of one of the artist's central obsessions: infinity, which can symbolize the enormity of love, death and God, all of which she often invokes in her titles and her poetry.
If talk radio primed listeners for Trump's style and anticipated the American right's current obsessions, the YouTube right is acquainting viewers with a more international message, attuned to a global revival of explicitly race-and-religion-based, blood-and-soil nationalism.
Like Joseph McBride, whose magisterial "Steven Spielberg: A Biography" was first published in 1997, Haskell finds portents of Spielberg's visual imagination—his obsessions, his tropes—embedded in his early life, particularly in the family romance of mother, father, and child.
The better one is by Kaari Upson, a live wire of an artist from Los Angeles, whose sculptures and videos share some of Rama's themes: bodies in extreme states, family inheritances and the insights that can come from lifelong obsessions.
So I thought why not take an extreme subject — like psychotics in a prison for the criminally insane — and see if something resembling a classical ballet could be made out of their behavior, their movements, their tics, convulsions and obsessions.
Having a real audience also shows kids that their writing can matter, so tweens and teens can use sites and apps where they can share creations, and they can even riff off their obsessions in the form of fan fiction.
But those who openly express obsessions with arsenals of firearms and profess the desire to kill others should be seen by law enforcement and school professionals not as citizens expressing a constitutional right, but citizens who are dangerous to others.
Her uncanny exhibition at the New Museum, replete with casts of mattresses and more than a hundred mannequins of her mother, arrayed on the shelves Costco uses, plunged deep into the intertwined American obsessions with self-improvement and home improvement.
The Getty Research Institute's exhibition Harald Szeemann: Museum of Obsessions brings some gravitas back to the title, perhaps ironically, by showcasing the work of the groundbreaking Swiss curator whose intellectual scope extended well beyond the confines of the contemporary art world.
The growing danger has given returning characters like Newt, Tina, and Jacob a purpose outside of their personal obsessions, and while the film struggles to find a meaningful focus, the protagonists at least feel more defined and energized than they did before.
The subject, such as it is, is the unblinking pursuit of obsessions, no matter how peculiar they may be—and Morris captures these people not only telling their stories, but sharing the theories they've cooked up in years of work, mostly by themselves.
That certainly has its upsides, like being more up-to-date with what's on British TV and likely, more pragmatically, ensuring that people see their Netflix memberships through to the show's end if they really want to keep their Bake Off obsessions going.
In fact, to have OCD, all that is required is that you experience obsessions, which are unwanted thoughts that cause you significant distress, and compulsions, which are the actions you then take (whether physical or mental) to neutralize that thought or worry.
Among the couple's earliest influences were guitarists Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin (Amadou's obsessions) and Sheila, a French songstress who was played frequently on Malian radio in the 1960s and 70s (the young Mariam used to sing along in harmony at home).
It's a riff on an older concept from Greek mythology — the Titans overthrew their deity parents, and the Titans' children in turn overthrew them — that suggests there's always a new set of powerful beings on deck, to represent people's changing obsessions and devotions.
It's no secret that none of us have any chill and we all spend too much time staring at these shiny little demons, but a new paper published in the journal Addictive Behaviors shows just how fucked up our phone obsessions are.
"Our aim is self-evident, to have a state-owned PPC, not because we have any kind of obsessions but because the state must be able to continue having influence over the energy sector," Greek deputy foreign minister George Katrougkalos told Realfm radio.
President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE is known to have no shortage of obsessions.
Her series of holographic plates, however, interrupts this new artistic exploration in order to revisit past themes of childhood trauma and psychosexual obsessions, while also building upon them with the medium's unique ability to incite horror and reveal the grotesque in the perfunctory.
I knew it was a cup of juice, and yet when I looked at it, the obsessions flowed in, thinking about being sick, thinking about if the image would make me sick, imagery of me or others getting sick, on and on.
The current golden age of television has seen the rise of showrunners like Murphy as objects of critical scrutiny and fan obsessions, much in the way that movie directors were elevated to the status of artists during the postwar blossoming of film culture.
Unsurprisingly, there have been the usual post-mortems and recriminations; the tsking over our desire to impart special powers to the young disrupters of the digital age; and our obsessions with the brilliant-dropout narrative and overinflated valuations built on unproven products.
As Magid putters around Barragán's Mexico City studio, researching and plotting and painting her toenails, her voice-over pleas to Zanco — and the creamily polite rebuffs — turn the movie into a delicate duel between two women armed with obsessions for the same man.
But there are many other parts to my personality and life than my obsessions that I'd much rather talk about, like my favorite cartoonist or vegan restaurant, what stories I'm working on, and how I'm planning my first vacation in like six years.
Slowly but surely, all her obsessions were coming back into view — the dirty international energy industry, the scummy Manafort, the American president accused of lobbying a foreign power to influence the outcome of the 211 election, the Russia connection, the specter of impeachment.
Mr. Roof's compulsive obsessions, according to the lawyers and examiners, ran from the brand of his acne wash to the fit and fabric of his clothing to a delusion that his forehead was misshapen (he obscured it with his trademark bowl haircut).
Writing at a time when "population bomb" obsessions were still current, Atwood (like P. D. James in "Children of Men" in the early 1990s) grasped that the post-sexual revolution baby bust was more likely to be a central culture-shaping force.
Instead of the meaty, distorted power chords and hyperactive riffs of its adolescence, Paramore has dipped into cleaner, more rhythmic and synth-kissed textures of the '70s and '80s, owing to recent obsessions with Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club, Cyndi Lauper and Blondie.
Her 1983 feature, "Variety," one of her best-known works, is about a young woman in Manhattan who takes a job working the box office at a Times Square porn theater and develops some obsessions that take her to even more dangerous places.
What was once the dominion of large toy companies has, in recent years, become a medium for independent artists who mold, cast and package plastic and resin collectibles — sometimes using repurposed parts of other toys — to celebrate the niche obsessions of their youth.
Mr. Papaioannou and Mr. Oyen have acquitted themselves with honor in an impossible task: retaining their own identities while creating pieces that satisfy audiences who love Wuppertal's distinctive performers and Bausch's episodic, tragicomic evocations of the absurdities and obsessions of daily life.
Even in the first, mainly autobiographical section of the book, Sacks records his own early idiosyncratic passions with a straight face that may be an attempt to normalize his own budding obsessions — among them long-distance and endurance swimming and weight-lifting.
It's the only thing that would account for the film's spot-on dialogue and humor, which skewers a handful of megachurch culture's obsessions: growing the size of the congregation, providing empirical "proof" for various Bible stories, and supporting, emulating, and idealizing Israel.
So let me suggest that we're now starting to see some of this new type of reform thinking that moves beyond previous reform era, with its obsessions of accountability and direct citizen watchdogging, and instead starts putting the politics back into politics.
There are people who derive endless delight listening to just one kind of music, or even a single artist, as Mr. Ratliff acknowledges in a section about people he has encountered who have all-consuming obsessions for Frank Zappa or the Grateful Dead's live recordings.
To its credit, the revamped X-Files' premiere does try to account for everything that's happened between the series' finale and now, examining the show's old obsessions — bureaucracy, conspiracy, the misuse of power — through the lens of a post-9/11, Obama-helmed America.
It would contain a great deal of his intellectual journalism for publications in England, where he has lived most of his adult life: television criticism, travel writing and prose about obsessions like Formula One racing and the tango as well as pronouncements on literary subjects.
Which is to say that this particular sequence in Gore would not strike an audience in 2018 as the most progressive depiction of trans sex workers; but it is also, at the very least, in keeping with the particular obsessions of its main subject.
"Eco has abandoned his familiar Middle Ages to create an extravagant celebration of the obsessions of the seventeenth century," a reviewer in The New Yorker wrote, alluding to the author's many anecdotes and explanations on the philosophy, politics and superstitions of Europe in that era.
While you may not share the same taste in workouts, or understand the extent of their obsessions, the good news is that you probably have some grasp on their hobbies and interests — and you can use that information when finding them the perfect gift.
The same could easily be done for pages and posts promoting conspiracy theories ranging from 9/11 trutherism to Islamophobic obsessions with impending Sharia law, working with partners ranging from the NAACP to the Anti-Defamation League to craft relevant responses and source materials.
Speaking of obsessions, AMC has released a first look at the Season 83 premiere of its unscripted docuseries Ride with Norman Reedus, which sees Reedus and Morgan hitting the road for a motorcycle trip through Spain to visit a few hundred thousand Walking Dead fans.
The band broke up and their solo efforts were admirable; Kevin seemed happy to bow out of the spotlight, and Nick even took over for another of my obsessions, Daniel Radcliffe, as the lead in Broadway's How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.
Sure, plenty have lapped the device in terms of technology, while any lingering concerns about not owning the music I listen to have faded for the ubiquity of Spotify, but the iPod lives on in the perfect sweet spot for my own musical obsessions.
After the extended mistep known as her "Witness" era, "Never Really Over" is a deliciously bizarre return to form for Perry, who champions our culture's current obsessions with pastel aesthetics and Petra Collins-esque surrealism in a way that still manages to feel fresh.
The fantasy, formed around the consumerist obsessions of two boys raised watching Saturday morning television, demanded a goal, a destination, a way to feel like we hadn't just spent a precious Saturday staring listlessly into space while tucked between the folds of discount dresses.
Similarly, the company skipped the OnePlus 4 due in part to superstition around the number in its native China and an apparent company-wide obsessions with Robert Horry, a small forward for the Los Angeles Lakers who wore the number from 1997 to 2003.
All of that Southern-ness, all those obsessions, and all her strengths are on view in a deftly chosen and admirably displayed exhibition in Washington covering most of her 40-plus-year career: "Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings," at the National Gallery of Art.
So we here at Vox Culture — where our current obsessions include one of the year's best horror films, summer-ready pop tunes, a buzzy new novel, and more — have a few suggestions for how to make the best use of your pop culture–consuming time.
Government lawyers are sharing the text messages to show that Fogle "went to great lengths" to satisfy his "twin obsessions" with "child pornography" and "having sex with minors," according to a document filed Monday to the US Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit.
The insinuating and expressive score by Jonny Greenwood — with its blend of Minimalist-like riffs, eerie harmonies, alluring melodic lines you don't quite trust, and piercing chords that leap about aimlessly — conveys both the posh glamour of the designer's world and his inner obsessions.
Reverting to her given name — yes, she was born Tierra Whack — the young rapper learned to combine the theatrical over-the-top-ness of her earliest outré obsessions (Busta Rhymes, Eminem, Missy Elliott, Outkast) with the grounding essence of her guiding light, Lauryn Hill.
Our launch this week included an event with Sam Sifton, The Times's food editor, talking about cuisine and authenticity with Ben Shewry, the chef behind Attica in Melbourne, and before they went on stage, Ben was telling me about his non-food obsessions, including podcasts.
" Quazarz is a visiting alien, and "Welcome to Quazarz," the opening cut, observes a "United States of Amurderca" full of dazed consumers — "moving targets for the markets" — and a cultural death wish: "We killed freedom/we killed obsessions/we killed facts/we killed attention.
No need to stop obsessing over the story of serial killer Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley) and his many obsessions: You has been renewed for a season 3, according to a press release from Netflix, and it could be the season that Joe finally gets justice.
I bought them more or less in the order in which I enjoy them, following Browne down the elaborately filigreed labyrinths of his strange obsessions, on subjects as diverse as whether elephants have knees and what species of fish Jesus ate after the Resurrection.
Indeed, apart from a few paragraphs on the first and last pages of the book telling us that the first half of the 16th century was "worth celebrating," the "obsessions" of the subtitle seem to be Norwich's, not those of the princes he writes about.
CARYN GANZ A chronicle of multiple romances and/or obsessions, from childhood crush to high-school infatuation to post-breakup rationalizations, "Never (Let You Go)" is two or three songs in five minutes by Deanté Hitchcock, an Atlanta rapper who sometimes slips into singing.
Because while we love Furbys, Limp Bizkit and spaghetti straps as much as the next pop culture fiend, there comes a point when these things reach their breaking point; when we are forced to push the world onwards, to other decades, to new references, new obsessions.
If you go to a pet store today and browse the dog food aisle, it's hard not to see it as a reflection of our current food obsessions, except instead of ripped men illustrating the medical and aesthetic benefits of protein powder, it's shiny-coated Irish setters.
The traditional Old Gods, with mythological roots from around the world, fear irrelevance as their believers die off or are seduced by the shiny New Gods, like Media (Gillian Anderson) and Technical Boy (Bruce Langley), who represent our obsessions with technology, celebrity, money and pop culture.
It's a movie full of reflections and mirrors, of alternate states of being, and in that sense, one take is that Verbinski and screenwriter Justin Haythe are just making a point about how far down the rabbit hole of denial Lockhart's own obsessions has taken him.
His public appearances, while hitting top political points on illegal immigration, free trade and U.S. allies who he says are fleecing America, are effectively a list of his personal triumphs -- that seem like the obsessions of a billionaire and have little in common with his heartland audiences.
After a decade-plus of Transformers, a two-part It, the obsessions of Abrams and Cornish, 17 hours of Stranger Things, and an eternity of Goonies nostalgia, maybe the time has come to give the kids movies of the 2030s something else to mirthlessly knock off.
Drake's main obsessions may seem surface-level, but it's worth noting the very personal way he relates to women, money, fame, vulnerability, and bravado that connects to something larger, and surprisingly resonant—a Drake concert is one of the most diverse events you may ever attend.
The irony here is that both men write about the power of curiosity, about how the people who really change the world are pursuing obsessions indifferent to dreams of fame — but, strangely, both tried to write big, "important" books instead of lingering on their personal passions.
I can, with some effort, untangle what Trump might have been trying to say here, but it's incoherent, so suffused with half-related ideas and personal obsessions (why did Trump feel the need to bring up McCain's vote here?) that it's hard to say for sure.
"When people tend to look at addiction, their eyes tend to be on the substance or thing - but really it's a pattern of behaviour that can manifest itself in a number of different ways," Ms Saligari said, naming food obsessions, self-harm and sexting as examples.
I can, with some effort, untangle what Trump might have been trying to say here, but it's so incoherent, so suffused with half-related ideas and personal obsessions (why did Trump feel the need to bring up McCain's vote?), that it's hard to say for sure.
The idea that government should rein in Wall Street has been one of the Massachusetts senator's obsessions for years, and she was so fixated on it that she royally pissed off some in the Obama administration, which she repeatedly criticized as being soft on big finance.
He has referred to the White House as "the studio," and his obsessions with crowd size and military parades are fueled not only by his huge ego but by his belief that optics matter hugely to the success of his greatest "production" -- his attempt at governing America.
Their mission involves a rivalry between fading "old gods" — ancient mythological figures like Loki, Kali and Anansi, who were brought to life in America via the beliefs of immigrants — and new gods who have arisen to replace them, borne of more modern obsessions like technology and celebrity.
Epstein was being held at the jail without bond after his arrest in early July on charges of allegedly trafficking dozens of underage girls from 2002 through 2005 to his massive townhouse in Manhattan and his Palm Beach, Florida mansion to satisfy his compulsive sexual obsessions.
Yet since coming to power, Mr. Trump, with a few exceptions, like trade, has seemed to lose interest in what the broader public wants, focusing instead on polarizing issues like immigration that are not the public's main concerns but the obsessions of a loud minority faction.
So we here at Vox Culture — where our current obsessions include the new Wonder Woman movie, a hilarious under-the-radar sitcom, and a slow jam about LaCroix sparkling water — have a few suggestions for how to make the best use of your pop culture–consuming time.
But, in fact, the moment you notice you've become distracted is a huge success, because you're waking up to a fundamental fact that we're fucking crazy and our mind is just this boiling cauldron of random impulses and desires, mostly negative ideas and obsessions, and self-reverence.
So we here at Vox Culture — where our current obsessions include the new DuckTales reboot, Kesha's first album in five years, and the end of N.K. Jemisin's Broken Earth trilogy — have a few suggestions for how to make the best use of your pop culture–consuming time.
So we here at Vox Culture — where our current obsessions include Harry Dean Stanton's final film, revisiting some of the best music of the '90s, and the return of Brooklyn Nine-Nine — have a few suggestions for how to make the best use of your pop culture–consuming time.
So we here at Vox Culture — where our current obsessions include Amazon's latest iteration of The Tick, some of the summer's best movies, and the end of Marvel's Secret Empire crossover event — have a few suggestions for how to make the best use of your pop culture–consuming time.
I suppose I yearn for a societal structure that can acknowledge the fundamental role artists play in our ability to imagine and build our world — one that could support them in these wild endeavors, rather than resign them to selling artifacts in galleries to support their working obsessions.
So we here at Vox Culture — where our current obsessions include a new indie movie about a ghost, the legacy of A League of Their Own, and Calvin Harris's perfect summer jams — have a few suggestions for how to make the best use of your pop culture–consuming time.
That seems like an interesting way to address the different forms of worship in America and the different kinds of obsessions that we hold, and certainly as evidenced by the glut of news items that erupts every time there is a shooting, which is more and more frequently.
Here, Don Draper (who could, better than anyone, "evoke the terrifying state of having it all but needing more"); Tony Soprano; Fifty Shades; Shirley Jackson's books; Marie Kondo's neurotic decluttering; the foodie movement; and modern obsessions with survival fantasies all belong together—they're parts of the same Rubik's cube.
So we here at Vox Culture — where our current obsessions include the new Blade Runner, an engrossing true crime tale, the return of Bob's Burgers, and a loving ode to VHS — have a few suggestions for how to make the best use of your pop culture–consuming time.
Tattooed bad-boy bartender Jake soon becomes the subject of Tess's most fiercely sexual obsessions, and we know he's dangerous by not only his skill with the oyster knife (oysters are historically considered an aphrodisiac) but his unpredictability in joining the other servers for their late-night partying.
So we here at Vox Culture — where our current obsessions include the biggest movie in Japan, a hot new Euro noir TV show, and one of the biggest flops in Broadway history — have a few suggestions for how to make the best use of your pop culture–consuming time.
News Analysis CAMBRIDGE, England — To the last, there was no contrition, no plea for forgiveness, no scintilla of regret for the 100,000 lives lost and tens of thousands of families crushed in the blood bath in Bosnia that his obsessions unleashed nearly a quarter of a century ago.
Some of the "Chef's Table" creative team will now take that same approach to the world's street vendors in "Street Food," a series focusing on the culture of entire cities and countries — including Singapore and India, in season one — rather than on the habits and obsessions of individual chefs.
When I picked her up from rehab, she wore glasses, a denim shirt and jeans, and a vintage belt buckle engraved with the words "Texas Nuclear," signaling one of her obsessions: This month, she publishes her second book, "Blowout," about the political impact of the oil-and-gas industry.
Whether such a goal is realistic or not, his project inadvertently exposes the inner workings of the alt-right mind-set — its pathologies, its obsessions — laying bare the depth of the movement's distrust of the mainstream, its finicky need to conquer reality and construct alternative versions of everything.
The disclosure is just the latest in a series of black eyes for federal officials since Epstein's arrest in early July on charges of trafficking dozens of underage girls to satisfy his sexual obsessions at homes in New York City and Palm Beach, Florida, from 2002 through 2005.
Fashion, these days, is often meant to stand for something — it is meant to disrupt, to challenge (sometimes literally), it is increasingly expected to have a political statement to share; Van Noten's fashion, however, stands for nothing but itself, and for the obsessions of the man who created it.
So we here at Vox Culture — where our current obsessions include two of the summer's best movies so far, an under-the-radar new Netflix release, and lots of excellent new music — have a few suggestions for how to make the best use of your pop culture–consuming time.
The move is a return home of sorts for Mr. Slimane, 49, who began his career at Yves Saint Laurent and was hired by LVMH in 2000 to create Dior Homme, where his pin-thin jeans and sharp tailoring became the stuff of men's (and some women's) obsessions.
It's a grand feeling though to have been part of these un-pedigreed, angry, whip-smart outlets full of journalists, too often men but also many brilliant women, who were cocksure about their obsessions—and to have been some small part of some 17-year-old's semi-golden age.
So we here at Vox Culture — where our current obsessions include Lorde's new album, one of the best romantic comedies in years, and a new comic about a man who fights bears while shirtless — have a few suggestions for how to make the best use of your pop culture–consuming time.
Her memes serve as a case study for what will likely come during the 2020 campaign and, more importantly, as a case study for what our obsessions say about us and how we understand the very politicians we love or hate within the fandom factions to which we choose to adhere.
So we here at Vox Culture — where our current obsessions include the latest true crime TV series, a satirical novel about a Brooklyn mom on the lam, and an engrossing step team documentary — have a few suggestions for how to make the best use of your pop culture–consuming time.

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