Immense, theatrical, Bowery became one of the great portrait subjects, a source of widespread fascination.
Yet Hendrix, the self-proclaimed voodoo child who never saw 30 (not to mention Watergate, glasnost or cable television), remains an object of widespread fascination.
He wanted to use the story as a vehicle to examine society's widespread fascination with death, and explore a Dantean model of hell, purgatory and heaven, which would divide the film into sections.
To be sure, such discoveries would generate a great deal of interest, as evidenced by the widespread fascination with the Shroud of Turin, thought by some to be the burial shroud of Jesus.
That widespread fascination with the minutia of their lives earned the couple a spot atop Forbes' first-ever list of Hollywood's Most Influential Couples, a look at which celebrity pairings have the greatest impact on popular culture.
Orlando drafted a talented playmaker in 6-6 Reece Gaines, who could be its point guard for years, and the Los Angeles Lakers benefited from the league's widespread fascination with unproven talent.
Their sumptuous displays, abundant products, architectural innovations, and prodigious scale inspired widespread fascination and even awe; at the same time, however, many Germans also greeted the rise of the department store with considerable unease.
It is this combination that explains the widespread fascination with how China's economic size or power compares to America's, and especially with the question of whether the challenger has now displaced the long-reigning champion.
Much of the widespread fascination stems from the importance of the events: Vermonters take seriously the possibility that theirs will be the first state to legalize same-sex marriage.
