Adapted by Akihiko Shiota from a popular manga, or comic strip, the film partakes of a familiar cultural fetish: the schoolgirl in short skirt and knee socks as an object of longing and a repository of sexual power.
From the start, the teenager was a source of anxiety and an object of longing -- the vision of a terrifying, amoral future and the image of an irrecoverably innocent past -- as well as an irresistible target for marketers of entertainment.
"She has been an object of aspirational longing," Meghan Daum wrote in The Atlantic's September issue, one of many Didion considerations to come out this year.
The decade that introduced the word "malaise" into the popular lexicon has gone from being a subject of affectionate ridicule to being an object of outright longing, a golden age.
Jennifer, chilly, dark-haired and beautiful, is both the victim of male violence and a monster of indiscriminate vengeance, a ravening demon and an object of lust and longing.
"Back when I was 19 or 20," said Pollock during a phone conversation, "I very much thought a classical library for India along the lines of the Loeb was a terrific idea". He called the series an object of "wishing and longing" for decades.
The compromise marks the end of a quintessential New York drama, pitting the two most common objects of longing for many New Yorkers -- housing and unfettered green spaces -- against each other, and featuring some of the city's most irascible characters.
The only character who doesn't have any affairs is Sara Murphy, though she is an object of frustrated, idealising longing for all her male guests.
(He eventually gave in, and lost the Camry, which has since become an object of regret and longing). The children did not get pocket money, and Emily had to fight to have the front porch repaired.
Banco Popular, the most profitable bank in Europe (measured by return on equity), has previously been the object of longing scrutiny from several big banks in Spain and abroad.
Beyond the ice-capped peaks to the west lay their object of longing, the Pacific ocean, but Bolivia's navy was marooned and landlocked at Lake Titicaca, 3,800 metres (12,470ft) above sea level in the Andes.
