There's a murder involved, but the important question is whether little Adrian Grant Rosenmeyerr) was obsessive-compulsive back then.
Yet two of television's most unabashed paeans to vulgar wealth and compulsive spending are back: "The Starter Wife," a new USA series starring Debra Messing as a fictional housewife of Hollywood (based on the hit 2007 mini-series), and the Bravo reality show "The Real Housewives of Atlanta," the third installment of a franchise that began with "The Real Housewives of Orange County".
A compulsive urge sucked me back in and I have to admit that it has led to some wonderful, serendipitous moments.
He says the hardest part of unlearning compulsive helping is standing back and letting the addict suffer the full consequences of their actions.
He chose issues that pushed him to the national stage, but he was compulsive about tending his district back home.
And what of the people who voted for him overwhelmingly, thinking that they would get back the old compulsive attention-seeker?
Some of the work, to be sure, seems even more boring and obsessive-compulsive today than it did back then, notably the anti-object "Duration" and "Location" pieces of Douglas Huebler (1924-1997), in which actions or events were mapped out in terms of stated time frames.
Accounts of obsessive-compulsive disorder and its symptoms go back as far as the 17th century.
But Republicans don't hear it, because it's an obsessive-compulsive behavior, their focus on rolling back women's rights.
Gillian Clarke, a compulsive mapreader, makes helpful suggestions from the back seat.
"This series sounds as though Don has got his wanderlust back, which always made it compulsive viewing.
