Theirs is a singular preoccupation with Israel.
Nef does not broadcast the medical details of her transition — a protocol observed by transgender celebrities like Laverne Cox, who once told a curious Katie Couric, "The preoccupation with transition and with surgery objectifies trans people".
So if you were ever curious about the pictorial preoccupations of your fellow Americans — and the horse latitudes of August are a great time to ponder such zeitgesity questions of the digital milieu — wonder no more.
But it wasn't until I came across the beautiful, unnerving story that had made Schwartz famous in his day that I understood Kazin's preoccupation with this curious, self-doomed figure.
Auteurist fans were baffled - there didn't seem to be any obvious Egoyan preoccupations in this curious tableau vivant set in an apocryphal Belgian hamlet.
Connolly's preoccupation with restraint is curious since some of her stories are relentlessly windy, peppered with cutesy anecdotes about her child protagonists and their linguistic mistakes.
On Katie Couric's Weekly Buzz segment about celebrity babies, she recently asked "Why don't people just leave them alone?" Agreed -- but I'm curious what's behind this ever increasing preoccupation with Hollywood's bountiful bodies?
Many friends have said to me that they love New York now in a way they never did before, and their love, I've noticed, takes for its object all the things that used to exasperate them — the curious combination of freedom, self-made fences, and paralyzing preoccupation that the city provides.
Much of her thinking is focused on the creativity of the human mind itself, the tricks it plays, the sometimes curious ways in which it reveals itself through its preoccupations.
He was called to the bar in 1975, exciting times in South African law, thanks in part to a curious paradox - the coexistence of the ruling National party's preoccupation with legitimacy and its abuse of civil rights.
