"Laura" has been subjected to endless formal analysis, but the movie's fascination has always relied on the outrageous bitchiness of the dialogue and the almost comical coldness of its approach to murder.
For me, and thousands of other surfers, the real weather fascination has always been what's going on in the big blue expanse right on our doorstep that covers 20% of the earth's surface – the Atlantic Ocean.
Indeed, as Jack Dorsey told Charlie Rose this morning on CBS: "My fascination has always been simplifying complexities".
The rest of us read with a fascination that is always tinged with grief.
The games they play on the secretary have a certain sinister fascination, as sadism always does.
The fascination that had always been lurking swelled up, perhaps at the expense of the revulsion.
"Yes, but that's not a problem, because that's been part of the fascination for me, always, in any medium".
But the picture nevertheless explores familiar territory: the subject is an object of strange fascination and, as always with Little's women, her introspective air resists even the most probing gaze.
Soccer, for all this fascination with individuals, will always be a team sport.
"I had a very profound love relationship with Louis Malle," she said, "but there is always a fascination between directors and actresses".
