As the Me Generation spawned generations of mini-me's, our rigorous self-fascination expanded to include the whole brood and philosophies about its proper care and feeding.
Ravi Shankar, the sitar virtuoso and composer who died on Tuesday at 92, created a passion among Western audiences for the rhythmically vital, melodically flowing ragas of classical Indian music — a fascination that had expanded by the mid-1970s into a flourishing market for world music of all kinds.
As Hovhaness's initial fascination with Armenian music expanded, his curiosity led him further and further afield, first to India, where he lived in 1959 and 1960, then Indonesia, and finally to Japan, China and Korea.
But as All We Shall Know progresses, we watch with growing fascination as he expands, not only his emotional range, but also his social sphere.
Simon's fascination with pop vocal sound quickly expanded to include the sparkle of English folk music, the ethereal pipes and voices of Andean mountain music, and the arching passion of gospel.
With a sister called Fifi Trixibelle, Peaches became an immediate source of fascination for the rapidly expanding celebrity media culture and her flamboyant mother, the television presenter Paula Yates, appeared hopelessly drawn to that spotlight.
Victorian society had a fascination for the rapidly expanding field of science.
Through paintings, carvings, sculptures and mosaics, as the metro expanded outwards, it captured everything from political upheaval to post-modernism, while simultaneously reflecting Stockholm's long-held fascination with the subterranean.
Mr. McIntyre's fascination with the birds, particularly what he termed their use of play as a survival mechanism, originally inspired the work, but he has expanded that idea to exploring "the more animal aspects of the human experience".
A new generation of skilled scene-painters grew up to answer this fascination, and soon began to dominate the performances.Dickens's friend Clarkson Stanfield had painted many of the dioramas which were briefly inserted into the harlequinade; these proved so popular that they were expanded, and expanded, until, the element of spectacle that they provided threatened story, character, comedy.
That was in the first stage of my lifelong fascination with Knievel, one that would expand and change as I grew up and learned of the many unsavory aspects of Knievel's character.
