The actor Cleo Anthony communicates Greer's camera lust and helpless self-infatuation in a way that renders his vanity magnetic.
Driving the prevalence of paid content are some of the forces to which I drew attention a few weeks ago: a growing infatuation in India with commerce and business, and the incursion of markets into virtually every aspect of private and public life.
"Coppélia" (Friday, Saturday and Monday) shows a bright lass pretending to be a doll and curing her boyfriend of a foolish infatuation in the process.
Jackson received praise for indulging in "textures as dizzying as a new infatuation", in contrast to other artists attempting to "match the angularity of hip-hop" and following trends.
All the characters in "The Infatuations" are in a chain of romantic frustration, sleeping with substitutes for the person they really love, sketching relationships they hope to improve later on, if only by disposing of the person they imagine stands in their way.
I am talking about "Downton Abbey," which, in the States, is in the midst of Season 2, and eliciting infatuation; in Britain, it's on hiatus after a two-hour Christmas special (that's right! two hours!) and already in the backlash stage.
We've got the Twilight series, which has the sweet, swoony rush of teenage infatuation in every word of its four (and a half [click through for The Short Second Life of Bree Turner]) tremendous tomes; the dark, delicious and more than a little campy sexuality of True Blood; The Vampire Diaries' teenage angsty ennui and coupling.
It was a shotgun wedding, forced on the two parties by the voters 30 months ago, followed by a grisly bout of mutual infatuation in the Downing Street rose garden.
After Liam Neeson reflected on his infatuation in seeing THE QUIET MAN, and Clint Eastwood, as a Universal contract player, told of his attempts to get close to LADY GODIVA, the audience rose in awe and appreciation as Maureen O'Hara appeared to receive the Oscar that had long eluded her.
"Is it to rescue or is it to wreck?/Is it an ache in the heart/Or just a pain in the neck?" So wrote Cole Porter about serial infatuation in his 1938 song "At Long Last Love".
He is quite sure he can intimidate his daughter out of her infatuation in the same way.
