There is an alternative to oblivobesity that doesn't involve obsession with weight, that doesn't blame the victim, that doesn't ostracize the overweight child, and that doesn't imply bathroom scales measure anything important about human worth.
Part of his break with his past involves an obsession with the "beach boys" — male prostitutes — on the island.
One involves her obsession with the first world war, another her love for the jazz musician Art Pepper; also included are a couple of travel pieces (akin to calling The Odyssey a travel piece), the best of which is about taking her mother to Santa Fe, a "trial of taste", given her amusing and righteous allergy to Georgia O'Keeffe.
A lurid, expressionistic melodrama set in an eerie house, involving sexual obsessions, murder and rats, this is the first film in which Kim's mature style is fully evident, and is widely regarded as one of the greatest Korean films ever made.
Obsessive compulsive disorder is an anxiety disorder involving intrusive obsessions that must be addressed through acting out on compulsive behaviours as exampled above.
OCD symptoms normally involve both obsession and compulsion symptoms, although it is also possible that only one group of symptoms appears.
And it involves America's obsessions with both celebrity and guns -- and the deadly connection between the two; what does it mean when alienated, angry young men who want to be famous know people will read their websites if they pick up a gun?
While my latest obsession involves rice and canned tomatoes, plenty of acquaintances have confided urges to amass other emergency supplies like rope ladders or portable cookstoves or even freeze-dried foods.
The plot of Swift's novel involves infidelity, sexual obsession and murder, but its language behaves as if it were telling you things that you might recognise all too well, the common elements of "mid-life disaster".
In John 5's case, his gadget obsession involves the tools of his trade: guitars.
