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With its fixations on riddles and Zen koans, Thomas's novel is a playful disquisition on storytelling.

As it is, the only real cohesion comes from the art department, with its fixations on over-done sets, excessively pretty exteriors, and chandeliers.

Mr. Kweli is determined to save hip-hop from its fixations on crime and big spending, and his consciousness-raising rhymes were fervent and articulate, but he was working in a vacuum.

" 'Twilight' is almost textbook Southern Gothic, with its elements of the grotesque and perverse, its psychological extremes and its fixations on violence and sex," The Washington Post's reviewer, Art Taylor, said.

And if you think the Department of Agriculture knows what to look for, think again: Schatzker questions it for its fixation on marbling and youth, two factors that mean little to ranchers and steak eaters outside the United States.

If The Times really wants to extract institutional lessons from this fiasco, it needs to re-examine its fixation on diversity.

With the internet as famous for its fixation on animals as it is for anything else nowadays, we ask, what it is about this particular article that has garnered such huge interest?

British though it is, The Iron Lady feels American in its fixation on strength of character, on the pursuit of personal destiny.

But one of the more striking examples is its fixation on geometric art, which was itself influenced by the geometric patterns found in Byzantine Greek, Roman, and Sasanian Empire art and architecture.

Its fixation on Saddam seems to have blinded it to the possibility that Osama might be perversely encouraging America in this war.

Poetry, with its fixation on passing time, its technologies for measuring it, and its keen awareness of impending silence, comes as close as any art can to imposing an immortal choreography on mortal experience.