The R. & B. superstar R. Kelly has two modes, at least: sex-obsessed superfreak and gospel-inflected inspirational messenger.
Beginning in 1997 he published three of his strongest and least self-obsessed novels: American Pastoral, I Married a Communist and The Human Stain.
While acknowledging all the heartache that Seles has gone through, Graf, now 24, has been something of a forgotten casualty in this ordeal -- a woman who was already haunted by at least two other obsessed fans, including one who scaled a fence and slit his wrists in her presence, on a tennis court, because Graf wouldn't marry him.
Such is the opinion; at least, of one obsessed American.
Other stops are mostly remote towns.One obvious benefit for Qinghai, or at least its image-obsessed officials, is an excuse to spend lots of money on the construction of business parks and apartment blocks around lavish new railway stations.
At least one possession-obsessed novelist, John O'Hara, would have approved: "For the sake of verisimilitude and realism," he wrote, "you cannot positively give the impression of an ending: you must let something hang.
Last but certainly not least, we will remain obsessed with the awesomeness that are our first daughters -- Malia and Sasha Obama.
His "Much Ado" is a filigree of a film, although the dialogue — which is all Shakespeare, snipped back — has the wiry, electric toughness that we associate with this most love-obsessed and least sentimental of plays.
In the simple, white-clapboard house, its rooms lined with books, the Mumfords lived a quiet and private life that could not have been more distinct, in its external qualities at least, from the media-obsessed culture of this era.
Mr. Rogers and Ms. Vassallo are what horticulturists call single-genus people; obsessed or at least extremely serious about a specific plant genus.
