The security obsession and regional conflicts of the apartheid era left an industrial and research legacy — and comparatively strong infrastructure.
This impulse to criticize protests is often (but not always) connected to their ongoing war on so-called "political correctness" on the left -- an obsession for some of them -- which itself often stems from the fact that most speak as white males of a certain education level and class, blinded to the experience of people with less privilege.
But furniture and objects are an obsession, too: When she leaves a flea market or antiques fair, she said, she puts whatever she has bought beside her, on the passenger's seat, so she can look at it on the way home.
This obsession with symmetry leaves a lot of people of color shaking their heads (and their fists).
For those who want to leave, the obsession is Brexit, Brexit.
Less successful were the same channel's Leaving (sexual obsession in Cheshire), The Last Weekend (sexual obsession in corduroy), The Poison Tree (shouting on shingle) and latest Lynda La Plante partwork Above Suspicion: Silent Scream, with its cover-mounted maverick, foldout script and cut-out-and-keep disembowelled floozy (RRP £6.99).
Possibly it is — at a time of such relentless obsession on work-family "balance," an obsession that leaves little cultural room to think about more pleasurable kinds of human engagement.
In full disclosure, Sammy leaving for college has been an obsession of mine from arguably the minute she was born.
One was left with a sense of obsession and a writer's need to decipher her experience.
Regardless, to call the desire to investigate the use of torture an obsession of the "hard left" is just not true.
Being in a new environment, with new people, helped me leave my obsessions behind.
