All the journalistic descriptions of their lasting impact are just the usual cycle of the media going from inattention to obsession and back to attention deficit.
But it failed to fully achieve its principal goal because at the crucial moment the Bush Administration, in its obsession with Saddam, diverted resources and attention to Iraq — a "bad" war.
There's this incredible attention, obsession and worship of these Zuckerbergs, Tim Cooks, and that Snapchat kid.
The new songs are about lovers' breakups and other agitated mental states: insecurity ("Salute Your Solution"), imprisonment ("Hold Up"), obsession ("Attention") and show business ("Five on the Five," with Mr. White wailing, "I look nothing like the kids in the videos").
This fixation, so it is alleged, is already diverting resources and attention from the fight against terrorism ("America's obsession with Iraq leaves others free to kill," in the priceless blame-America headline of Britain's Guardian).
During the last years of her life, Browning developed an interest in spiritualism and the occult, but her energy and attention were chiefly taken up by an obsession with Italian politics, to a degree that alarmed her closest friends.
Instead, I'll be writing a book about one of my obsessions: attention, and how its quantification and sale have become a battleground for 21st Century selves.
Aspect-perception and attention.
Provide love and attention.
The passion, he says, turned into an obsession, and after posting his work on Instagram he won attention for his skill and his eye for the unusual.
