She developed an obsessive need to spend money, and she ran up embarrassing bills.
The strange emotional pull in each picture comes from the artist's obsessive need to make it.
Assange's campaign for transparency has always sat oddly with his obsessive need for control.
Manic Street Preachers dissect the obsessive need of the anorexic to control the body.
Hirst, it seems, has no such obsessive need to make art.
He has the artist's demanding perfectionism, an obsessive need to "get things right".
"I have an obsessive need to fit things together in interesting ways," she says.
About one in 10 wrestles with an obsessive need for patterns and symmetry.
But they take a balanced approach to the development of their brands, whereas Time Inc. had an obsessive need for editorial control for everything around their brands.
Mr. Weidman does his best to add some darker dimensions to this fabled American hero: his obsessive need to write his name in the sky becomes almost pathological.
The play developed into the story of both men, each an outsider coming to the United States with an obsessive need to succeed.
