You can make some extra cash if you then invest in Facade, but that can take some resting and obsessive stock-market checking while you wait for it to rebound.
"It's probably safe to say that while we're not as obsessive about our stock as the guys who are down there on Times Square, it is something we do care about," said Peter Chernin, the company's chief operating officer, referring to Viacom and its chairman, Sumner M. Redstone.
"Salon to Biennial" is a shoe-in for any art-obsessive's Christmas stocking; the main drawback is that it only covers 24 shows.
Heir to a mining fortune but ripped away from his parents as a small boy, Kane becomes an obsessive collector as an adult, stocking Xanadu, his palatial estate, with thousands of objects.
Back then the display cases on the first floor looked as if they had been stocked by an obsessive taxidermist, pinning "woodland birds" and "upland meadow birds" on white matting, their adjacent numbers used to identify the species from a list below.
Given its eclectic stock -- and the obsessive tendencies of the record collector, which are not always channeled only into records -- Rockit Scientist attracts suitably off-kilter characters.
American Apparel still owns all its retail stores, rather than franchising them, and Charney – who is obsessive about his brand, throwing tantrums about everything from stock allocation to necklines – still holds, for the time being, a 53% stake.
Technology has also changed how quickly investors can trade in and out of stocks, giving the entire ecosystem an increasingly obsessive short-term mindset.
Alphabetising their stock or relying on fractionalised decimals like Dewey, librarians are obsessive classifiers who impose on chaos an order they know to be fictional and false.
