Mr. Udaltsov, a radical fringe figure until a few months ago, had spent an hour in the pool of intense attention that follows Ms. Sobchak wherever she goes.
To Mr. Talese the event, which he helped organize, underscores how New York's literary world is a "basket of crabs," with a small group all vying for a limited pool of money, attention and prestige.
The same thing happened, I soon noticed, as she lay cradled in my wife's embrace...Of all the possible objects of regard, what is so naturally compelling about two dark pools of returned attention?
Holt faces a growing pool of competitors for the attention of music fans.
Opposite, a stunning steel-clad lane pool offered chillier charms, while inside, water slides, saunas, steam rooms, treatment rooms and a multimedia leisure dome (set within a swimming pool, of course) competed for visitors' attention.
Keeping gang friction from infiltrating pool culture — and keeping any single gang from overrunning a pool — is an issue to which he pays a great deal of attention, he told me.
In those days, the boxing ring was as much a center of attention for Americans as the track, the swimming pool and the basketball court.
But Ms. Palmer's ability to raise such a great sum from a relatively small pool of dedicated fans has drawn the attention of the music industry.
Mix crowdsourcing, the Internet and a huge pool of underemployed graphic designers, and the outcome is a company that's grabbed a great deal of attention.
Everyone else will have to fight to get his 15 minutes of medical attention from the shrinking pool of physicians.
