With its oscillating, octave-shifting, insistent disco groove and intrepid bassline, it didn't only appeal to the knowing fans who bought Blur's music, but also to those the knowing fans might consider the hoi polloi; Loaded readers and ladettes with hedonistic preoccupations who lionised Paul Gascoigne.
That is part of what is fueling Washington's preoccupation with who will be the next speaker; but let's remember Ryan is popular within the GOP caucus.
She freely volunteered her shortcomings as a writer — "a preoccupation with who has sex with whom and who gets hurt by whom, which I'm outgrowing" — and recalled the humbling experience of being rejected, at 40, from the master's program in playwriting at the University of California, Los Angeles.
They are members of the PreOccupations Club, who were on a visit to Camp Mariah in connection with the Fresh Air Fund's Career Awareness Program.
Rosie Broadley, the NPG's associate curator of contemporary collections, said: "The portrait encourages us to reflect simultaneously on beauty and death, which embody Blow's own complex preoccupations". Blow, who killed herself in 2007, has been described as a fashion guru, icon and muse.
For the Burmese, the performance of all their daily acts of merit is not just buying a ticket to a higher plane of existence, as Mr. Pereira was trying to do in Norman Lewis's classic account of his Burmese travels, "Good Earth". They enjoy their giving and their escape from their selfish daily preoccupations, and who shall say them worse for it.
New York Magazine was not far behind, making a splash in March with Lisa Miller's "The Retro Wife," with its tagline echoing the same preoccupations: "Feminists who say they're having it all -- by choosing to stay home".
Mr. Trump has long demonstrated a preoccupation with those who have overseen the Russia investigation.
Do you think that explains your preoccupation with women who have dumped you?
Though Doreen never materializes in the church's lovely sacristy, meticulously re-created by Harry Feiner, she is the full-time preoccupation of everyone who does.
