Biting her nails, chewing her lip, she talks about numerous preoccupations, and few are as compelling to her as the question of Puerto Rican identity, a question that nearly every artist here confronts.
But while many rock micromovements of the day were ingested by the mainstream, the Rapture stayed small, a champion of a world preoccupied with itself and the preoccupation of few others.
A Few Preoccupations Mr. Lapine was less concerned with the facts and figures of West's life.
But he admitted to a few preoccupations of his own, including the play's final image, two characters in a kiss, a tableau that he said came to him early, and that he never let go.
Officials debated how useful one would be in a conflict over Taiwan, the military planners' main preoccupation until a few years ago.
Homosexuality appears to be peripheral to these soldiers preoccupations, and they reveal few problems associated with their sexual orientation.
"Art, which should be the unique preoccupation of the privileged few, has become a general rule; what did I say?
Capello's preoccupation over the next few days is whether he sticks with Heskey and whether he can plan a defence that is capable of compensating for King's absence.
There is, however, one thing to be said about giving this talk, which is that it's a distraction from my preoccupation of the past few days, which has been to learn about the recreational drugs of choice of those who chair our banks.
When people rise in Bangladesh and in Detroit, in South Africa and Peru, in India and in Syria, it is harder to dismiss their demands as individual, or local, or even as the political preoccupation of only a few.
