It is indeed a sign of the time that the media seem to be ready to move on to a new preoccupation: Who are Bob and Tom each dating?
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.
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".
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.
All legends have a tendency to mutate, to be reshaped in each successive era according to the prejudices and preoccupations of those who retell the tale.
Purpose: Twitter functions as a real-time news, entertainment and information network, tapping into the ideas and preoccupations of people who live online and the events that affect them.
It does allow Mr. De Palma to revisit some of his longstanding preoccupations: with characters who double each other; with deceit and disguise; with mirrors, corridors, wigs and staircases.
It is therefore particularly pertinent to the preoccupations of those who are interested in the normative dimensions of emotions: their rationality and their irrationality, their capacity for enhancing or inhibiting self-knowledge, and their moral implications.
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.
Werner Herzog is a singular film director, drawn to bizarre characters and situations in strange surroundings, with a preoccupation with outsiders who refuse to conform to a limited social structure.
