The magazine's report mocked the tabloid press's preoccupation with the parties: "The People name the chap they claim is The Evil Emperor of Ecstasy a 'baby-faced' dealer who enjoys a 'virtual monopoly' of the London scene.
"All modern first ladies can relate to being frustrated with the press over their preoccupation with superficial things, including the way they cut their hair or what they choose to wear, but Melania has clouded the profound responsibility and honor of the position with her own personal resentment," Brower wrote.
It's a skillful construction, encouraging our eyes to the simplest comparisons pipe, cigar, cigarette; fedora, flat cap, Panama and also to the subtler: sculptural cheeks and jowls, lips held and pressed in preparation or preoccupation, heads dipped slightly against the light, or lifted to meet it.
Navratilova spurred what scholar Diane Hamer termed "constant preoccupation" in the press with determining the root of same-sex desire.
"The main preoccupation of the military press service is not to organize press coverage of the war, but to limit journalists' access," said Yevgeny Kirichenko, a military correspondent for NTV, the only independent Russian television network.
Preoccupation 3: An insistence on instability.
In his last couple of press conferences, he implied that he understood reporters' current preoccupation with the Watergate case, but he made it clear at the same time that he resented and regretted it.
The press is an essential ingredient of scandal and the media's preoccupations only ever approximate those of the public.
However, due to flawed polling, a preoccupation with coalition deals, and following stories broken in the press, broadcasters' agendas were pushed towards covering Conservative campaign issues.
In this case, the agencies were on the same page, and press accounts suggest that the usual concerns about interagency turf and excessive preoccupation with secrecy were set aside.
