While McCarthy often parodies the movie industry - the sets, the special effects, the preoccupations with child-like wonder and the crass, moronic violence - Disney itself is interested in his pig, for its animatronics department.
It was pitched as a science fiction film, which to me often signals a rather masculine preoccupation with special effects.
Vulva imagery may have been of special interest because of a preoccupation with fertility and the mystery of birth, he said.
Her essay "The Fact in Fiction" had special appeal to his own increasing preoccupation with getting his fictional facts right: Lincoln's assassination ("Henry and Clara") or life in Owosso, Mich., in the summer and fall of 1948 ("Dewey Defeats Truman").
Deeply concerned to affirm the dignity of reason and the truth embodied in material creation, he may have sensed himself idolizing the secondary powers in whose hierarchical circulazione he felt himself, as poet, to be in a special sense participant, and allowing these preoccupations to cloud his awareness of God's omnipotence.
It is also true that, before he left for America, Mr Cameron mocked the "seemingly endless British preoccupation" with the health of the special relationship.
This is a country in love with music and dance — a preoccupation that shows not only on special occasions like the Oguaa Fetu Afehye, a festival that draws foreign visitors in September, but every day.
Light is also a primary preoccupation of Joseph Reboli, who has a special fondness for the warm glow of afternoon sun and the moment, as in "East End Reflections," with its rain-soaked fields mirroring passing clouds, when changeable skies yield dappled effects.
The stupa cult, with its extraordinary preoccupation with human relics, may have been a special Buddhist development related to the belief in nirvana as a supramundane state.
Special problems of control arose in communist countries, where the main preoccupation of the regime, which was under the direct control of the Communist Party, had been to ensure the civil service's continual loyalty.
