Word: obsessiveness
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During a recent office move, someone heisted a pair of trusty old computer speakers from one of my machines. A lot of people would obsess about the crime and curse the cruel God who could create such larcenous, broken souls. Not me. I saw it as an opportunity to get a better stereo system for my computer...
These books and others that feature stark themes, complex plot lines and ambiguous resolutions are edging out the happy endings and conventional morals of the old-style teen "problem" novels, which would obsess over something like a divorce, or an accidental pregnancy, for 120 pages. "The formula has been broken," says Eliza Dresang, author of Radical Change: Books for Youth in a Digital...
Confession 1: I am thoroughly domestic. I obsess about hospital corners, I harass my roommate to reline the trash cans, I can recite the recipe for home-baked bread, I fanatically obey cleaning tags on my clothes and you could eat off of my swept, mopped, polished floor. Once, I churned butter. Basically, I secretly yearn to be Homemaker of the Year...
Still, there is something coolly mesmerizing and wonderfully disturbing about the CD. Beck's lyrics, though elusive, are not nonsense. They obsess about issues of death and decay, and they strike at something deep, evoking feelings of sadness, melancholy and regret. "A worm of hope/ a hangman's rope/ pulls me one way or the other," he sings on Cold Brains. On another track he sings, "Treated you like a rusty blade/ A throwaway from an open grave...
...should change the name of your magazine to Wasting Time. If I wanted to obsess over trash, I'd go out and buy the National Enquirer. SONIA DELGADILLO San Francisco...