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CAN anyone tell me why I've just spent the past two days washing, ironing, packing, frantically catching up with mail I should have dealt with weeks ago, making "to-do" lists, cancelling milk and food deliveries, phoning family as though I'm never going to see them again, buying clothes I don't need, cooking like Delia so I don't waste the contents of the fridge, and obsessively setting out the children's clothes so they don't wear newly-washed and ironed gear to school?

But the allusiveness of "Partners," its shattering accumulation of contending emotions and themes--innocence and conformity, false security, historical trauma and the impossibility of contrition--are sadly scanted, reduced to individual psychodrama by Varda's isolation of the photographs from their context and by her glib portrayal of Hendeles as a goth neurotic, the daughter of Holocaust survivors obsessively constructing worlds into which she can withdraw.

Meanwhile, Queen Veda consults obsessively with the royal Beauty Consultant, a character whom readers will quickly recognize as a personification of the "mirror, mirror on the wall" from the Snow White tale.

Although public and private realms are separated by a gate, the scheme is not obsessively hermetic in its relationship with the wider world.

Vivier wrestles with his personal demons constantly and probes the internal landscape almost obsessively, and the tension finds release in vocal lines of astonishing virtuosity.

The Grease actor confessed he watched network Telemundo obsessively because he thinks it has a soothing effect.

OCD is an anxiety disorder that can take many forms, from constantly checking things to obsessively cleaning your hands until they're red raw.

Nothing's Cutie involves readymade materials--found, scavenged, and store-bought--but (unlike much of Minimalism) is massively, even obsessively, intricate.

Through the euphemistically named 'Native Housing Policy', Johannesburg explicitly reflected the directives of an apartheid state obsessively concerned with power, hegemony and population control.

The singer has reportedly been spending her monthly Iceland allowance on 5-pound platters from the supermarket and was 'obsessively' controlling her electricity bills during the festive season.

Heartbroken Oscar and Kyala are so upset they obsessively search for him and his mum has gone off her food.

The case highlighted fears about a generation of kids who seemed to be disappearing into an unreal world peopled by shape-shifting monsters, robots, and eroticized schoolgirls; who obsessively memorized pop trivia, drew their own amateur manga, and dressed up as their favorite characters on Sundays (an activity known as cosplay).