This phallus symbolizes the model's obsession with the penis and her lifelong quest to achieve vaginal orgasm, with the help of Sigmund Freud.

His autobiography, " Burning Bright ", details both his obsession with collecting cigarette cards, as well as his business life, which included becoming President of Selection Trust-at the time, one of the largest mining companies in the world-as well as his lifelong passion for cricket, which culminated in his presidency of Kent Cricket Club.

Her lifelong obsession is to slay the great Beast of London.

Bandinelli's lifelong obsession with Michelangelo is a recurring theme in assessments of his career.

In the process he forged a lifelong obsession with John Lennon ; Liam would later claim to be Lennon re-incarnated, despite being born 8 years prior to his death.

His law practice had all but disappeared under what was to become a lifelong obsession: the cataloging of American law.

She also harbored a lifelong obsession with her closest childhood friend and neighbor, Violet Shillito – a relationship that remained unconsummated.

Indeed, Romney maintained a lifelong obsession with her, sketching her nude and clothed in many poses that he used in paintings he made in her absence.

The novel was translated into other languages: its French title is Le Zéro et l ' Infini (" Zero and Infinity "), reflecting Koestler's lifelong obsession with the meeting of opposites, and dialectics.

Originally intending to become a social worker, he became fast friends with student filmmaker Robert Edelstein and Eric Sherman ( son of filmmaker Vincent Sherman ), who introduced him to his future lifelong obsession, cinema.

The desire to bring the organ under the complete and easy control of the organist was coupled with Skinner's lifelong interest and obsession with " orchestral " tonal colors and their application to the pipe organ.

In the interim he began his lifelong obsession with world travel with trips to Australia, New Zealand, the Far East, Russia and Europe.

Bassano's earliest paintings exhibit his lifelong obsession with brilliant colors that he had seen in Titian's beginning works, particularly in Bassano's Supper at Emmaus ( 1538 ).

In the strip, Brown is shown as a young Nebraskan boy and as a man approaching middle age, who has a lifelong obsession with the collection of action figures and similar pop cultural detritus, particularly Supergirl.

This phallus symbolizes the model's obsession with the penis and her lifelong quest to achieve vaginal orgasm.

" Wilfred encouraged his son to read, beginning a lifelong obsession for the " unusually gifted " boy.

While Brecher lacks military experience or formal training in war, he has credited himself as self-educated out of a personal, lifelong obsession with warfare.

Kallman's lifelong obsession with music has led him to become one of the top record collectors in the world, with a vinyl collection now numbering over 400, 000 albums encompassing virtually every genre of contemporary music.

* Shunkinshō ( novella ), by Jun ' ichirō Tanizaki ( 谷崎潤一郎 ), concerning the lifelong love affair of a blind aristocratic musician and her retainer / pupil / partner in obsession husband.

Agathon was the lifelong companion of Pausanias, with whom he appears in both the Symposium and Plato's Protagoras.

So began his lifelong fascination with logic and reasoning.

At Harvard, he began lifelong friendships with Francis Ellingwood Abbot, Chauncey Wright, and William James.

This type of cretinism has been almost completely eliminated in developed countries by early diagnosis by newborn screening schemes followed by lifelong treatment with thyroxine ( T4 ).

On this success, he proclaimed Chlotar IV king of Austrasia in opposition to Chilperic and deposed the archbishop of Reims, Rigobert, replacing him with Milo, a lifelong supporter.

Unlike Eakins, however, Sartain believed in phrenology and Beaux adopted a lifelong belief that physical characteristics correlated with behaviors and traits.

In marriage, the spouses commit to a lifelong relationship which excludes sexual intimacy with other persons.

This success began with Pillow Talk ( 1959 ), co-starring Rock Hudson, who became a lifelong friend, and Tony Randall.

He finally remarried in 1578, to which the queen reacted with repeated scenes of displeasure and lifelong hatred towards his wife.

His lifelong patronage of writers, musicians and actors prompted his modern editor Stephen May to term Oxford ' a nobleman with extraordinary intellectual interests and commitments ', whose biography exhibits a ' lifelong devotion to learning '.

His time in England was fruitful in the making of lifelong friendships with the leaders of English thought in the days of King Henry VIII: John Colet, Thomas More, John Fisher, Thomas Linacre and William Grocyn.

At the age of eight Armstrong contracted a disease that was known as St. Vitus ' Dance, which left him with a lifelong tic when excited or under stress.

The risk of the tendency to have seizures is lifelong ; however, the majority have well-controlled seizures with anticonvulsant medication and avoidance of seizure precipitants.

Time magazine wrote in 1969 that Singer had had a lifelong fascination with Phobos and Mars's second moon, Deimos.

Kelly was a lifelong supporter of the Democratic Party which occasionally created difficulty for him as his period of greatest prominence coincided with the McCarthy era in the U. S. In 1947, he was part of the Committee for the First Amendment, the Hollywood delegation which flew to Washington to protest at the first official hearings by the House Committee on Un-American Activities.

The experience with Davy gave Stephenson a lifelong distrust of London-based, theoretical, scientific experts.

His health was poor, with lifelong stomach complaints and other ailments.

Nevertheless, Wells has this very same Time Traveller speak in terms unusual for socialist thought, referring as " perfect " and with no social problem unsolved, to an imagined world of stark class division between the rich assured of their wealth and comfort, and the rest of humanity assigned to lifelong toil: Once, life and property must have reached almost absolute safety.

A major expected side-effect of radioiodine in patients with Graves ' disease is the development of lifelong hypothyroidism, requiring daily treatment with thyroid hormone.

In 1937 Edgerton began a lifelong association with photographer Gjon Mili, who used stroboscopic equipment, in particular, multiple studio electronic flash units, to produce strikingly beautiful photographs, many of which appeared in Life Magazine.

She was a prolific letter-writer, and maintained a lifelong correspondence with her sister-in-law Elisabetta Gonzaga.

The mixing and pushing against the boundaries of established operatic genres would be a continuing hallmark of Salieri's own personal style, and in his choice of material for the plot ( as in his first opera ), he manifested a lifelong interest in subjects drawn from classic drama and literature.

De ' Barbari was unwilling to explain everything he knew, so Dürer began his own studies, which would become a lifelong preoccupation.

Kraepelin would be a disciple of Wundt and had a lifelong interest in experimental psychology based on his theories.

He was a lifelong vegetarian and said he would not eat anything that had a mother.

It was in Paris in the middle 1840s that Millet befriended Constant Troyon, Narcisse Diaz, Charles Jacque, and Théodore Rousseau, artists who, like Millet, would become associated with the Barbizon school ; Honoré Daumier, whose figure draftsmanship would influence Millet's subsequent rendering of peasant subjects ; and Alfred Sensier, a government bureaucrat who would become a lifelong supporter and eventually the artist's biographer.

He became very attached to Schumann's wife, the composer and pianist Clara, fourteen years his senior, with whom he would carry on a lifelong, emotionally passionate relationship.

Keats's long and expensive medical training with Hammond and at Guy's Hospital led his family to assume that medicine would be his lifelong career, assuring financial security, and it seems that at this point Keats had a genuine desire to become a doctor.

That year, Friedman formed what would prove to be lifelong friendships with George Stigler and W. Allen Wallis.

To that effect, Cassatt's lifelong friend Louisine Havemeyer wrote in her memoirs: " Anyone who had the privilege of knowing Mary Cassatt's mother would know at once that it was from her and her alone that inherited her ability.

This experience also marked the beginning of the lifelong friendship between Davis and Gil Evans, an alliance that would bear important results in the years to follow.

One of Jardine's agents in Bombay, who would become his lifelong friend, was Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy.

Although he abandoned the violin with the discovery of cinema in his teens, drawing would remain a lifelong passion.

Without income and once more in extreme financial difficulty, in 1838 the brothers began what would become a lifelong project: the writing of a definitive dictionary.

However, while both Boss Hogg and Uncle Jesse would scowl at the mention of the other's name, the two enjoyed a lifelong " friendship " of sorts, with one helping the other when in desperate need.

After signing, Eastwood was criticized for his stiff manner, his squint, and for hissing his lines through his teeth, a feature that would become a lifelong trademark.

He also met the Blount sisters, Teresa and ( his alleged future lover ) Martha, both of whom would remain lifelong friends.

The other was to Shakespeare, which would become a lifelong love.

During the 1920s, she became friends with writer Mina Loy, and the two would remain lifelong friends.

They became lifelong friends after making The Fortune Cookie and would make a total of 10 movies together — 11 counting Kotch, in which Lemmon has a cameo as a sleeping bus passenger.

During production, she established what would become a lifelong friendship with her costar, Anne Baxter, and a romantic relationship with her leading man, Gary Merrill, which led to marriage.

The Miami Sports and Exhibition Authority eventually endorsed a group led by NBA Hall of Famer Billy Cunningham and former sports agent ( and lifelong friend of Cunningham's ) Lewis Schaffel, who received their financial backing from Carnival Cruise Lines founder Ted Arison, who would be majority owner.

He would have fallen on the spot under the battle-axe of his lifelong foe, Otto of Wittelsbach, had Frederick not intervened.

While Henry and Catherine would eventually produce 10 children together, and despite the occasional affair with such as Philippa Duci, Janet Fleming, and Nicole de Savigny, Diane de Poitiers would remain Henry's lifelong companion.