At one point, he even offers tips about apt subjects for plays that always make the heart sink.
Drosophila pupae are particularly apt subjects for MR analyses, undergoing development of the adult body within an opaque cocoon; impossible to image live in toto by conventional light microscopy.
A century later, Arthur Miller defended "Death of a Salesman" with an essay in the Times, arguing that "the common man is as apt a subject for tragedy in its highest sense as kings were" for Shakespeare.
Apted's subjects were less willing to be subjected as they grew older, and Apted, like an author of a realist novel whose invented characters start to make their own demands upon the direction of his plot, has been obliged to bend the series' conceit to his participants' reality.
Given the current obsession with quirky anti-heros and narratives bordering on magical-realist, Segal's more traditional approach (apt, given her subject matter) is refreshing.
Using references ranging from minstrel shows to Hillary Clinton, Noname is taking a subgenre of film that was used to commodify the black experience and remaking it in her image, an apt choice of subject matter following the success of films like Sorry to Bother You and BlacKkKlansman this year.
None of Apted's subjects have become alcoholic or drug-addicted, but the predictability of most of the individual fates — working-class kids rising slightly, rich kids staying rich — makes one impatient.
It may be argued that Parker's documentary impulse is apt for his subject.
