A very timely headline to an article I read on LinkedIn two days before conducting a workshop for Lebanese journalists on the very topic of corruption.
Sunjeev Sahota's impressive Year of the Runaways is equally timely, going behind headlines on immigration; Richard Beard's time- and genre-bending biblical thriller Acts of the Assassins is brilliantly weird; and Grace McCleen's disturbing, lyrical third novel The Offering marks her out as a writer to watch.
Rajiv Joseph's new play, "The Leopard and the Fox," about the overthrow of Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto of Pakistan by the military in 1977, is so timely that daily headlines have made sick jokes of some of its lines.
THE BLACK WIDOW concerns topics as timely as today's headlines and is written with the intelligence we have come to expect from this truly accomplished author.
As timely as a moist headline or a CNN crawl, "The Hero," which opens today in the New York metropolitan area, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Houston, Dallas, Toronto and Chicago, rips its text from the seething border tensions between India and Pakistan.
"Venice" interweaves the 1980's and the 1970's throughout, yet seems timely ripped from this year's headlines, more preachily than passionately.
Images change every six to eight seconds, so advertisers can flash timely messages — like the latest headlines, coffee deals at dawn, a cheeseburger at lunchtime or even the song playing on a radio station at that moment.
He describes the sights he sees along the way: a Post sports headline "SCRATCH TIMELY WRITES" (horse); a sign for a newly renovated hospital, which boasts that it "Offers a Full Spectrum of Emergency CareO; a bakery with birthday cakes decorated in French and Spanish; an Interim Site Improvement Park; a man watering the ivy at the Harvard Club.
It is, as the briefest survey of the headlines will confirm, a timely inquiry.
Examples of medical applications of evolutionary biology can be timely and indeed can build on headline news items.
