"I think my first words were, 'On topic only, please,' " he said.
He would not confirm the topic, only that it was not a sequel to Making Headlines, and not a fantasy novel.
If that sounds a topic only for art-world insiders, consider the first film that greets you at the Lismore show.
We often enter a class thinking it will be about one topic, only for it to be revealed that the real problem is much broader.
For days the front pages have had one topic, and one topic only -- a gruesome focus that the world, almost as one, wishes would vanish like a bad dream.
Professor Rakove said he was doubly impressed because Ms. Clinton took the fall semester off to enjoy her family's last months in the White House and settled on a topic only in the winter.
Jim Murphy, the executive producer of "Evening News with Dan Rather" on CBS, said he would address the topic only if a CBS News correspondent found that law enforcement was seriously considering using torture.
Adani in India "don't talk about [Carmichael] at all", with the topic only coming up in occasional reports on Australian court cases, and India-Australia diplomatic exchanges, he said.
Mr. Bullock, who died in 1999, voluntarily disclosed in 1992 that he was collecting a pension, but it became a hot topic only when reporters began digging into the circumstances of Mr. Perry's retirement.
At times Mr. Silver reports in depth on a topic of lesser importance, or he skates over an important topic only to return to it in a later chapter, where it is again discussed only briefly.
This week: "How to talk to a woman who is wearing headphones", a topic only surpassed in its brilliance by other recent gems such as: "17 killer mistakes a girl should never make on the first date" and "13 little things that can make a man fall hard for you".
