"How the World Began," presented by the Women's Project and directed with a keen focus on the specificity of character by Daniella Topol, has a topical hot-button theme in the conflicting ideologies of confirmed secularists and faithful believers.
She also read Temptations of the West by Pankaj Mishra: "It deals coolly with very hot topical issues".
In the busy, bloody course of the picture a few hot topical buttons are gently grazed, but in the end (sorry if I'm spoiling anything) "Angels & Demons" boldly insists that science and religion must coexist, an empirical observation elevated to a statement of principle.
"Barbara knew that Diane already had the interview, so she was covering The Post as a topical event on the hot topics of that morning," Ms. Berger said.
Research trends such as the number of open literature and patent publications by different publishers and authors, hot and disappearing topics, topical areas of different industrial and academic institutions etc. have been evaluated in this way.
Several of the stories here deal with hot-button topical issues, but even these focus on their characters' self-deceptions.
"Any advertiser likes to be in a magazine that is vital and topical and, perish the thought, hot, but George is not any of those things at this stage of the game," he said.
Topical heat therapy (such as hot pack, heat wrap therapy, localized microwave diathermy, and THC) is shown to be effective in increasing the range of joint motion, as well as in treatment of musculoskeletal pain [ 47– 51].
What's amazing is that Stephen King the novelist - he's a member of a profession that normally doesn't take advantage of topical issues and trends - jumped on a hot topic and quickly produced a work that resonated with readers.
