The Boston bombings had lent a grim topicality to the report's findings, said Katrina Lantos Swett, who chairs the panel.So much for the big bold ideas, with which most people will agree.
By re-animating the political moment, Mr Shapiro shows how Shakespeare had it both ways.In this section Qing bling An epic epic Gumshoe economics All the world's a stage Remember, remember The munch of time Books for cooks ReprintsBut Mr Shapiro's point is not simply topicality.
In so doing, Alloway opened the way to a new sense of what he called the social "topicality" of art.
The great tragedy of her career was that she outlived the topicality of her idiom.
Otto F. Walter's Die verlorene Geschichte, the stream-of-consciousness story of an illiterate neo-Nazi Swiss construction worker who accidentally befriends an illegal immigrant from Thailand, had its obvious topicality, as did Uwe Saeger's Landschaft mit Dornen, which depicted teenage violence in a small town in eastern Germany.
Released just after America's entrance into World War II, Casablanca's topicality and sentimental cynicism helped to make it an enormous success.
With a social insight both broad and deep, an unrivaled sense of satirical counterpoint and topicality of reference, and exceptional physiognomic finesse, Hogarth dealt with types from all classes of society.
More recently, the self-consciously elusive quality of much of Degas's depiction has been increasingly acknowledged, as well as his underestimated shift away from topicality in later years.
On the other hand, the André Charlot Revues of the 1920s, the handsome shows at the London Hippodrome, and especially the performances at Sir Charles Cochran's Ambassadors' Theatre were more intimate and emphasized clever repartee and topicality.
For modern readers, another difficulty is the topicality of the works; they were often composed for particular occasions and made reference to events and personal situations that were well-known to the original audience but not necessarily to later readers.
Although satire frequently outraged its specific targets, its immediate topicality also limited its ideological range and its capacity to explore broad cultural issues.
