It has perhaps acquired a new topicality in the wake of the Paris attacks (though its sympathy is very much with the migrant), but its theme of menacing estate-dwellers may be a little familiar to British filmgoers.
I suppose a grown child's returning, wounded, to the nest has an extra topicality in these semi-recessionary days of Peter Pan progeny.
At least two of the texts have accrued an urgent topicality in the wake of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11.
The show tries for a sheen of topicality in the generational fault line between the younger couples.
Besides "Chuckles Bites the Dust," the honored episodes were "Mary Richards Goes to Jail" (a rare if gentle foray into Norman Lear-stopicalityaliny in which Mary landed behind bars for refusing to reveal a source) and for the show's final episode, which still stands as the high-water mark for how to wrap up a sitcom in style.
A surprise Palme d'Or win last year didn't rally all critics to the side of Dheepan (Studiocanal, 15), Jacques Audiard's vividly, empathetically imagined tale of Tamil refugees forging new lives as a makeshift family in the Paris projects; nor did its stinging topicality in the climate of immigrant-related insecurity.
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.
Verdi's early opera about the mad, despotic ruler of Babylon has unexpected topicality in these bellicose days (Babylon lay near present-day Baghdad).
We report an event-related potential study designed to explore the nature of context-induced topicality in Chinese discourse processing.
The use of web-based resources, such as the DRD project mentioned above, can facilitate circulation of such examples and case studies as they are developed to maintain topicality in real time.
